Holy cow you never stop impressing I was impressed first to see everything you could do and you can run your own loader and drive truck sun there's few of us around anymore Jack's of all trades is a dying breed
I started running loaders when I was around 17 on an HD-3 A/C track job and then ended up on a 980 and a Kawasaki 115 Z-iv which was about the size of an 88 before I quit at the boulder hole. 18 tons per bucket regular as a clock ticks. I like loaders better. And good for road building too. Paid many a light bill. This is the good part of driving. They had 50's, 66's and the the 980's. Plus A/C rubber tired jobs and IT-238's and a 50 at the concrete plant. Keep after it Buddy and GBWYall!
I've used loaders for years. I did a another work in the sand plants for concrete industry in Australia. In 2 years on the 960g it have average engine load of about 86 percent. That machine could sing and dance.
big jobs there is always a loader operator, in this case there was only two trucks hauling that material with a 2 hour round trip so they just have trucks do that who can also run a loader because it doesn't pay to have a loader operator sit there all day to load out 14 loads all day.
Eric, I had a job where the driver was required to load your own truck. You're correct it was fun. I was running a dump trailer, I enjoyed both the dump and the front end loader
Great tutorial 👍 EzRider92356 😎 national guard seems to like these 😂 I used to operate a Volvo rubber tyre loader with 16 foot forks. Moved wrecked vehicles at an insurance pool. I follow ya on Fakebook too. Always great content.
Good stuff, I've never got to run a loader on a real site, just doing diagnostics and movements around the yard and the occasional fix up job (moving gravel or collecting mud) back when I worked for Komatsu, Good machines to work on.
I was driving a gravel truck when was 18 years young. The first loader in a place where drivers were self loading was Michigan 475. Nobody was showing how it works, was just going inside in the cabin, starting the engine, and trying what happens on what Stick you were moving. the truck had 5,5 meters bed, a complete truck was behind the bucket. One bucket and 12 metric tons sand were on load. Another machine in the same place was Hanomag 66.
Wow! Pretty fancy loader...auto level, load scale...So the thing keeps track of each scoop so you know what your payload is? Amazing how quiet it is inside. I've run a bunch of old wheel loaders plowing snow, they only had the rod on a cylinder so you knew where your bucket was...
Should be a button for crawl-gear next to the bucketcontrols. Makes a better attack on the pile, also faster. We used to load ships where I worked, and it all had to be fast and smooth. Throwing the bucket full up as you backed out of the pile etc. Loaded very close to the truck then :-)
i figured someone would mention that i was leaving the loader in 2nd gear for a couple of reasons. main one being that the material was a loose material so downshifting to first wasn't really necessary. plus we were leaving a thin layer of that material on the ground to avoid contaminating it with the dirt under the pile making it pretty easy to spin the tires if you downshifted into first. holes from spinning tires are not very fun to drive threw.
The old loaders had guide rods on the loader arms to show you level on the bucket. Everything has gotten fancy and so much easier to operate. I used to load under silos in the port in Germany. My favorite MAN 26-292 had its roof caved in when the wrong silo opened up and dumped washed rock on the cab instead of in the trailer. 😳😡😡
Just curious about why your loading your self? Shift change, Saturday work, or just the opportunity to show us something different? Loaded a lot of trucks back in the day and occasionally the trucker would load and I would drive the truck to the scale. Great fun switching it up.
wow auto level always use guide arm on middle tilt ram I wonder if the 980h had auto level going back 10 years ago when i was operating it loading a hopper with garnet or soda ash and biggest loader I've operated was a clapped out 988 caterpillar 20 years ago as well as a Euclid r50 haul pack little or no brakes and had to hot wire it think they got scrapped by the new owners kept the engines to run the quarry V12 Cummins haven't played with the old cat loader at the farm yet
the pointers are nice as well auto level makes it stupid easy. when you have nothing its a bit more challenging. iv run some pretty old loaders that had auto level though.
I ran older 988s in the late 90s and iirc, they had auto level buckets. I know the old 1980 605B Allis Chalmers loader we used to load firewood had auto level.
My depth perception is bad. I’d probably dump 1/2 on the ground. I have a lazy eye that causes that. I can’t watch 3D movies either. They don’t work on me. Usta when I was a kid but not now.
Come on ez that wasn't a BIG loader. Big is some where between a 988 and a 994. When I was an apprentice operator mechanic I got to work on a brand new 992a . Cat was definitely having some teething problems with it. I spent almost 6 hours up inside the pivot changing the hoses to control levers (apprentices always get the crap jobs)
So I take it this is your day job? I've Always wanted to operate heavy equipment... But nobody hires a green horn these days unless you have 126,299 hrs of training with a ivy leage training academy
well not exactly, owner operator truck driver, i end up doing a bit of other stuff as well including operating equipment. around here in the summer equipment operators are in high demand so a guy can defiantly get into it without any experience or training. might have to start out as a laborer or other position and prove yourself before they will start training you on equipment though.
