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These will be on display and for sale at Open House. Still more customs to do......     Enjoy! Colter ddbcustommodels.com
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Is this supposed to resemble a real unit? If so; please inform us of who "engineered" this?
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digggerr wrote:Is this supposed to resemble a real unit? If so; please inform us of who "engineered" this? It tends to be a california thing. http://www.dymaxinc.com/attachments/7930/
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Looks good- very clean and crisp design!
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Great work, Colter.It's something different and very interresting. Upon looking at Ritchie Bro's website and auction brochures, you get to see those attachment on all size of dozers . Like Turbo sais, they are very common in California. Good work. Max.
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Good looking slopers man. I'm not critisizing, just making a observation... Yours are set back a little to far on the push arm. The heel of the sloper should be closer to the corner bit on the blade; as to avoid leaving a windrow of dirt that is hard to get rid of. The boards toe should be angled out towards the front; as to allow the dirt to roll more easily towards the dozer blade. Don't take me wrong. They look awesome! Better than anything I could build  If I was anywhere near the Open House, I'd buy one!
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Nice work!!
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When I went to California for my dozer capstone it was unusual to see a dozer without a slope board. Another California treasure I guess
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Nice work.
Have never seen this kind of setup in person but you've made it look good.
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noraztrans wrote:When I went to California for my dozer capstone it was unusual to see a dozer without a slope board. Another California treasure I guess Yup, we've got a few treasures. Since I've only lived in California, I grew up watching dozers with slopeboards, and I never thought anything of it. Only after I see dozers elsewhere did I see the difference.
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Slopeboards never made their way this far North. I've lived in California for 27 years and never seen a dozer with one on it in person. Then again I live in a small logging community so a dozer without a winch is a rarity.
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I think the big reason slope boards are in so-cal is due to the fact there is very little "flat ground" left. In san diego county that is the case anyhow, or at least that what all the other techs at the lakside RDO were telling me when I was asking about them. However as soon as those dozer crosses state lines into AZ the slop boards are nothing more than fancy scrap steel.
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Thanks for the compliments guys! I really appreicate the info shared too on this thread about slope boards. Nice to see some DIRT talk and NOT CRANE!
JTL, you are right, it was something I had trouble deciding when I was building it. I didn't want to get it to close to the blade and it not go up but too far away where it looked bad. It moved more toward the its too far away side. When I do the slope board on the D8N, I'll try moving it forward some also. Thanks for the info too!
Thanks everyone!
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