Here is a basic overview of the controls in a wheel loader. The machine I am in is a 2012 Komatsu WA200. Like what you see? Check out The Dirt Ninja on Facebook here: / thedirtninja
All I need to know fast and simple, thank you. Look at a few other videos, but hard to understand if they just want to show off driving and not actually teaching us how to use the controllers. Very good, thank you.
AlwaysOnP0int might as well, that was a pretty good lesson:) only question, is the left brake really just a brake or is there neutral logic on one pedal for power diversion/inching?
Yeah I was taught to always drive equipment with two feet. Has saved me from going around a blind corner into another loader or a truck a few times braking fast
My company switched from a Komatsu 380 to a Cat 950 after 12500 hours on the Komatsu and after one day the jury is still out but I'm thinking that the cat is not as well engineered. Loved the Komatsu.
do all loaders have the automatic bucket control feature or is that only on komatsu? I run excavator but have never run a loader. We use cat and john deere at work.
I run loaders for a living, Cats, John Deer, Volvo, Komatsu, Dasoon, all of those loaders have the return to dig option, or auto leveler we have always called it.
What year is that machine? Newer setup than the Komatsu loader than I have ran in the past. Doesn't it have a transmission kick down to 1st gear button on the joystick?
My boss likes them damn Komatsu wheel loaders I think they're only good for filling ditches or loading trucks they don't Back Drag worth a s*** the market doesn't dump far enough I prefer Volvo loaders because you can dump the bucket straight up and down and you know when you need to pull something towards you you can do it instead of skipping over top of it like a Komatsu and they're also really good for cutting behind the curbs because of that bucket can stand straight up and down and when you curl it back it goes back a little further and you can keep whatever's in the bucket or on the bucket there
They are never big enough on equipment to be useful. Just easier to turn and look backwards. They get caught on things like tree branches and get broken.
Never gas with right and brake with left... In the event of an accident or a panic human instinct is to hit the pedal to the floor if you have your foot on the gas and then mash the left what do you think the right foot is going to instinctively do? Well the same thing you did with your left foot... Only experience and luck will bring that foot down on the brake on the right side. The left brake, assuming it is actually a brake, would probably be used only if some extra force was required in order to stop...
when you get into a heavy duty machine like this you go into a different mind set, you frequently need to throttle, brake, throttle, brake and having to move your left foot would be exhausting, i drive both a Heavy Forklift and a Loader, always use my left foot to brake, never pushed the gas by misstake and i operate in tight areas frqently having to brake hard
Personally, my instinct when something is questionable is to stab my left foot to the floor, which i have to fight when I'm running a forklift because inching includes brake after half press. I'll be more likely to come to a good stop quickly this way :)