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Dozer Day: Playing With the Big Machines

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Dozer Day - Your Chance to Play with the Big Rigs!

Enjoy a beautiful day and the unique opportunity to drive, ride, and explore construction, military, and emergency vehicles!

Best described as a Construction Theme Park, Dozer Days are held in various places around the country to raise money for schools and parks. You'll generally find tons of construction equipment to ride, police/military demonstrations, fire safety demonstrations, helicopter water drops, and much more. Bulldozers, earthmovers, fire trucks and Hummers take center stage at these events.

Dozer Day seeks to get kids close to-actually on and operating-dirt moving machinery. More than that, Dozer Day provides a day of family fun for all ages while getting familiar with the companies, people, and amazing machines that build an area's infrastructure.

Dozer Day Resources

There are Dozer Days all over the country. Here are links to events I was able to track down.
Wisconsin
Festivities take place on 300 acres of the Halquist Stone Quarry in Sussex, Wisconsin west of Milwaukee. Every two years in the fall.
Florida
Held at Florida Horse Park, Ocala, FL, in March. Tickets are $10 at the gate and include unlimited rides.
Washington
Rinker Quarry, 18208 SE 1st Street, Vancouver, in May, benefiting the Parks Foundation.
Maine
Held in June at the Oxford County Fair Grounds, Oxford, ME.
$20 for famiy of 3-4, $25 for fmaily of 5 or more
Illinois
In August at Interstate Center, Bloomington, Illinois. $5. To benefit the Community Cancer Center Foundation.

 

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Keep a Record of Your Dozer Day Experience!

Build a great scrapbook page with pictures and memories of your day. Construction-themed scrapbooking stickers and papers seem to be in short supply, though. Here's what I've found so far.


Boys Will Be Boys Layered Puffy Stickers - Trucks


Karen Foster Stickers - 5PK/Truck


QuicKutz 4-Inch by 4-Inch Die, Construction Worker Outfit


K and Company Construction Worker
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3 Dimensional Stickers with Epoxy Accents
14 pieces


K and Company Construction
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3 Dimensional Stickers with Puffy and Varnish Accents
Six pieces


Lego City Collection Construction Stickers
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12 x 12 Cardstock Stickers


Lego City Collection Construction Jumbo Cardstock Stickers
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Lego City Collection Construction 12 x 12 Paper
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Lego City Collection Construction Phrases 12 x 12 Paper
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Dozer Day: What's the Buzz?

Kids dig Dozer Day
By Craig Brown By Zachary Kaufman A bit of rain kept the dust down, but not the crowds, at Sunday's Dozer Day. About 20000 people attend the event every year. By Zachary Kaufman Tommy Aldin, 10, center, in red, reacts after being hit in the head with ...
Packing the pit at Dozer Day
People and heavy equipment share the CEMEX Fisher Quarry at Southeast Brady Road and 192nd Avenue in east Vancouver on Saturday, the first day of the Nutter Foundation's annual Dozer Day event. The event, which gives children the chance to operate ...
Photos: Kids use construction equipment on Dozer Day
By Sam Tenney Kevin Mendenhall, left, a heavy equipment operator with the Nutter Corporation, helps 12-year-old Shubert Hunter IV, of Washougal, Wash., operate an excavator during Saturday's Dozer Day at the Fisher/Cemex quarry in Vancouver, Wash.
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