Dozer blade

[Mike Anderson]

[Crawler Boy]

ThankÃ,´s for the pictures of the blade.

[erik]

I'd love to get my hands on an Andersen blade, unfortunatly I donÃ,´t think there are any in Sweden as I know. I have found a home made OC3 blade with outside push arms attached to the trackframe but it looks to heavy for the OC3 and so says the owner.

[gary mckenzie]

My OC-3 has a homemade blade on it, it mounts to the outside of the track frames and uses an A arm lift arrangement similar to the old Bucyrus units on older Internationals.  It was originally equipped with a rear mount forestry plow, the plow cylinders were used on the blade. This setup works, but I don't like it, it's ugly and has lots of slop in it. After viewing some of the other posts, I'm now on the lookout for an Anderson unit.

[Bob]

We have a homemade blade that came off of our HG. Outside frame. Needs a little tinker work. Not sure if my Dad would sell it or not. Could possibly take pictures of it sometime.

[DOZER24]

i HAVE A FEW ANDERSON BLADE SET UPS FOR OC3'S  www.crawlerheaven.com

[Blake Malkamaki]

Originally posted by Mike Anderson
I've got a '41 HG and an OC-3 with Anderson blades on them.  Most of my photos are of the HG but before I got my digital camera.  I'll try and locate some and scan them later.

For what it's worth, I like the way Anderson (no relation that I'm aware of!) mounted their blades.  It's a very neat set up, with all the hardware inside the tracks, a front mounted pump and a relatively simple blade mount.  

The first photo is of both tractors, not very much of a close up, though.  The main hydraulic cylinders act directly on the blade frame and are mounted to plates and brackets bolted to the outside of the frame.   The blade mounts to standard channels with large pins.  Very nice, simple and strong.  Plus it allows swinging of the blade with an insert piece.  The HG has a tilt cylinder mounted between opposing channels.  I have this unit apart right now for refurbishing, and can take photos of the individual parts.  It would be a pretty simple mechanism to copy as most parts are standard hot rolled shapes that may be drilled, welded and sometimes simply formed.  The main support arms are pipe with a slight bend in them.

The OC3 in the foreground has a third cylinder that angles the blade, (currently disconnected by the previous owner).  Other than the third cylinders, both blades would interchange by pulling two pins.  Cute.
The next photo shows the arms pretty clearly as the tractor is on end.  I haven't had great luck with photos, so I'll send them individually.

More later.  Mike
 

I replaced Mike's picture as it was almost 200 kb. Please limit pictures to 600 pixels wide.

[Blake Malkamaki]

Originally posted by Mike Anderson
Ok, that worked.  Sorry for the size, but it shows a little better that way.

I'll try the next one a little smaller.

Mike

PS:  Blake........I could take and post a lot of pictures of this setup as, like I said, it's all in pieces now.  Let me know if you think that would be appropriate or if there is another format that would be prefered.  Thanks, Mike

NOTE: I replaced Mike's picture due to size and moved it down.

[Edited on 2-20-2003 by Blake]

Here's the picture...