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Familiarize with Excavator Controls

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He tossed me the keys to the Excavator!! Let's learn how it works!

What happens here

The next step focuses on the equipment, specifically a Kobelco SK210LC excavator. The presenter provides a brief overview of the excavator's features, including its powerful engine, insulated cab with air conditioning, and a large 4-5 foot bucket. He emphasizes the difference in operating such heavy machinery compared to smaller farm equipment, highlighting the learning curve involved in mastering the sensitive joystick controls for the arm, boom, and bucket movements. He then enters the cab, buckling the seatbelt and activating the start switch, which initiates the computer system and power. The air conditioning is then turned off to conserve fuel while working. The goal is to safely and effectively learn to operate the heavy equipment to clear the site.

Goal: The presenter demonstrates the basic operation of a Kobelco SK210LC excavator, including starting, engaging controls, and illustrating the learning curve for manipulating the arm, boom, and bucket.

Tools and materials

  • GoPro Camera
  • Kobelco SK210LC Excavator
  • Safety Headphones/Ear Protection

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and they're probably too good building sites one is going to require more infrastructure in other words we're gonna have to drill another well and put in another septic if we build here it's gonna save us that ten thousand dollars of drilling another well and my thought process is here we have kids what a fun law and what a beautiful lawn a great garden spot down here the corn garden is down here and what a beautiful front lawn this would make can you imagine when I'm 80 years old having a row of oak trees and a driveway right down the middle through there how beautiful would that be let's go check out the equipment that's the fun part I don't know the horsepower but it's an SK 210 it is a co Bell Co Co Bell co-brand machine it's nice it's a nice pretty insulated cab with air-conditioner and a radio I like to kind of hear what I'm doing I'm gonna wear my headphones right here so I can take phone calls if I need to while I'm working it has I believe a four or five foot bucket that's a huge bucket this is a monster of a machine now what we're gonna do here is we're gonna take out some of these trees that are just like that like that and try and leave some of the pretty tall straight ones so without further ado guys I've only had about three hours on this machine so it's about like handing a fine tip pin to a kid that's only had a crayon in other words it's a huge difference in running that John Deere tractor to running this but I'm sure we can pick it up by the time we get done we might be moderately proficient enough to keep up with the 953 and I can pull stumps and he can push them in a pile awesome let's get busy whoo so the most appropriate thing for me to do is show you how all the controls work in this machine you got a step right here step here and then step up in the cab and I've got the cab open so we'll grab this handle right here and we'll step up into the cab all right you have a seat here with armrests the armrest fold down underneath there is the radio so we fold our arm rest down and there's an armrest over here on the other side now if I can find it where'd you go but there it is it flipped backwards what we've got going here is a start switch so we'll turn the key on which initiates the computer right here right there is a computer you can see it lights up it has a backup camera system in there then we'll turn the key on listen to how quiet this thing is the air conditioning is on right now what you really don't need so we're gonna turn it…

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