Thought the Bulldozer Was Broken, But Fortunately, I Was Wrong

Thursday October 31, 2024 Guerneville CA.

Dozer wakeup

I brought the charged up battery back up the hill for the dozer and got it installed.

Then I added some oil to the transmission as it has a slow leak.

Trouble, I thought

It started right up with a charged up battery, but. It seemed to have the brakes stuck on when i tried to move it. After some messing around, I thought someone must of worked the turning levers too much while playing with it as that can cause the brake adjusters to adjust up too much. I thought, this is bad, now I will have to take things apart to re-adjust the brakes so they would work properly.

I took off for a ride with Hondo and my thinker finally kicked in and I thought maybe someone just accidentally set the parking brake by pushing the brake pedal and the little parking brake lever got set and, just maybe that was all that was a matter with it, so I did a U-turn and went back to the dozer and checked the brake pedal.

Fortunately

Fortunately for me, that was the problem. I never use the parking brake mush because I drop the blade when I park so that pretty much is a parking brake.

I figure someone saw the dozer out in the woods and got in and played like they were running the dozer pushing and pulling things and that darn brake got set.

Anyway, I was happy for that and I headed over to where I will need it to do some work soon, up this road.

Stubborn tree

I fixed a few things on the road on the way over. When I went by this tree, I decided to stop and push it over, but it didn’t want to push over, so I chipped away at it with the blade breaking it up a bit until the dozer could push it over, just barely, but i got it out of the way as it went over the bank.

A neighbor came by just before I pushed it over and helped me throw some roots off the road.

I flattened out the road a bit where the tree’s stump left a big hole and then moved on down the road to a place I wanted to park the dozer and parked it.