How To: Get a Full Bucket of Dirt In A Wheel Loader 

I love the fact that you put the insert in this video. Watching what happens from both angles was very educational. Also, making it quick and simple with explanation on everything you did helped a lot. Thank you.

This kind of video could really take your channel to new heights, it's so much more engaging than just watching you work! Thanks for the extra effort in putting something like this together.

i'm not sure how i ended up on heavy equipment tutorial youtube, but this is a clear, concise, well designed and well executed video.

this was a random video i found but its awesome to see a completely different side of someone's job and doing it efficiently

Another tip is to keep working different spots of the pile. I take one scoop from the middle then come in from either side of the first scoop. That narrow windrow the spills out from either side of the bucket is easier to penetrate and get a full load than constantly hitting the same spot

Backdrag the pile before you try taking a scoop out of it. It let's you load up what you had backdragged off of the pile with the larger pile acting as a backdrop to push the smaller pile of material against. Even backdragging smaller piles with the flat bottom side of your bucket can be a big help. This will give you some compaction in your pile if it's lose and also make the material load easier. Always get your bucket down to the ground after you dump your material. Never keep your bucket high in the air, ESPECIALLY if you have a bucket full of material. Practice without your auto level whenever you are not cutting on a surface that it is critical to keep your grade on. If there is no worry about digging a hole, ditch the Autolevel and work with the sides of your buckets as your visualization for your cutting edge. As others have said, don't spin your tires. Don't wait until you stop before lifting up on the boom to put that downward pressure on the tire. Great video bro. This is excellent advice for beginners. They just need to learn to put it all together as one fluid movement and not worry about doing this, then that, then this, then that.

It helped me a lot taking new job and will load own truck some days thank you 🙏

As a Sanitation worker, this machine is one of the tools I use to move trash. I enjoyed this presentation as it is extremely relevant in my experience. Thank you! Can you please go over the procedure to install and remove the bucket from this machine. It would be helpful to me to go over this procedure as we have at least three different attachments we use for various clearing situations. Since I'm not privileged to be able to do those functions on a regular basis, I've gotten rusty on this procedure. By the way, its 2022 and that 'self leveling' feature all the new ones have, hasn't materialized yet, still waiting.😆 Thanx in advance.

Hey, Thanks.... Just started learning and nice to have a few pointers, you have one of the better videos on RU-vid.

Excellent video. The operators in Denmark need to watch this.

Would love to see more how to videos. Very helpful stuff

#1 DROP TO 1ST GEAR. Helps apply additional torque to the front. #2 Left foot heavy on the left brake until you feel the slightest give. This will prevent wheel spin and possible loss of your job. #3 lift boom while doing #2. #4 rock bucket back in 6-12" pops. You shouldnt be bouncing in your cab. This is good for solid and soft piles. #5 DONT DO A HARD SNAP AT THE END OF YOUR ROCK BACK! this damages your pins, boom, and bucket over time. #6 Pull back until your bucket is a foot or 2 from the pile an give a quick shake forward and back to sluff your exess material that WILL fall during travel resulting in a loss or contamination of product. #7 reverse from pile. A good operator can fill an 8yd bucket of medium-hard material in under 30 seconds. When i started as a loader operator at my crushing pit, i had 1 minute from the time i finished dumping into the feeder to get to my stockpile, fully fill my bucket, return, and start dumping before my feeder would empty. If you spin tires youre wasting money(life of the tire & life of the cutting edge, theyre not cheap), and time.

Hey love the video really helped me out. I was wondering if you had any pointers on grading with the bucket?

Excellent tips for us newbies! Thanks!

Great tip for us beginners

Cheers for the tips! Used what ya said and works great!

Hi, Dirt Ninja. That's all very well with stockpiled loose gravel. There is a bit more involved in digging tight material straight out of a bank. Still and all, it's good to see somebody taking the time to try to educate the newcomers. Thanks for that. Just my 0.02. You have a wonderful day. Best wishes. Deas Plant.

Good Stuff! Does this loader have the auto bucket features, as in one of your previous videos? I really enjoy your videos BTW! I've been watching them off and on since I got out of the Army, and started learning how to operate more equipment!

Love the videos!!! Thanks for the tips!

Really helpful man appreciate the video

Thank y ou lever son much thé d'art ninja for all of thèse technics

thank you! thank you everyone else for further comments and helpful hints

I do it differently. I drive into the pile and boom up with my bucket level before i meet resistance, never spinning any tire (unless its wet) and keep booming up driving into it (which will drive the materiel into the corner and back of the bucket and then last 1/4 of the movement i curl up and slam a bunch up to heap my full bucket. then ride around on the front wheels. I find it takes awhile to learn to keep the bucket level for most people, any new operators just keep at it. any chance you get try to grade and level areas - don't rely on auto level.. you'll get to the point where you don't even look at the bucket or try to figure out what points look level (good way to dig holes un intentionally) you should just be able to feel what the bucket is doing.. if you're on hard materiel open a window and you can hear wether you are cutting or skating or dragging

Thank you. I found that very helpful

very good instructional video, I think it is needed and will help the new guys out, one thing i'd like to add. keep your work area level. as in your video when you were demonstrating loading the bucket as soon as the tires slipped you stopped. the new guys starting this will spin the tires like satchbooggy said and if you don't level the area back up it only adds to the problem, load your truck then come back and dress the area a little it will make your day a lot easier. I've seen new guys damn near roll the machine in front of a pile. looking forward to more videos

Very good video for beginners

Quite helpful! Thanks.

I really needed to see this

Always have a low center of gravity with a full bucket as well. Keep the bucket low while driving otherwise you'll tip over while turning at higher speeds. I found that out the hard way when I went up on two wheels and shat a brick.

Thank you I'm watching from Tanzania 🇹🇿

thanks, just got my first tractor and had a pile of gravel delivered and was not getting full buckets. This will help. thanks

Took a few comments but finally someone gave the best advice, dig in first gear, easier to get that scoop no matter the conditions and you will never heat up the torque converter

You know your onions kid. Nice tip!

Great video… I send this to the people I want to run my loaders it’s perfect for training

Thank you man. Could you show how to load trailer

@Dirt Ninja randy with heavy metal learning covered this topic with a komatsu aswell as the things that can get the operator in trouble on wheel loader or even a track loader

you have a sweet job

two camera angles very helpful

Dude you got to keep making these kind of videos you are going to get lots of views all the learning on heavy machinery.. don't you guys and girls agree..???

thaniks man this will help alot.

Is there an option on the 918m that disengages the self leveling system? I've tried everything to get mine to work with no luck? The float works great when you pick the stick all the way forward but I get no response when I push the stick all the way to the left to self level?

Thank you so much sir for that video

As long as you're not really trying to dig into packed material, going in at an angle is fine. The trick is to unwind the steering wheel as you push in to keep the bucket pushing straight, and use the back wheels like the tail of a fish to push forward.

Others have noted the wheel spin which shouldn't happen in relatively loose stockpiles of gravel. Even when digging raw native pit run gravel wheel spin can be avoided. Just use a little less throttle when pushing in.

Thanks so much mate

This is great thank you

Thanks, mate!

What tips do u have on scooping up broken up concrete? How about loading on uneven ground that has holes and dips.? I enjoy your vids can you show some tips on real life scenarios? For example I operate on a landfill, in the North East and we load concrete, clean fill, dirty dirt, wood chips, yard waste, and the ground isn't always hard and flat,. It varies depending on weather, or spillage from trucks or other operators, and divots. One thing I struggle with is loading rock piles.

You should use a counter weight on the 3PTH equiv to capacity of the loader. Front ends are not designed for loader specs. Commercial Loaders are articulated or have a 5,000 lb backhoe on the rear. If you plan to do a lot of Loader work, also try and purchase a bucket equal to the width of the tractor. IE my tractor is 48 inches wide and came with a 54" bucket. I build a 48" bucket and it out performs the factory bucket by a large margin. Factory bucket is good for snow and hauling firewood.

Back dragging the pile is very important if your working a large pile if you don’t you end up under mining.. next thing that’ll happen is everything above that will come down on the bucket causing the machine to flip forwards. Our stock pile is about 60’ tall that’s a lot of material to come crashing down

You got the first part right When you lift the boom as you entire the pile you are tipping the bucket down while continuing to drive into the pile Then transition to curling bucket back Full buckets every time with no bucking Bronco

if you look the flat edge he points out a the beginning runs the full length of the bucket . look at that then your not looking either side of bucket but always looking straight ahead. and you always hit the face/heap square on which in turn creates a even break out force on your UJ (universal joints) on your driveshaft . if your lucky like me you could have a machine that lets you add or take away power from the drive train which in turn prevents wheel spin

LOL that's funny reminds me of last week I had to put a shovel guy on the loader ours has tabs welded on the top of the bucket and painted red I had to keep reminding him keep those red tabs flat he was digging hole in front of the pile but it's only dirt I would just get behind the pile and push it forward so he can keep scooping and carrying

Very good

Kool. Thanks

you can also add even more dirt to your bucket by uncurling the bucket a tiny bit a couple of times on the way up way up

Good video

I showed a 3 yr guy the top of the bucket that you can use it as a source of level to make sure your bucket is straight with the ground. He was shocked lol

good job bro explain good

I'm in an engineering class and we have to build a skid steer type robot and pick up the most amount of 1/2 inch blocks and this definitely will help. Do you know the best type of bucket you think?

I learned hard way that dont ever take soil to bucket when wheel loader is kind of an angle from the pivot point (english is not my native language so hard to explain this correctly), I was in a summe job on local town and I wasspreading top soil to new lawn, and the pile was behind corner. I took soil to th e bucket so that the wheel loader was pivoted to angle nad machine slid agianst the building wall. I ha to call the person who drives the wheel loader and had to ask help, ...

Looks easy enough....!!

There are about 6 ways to fill it....I could sure show you a few tips. Good work.

Probably should have seen this first but figured it out by now. Problem I have with a 38HP HST CUT is if filling the bucket full the machine can just barely manage the weight. Then there is screening rocks with a rake bucket that weighs half the lift cap of the tractor. Always get a bigger machine...

great thank you

When your teaching newbies, paint lines across the tires in the morning... at end of the day the paint better still be on there or they are spinning off good rubber.. then have another talk with them....

Thanks I operate machines cats case wheel loaders at our quarry

Do you have your NCCCR license to operate that wheel loader?

Thanks for showing me... 2018..$$$$ Yeah...👍✌

Nice

Thanks

thanks for video, now i only need to buy a wheel loader

Cool

Heres a tip from a very highly trained operator. Start 5 feet from the pile and make sure you start in and get 4 inches below level of the base of the pile then go in.

How do u know when u hit the floor wiv bucket

Your instructions are very helpful except for one thing. After you initially enter the pile and pick up your bucket roll your bucket forward and down to push the dirt to the back of the bucket and it will be much easier to get a full bucket of dirt, try it out buddy

Just wondering where you told not to spin the tires?

How to install and remove the bucket on this front end loader?

I add to my guys to back drag some off the top if its a tall pile and don't spin the tires too much goin in or you have to back out and bunny hop through the ruts. engage 4x4 if equipped to help cut down on the tire spin. and don't roll the bucket back until it bangs hard every time.btw...none of them listen to any of it haha

you can feel it in your seat

tanks

Appreciate the how to videos. Thanks

I personal would drive into the pile a little bit faster and slowly but consistently tilt the bucket up instead of raising the bucket

I find that when I’m scooping loose gravel it’s no problem to get a full bucket but when I’m scooping out of a hard packed hillside or something I can never get a full scoop

Tq

U forgot u have to shake the bucket too

thanks

More tips please >.

Great seeing young guns moving on it

Also depends on the material your going into, some (don't know what you call it in the states ) but over here in Australia we call it a crusher dust or manufactured sand & sometimes you can't just head into the pile & lift the boom, you might need to cowl the bucket a few times to fill it up because the material ends up being as hard as a rock & clumps together

My company uses this video as what not to do lol its going to be a long day bouncing through your ruts all day and spinning tires

please god ,,bless him

Thank goodness now I can go sleep knowing that I have to scup and lift scup lift so I can get a full bucket

Never let material fall off the back side of the bucket

thats how yo do it

Shave the front of that pile is your booming up with that bucket and you won't jerk so much. Take it from a guy who runs a wa800 pit loader

da hora seu canal...pena que eu não entenda seu idioma kk

I am loader operator from Ethiopia

hi

My boss complained to me that there was no way in hell i was putting only 4 buckets (18m³ roughly which is the max they can carry) of gravel in the trailers we were using to haul between work areas. He claimed the difference in the amount of material between trailers was roughly a full bucket and decided to come watch me (thought i was putting 5 buckets for 22m³) He then spent the next 2 hours teaching the other drivers how to properly use a wheel loader but didn't say a thing to me after giving me a speech on how dangerous it is to over load, and how badly it can damage the trailers..