How to Operate a Motor Grader (UPDATED) // Heavy Equipment Operator Training
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- FIXED AUDIO ISSUE - In this tutorial, we will go over the basics of the controls, blade maneuvering and driving in a Motor Grader. Have a question/comment? Feel free to leave them below!
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I'm an operator of motor grader with over 8 years of experience
I'm brazilian and I'm fluent in english
I love this profession
Started on 120G just got 150m. Have operated graders 40 hrs a week for 21 years and still learning.
She definitely keeps teaching, and I agree, it's best to keep learning!
I'm on 140M2/M3 and 160M2, and every time I'm seeking to learn and improve.
What do you do for a living
Me too! 10 years on graders (in mines) so always learning. Admire the civil workers, much finer work than I do. I use 24Ms and the little 16Ms.
How do you steer on this joystick grader
@@Githuiben leaning left joystick l/r
Wearing a Kumatsu logo on your vest when running a Cat grader is classic
The way I love this machine, despite people telling me it's meant for the males only,I still went ahead and gave it a try and guess what,it has been my greatest achievement ever🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
When I was a wee little kid graders were my favorite. this video is pleasing the 5 year old in me
lol....love it!
I got thrown onto an old John Deere 770a today. I was shown how to start it and make it move... Then six hours on a dirt pile trying to figure out what everything did. Levers, pedals and knobs everywhere! This was a great video. Kinda gave me an idea of what to shoot for.
You can also use the rear steer articulation and do a popsicle turn if you’re in tight quarters to grader the other way if you don’t want to reverse.
Over the years in chronological order I’ve been on the 120G,140G, Champion 720 & 740 Series II, III, IV, and V, Volvo G730 & G740, Cat 14 & 16M, my latest ‘ride’ is a 6WD John Deere 772GP. I think back to the Cat 14E & F models my father ran when I was a kid and wonder what he’d think of todays machines.
Best way to look at it is 'a finishing dozer' with a LOT of extra blade controls (and better viewpoint)...at least, with the new ones. Old ones still had more adjustments...but I don't really think the viewports were any better (especially when you had to have as spotter just to guide and direct you)...
Good intro...LOT of experience required...and it's really easiest if you come 'off the seat of a dozer' (as a career) to start working graders...cuts the 'learn time' way down (versus being an excavator or roller or loader operator, first).
Thanks for the comment!
`100% right. This is the best comment.
It takes years to be a good operator and decades to be a great operator.
I'm not a great grader operator nor an expert.
I Am A Excavator Operator.I Am Fascinated With This.I Am Definitely Learning This
Machine...
Biggest tip is roll blade full forward and as your coming to the end of your row begin to feather the blade by rowing the blade up and as it comes to full up you should be out of material and ready to back up. Only use that for when your moving small amounts of material. Also jamming both joysticks full forward puts the blade in float. Good way to put the blade down when parking and not lifting the machine having a constant load on the hydraulics
Great info...thanks for sharing!
U k
If you have your moldboard in a normal position you will roll your blade back if you are trying to feather anything out.
I have put 4000+ hrs on a 12M an counting. An hate to even get back into a old 9 lever . An still learn something new to speed up work everyday. As grader operator best advice I could give is grade slow. 1st or 2nd gear. An to speed up production get a good ground guy and skid operator! I get paid to play in the dirt.... couldn't ask for a better job ! Well , maybe paid to fish..🤣
Thanks for the comment!
OMG...the last time I was on a motor grader it had a stirring wheel and levers. I;ve known some mighty fine operators it use to an art....I'm sure it still is. I remember a man on the ground giving the operator hand signals and the operator responding accordingly.
No idea how you did it back then. It’s tough enough on the newer machines, I could only imagine how it was back then.
@@HeavyMetalLearning Im in school now for Heavy Equipment Operator, they have a Deere 770 and a Deere 772 and both of them is Steering wheel and levers... I hate operating it I cant get use to all the levers. One of them is broke down so they brought in a Cat 12M2 which is almost the exact same as the grader in this video, and I love it! Operating the machine and joysticks is a dream, its very nice
Well, whatever you do, stay with the shovel. Y'all should never be allowed to operate heavy machinery.
Thanks for this video I’ve been hauling for 3.5 years for United Rentals and just today hauled my first motor grader!
The articulation can help keep the drive tires on firm ground when cutting ditches or road shoulders.
Thanks for the comment
So my question is! I wanna get into grading doing parking lots etc but I want to see what advice you guys could give me! Thank you
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Hi, Folks.
Wotta LOTTA people will never tell you about graders 'cos they have never 'figgered' it out for themselves is that graders work on the law of the lever.
If one front wheel runs over a rock or a bump a foot high, by the time that movement gets to the center of the front axle, it is reduced to 6 inches. By the time it gets back to the blade, 1/2-way to the rear of the machine, the movement is only 3 inches - even if you don't touch the controls.
Come back and make another pass in that same track, the movement over the remaining bumps will be halved twice again, leaving you with a bump maybe 3/4 of an inch high.
Let the machine do what it was designed and built to do and do what you can to help it do that.
The REAL art of operating a grader is being able to set your blade to take the material from where it needs to be taken to where it needs to be placed in the condition that it needs to be in - moisture content, etc. - in the least possible number of passes.
There is a lot of skill and experience needed to be able to now how to handle all the different types of materials that will be encountered as well.
One of the main hallmarks of a good operator on any machine is that they sit up there and make it look like they are letting it happen.
NO FUSS OR BOTHER.
Just my 0.02.
You all have a wonderful day. Best wishes. Deas Plant.
WOW...this is awesome information! Thank you for taking the time to share these details. Definitely would love to get you out for one of our grader videos in the future.
Exactly! Every time I try to explain to a new blade operator, that the grader will always average out with every pass, even without touching the controls, I always get a confused look in return. The few that have understood right away, said it made it less intimidating knowing that. I don't have as much seat time as some other guys, but I have loved every minute of every day I've ever spent in one of these machines over the years.
in a couple days im going to to start training on a grader. This video helped with some of the basics. Good to know before i jump aboard. thanks for this video
how did it go? i'm lookin at beginning in a couple weeks, lots of loader, backhoe, skid steer hours but am a little anxious bout a grader....
@@DJS-mx8oz it went great. i did a course for multiple pieces of equipment. I chose grader, dump truck, and excavator. The grader seemed a bit tricky at first seeing how it had a bunch of different levers inside. At the end of my course, it was my favorite and the thing i enjoyed the most.
Take your time, slow on the controls, and just like you said, feel what your chair feels and adjust accordingly. Grader and dozer are very similar. Dozer you just see significantly less as you drive
Excellent advice...thanks for sharing!
You are doing a great job, almost all the machines in the world
Thank you so much for sharing this. You guys are awesome, much love from Germany
Thanks for the comment!
When you started the grader the beep made me fall off my legs lol!!
I’m already a certified HEO but I watched anyway. Grader was the biggest pain in the ass, but gets easier the more you use it.
Agreed...thanks for the comment!
Madman Gaming I will never forget my first day running a motor grader. I’m not a dirt guy at all and they hired me to run the grader. The guy jumped in it and told me what every lever does and how to put it in gear. Then he told me to go up to the gravel pile and practice. He could tell I was a worm but he said the hardest part of the grader is staying awake and I thought yea rite but after all day every day watching the gravel rolling it will put u to sleep
@@randywilson6869 You want to push out and spread a couple of thousand ton of crushed rock compact and trim it in a day and i can tell you that you wont have ant trouble staying awake
Well...best video i've watch for today, I'm not heavy equipment operator but I love to see those machine work and how to operate them.... I'm from Indonesia, keep it up...looking forward for another training video.
Thanks for the comment!
I like it when you say um not an expert, but you nailing it bro👌
These things are fascinating. Very enjoyable to watch, as the guy is such an effective and clear instructor. I may be wrong here, but I don't think this guy is an expert!!! That would be my only quip about his presentation hehe.
First time seen this baby in action ...
THX
Hello thank you very much for this video.
thanks guys for these amazing videos. keep it up.
We had a good cadence to help remember our setup for wide side reach when I trained on these. It went 4 0 shift 2 slide lean split . If you sang it it became impossible to forget.
interesting....thanks for sharing!
Can you explain what that means and how it works for you?
Man. I took a heavy equipment course and the I had the option to choose grader and I didnt. I got to play in one for a full day a M series aswell and I did like it but. If I picked grader that's the only machine I would have gotten trained on. So I chose Excavator, Dozer and I already had 1000's of house in a loader. Now I just had a job interview and they want me to become a grader operator and thats why I'm here for a refresher. I'm very intimidated with these. In the course though I did very well! I scraped up a road in a rock quarry and then with my windrow and smoothed out the road so I did pretty good just wish I had more seat time in one now.
Prob toughest machine I’ve ever operated. I’ve heard that if you can become a good grader operator you can write your own paycheck because you’ll be golden!
What school? I've been trying to find one thats take gi bill but I just want to focus on the grader as I've had work experience on almost everything else and the the grader pays well
Im nepalI your information so good sar and tq I love u all friends
Thanks for showing us, at present I'm still on a 12g lever type, now i'm ready to move up cheers.
Thanks for the comment!
Meh, joysticks are more ergonomical but honestly I think levers are the better option.
Thanks sir keep it up for your advise I'm watching from South Africa at Durban
Thanks for the comment!
Excellent, thanks for the basics.
You’re welcome..:thanks for the comment!
ExtremeSandbox Perhaps if you have the opportunity to teach the basics of a Gradall that would be fantastic. Thanks!
@@zaptor1514 you would need to go see my brother for the gradall lessons
Can you please do a video with a older grader like the CAT 140G? Or any other grade with all the levers.
I am so surprised to see a Ruston Paving unit!
I grew up in Central NY and knew Diane Ruston, the daughter of the wealthy family the owned the company, along w/ their fantastical 25 acre lake-front estate on Syracuse-area Skaneateles Lake, “LakeLand”…
Diane was a beautiful blonde young lady and a group of us all attended Syracuse University, back in the mid-80s.
IIRC, their entire fleet of virtually every type of heavy construction equipment was painted in the baby-blue motif, as her mom (or grandma?) hated the usual CAT yellow….
Who’da thunk that some +36 yrs later, a random YT video in my queue would open up a flood gate of youthful memories….
I'm new to grading I'm an operator for the government great video to see how the joystick controls work thank you my old girl has a wheel and levers the joysticks look a lot more comfortable but the levers are pretty sensitive and fine touch.
Glad it was helpful!
Oh the piano player!
Thanks for sharing another great vid
You’re welcome...thanks for the comment!
Thanks for the video I didn’t really understand the point of a motor grader machine. Mainly because I haven’t seen many in person. Whereas dozers in my area have done the same thing more or less. The flexibility of this machine is awesome! The blue is beautiful
They are pretty impressive machines and best to grade out long stretches like roadways, etc.
Motor graders grade faster and are more for cuts of 1 or 2 or fills of 1 or 2. They're not a hogging machine. They can make a slope look amazing to.
some may cringe .... but what ive done , especially in slop conditions like that ............... is . as you come the end of your pass what you can do and very easy with both m series and ( 9 stick) as well call them or h pattern .// is roll and lift the mullboard gradually from pitched forward ( scrape ) to carry ( pitched back ) ... then at end of pass while stoped turn your circle drive to opposite direction then re pitch mull board all the way up * ( carry ) .. push both joysticks down leaving aprox 2" clearance from float mode // and then reverse at same time slowly lift mull board /// works very well for eliminating that slop pile at the end .
Interesting...thanks for sharing!
You need patience and focus to run one of these. Bosses wanna rush rush, and make you lose your goddamned marbles!
Totally agree...thanks for the comment!
the whole world is rush rush and we seem not to get anywhere fast. “almost” everyone you talk to is in a rush.
rushing to leave. rushing to arrive. rushing to get it started, and to get it done. rushing to get the conversation over with.
then rushing to go talk to someone but then doesn’t have time to talk. and when you talk to them they are either pissed off, in a rush, or they know everythingggggg.
it’s definitely not the way to enjoy your work or life. oh you should take it easy.....yeah well i’m trying to go at a nice paise but nobody likes that LOL
i’m done rushing.
the universe can wait, and if it can’t wait, it shouldn’t put it on others.
i feel like i’m speaking for all the people that feel rushed when i say......fuck’m !
Aint that the dam truth then u tell them I they can do better they can do it then they shut up or any of the hands on the ground complain🤣🤣
Gotta move prerty quick when you have a convoy of 623's on your ass all day though. Cutting edges and ripper teeth don't last very long either 😅.
i swear bro🤦🏼♂️ i know the feeling!
Yep, I need one
Agreed
Learning how to operate a leeboy and Nor am 65e finishing small parking lots
Grate learning
I have watched a lot of videos where people have been operating motor graders, and i have always thought it would terrify me if someone asked me to operate one, but after seeing this video it doesnt seem so bad
Wtf!? Why this cat blue?
GOOD VIDEO
Estoy agarrando conocimiento y buen lección
I remember grader operators were the best paid operators. they did amazing things with the old machines. Coolie Hats, bandana's MAYBE a fan blowing hot air in the face. mechanical controls. the dude was whipped at the end of the day, couldn't wait for a beer... THAT grader YOUR in.. That is a mobile office, you could use that in a business suit, check e-mails, run a Laptop, have a cooler inside for Ice cold water.. Makes me want to learn how to run that machine. Awesome!! thanks for the video! That's a Proprietor Business on it's own making good money. Invest in an LLC Buy a new grader and start looking for contracts. Take a while for commercial contract's, but, If your in Tune with Your machine, I could see more business than you could handle.
Nice
Much love ❤❤
I just need to correct you about blade pitch, roll forward for cutting roll back for fine trimming, think of it as a dozer
You pitch a dozer blade forward to bite more
depends on material.if you have some large aggregate you tend to crowd forward to help prevent popping the rock out.but as you say if your working with the cream back is best
@@reonwikeepa4905 yes ofcourse I forgot about that 👍
I operate a 24m with a comb blade, even hard material I find you don't even need to roll the blade a great deal to cut deep
But in saying that they are a big powerful heavy machine
Great video
thanks for the comment
Nice video sir I'm new operator in grader machine I operated the caterpillar H series model
Thanks for the comment!
Once you think you know it all on one........you realize there is still so much to learn and do.
Love my 160m. Funny they call the clutch pedal the inching pedal
8F 6R for gears
First check fluids and machine before operating
Please am very happy with this basic grader operation. And I see it as the first thing.
Please are there other videos that follows this? Am interested in more training videos to enhance my learning.
Thanks in an anticipation of ur urgent response.
Silvanus
More to come!
. thanks for everything
I start tomorrow. Steering wheele ND a million levers
I see a lot of graders in my area ploughing snow I was to say to myself I want to buy one and get contracts to plough snow in the winter and then drive it from place to place where they need me
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we use that plow the snow in our city
Awesome....thanks for the comment!
Well nice videos to watch,l'm forklift opareta but I need to oparet a motorgreda but I donor where can I find a school for it
I like seeing a cat in blue color
Good.ustad
Our grader can swing the blade up sideways to do walls. Very fun
This great machine has a lot of functionality.. hopefully I could own one for funny purposes
Would like to see a seasoned grader pro give some video lessons
When is the 201 coming out?? Great video for young ones like myself.
You are an operator too ? Hello !
Steer tire lean is always opposite the toe of the mold board.
hmmmm...interesting
Faculdade pra trabalhar com trator , é muita frescura e encarece , a ferramenta de trabalho
I am not an expert nor am I experienced however I will say that the number one mistake operators make is making contact between the tandems and the heel of the blade.
Thanks for the comment!
It's easy to do if you're not careful and mindful of where that blade is when you're articulating your turn, swinging the blade from your last pass and sliding the board to get set for the next one at once.
I always stay mindful of where the blade is when I'm moving it, though also keeping an eye out for any hazards, especially while turning around after a pass.
When I was still very new to the Cat 140M3, I had a guy in a Cat 420F TLB who kept zooming up right in front of me to dump into the material pile as I was turning around and getting configured to take a bite out of the pile. He thought that I'd definitely see him, and while I did see him, him suddenly backing up or turning close caused me to slam on the brakes more than once that shift. We had words about it during lunch time, and worked it out. He didn't do that again after.
@@Jamesbrown-xi5ih Safety comes first.
@@adelarsen9776 I agree. That's why I shared the story about the TLB cutting off my Grader and how we resolved it.
You said and its agreed that everything takes practice, but as a new operator, what is your advice on getting better at a motor grader getting on your first job site.
that's a tough one....I have very little stick time on a motor grader but know that they are the toughest machine to master. As with anything I'm the biggest proponent of just stick time...it's the best way to learn. Otherwise, find a seasoned motor grader vet and see if they will teach you any tips/tricks!
everybody always says the grader is the hardest to master and its true but not because of the actual piece of equipment its because of the operator. First you need to have patience final grading is a very slow and precise task you cannot rush otherwise youll fuck up the grade completely, and thats the second thing is actually knowing your grade knowing how things are supposed to look and transition.
@@alexthomas4329 it is also patience with the team from tippers to water carts to rollers.As a grader operator you are the be all and end all it is your name put on the job,so not only are you to operate the most crucial machine but you are the co-ordinator of all other machines on site.
Nice i want grader job
Hey brother
Tevery first thing you said was three points of contact; Then youlet go with both hands when climbing up into the cab, Tut, Tut. Tut.
Isn't the clutch called the inching pedal??
Yes...I have heard it called that as well. Thanks for the comment!
It is an inching pedal. Not a clutch. No need to press to stop, shift, or even shift from forward to reverse.
beat me to it
Another name for it in some CAT manuals is "transmission modulator."
I always like your explanation, what is your name sir
I need to lean this Machine
I just saw you on shark tank last night
Can you do a video on a gradall operation
Never been in one, but I’ll see if we can find one.
Am looking for that in my life where can I find you ,
Hello
I'm a big fan.
Can I ask you a question?
Can you find me a jop in Saudi Arabia?
Please I want operate an excavator
12 years experience in grader looking for a job anywhere
I've always only laid the blade down when cutting and rolled it back on up when your sticking up a grade or finishing.
Thanks for the comment!
Can you do a grader with levers and not the joysticks
Absolutely can try, we don’t get graders on our site often but if we get one we will do another video. Thanks for the comment!
Can you do the cat 6040 excavator?
I wish...that would be awesome!
@@HeavyMetalLearning yeah love you’re videos man keep up the good work! 👍
true, real tough to explain, I don't catch you
How much is that training cost?
why do you fire up the machine without letting it start the systems? you are supposed to let the system fire up and then check for errors if there are non start the machine.
Wow teaching sir please help me am a grader operator from Nigeria please help me am looking grader job
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Well ten four
Can you learn me that how to operate this grader machine
I feel like good Grader Operators are becoming harder and harder to find.
probably one of the toughest pieces I have ever operated....so many different levers/adjustments for the blade.
@@HeavyMetalLearning I learned many years ago, plowing snow with a Grader in a Steel Mill.
I'm no expert either I've been running a Cat 12M for about 2 years and I was just thrown on it and told figure it out. They are very complicated machines and do take patience and just trying g my best to figure it out and be the best I can be. Just sucks when everyone including the boss tell wat u need to do and how to do it when they have no idea and I'm the only one who has any clue how to run it🤣
Hey man, just grab the 🔑keys and learn it
joystick is not for me. i want to feel the resistance in the levers.
You should see the clowns they got operating grader in RM 11 here in Saskatchewan. Don't think they ever seen a grader before