Understand Joystick Controls and Hand Signals

it's the best thing you can do now as a new operator what you're gonna see is you're gonna have a left hand and a right hand or you're gonna have foot controls in this case we're talking joystick control so let's concentrate on what we have here you're going to have a left hand and a right hand controlling different functions of the machine and a lot of times what will happen is you'll have an operator that stops the machine and then he'll lower the bucket get it in position then drive that machine forward then he'll scoop that back and instead of doing left right left right or to bucket controls then run in the machine then run in the bucket eventually you want to graduate up to running everything together so you're lowering the bucket as you're driving forward as you're scooping into the pile as you're curling backward or if you're going to take it so let's see how he does this will be his first scoop [Music] yup [Music] now hand controls are going to be different in every company [Music] this means up in a lot of companies this doesn't mean okay this means okay keep coming so learn the hand controls in your curl back curl back so you see my four fingers and my thumbs in the front thumb represents the front of the bucket four fingers represent the back this means curl back bring your bucket back now if i'm doing this this means curl down right okay there you go now raise it up a little bit now shake the bucket shake it yeah a little bit more shake it a little bit more a couple courtesy shakes there you go curl it all the way back and now you're ready to travel with it perfect so you want just enough ground