What NOT To Do in a Backhoe | Tractor Loader Backhoe Operator Training

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How to Operate a Backhoe Loader | Tractor Loader Backhoe Operator Training. Today we are covering what NOT to do in a Backhoe. We cover the 3 basic mistakes we see from new operators regarding: starting position, center of gravity and parking. We'll be operating a John Deere 310 backhoe loader. Have a question of comment? Leave them below!
A special thank you to RDO Equipment in Burnsville, Minnesota for allowing us to use their backhoe. Learn more about them ▶ www.rdoequipment.com/
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[@jddocmartin]

My dad ran backhoes for 50 years. He would climb banks, pull himself out on elevated RR platforms, pull and push himself in and out of ponds... It was next level. The more time you spend on the machine, the more you realize it will do just about anything. If you could only take one machine to do a job, it would be a backhoe. He was amazing to watch. He would pull the boom tight and swing it full to each side and use the counterweight of it to tilt the front bucket edge for crowning and light ditching on driveways. He was always tedious and slow so that the maneuver was performed safely. I learned a lot over the years from him.

[@douglasconradmusic17]

A few things I do. I’m in West Virginia where flat ground hardly exists.

[@isaaclawson3126]

Thanks for these videos, just started sorting through them. I live on a very steep mountainside in the Appalachian mountains and I don't want to die.

[@servihomestead4324]

Another great video. I used to teach technical and safety classes and make how-to vids at my previous oilfield job. I know it can be difficult to make sure you're covering everything and covering it correctly. I also know it's not easy to always be civil with unsafe, knowitall dimwits and their comments, but you seem to do a good job of it! Thanks for sharing.

[@andreambrosio3581]

Once again, thank you for the video. I start my backhoe training tomorrow.

[@Logjam5]

You do a good job at explaining / teaching. Thanks for your site.

[@petemiller519]

I have a JCB 214S with all four tires the same size. It's like a big bobcat, great in terrain, and the stability is better due to the large front tires. It has four wheel steering and no computers since it's a 2001. Sometimes on steep cross slopes I lower the stabilizers just in case. Cycle the levers when the machine is shut down to relieve hydraulic pressure. Good video,....so that's what that strap on the seat is for ;) Cheers from Canada.

[@504mitchm]

I second what RP said about having your outriggers close to the ground when on a slope. If it starts to tip and the outrigger touches it makes it MUCH harder for it to roll over. 34 yrs exp as an owner/operator, btw.

[@wolverine2958]

This video couldnt be timed any better, I just started my Backhoe course on Monday! Thank you

[@StickNinja]

I can second-hand attest to the importance of that first tip, about starting the machine while facing the front. Many years ago, my dad made that mistake: the backhoe would start in gear, and it had gotten knocked out of neutral at some point. He started the machine not realizing that, and before he could turn around to try to turn the machine off, or gain control, the backhoe had flipped a car. A very dangerous, expensive, and easily avoidable mistake!

[@AttackPuppies]

Sometimes a mistake I make is when I’m digging, I have those RPMs up and I’m in a hurry I’ll turn the seat to move up and I’ll forget those RPMs are up and kicks you forward when you go into gear. Just a little reminder, RPMs dowwwwwn before you move

[@DennisKenneybees]

Great video; thanks.

[@spinderella3602]

Thank you. Very helpful. I'm searching YT wrecks so I can understand this center of gravity clearly.

[@dandexinventor]

Glass shatter shrapnel if something like a rock slams the window (especially the backhoe window) and throws tiny shards of glass at your face. The rock did not go through, but it sent a lot of tiny shards from the inside, right at my face. Luckily, I was wearing sun glasses, but if it were not bright outside, I would not have been wearing them, thinking the safety glass (or tempered as both are present in most backhoe enclosures) protects my eyes.

[@billcharlene1450]

Also dont go grabbing shovels or rakes from the back of the machine while its running. I did that once and the shovel hooked the rake...rake hooked boom swing lever👀 and swung towards me almost smashing me between boom and outrigger. Popped a few nuggets out on that one.

[@D0csavage1]

When parked up engine off for extended periods I was taught to move the levers to release the hydraulic pressure, and to refuel the machine after it has been working all day, if left to the following morning there will be a chance condensation has built up in the tank. And when digging on an unknown area ask the contractor you are hired to if there are any buried pipes or cables, if they say no and there is, the machine operator will not be held liable for any damage caused.

[@gustavo13ser]

In a slope or hill NEVER NEVER rise up the outriggers before turning the seat forward and having your feet on brake pedals. Bucket down isn't secure, the machine may slide down hill.

[@denjhill]

Call me crazy but watching you fiddle with all the buttons, knobs, etc makes me appreciate my old 4 stick Case 580SE even more. Not as fancy but I think the controls are more intuitive which in my case is safer. There's a lot going on in any backhoe and the less the operator has to fiddle with the better.

[@thoughts-words-actions4165]

great video thank you

[@jatsportsflooringgalvan9623]

Thanks again very good video