Is this one of you guys?

Not me. Doesn't prove a thing to me!

I remember seeing this video posted some time ago, and the consensus seemed to be that he lost a lot of his drawbar pull by the way he had it hitched to the blade, instead of the drawbar itself.

I do stand to be corrected, however.

You are correct Art, there was a discussion on this a couple years. The Cat never had a chance as they were lifting his blade. Fortunately they did not keep going and roll him over backwards. May have been a different story if they had hooked to the bottom of the blade or to the arms by the trunions.

Sorry for the repost fella's, I did a forum search before I posted it and couldn't find it.
At any rate, that is a good looking old dozer that I could sure make use of on my place.

Like Shania Twain sings "That Don't Impress Me Much"! lol
Gary

Hi, Art from De Leon.
It's not just the fact that it was hitched to the blade. The center of the beam WAS hitched to the drawbar. The ends of the beam were hitched to the blade to give a better angle of pull to the beam ends. BUTTTT, they SHOULD have been hitched to the BOTTOM corners and the blade kept low so that the line of pull stayed BELOW the level of the push trunnions. This would have helped to stop the nose of the tractor being lifted off the ground as happened in the video.

Just my 0.02.

80,000 pounds and 3000 horse against a 2U at 45,000 pounds and 120 horse. the 2U D8 did not stand a chance no matter what you do with the chain. 20 land cruisers at 4000 pounds and 150 horse.