Armoured Dozer

Hanno Spoelstra · #1 02-08-22, 14:21

Nice find Jakko!

Good to see some manufacturers still provide this sort of information to the users of their products.

Jakko Westerbeke · #2 03-08-22, 11:20

There is probably more stuff there that some restorers might find useful, but I didn’t really look beyond a quick glance.

Hanno Spoelstra · #3 09-02-23, 09:44

D7A No.31 "GLADY'S", Rue de la Gare at Caen, read more here: https://flic.kr/p/2b1zaVX

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Jakko Westerbeke · #4 09-02-23, 11:13

Nice find

Hanno Spoelstra · #5 09-02-23, 11:35

Armoured Dozer with the number IT1019 at Blainville (Calvados), France - read more here https://flic.kr/p/26Vw7u1

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Hanno Spoelstra · #6 09-02-23, 18:53

And here is 1T3037 - read more here: https://flic.kr/p/UQuecL

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Lynn Eades · #7 09-02-23, 19:37

Jakko, There were other options for winches (for those who dont know) There were (Carco ?) twin drum winches used on "cable controlled" equipment. Some Cats (D7) had cable controlled blades and a second drum was used to operate the bowl on a scraper. I assume the millitary dozers used in airfield construction were fitted with them?

tankbarrell · #8 09-02-23, 21:10

The wartime twin drum winches were LeTourneau, the single drum were Hyster, afaik. I think Carco and Caterpillar equipment were post war fitments.

Jakko Westerbeke · #9 10-02-23, 11:01

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Originally Posted by Lynn Eades

Jakko, There were other options for winches

On non-armoured dozers, AFAIK, yes — I think there was quite a variety of stuff used on those, in terms of winches, dozer blades, etc. My main interest in these typesof vehicles are the British armoured D6 and D7 dozers, though, and those all had Hyster D6N resp. D7N models, to the best of my knowledge.

Hanno Spoelstra · #10 10-02-23, 13:57

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lynn Eades

Jakko, There were other options for winches (for those who dont know) There were (Carco ?) twin drum winches used on "cable controlled" equipment. Some Cats (D7) had cable controlled blades and a second drum was used to operate the bowl on a scraper. I assume the millitary dozers used in airfield construction were fitted with them?

AFAIK only the US Dozer had cable controlled blades? At least the British Armoured Dozers did not use cable controlled blades.

"[US] Combat engineers dig out this caterpillar bulldozer which became stuck in a muddy bomb crater while clearing off a road north of Marigny. 27/07/44" - read more here: https://flic.kr/p/kfTv9D

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