Armoured Dozer

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Lynn Eades

Jakko, There were other options for winches (for those who dont know) There were (Carco ?) twin drum winches used on "cable controlled" equipment. Some Cats (D7) had cable controlled blades and a second drum was used to operate the bowl on a scraper. I assume the millitary dozers used in airfield construction were fitted with them?

AFAIK only the US Dozer had cable controlled blades? At least the British Armoured Dozers did not use cable controlled blades.


"[US] Combat engineers dig out this caterpillar bulldozer which became stuck in a muddy bomb crater while clearing off a road north of Marigny. 27/07/44" - read more here: https://flic.kr/p/kfTv9D

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