OC3 blade question

[Kirk-NJ]

I picked up an OC3 yesterday. It has an anderson blade on it. The blade has pins and extra holes, It looks like possibly you could maybe pull a pin and add a piece to use as an angle blade. Is this possible? Does anyone have a photo of the added piece?

Thanks, Kirk

[Jethrow]

Not an Anderson blade but an interesting post adding blade angling to an OC3.

http://bbs.homeshopmachinist.net/threads/52412-Adding-hydraulic-angling-of-a-dozer-blade-Part-I

[Kirk-NJ]

The blade in the post is similar to mine. So maybe I don't have an anderson even though the tag up be the grill sez anderson Thanks for posting it. It look like I can make that pieces with a couple pieces of pipe and some channel iron.

Kirk

[mikegt4]

The Anderson blade was available with a piece that angled the blade. It was also available with a hydraulic tilt option.

Several years ago there was a guy who had a web page with lots of photos of the restoration of his OC3 equipped with then hydraulic tilt option. Most of the pieces were weldments made up with standard structural steel shapes. The "filler" piece used to angle the blade was made of a section of formed "C" channel that utilized the same attachment points as the blade. In his case the tilt feature required a custom height but one could easily made the piece out of standard C channel that would fit between the upper and lower attachment points for the blade.

I saved the photos from his web site a couple that I have tried to attached. I can't give credit to him as I didn't save his name or web address but I think that he posted here on occasion.

[Kirk-NJ]

Thanks, that look like it. I like the tilt too but that can come later down the road maybe when the weathers a bit warmer. The good new is I have an extra control lever that just plug up to use for the tilt cylinder.
It's a 1952. I tried to attach some photos but they were too large.

Kirk

[Jack in NB]

Kirk -

I use a handy free program called "Irfanview" to shrink or crop pictures. Easy to use.

[Blake Malkamaki]

Just an FYI, the photos don't have to be as small as before. I increased the size limit.

Blake

[Kirk-NJ]

Trying to add photos

[Kirk-NJ]

And another

[mikegt4]

It looks like you have almost the same valve, just right for a tilt blade.

[mikegt4]

I searched around for old posts and found that the owner of the machine that I posted was appropriately enough, Mike Anderson who IIRC lived in California. His website address no longer works.

[Kirk-NJ]

Thanks for the additional photos. I printed them out so I can have them on hand when I'm ready to tackle that project.

Kirk

[oliverchris]

Kirk. Anderson did two different dozer blade set-ups for the 42 gauge OC-3 (plus a snow blade).

The F3A 'Trailblazer' is the one shown in that 'Machinist' feature (wider, lower = 72" x 17") and the F3A 'Imp Dozer' (blade = 56.75" x 22"). The Trailblazer was versatile and created for light dozing, scraping and grading and came with that steel angling insert as standard, but you could also purchase a hydraulic tilt and/or angling option. It could go 30" below ground level and raise 30". It weighs 775lbs.

The Imp Dozer was more of a dedicated dozer with float position hydraulic valves as standard. It could (potentially) dig 10" and raise 24". It weighs 730lbs.

They also made an Imp Dozer for the 31 gauge with a cantilevered lift arm on a special grill — the E3A. They sold many more of these with equipped with snow blades on the narrow OC-4's for municipal sidewalk snow-clearing up in these parts (NY, VT, NH, ME, MA etc.).
I'll try to post photos soon.

[oliverchris]

Anderson F3A Imp Dozer
Anderson  F3A with Trailblazer with Hydraulic Angling option
Anderson F3A  with Snow Plow Blade

[oliverchris]

Anderson F3A with Hydraulic Mower 
Anderson F3A with Imp Fire Line Plow 
Anderson E3A for narrow 31 gauge OC-3's