Dozer production
Dozing production per hour from blade load, push distance and speeds.
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- Your own numbers, worked out as often as you like
- The full dozing estimate you can print or save to My work
- 4 cited sources, linked, with the checks to make
- Every other tool for the same role, in the same plan
- A plain-words read of your result (a fuller AI read with the Bifrost AI add-on)
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Example result · fictional numbers
What you get: dozing estimate
Worked out by this tool from its default inputs. Its role plan lets you run your own numbers, print the sheet and save it.
85 BCY an hour after corrections (0.75 × the 114 uncorrected), $2.75 a bank yard, 3.9 days for 3,000 BCY
- Cycle time
- 1.75 min
- Loose production
- 142 LCY/h
- Bank production
- 114 BCY/h
- Per 9 h shift
- 1,026 BCY
Job condition corrections
- Operator
- Average: × 0.75
- Material
- Average material, no correction: × 1.00
- Technique
- Standard dozing: × 1.00
- Visibility
- Clear: × 1.00
- Grade
- × 1.00 from the grade chart
- Combined correction
- × 0.75 (job efficiency is already in the shared result)
Also on the sheet
- Corrected production and cost · 6 lines, starting with “Uncorrected production”
- Push distance what-if (same dozer and conditions) · 7 lines, starting with “50 ft push”
The plain-words read of this example
The shared tool's 114 BCY an hour assumes ideal conditions; the handbook corrections for this job multiply it by 0.75. That leaves about 85 bank yards an hour, 769 per 9-hour shift. At a $235.00 hourly spread the dozing costs $2.75 a bank yard, and 3,000 BCY takes 35.1 hours (3.9 days) and about $8,246.36. At 150 ft the dozer makes 68% of what it makes at 100 ft; watch spill off the blade sides on the longer pushes. Time real cycles in the first hour before you lock in the bid.
4 cited sources
- Caterpillar Performance Handbook, Edition 49 (track-type tractors, dozer production) (Caterpillar, via MacAllister Machinery (Cat dealer download page))
- Improve productivity during the dozing cycle by following the proper techniques (Caterpillar)
- 29 CFR 1926.602, Material handling equipment (earthmoving) (Electronic Code of Federal Regulations)
- FAR 31.105(d)(2), Construction equipment ownership and operating costs (Acquisition.gov (Federal Acquisition Regulation))
Plus 5 step-by-step checks, a print layout and a link that reopens it with your numbers.