How to operate
A Cat D6 Dozer
How 2 Operate A Cat D6 Dozer
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hey how's it going guys this is your
friendly house heavy equipment guy so
anyway I want to come at you guys with
another video on how to today we're
going to be talking about the d6 or XL
it's a high track dozer so pretty very
that's a fairly nice dozer it's got a
little good bit of power it's made by
caterpillar and it's really not that bad
of a machine kind of one just give you
guys a little you know idea what it
looks like on the inside of the cab cuz
I know some of you guys you know you've
seen these videos out there and there's
no real indication on what the machines
actually doing and kind of things like
that kind of dirty in this thing today
so kind of give you guys a rundown on
what it does how to start it up and
basing operations just like most of my
videos before it's all basic operations
is its no in-depth tutorial on what you
need to do is just how to actually give
the machine cranked up and kind of push
forward so today we're going to be
starting with this one okay so on this
side this does is a little bit different
than most they actually have the park
brake on this side so I actually did
engage it flip it up to push up this a
little bigger right here on this control
we got actually engage the park brake
and then we can go ahead and start it up
but before we start I allowed bastard II
kind of just go ahead and give you a
rundown of the actual controls and the
functions of it so in order to to drive
forward what you want to do is you see F
and an hour same thing you want to go
forward you just click it forward you
want to go in reverse you're clicking it
towards you it goes in the reverse and
then bring it back into the center gets
it into the neutral position over here
on our right hand side we have our
control front blade you can kind of see
like I say it's not started right now so
just kind of give you an idea what's
going on in order to get to play to come
down what you're going to want to do is
you want to push forward the blades are
going to come down if you want to come
up you push it towards you and the blade
will come up and in order to tilt
side-to-side basically what you want to
do is if you want to tilt to the left
you're going to kind of kick it to the
left side and then later
pick it up like this so to put more
pressure coming down on the left-hand
side if you want to go right to the
right side like this pushing this way
what will happen is the blade on the
right side will come down and pivot the
left side up it allows you to have you
know been basically pitch control this
one doesn't have a pitch blade where it
comes in and out this one is mainly for
pushing so it doesn't have that that
momentum that folk you know that to
where you can kind of find great and
fine-tune these noses right here mainly
just like I say for pushing and just
kind of getting the heavy-duty work done
over here on this side right here which
we have that's far a ripper don't know
if you can kind of see it in the back
it's a ripper here and what you do is
just pretty self-explanatory up and down
basically what we'll do is we'll go
ahead and crank it up and kind
I'll go through the functions and basic
functionalities of the machine and kind
of go from there also - before we crank
it up cause it's going to get loud in
here and I like I might as well go
through all the actual controls and
functionalities over here what you have
is your throttle control so if you want
to throttle down idle down you'll kick
you'll press it down and what it does is
it brings your idle to a low idle you
want to idle up basically what you'll do
is you'll push up
it gives it a high rpm and on this side
it's for your hydraulic lockout so
basically what you want to do is if it's
on up up position where it looks like
the the lock is locked in place there's
nothing old no hydraulics or anything
like that will go through you push it
down you'll have full function of that
machine what I like to do is I like to
make sure before I crank it up and I do
make sure it's in the locked position
just in case they might have a farm
momentum from the hydraulic fluid we
want to go ahead and keep it from doing
anything crazy once we fire it up and
especially if you got a bad pump and it
might be sending things a signal from
either from the controls or vice-versa
and I'll actually stop that from
happening down here on the bottom it's
pretty self-explanatory here it's a
break and sometimes with this machine
because it has so much high torque when
you hit the brakes it'll actually jump
even if you go in real slow and when you
hit the brake and I'll freaking push
down it's got a lot of stopping power to
it for sure then here you have your
throttle control
so what like I say here is for high idle
so right here is actually you can find
too if you want to slow it down a little
bit by pushing pressure to down to the
floor it allows you to actually control
your throttle and so let's go ahead and
get this bad boy started up going let it
sit let it go through his process once
you see that it's actually sent but in
turn the radio down go ahead and fire it
up
as you can see here it shows on an
indication where we have our pork break
set so what we're going to do is we're
going to push the park right down you
notice the light for the park break
actually disengaged I'm hoping you guys
can actually hear me I might have to
actually talk up a little bit louder
we'll go ahead kick up the idle
so we got it right now to where we can
actually control it with our foot by
pressing down on actual accelerator well
decelerate er it'll stop the idle so
I've come up with it's going to idle hi
so onto this side right here where you
have these buttons what this does is if
you kind of see on the dashboard itself
it switches your gears so you got third
second and first what that is is the
actual forward momentum of you when
you're going forward it's kind of your
speed control same thing going and
reverse so if I click it forward you'll
see that I'm actually starting to move
it now and then one
let it go
go phone
take it back it comes back in the
neutral neutral position also - anytime
you switch your gears like from forward
to reverse you definitely want to idle
it down and come to a complete stop
before you try to jam it into reverse or
forward because you can actually do a
lot of a lot of damage to the actual
machine by doing that in the process so
same thing we reverse by clicking over
backwards we're going to move forward
now if you want to actually turn the
Machine the same lever that allows you
to go forward and reverse it all allows
you to actually turn so if I want to go
to my left hand side I'm going to push
forward and the machine is going to turn
to the left if I want to go to the right
I'll push towards me and the Machine
goes to the right as you guys can see
it's gonna be kind of hard to actually
push some material with the camera in my
hand but I'll go ahead and give it the
best that I can try to give you kind of
guys a little bit of a demonstration so
like you said right now we have our
controls locked out too so we can't use
no function of our blades so what we're
going to do is we're going to engage and
now we have functionality
and that's why the pictures of an actual
machine so what I want to do now is I'm
going to go ahead and put it in the fall
here we're going to drop my blade down
slightly
kind of get into where she's just
touching the log what I want to do is
I'm just going to gradually go slow and
feel the machine as I'm walking with the
machine I'm actually feeling the picture
so if it feels like I'm going one way
I'm going to actually use my hair on
this side and kind of move my blades and
the directions that I wanted to go so I
can actually push material right now we
just push it in the bump get the stuff
out of here
go ahead idle it up a little bit
your mouth
like I say it kind of gives you guys
just a slight idea what goes on
and also to our kind of give you guys a
demonstration with the Ripper same thing
with the Ripper here and it's kind of
hard to see if I push it towards me the
Ripper is going to come up if I push it
away the Ripper comes down
and it kind of gives you a direction of
what's going on so anyway guys we're
going to go ahead and crank it down shut
it down for a minute and hope you guys
really enjoy the little tutorials I know
that it's kind of hard to to do
tutorials on heavy equipment and I'm
trying to do the best that I can I
really appreciate the guys that are
actually watching the videos it really
means a lot and to the guys that are
actually sub into as well that's really
cool like I mean I'm just doing this to
help other operators out like especially
new operators that's trying to come in
to the operating scene I love here the
equipment I've been around them for so
long and just trying to give some
knowledge to somebody else and if
there's anything you'd like to see or
next just let me know I mean I have tons
of equipment out here that we can kind
of demonstrate on so again guys thank
you guys for checking out the video I
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thank you guys again and I'll try to
catch you on another video as soon as I
can appreciate it
