All the bulldozers here in southwest WA had the same style bush cab years 60/70

Could somebody explain this dam sinking experience in Australia? Never heard of this before. catskinner

"Its like the sayin, replacing the pins n bushes mate"

You have some good pics of the D7's Stuss,the bush cab is close to the same as mine,the front angle braces and pulleys have been cut off mine due to no tree pusher anymore.There was a tree pusher the same style as the one in the pic's for sale recently,i thought about buying it just to bring the dozer back to how it was setup originally but it would'nt see much use with no large trees to push down.Do you know if the dozers in the pics are still in use today.
The term dam sinking catskinner is the same as building a dam, mostly just farm dams over here of which i have no experience in building one ,i have watched one getting built on my parents property years ago and i think quite a skill to it.Stuss might be the one to ask.I would be keen to see more pics of dam sinking ,there is a few videos on you tube but none the same style as built in Australia or at least Western Australia with 3 sloping walls and built with a dozer,not an excavator.

That D7E. 180 Has done a lot of work ,we estimate 80,000 hrs plus, been rebuilt few times and still pushes good , we use it for clearing the dam sites and pushing the odd tree over as the 7H and 7R don’t have tree arms on , few dams we put in this year we’re walls across gully’s or creeks .
The last one was 200 meters across and 7 meters high and when full of water it’ll go back 1km.
About 3weeks of pushing dirt and clay , great job, here’s a pic but bit hard to see distance.

Thats alot of hours on the D7e Stuss,it proves how well built and designed they are, and looks like it will do alot more hours.The dam you have built is massive,it should fill up quick with the amount of rain we have had lately.

Have built many farm ponds, dams water detention dams, 12- 16,000 yards. The dam in the pic. looks around between 10 -15,000 yds. Built mostly with dozer and pull scraper. Only have 2 slopes on them, 2-1 on back side and 3-1 on front side. Several pits which are the (pits) to build, They have 3 slopes, 2-1 side slopes regular end 3-1 and the slope that the water enters in is 4-1 slope. catskinner

The dam in the photo that Stuss has put up will be in the 20,000/30,000 yard range without even looking at my Soil Conservation Service ready reckoner. I think will have been built with 3:1 inside and outside with 3.5m (4 yard) wide crest. Pushed in many walls similar to this up to 10m high and 4m wide crest, 3:1 inside and outside.

Looks a nice neat job, well done.

Wombat

A 4' wide dam top is pretty narrow for a dam that size. About the narrowest top here was 8'. catskinner