Bulldozer
Bulldozer Course Description:
Bulldozers are called on for a variety of work. Backfilling around
foundations and other structures, dressing slopes, cutting V-ditches,
piling brush and debris, clearing rubble, and occasionally rough
excavating.
Course Description:
- Perform pre-trip inspection
- Use of proper terms and definitions
- Use of proper safety procedures
- Perform rough ditching and spreading
- Perform ripping operations
- Cutting and building a gentle slope bench
- Proper use of the bulldozer on unstable soil
- Replacing cutting edges on blades and teeth on rippers
Student Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course the student will be able to:
- List uses of the bulldozer
- Match terms associated with the bulldozer
- List types of bulldozers
- Label parts of a bulldozer
- Identify controls for a typical bulldozer
- List accessories used on a bulldozer
- List types of jobs done with bulldozers
- List safety procedures used when operating a bulldozer
- List daily inspection items
- List items to check when servicing a bulldozer
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