When I started working in construction in 1980, I worked with a Gradall operator digging swimming pools. The company owned 2 Gradall G-660’s and my job was raking/grading the excavations while using the story pole for the guy on the transit(no laser transits back then) Those G-660’s and the operator’s dug a nice hole !
Yeah I’ve been running a loader on and off for years and this year last been my first professional loader year none stop I’ve learned so much. Including that if you load a aluminum truck bed and you’re not gentle about it you can blow the opposite side of the bed out. Yeah I new you had to be careful but didn’t know clay could easily kill a 30 yard truck box. Happily it didn’t happen to me. Be careful out there. Never let yourself not do something because you haven’t done it before take your time be safe about it
Bucket too high, look at the axels where to but the weight on. If you but that bucket lover, your co-workers will thank you for it. DUST is the killer.
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Well this coming Monday will be my first road installation and I'm not a blade operator at all!!! I can operate it good enough to run traffic on but Monday will be my learning point! I have no idea how to cut ditches that's why I'm watching this video. I just needed to watch how it's done so I have an idea what it should look like and it looked fairly simple. There is no time limit on this particular job so it's the perfect place to learn how to cut it with a blade. If I had a D5 with a 6-way blade I wouldn't have any issue with the ditches, but he wants me to learn how to do it with the blade. I'm a full time excavator & dozer operator and the blade is the only piece of equipment I never cared to learn! But if I can learn how to operate one, I can learn another!
Nice, I just want to point out that the operator is curling his bucket to early when he’s driving into the pile. At 8:26 you can see the back of the bucket is not full… by booming up slightly before curling, the bucket will be filled to the back plate every time. It may not seem like much, but at a half a yard per bucket… that’s quite a few extra trucks per shift. Other than that, very informative video!
