Bulldozer – DriftlessinWI

I finally received my erosion permit and finished my driveway to the new homesite. After making over 4000ft of driveway, I learned how to drive a dozer, a CAT D6, and got a lot of use out of my CAT 323. I have come to appreciate how hard being a dozer operator actually is (especially if you don’t have Slope and Grade assist tools) and can’t believe how much effort goes into to putting up silt fence 🙂 I need to keep the driveway under 13% to be in compliance with our town ordinances and had to make a switchback in an area that was over 20%.

This took me over a month, 100 truckloads of breaker rock, 4000 ft of geomat, 1500 ft of silt fence, about 30 silt socks, 6 culverts, 200lbs of grass seed, 60 hay bails, and 20 rolls of erosion mat. I hope it was worth it, so far so good with holding up to rain storms, but this winter may bring a few headaches with snow and ice. You can find the generator and jackhammer here:

Generator: https://amzn.to/3BiEZY0

Jackhammer: https://amzn.to/3BiEZY0

Enjoy!

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I rented a CAT D6 bull dozer for one month to complete two driveways at the farm. I had zero bull dozer experience and was very intimidated about renting one and doing the driveways myself.

In this video I show how it is possible to get professional level results without any experience, by taking advantage of the Grade Control and Slope Assist functions on the newer CAT dozers. Without them I don’t think I could have achieved anywhere close to the results I did, especially in the amount of time I had. One thing is for sure, operating a dozer manually is much harder than it seems, especially if you are trying to grade and slope a driveway.

This video will give you some good tips if you have never operated a dozer before, or if you are an experienced dozer operator and are curious how the slope and grade control functions work. This is filmed from the lens of a person with no experience.

Enjoy!

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