Talk:Bulldozer

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Bulldozers can be found on large and small scale construction sites, mines, roadsides, military bases, heavy industry factories, and large governmental projects. They can also be found in the middle of libraries and city halls of towns with poor zoning regulation.

(regarding some guy who rampaged a small town in Colorado, USA with improvised armored bulldozer because disputes with town hall )

MathKnight 15:38, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Well, not so much improvised - he spent two* months covering it with armor plating. DS 18:04, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Actually, closer to eighteen months.

Well, he worked hard on that armor but he wasn't a professinal. The armor did stop bullets but failed to prevent overheat in the radiator - what which stoped the bulldozer. So - it was not bad improvised armor, but still improvise. I wonder if it can stop RPGs or other anti-tank missiles. MathKnight 17:19, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Bulldozer is the track type tractor
The curved blade in front (or behind) a tractor (or horse etc) is called a bull dozer. The machine its self is called a track-type tractor. It's also important to note that Caterpillar is a trademark and shouldn't be used as a generic name for the tractor or it's endless track chain. &mdash;the preceding unsigned comment is by 12.2.142.7 (talk &bull; contribs) 13:43, 22 December 2005
 * Above Contributor’s IP is registered to Caterpillar Inc., so he can be assumed to be knowledgeable. Nevertheless, the statement that a bulldozer is the blade, not the tractor, is not an accurate statement. According to Webster’s New World College Dictionary, A bulldozer is “A tractor with a large, shovel-like blade on the front, for pushing or moving earth...” I think all Americans would agree with this common usage. The statement that Caterpillar is a trademark is true. &bull;DanMS 02:50, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

As bulldozers are also used in farming and other culivating activites they are called tractors also.

I quite agree with the webster definition but the push back on the CAT person misses the point.

A bulldozer is a big thing with a blade on the front but there are big things WITHOUT blades and they are NOT called bulldozers. the Best and Holt track type tractors used in the Sacramento Valley in the early part of the 20th century to pull combines and the like were not Bulldozers as they had no blade. Rvannatta 07:06, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Image of a civilian bulldozer
Might it be possible to include an image that does not depict a heavily-armored military monster intended to clear minefields and work under enemy fire? TaintedMustard 15:01, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

I quite agree--- a machine that has been around and widely used for 80 years, and a few are cobbled up for military purposes and that dominates the article. I strongly think that is a disservice to the machine.Rvannatta 06:58, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

hebrew
look at the hebrew article. even if u dont understand...

Does anybody know why bulldozers are usually coloured yellow?

Yellow bulldozer?
Does anybody know why bulldozers are usually coloured yellow?
 * Because they are. John D&#39;Adamo 14:50, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

It's a marketing issue. Caterpillar adopted the yellow color early on (1920's or so) for what ever reason. Other us manufacturers attempted to use their company colors (Red for International Harvester and Orange for Allis-Chalmers) that was used customarily on the farm equipment.

Caterpillar came to dominate the market, and strong operator resistence developed to the 'misfits'--The simply did not match in the fleet. So for competive reasons competitors made their equipment look more like the market leader.Rvannatta 06:54, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

There may also be a safety issue involved, as yellow equipment is easely spotted. --Sigmundg 04:56, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

General usage
The page concerning blade is referenced from several bulldozer-related articles, yet it contains little to relate to engineering vehicles. Would be worth someone adding a relevant section there.

EdJogg 14:22, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Content duplication
The section on Bulldozer in this article is effectively duplicated in several of the articles about specific Caterpillar models. Indeed, without the section, most of those articles would almost cease to be viable individually. This information should be rationalised, although a separate article concerning the history and science of dozer blades could be useful.

EdJogg 14:22, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Types of bulldozers
The following models are listed under the heading "Types of bulldozers":
 * Caterpillar 60
 * Caterpillar D6
 * Caterpillar D7
 * Caterpillar D9
 * Caterpillar D10
 * Caterpillar D11
 * Komatsu D-475

However, these are not "types" of bulldozers, they are (apart from the last one) Caterpillar models and should be moved to the article about Caterpillar. Likewise, Komatsu D-475 ought to be moved to the article about Komatsu. --Sigmundg 05:10, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Advertising
The external link "Construction Vehicles Reference CD" seems to be pure advertising.

bulldozers for snow removal
Unless discussing the modifications which are made to bulldozers for snow removal, shouldn't the mention of their use in snow removal go under the "Uses" heading?

As a side note, does anyone know how to get an English translation of the Hebrew "Bulldozer" article mentioned above? Bwe1862 (talk) 04:36, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

new title
thought this article was pretty cool. This is my first time posting on a discussion page that seems pretty active. What do we talk about? Tonka bulldozer pictures would be cool, I had like 5 of those growing up. ```` —Preceding unsigned comment added by BCDFGHJKLMNPQRSTVWXYZ (talk • contribs) 06:09, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

The World's biggest Bulldozer ever built
This site: [ACCO] has a little article with some photographies about the biggest Bulldozer ever built, the ACCO super bulldozer.Agre22 (talk) 02:06, 13 September 2009 (UTC)agre22

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