Monday, December 26, 2011

Tractor to Buldozer - The Retrofitting

I work at vsplash Techlabs Pvt. Ltd. Hi-Tech City, Hyderabad as a web designer and integrator. But, my background of qualification is Mechatronics, which specializes in hydraulics, pneumatics and PLC programming. At core I'm an Automation Engineer. Well I learnt web designing at my leisure when I was working in a Forging Company situated in Jamshedpur. It's a long story I'll tell you later, how I shifted my carrier to web designing.

Today, at lunch time I was out for getting a chewing-gum for me (believe me, I quit smoking long back and made the habit of chewing gums and other stuffs). I was happened to see a retrofitted tractor parked under a construction site beside my IT Block which is in Raneja Mindspace, Hi-Tech city.

When I was returning from the shop, I stopped and asked my friend Pradeep to stop and start surveying a tractor which was retrofitted to buldozer, implementing nice fabrication and hydraulics power units to get the result.

My mobile is equipped with 3.5 Megapixel ( which is a Samsung Wave - powered by Bada, not good than Android though). So, I took few pictures of the tractor ( turned to buldozer).

Here are they:

Retrofit Tractor

With counter wieght

Hydraulic power pack

Control valve or joystick to operate the front blade

The supporting column for actuators

Fabricated frame to support the actuator

Welded and bolted frames


Counter weight close look
I heard CNC retrofitting, Conventional machine retrofitting, but this was new to me. I searched the internet and found many good information regarding this.

These from Youtube:





Some Reference Links: 

http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Bulldozer
http://www.ctoa.net/forum/tractor-operation-and-maintenance/jm-604-hydraulic-pump-retrofit/

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