Bulldozer or dozer

Main components of dozer

• Tractor :Chassis and cabin
• A frame mounted unit a blade in front of
tractor
• Rear mounted rippers or scarifiers
• Hydraulic system to control the movement of
front frame with blade and rear rippers
Dozers are mainly used for cutting and pushing
the material for short distances up to 100m.
 Types of dozer
1. Dozer or bulldozer : blade is perpendicular to the
direction of travel of dozer
2. Angle dozer : blade is set at an angle (250 )
with the direction of travel of dozer
3. Tilt dozer: blade is tilted by raising one end up to
25 cm above the other.(ditching)
4. Push dozer :used push plate for pushing the
scraper unit during digging and loading operation
5. Tree dozer : used for removing trees
 Types of dozer
• Types of dozer according to their mountings
1. Crawler tractor mounted
2. Wheel tractor mounted
• Types of dozer based on method of raising and
lowering the blades:
1. Cable controlled
2. Hydraulic controlled
Wheel dozer
Crawler dozer
 Application of dozer
1. Land clearing : removing soil,trees,vegetation
2. Stripping: removal of top soil
3. Side hill cut:
4. Back filling: fill trench,ditch,
5. Ditching: rough ditch
6. Spreading
7. Dozing rocks and frozen ground: remove rocks and
maintain haul roads, clearing floors
8. Digging
9. Breaking pile
 Biggest Dozer capacity
• Engine power : 574 KW
• Weight of bulldozer:93 tons
• Capacity of blade : 32 cubic meter
• Ripper : single , 4 operating position
• Digging depth of ripper: 1.8m with a force of
26 tons
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 Dozer blade or mould board
• Is heavy blade having slightly concave profile
attached in the front of tractor
• Blade is connected to tractor with the help of
two arms and a yoke
• Blade has a replaceable cutting edge
• Blade is controlled by hydraulic actuator or
cylinder.
• Sizes of blade are: wide: 2-7.5 m and height: 0.8-
1.5 m
 Types of dozer blade
:A straight blade ("S blade") which is short and has no
lateral curve and no side wings and can be used for
fine grading and moved heavy matetials.
• A universal blade ("U blade") which is tall and very
curved, and has large side wings to carry more
material over longer distances.
• An "S-U" combination blade which is shorter, has
less curvature, and smaller side wings. This blade is
typically used for pushing piles of large rocks, such as
at a quarry. (WIKIPEDIA)
 Types of blades for special applications
1. Angle blade :cutting ditch, back filling
2. Special application U-blade: move high volume of
light and non cohesive material: coal, wood chips etc
3. Land fill blade : fill material
4. Clearing blade: cut tree, pile vegetation and drainage
ditches
5. V-blade: Shear trees, stumps and brushes at ground
level
6. Rack : clearing small stumps, toots or rocks
 Special blade
a. u-blade b. Straight blade c. angle blade d.
special application U-blade e. Land field
blade f. clearing blade g. V-blade h. rack
Dozer blade
Dozer ripper
 Dozer rippers
The ripper is the long claw-like device on the back
of the bulldozer. It is made up shank, adaptor,
tip and protector.
Rippers are used to break or fractured hard
material into small pieces
Rippers can come as a single (single shank/giant
ripper) or in groups of two or more (multi shank
rippers). Usually, a single shank is preferred for
heavy ripping
 Types of rippers
1. Single shank ripper: for breaking hard material
2. Multi-shank ripper : for ripping easy
penetrated and fractured material
Types of ripper according mounting:
3. Towed units : generally cable operated
4. Integrated units : hydraulically operated
5. Back ripper : mount on dozer blade or pivot in
the mounting brackets
 Types of rippers
Types of integral rippers:
a. Hinge rippers
b. Parallelogram ripper
 Types of rippers
1. Fixed multiple shank ripper: simple ripping operation;
up and down movement during digging operation
2. Variable multiple shank ripper :enable to change the
angle of its shank with the help of tilt hydraulic
cylinder; used where the quality of rock is not
consistent.
3. Fixed giant ripper : single powerful shank
4. Variable giant rippers: Single powerful shank having
tilt hydraulic cylinder.
Rippers
Ripper shank with tip