Hey Walt,

Yes a dozer blade can be fixed with a new skin. I have done several. Cut off those pieces that are loose and sticking out, get a template of the curvature of the dozer plate, and took it to my local black smith who rolled plates for us. We will cut small holes about 12" spacing in both directions and weld in through the holes and all around each side.
Glen

When you weld the new skin on you weld a piece of steel to the old skin with a long slot in it and drive a wedge thru to pull the new skin in tight as even if it is rolled to the correct shape of the temp plate the blades vary a bit from side to side
Once that hole has been welded onto the old skin drive the wedge out and shift onto the next set of holes maybe 3 or 4 holes at a time carefully cut the bit of steel off that the wedge was in and re weld it to the new holes
Start from the center of the blade and work out to each side to pull the new skin back evenly

Paul

Paul I think you should post a photo of that so we can understand it a bit better.

mate I dont have a photo to busy cutting a welding to take a photo but the bits you weld on are like a capital letter D but laying on their back the flat up right piece of the D gets welded to the old skin and thru the hole of the new skin and the wedge is like drift for knocking out a morse taper drill bit and it gets driven into the D to pull the new skin back tight to the old skin
once first set are done it becomes easier some times you have to chain bit of RSJ to the blade to get the skin back tight at the start the tighter you can make the two skins join the easier and neater the job is it takes a good couple of days to do a blade if you are on your own most likely a lot quicker with a MIG welder today than the old stick welder

If I ever do one again I'll take some photos with my Ipod thingy meant to take a lot of photos of stuff over the years because a photo is worth a thousand words some times but never used to get around to it BUT today with the Ipod (dont have a mobile phone)I snap away all over the place someone may find them interesting one day in the family

Paul

Paul, I see what you mean now. That's a crafty way of getting the new skin tight. I shall put that into my bag o tricks.

Thanks

Bruce P