Stuck D2

Welcome to the club!! your lucky you had another machine to pull it out. A few years ago my wife sunk my 941b in a swamp so the ground was level with the top of the tracks. Got it out by lifting the front of the machine with down pressure from the bucket and cutting and stuffing a 100 logs under the tracks--drove it forward and it pivoted up and then did the same to the rear of the tracks.
now i have 2 machines and they have pulled each other out numerous times.

My D2 blade moves fast too but i have gotten use to just moving the lever a little amount instead of all the way.

Don hates how fast the blade raises and lowers, so I was thinking of relocating the pivot point on the lever lower so that the movement of the lever opens the hydraulic valve a smaller distance. Anyone else have any thoughts on that? I could lengthen the pivot arm on the opposite end from the lever but that would require welding instead of just drilling a hole. Don also suggested lowering the hydraulic pressure to slow the blade down. It moves fast![/QUOTE]

Has anyone tried installing a restrictor coupling in the hyd. line ? When I make a new attachment for my skid steer and it moves too fast I get a restrictor . I drill it out until I get the flow/speed I want . If you need to drill it to get more flow I found that less is better than more , apparently doubling the dia. quadruples flow . I have several that were too big !
Barry

Thanks for the tips guys. I think I will start by lowering the handle pivot point and see how the blade behaves. Another thing I dislike about this dozer is how front heavy the blade makes it. When you go to back up it, the rear rises and even in forward it hobby horses a lot. Short of putting a thousand pound counterweight on the back I suppose there is no solution for that.

That is exactly what i did on my R2. Also there are solid larger diameter idlers that were used on blade machines.

That is exactly what i did on my R2. Also there are solid larger diameter idlers that were used on blade machines.

Exactly what i said--A counter weight helps tremendously and I think the larger diameter idlers help too--but that is a lot of work to change over to them-try the counter weight first.