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Topic: roadgrader question
Posted By: jaybmiller
Subject: roadgrader question
Date Posted: 12 May 2019 at 3:17pm
OK, guy was redoing the gravel shoulder on the highway. He had his front wheels slanted(tilted ?) towards the highway.
I'd like to know why as the shoulder's flat...
thanks
BTW Shamless's machine is on dribble mode ....sigh.


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Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 12 May 2019 at 3:23pm
Keeps the machine force pulling away from the ditch as the blade cuts into the ditch. Similar to as a motorbike leans to corner, they do not steer into one.


Posted By: mdm1
Date Posted: 12 May 2019 at 3:51pm
Always wondered that myself.

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Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 12 May 2019 at 3:58pm
man I KNEW someone would know !!! thanks


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Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 12 May 2019 at 6:28pm
Real answer is that by tilting the wheels toward traffic, you can rip door trim offa drivers cars, that venture too close...Wink

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Posted By: SteveM C/IL
Date Posted: 12 May 2019 at 10:16pm
Have many hours in a road grader. You learn pretty quick why they have wheel lean feature. Only time they're straight up is when roading it.


Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 13 May 2019 at 4:21pm
lots of times I wished I had tilt wheels on my tractors!


Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 14 May 2019 at 6:35am
One road grader operator I was watching must have just leaned em because that's what he was told todo, and didn't grasp the concept of why you lean them, because he had em leaned the wrong way. Darrel


Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 14 May 2019 at 7:16am
I guess I don't get it, sorry to say.


Posted By: truckerfarmer
Date Posted: 14 May 2019 at 9:30am
By leaning the front wheels they bite a little harder. When blading hard packed surfaces the moldboard has a tendency to want to push you sideways. By leaning the wheels it counteract the sideways forces to help the machine go straight.

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Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 14 May 2019 at 10:19am
Originally posted by truckerfarmer truckerfarmer wrote:

By leaning the front wheels they bite a little harder. When blading hard packed surfaces the moldboard has a tendency to want to push you sideways. By leaning the wheels it counteract the sideways forces to help the machine go straight.
Thanks Trucker, so if say blade were angled to discharge to the right, you would lean the wheels "top" to the right, putting tire footprint opposing the push....(?)


Posted By: CAL(KS)
Date Posted: 14 May 2019 at 10:21am
Originally posted by Tbone95 Tbone95 wrote:

Originally posted by truckerfarmer truckerfarmer wrote:

By leaning the front wheels they bite a little harder. When blading hard packed surfaces the moldboard has a tendency to want to push you sideways. By leaning the wheels it counteract the sideways forces to help the machine go straight.
Thanks Trucker, so if say blade were angled to discharge to the right, you would lean the wheels "top" to the right, putting tire footprint opposing the push....(?)
yes


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Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 14 May 2019 at 6:18pm


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Like them all, but love the "B"s.


Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 14 May 2019 at 6:48pm
Oh, I’ve seen it before. Just......you should have heard the answer my dad gave me when I was a kid!


Posted By: Gary
Date Posted: 14 May 2019 at 7:25pm

Anyone ever participated in a rope 'tug of war' ?


Posted By: truckerfarmer
Date Posted: 14 May 2019 at 10:37pm
Oh, great, Steve, you had to throw articulation into the mix didn't you!

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Looking at the past to see the future.
'53 WD, '53 WD45, WD snap coupler field cultivator, #53 plow,'53 HD5B dozer

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Posted By: ac fleet
Date Posted: 15 May 2019 at 9:06am
I ran graders for near 40 years AND the first thing that you learn is the wheel lean and how to use it and which way to lean it, also how much lean you need.


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Posted By: trace
Date Posted: 15 May 2019 at 9:31am
all sounds complicated, maybe that why my grader guy makes more mess that fixes road.

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