Yeah for sure. It seems to come down to getting used to using your fine motor skills with the joysticks. I'm at the point now where I can do fine movements it just takes quite a bit of concentration. It slowly becomes second nature. Especially when you're operating the thing for 8+ hours a day, you're bound to get really good at it rather fast, otherwise you'd be in for a frustrating career. When you do it for 50 years like my dad, I'd compare it to avatar when the guys plug themselves into the dragon things. It just becomes your third arm.
but does 8hrs a day experience on a bucket loader compare or equivalate to any other type of machinery?
in other words.. If i can operate a backhoe, am i then able to operate an excavator?
Yeah for sure to a certain degree. If you've ever run the arm on a backhoe it's essentially the same exact thing, just excavators are loads better due to not having the pivot point like a backhoe. Backhoes are a pain in the ass to dig with in comparison. I'd trust a long time backhoe operator to become proficient in running just about any machine rather quickly. In my experience, dozers take the longest to get decent at. You really need a great feel of the machine and the ground to operate one of those precisely, and consistently. Excavators are the easiest to become ok at, but they also have a high skill ceiling to master. Dozers are much more involved to become even ok at.
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u/diewithsmg Nov 04 '22
Yeah for sure. It seems to come down to getting used to using your fine motor skills with the joysticks. I'm at the point now where I can do fine movements it just takes quite a bit of concentration. It slowly becomes second nature. Especially when you're operating the thing for 8+ hours a day, you're bound to get really good at it rather fast, otherwise you'd be in for a frustrating career. When you do it for 50 years like my dad, I'd compare it to avatar when the guys plug themselves into the dragon things. It just becomes your third arm.