Course Content

• Knowledge
• Principles of operation of diesel engines
• Basic principles of hydraulics and electricity
• Routine maintenance of crawler dozers
• Crawler dozer controls and their functions
• Various types of dozer blades and their Applications
• Dozer attachments for specific uses
• Properties of different types of soil
• Safety precautions in dozer operation
• Environmental issues
• Fuels and lubricants
• Traffic rules and regulations
Skills
• Carry out pre start checks
• Carry out daily maintenance
• Carry out post-start checks
• Load crawler dozer onto plant mover
• Unload crawler dozer from plant mover
• Make access path to site
• Reduce embankment height/lower ground level(burrow pit)
• Make stockpile
• Perform diagonal cut
• Backfill earth
• Perform leveling
• Compact earth
• Park crawler dozer at the end of the day's work