How to operate
A Cat Bulldozer
How to drive a Caterpillar bulldozer D6K
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so short little video about how to drive
this thing some of you guys might like
that I know it's a lot of times it's
hard to you know you interested in this
stuff but really how do you get to learn
how to operate this stuff if you don't
have it or you don't have it as a job
you don't have a you know a friend
that'll let you do it anyway
first things first come up I got this
blade off the ground but generally
there's a step right here and that's
what gets you up on a track so you step
on this to get up you come up there's
anyway you hit the step down there you
walk up the track come up you grab the
handle pull on the handle really hard
sometimes you know it feels like it's
locked but it's not pull that up and
these doors are designed where you can
leave them open so if you leave them
open like that you can tell back there
there's a little handle so come back
pull that handle real hard you can
actually shut the door that's designed
to hold the door open so man that hurt
okay so you're in to pad your driver's
seat this is a footrest this is the
footrest this is a brake assist engages
everything and on a bulldozer you really
don't have to use this braid it's kind
of like an emergency stop like we need
to stop all of sudden it's it'll jerk
you when you stop so you'll be going
along you hit this and you just go back
and forth you got your key turn the key
on let your gauges sweep start it you
got your controller over here that puts
it in forward that puts it in reverse
this controls your blade you know that's
a blade down plate up that'll turn the
blade no left pushing it this way we'll
turn it right doing this little thumb
wheel will actually rotate the blade
itself yes the diplay is sitting like
that and I'll start this thing up and
show you but it's gonna be kind of loud
so I'm trying to explain everything this
is
throttle you can see a you know tortoise
to slow rabbit is fast these things are
designed around a full throttle all the
time so when you get in them yeah don't
don't put them like that I mean just put
them all the way up they the engine is
designed to run at one cost in rpm and
it's 1800 rpm or 2,000 rpm you're good
to go if you have a ripper this one
doesn't and a ripper is those big claws
you see in the back and the machine to
go down in the dirt if you have a ripper
this make you get Ripper go up just to
make it Ripper go down and with your
going forward this is your speed control
there's no Prato pedal unease and
there's no steering wheel so once you
get to go in you put this and forward
like that you hit this little thumb
mower up there hit it up you'll see your
dash change and that's your speed and
you go like 3.5 or something like that
and she get going long and then once you
get going I mean you can literally take
your hands off and you can sit here in a
twiddle your thumbs or whatever and the
machine just goes straight until you
need to turn when you turn hit that over
to the left and you hit that over to the
right and depending on how you how far
you hit it you'll either kind of
gradually go to the left you go out like
that if you do it all the way over like
that the tractor will just sit there and
spin so to start it up actually I'm
gonna shut this door real quick make a
little quieter in the cab I got this
door shut and we'll start okay so turn
the key on let all the gauges sweep that
test all the gauges listen know
everything's going good hit the key
okay first things first turn the air
conditioning on gold get the AC on
that's better
so when you first get the machine go
ahead and let it a warm up I've already
got this one running a little while so
we're gonna let that it's already warm
over on this right side you have your
parking brake turn it off that red brake
will go off and if that red brick is
sitting there flashing put the park
break back on turn it off again see and
it'll go off now we're at 1.9 that's our
speed or my shirt speeds down to zero
but I hit this thumb wheel down like
that that'll turn the speed down if I
push it the other way he'll square and
speed up so we're turning it all the way
down we're gonna put it in forward we're
not gonna go anywhere there are bottles
all the way down our speeds all the way
down so I'm going to increase my speed a
little bit on this controller here
I don't know I'm not at that part out
because that sucks so to go forward
we're gonna hit our throttle up a little
bit now we're rocking forward
increase my speed a little bit
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Monsieur I don't have my service droid
and now we're going forward have I have
my hand on the controls we're at a 1.6
miles an hour
and nothing so if I want to stop all the
sudden I can hit my break we stop
like oh my break
and let's go so when you're operating
this machine you need to have your rpms
all the way up okay rpms are all the way
up your said I'm not controlling
anything but if I turn this lever this
way
we turn right I'll turn the level this
way we turn left
go ahead max out our speed
there we go we're out down the road
so like I said earlier if you hit this
break it is a sudden stop all of a
sudden so you really only need to hit
that break if you need to stop quick
most of the time all you're going to do
is you're going to turn this thumb wheel
down a lower speed go down looking down
to point one
the chromo then we can hit our break put
it in neutral
okay to go reverse you have that your
foot on the brake to go into various you
just pull it back we start rapping
backwards
I'm gonna put a neutral understand
if I go this way the blades going to
rotate counterclockwise let goes the
other way rotate clockwise if I pull
back on it towards me
planes going to go up I'll push down
play to go down
now if I hit this thumb wheel right here
you know if I hit this way
the play is going to know what the blade
is doing blades doing this okay if
you're pushing low to dirt around and
you needed to go out to the solid feel
like that they'll actually push all the
ferry off to the side
I'm gonna shut it down we set our plate
on the ground if we had a ripper we'd
set a Ripper on the ground turn the RPMs
all the way down make sure we're in
neutral turn your speed all the way back
down to play one sent our park break and
turn the key off that's it I'm gonna
test drive this dude for a little bit
and then I'll Park it and we'll go to
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