Grading with the Float Function

we want it controlling the height of the bucket to eliminate them runs it's easier going backwards and forward if you go forward and try to do it you can nose dive right into the ground which isn't the end of the world that can always fix it but it's just easier going backward first easier going backwards [Music] there you go now you got rid of your ruts go up there and do it again raise your bucket up put the front of your bucket so you can grab this so when i go backwards if i'm just trying to smooth i need the combination of front bucket back in the middle bucket but it depends on if i need to grab and carry material or not the back of the bucket tends to carry material when you're going backwards the best because it just is like a big dam it grabs the if you're going that way backwards the back is back to the bucket hits piles of dirt and just takes them with them if i don't need to move a lot of material but i just need to get rid of ruts then i use the front the front of that bucket i put that down and my back of the bucket is now off the ground and i'm just using that front edge to feather it and go backward see that down yes perfect that's perfect we're grading with the front the back is go ahead back up the back is off the ground and now we're literally controlling all of the grade with just that front of the bucket we're not trying to carry anything and we're not we're just smoothing you're just smoothing at this point so you're doing it perfect when you guys are first starting out this is not a high-speed operation you are at this speed you are work you're not working on a customer's job site you're out in a field you're out in the lot maybe trying to get just get familiar with a piece of equipment snow plowing at night when nobody's around that's my favorite place to train people i give them the basics throw them in and nine hours later they can actually move some some they can move a skid loader around and move some snow it will literally take you 30 to 40 hours to get so you're not uncomfortable in a machine what i see uncomfortable i mean nervous um slightly hesitant cautious that's all i'm not saying proficient i'm not asking you to be proficient because that's a it takes a while these are the skid loaders some of these operators make them look like they're easy to run when nothing is further from the truth