I always have preferred Deere, probably because that's what I learned on. In my mind i consider the stick and bucket one unit, so having it on the same hand makes more sense to me. I've run cat Controls I have to apologize to the machine when I'm done lol
hahahaha you are one of the best operators ive seen, so watching you bunny hop that bucket had me in tears. Reminded me of the first time i tried to use a backhoe. You just cant be smooth when your brain is trying to tell you its backwards.
"I should get you some good videos..Oh hell, here we go...God almighty damn"!!! Hahahaha. Going through some of your old videos and they never get old and get more funny as I watch.
Watching you stumble your way through makes me feel A LOT BETTER... Joined a new company whose machines are all CAT controls. It's been extremely embarrassing/frustrating trying to convert back to CAT controls. After having to learn deere controls and running it for over 10yrs with the last company I was with! 🤬🤬🤬🤬
I have a Kubota that has both types. I switched it over once for shits and giggles . it was like being totally drunk behind the stick. not a good feeling but funny as hell as long as your not trying to make production lol
Under the rubber foot mat there is a 3/4 in. bolt valve to turn the machine from John Deere controls to Cat controls or SAE. Almost all excavators have that switch over position.
+1483samurai not all machines come with 2 or 4 way valves. The 324 I was in today didn't have a switching valve (and wasn't in the computer either). Had to suck it up and run ASE for the first time ever. Took a little getting used to but I finally got the hang of it.
I spent more time looking at your rear view mirror at the gap between the dirt and your tracks than what you were actually doing. Keep it up, love the vids!
haha i feel your pain..a mate who i wrk with always changes the control pattern when his on it i jump on and nearly push the machine over trying to boom up :) love your videos man keep up the good work
Occasionally I go back through the archives and watch an older video. Gooood lord u had me blowin snot bubbles I was laughing so hard at ur cussing and frustration!!! I'm a deere fan and appreciate most equipment you can change the controls but when u cant good lord it makes me feel like I hit myself in the head w my own bucket and no one to blame my own dumb self !! Lol. Love all the new pond vids and definitely appreciate you and all that you share w all of us Yahoo's:)
I used to hate JD controls, but now I love that pattern. it makes more sense to me. I can operate CAT controls, but it takes me a while to get the reversed pattern down.
I can imagine the laughs they had at the standards meeting when they made SAE, ISO and X/X (jcb) control systems for the excavators... You worked 10yrs using SAE? Hey try ISO, its fun :D
Yeah I’m not good at all with SAE. I can do it but I’m stressed and pissed the whole time. Been running iso for 26 years or so. It just feels more natural.
The excavation company I started with ran all John Deere controls then I moved to a company ran all cat controls the most frustrating 3 hours of my God damn life
It doesn't seem like a big deal, but when you run an excavator, you don't think of what control to use, you just watch the bucket and move it where you want it. I got in a cat 325 once that had the controls switched. Didn't know there was a switch to change the controls to "normal"
That reminds me of the first few hours running my backhoe! Now I don't even think about it, but there's no way I'd want to switch to another setup (mine's SAE.) It occurs to me that one could "cross their arms" and get better results.
BWaahahahaha!...I love it!!....throws in a string of cuss words and never misses a beat commentating...you are multi-talented....I laughed my ass off and rewound this shit 20 times
Valid question. Though similar, Deere controls have the same features EXCEPT Instead of the Boom up/down being on the right side (and stick out/in on left) it's vise-versa. Some excavators offer both, some don't. I personally have learned on Deere controls (unfortunantly) and so when I hopped into the cab of a Cat 320B the other day It was quite a day. lol.
In spite of the switch, you were making good progress on the grass in just 5 minutes of this video. Send more. I guess they can't use weed killer since it's a water source. I had a small hoe once and I liked the 'heavy' controls, swing and boom, on the left and the 'light' controls, stick and bucket, on the right. I'm right handed and my left arm is like a club foot so it worked out.
hilarious!!! I see this is an older video but I had to comment... I am like you SAE is natural ISO is foreign. I have my RC excavator set up where I can switch it because I have a friend who uses ISO and I tried it today I pretty much looked like you in this video 🤣😂
That’s the funniest thing i have ever seen in my entire life. I laughed 6:39. I am crying. I know the pain. When you started going really fast that had me dead man. Holy shit that was a good one
It's good to see even good operators have off days. Makes me feel not so bad as a learner - getting all those moves together to look so smooth requires considerable concentration. What do you normally use, SAE or ISO? Doesn't it have the capacity to change it over? You gave us all lots of laughs.
I'm a plumber who operates backhoes for underground plumbing and when we switched to mini excavators I could not work the CAT controls at all until I found the switch. I wonder if the bigger excavators have a control switch I would love to operate a big excavator
Lmao. I know how you feel. I grew up running john deere controls. I've been running cat the last 8 years. Last time I tried jd controls it was like speaking Chinese.
I know cat & jd controls. The ONLY difference is the crowd & boom. My dad ran a machine briefly that had Northwest controls. He hated it after running Cat controls for so many years.
Do you stick/slew on the left stick and boom/bucket on the right? Not sure if thats the ISO standard. You make great video's, its great to see how contracting difeers from the UK
isnt that a piss off, god damn it, i remember the first day i took my course and they were cat controles, so, god, damn, frustrating hahaha.....i just kept saying, stick, boom, stick, boom.....and yes, it makes you look like you have noooo idea what your doing....you just brought me back to that day hahaha...
Next time , let me know, I also prefer JD controls, bucket and stick on same control lever and boom and swing. I'll drive down and help...lol I look just like you trying to run friggin CAT controls
This so funny because I just had the same thing happen to me its very hard to switch from what your used to you have to think about every move you make and go slow
I Fee for Ya.. I bought a Hannix,Mini and it had Chines Set Controls!!!!!! Finally found the Adjustment handle,, No factory help,unless I spoke Chinese,,Great Machine in Long Run! TY
Ran across this today. This was the best laugh I’ve had in a long time. After watching recent years videos vs this, I was dying😂
I always have preferred Deere, probably because that's what I learned on. In my mind i consider the stick and bucket one unit, so having it on the same hand makes more sense to me. I've run cat Controls I have to apologize to the machine when I'm done lol
After watching a ton of your other videos. This one was freaking hilarious.
hahahaha you are one of the best operators ive seen, so watching you bunny hop that bucket had me in tears. Reminded me of the first time i tried to use a backhoe. You just cant be smooth when your brain is trying to tell you its backwards.
Watching a decade later on this is damn funny - you have mellowed alot since this.
"I should get you some good videos..Oh hell, here we go...God almighty damn"!!! Hahahaha. Going through some of your old videos and they never get old and get more funny as I watch.
Glad to see eleven years later you're calmed down....laughing my ass off........😂
Watching you stumble your way through makes me feel A LOT BETTER... Joined a new company whose machines are all CAT controls. It's been extremely embarrassing/frustrating trying to convert back to CAT controls. After having to learn deere controls and running it for over 10yrs with the last company I was with! 🤬🤬🤬🤬
this video made it on my favorites list lmfao I feel your pain dude I run the controls like u hate getting into a backwards machine
Buffalo ny. loves watching your videos. this one had me laughing so hard!!!!
North Tonawanda NY Loves them To Keep up the great work
Love your videos but man this one had me cracking up. Thanks for the laugh! 😂
This popped up after watching your newer videos for 3-4 years.. I couldn't stop laughing!!
I had to find this video again, just to hear him say aw hell here we go
This is by far your best work!
That cracked me up, I wish you didn’t stop recording
I have a Kubota that has both types. I switched it over once for shits and giggles . it was like being totally drunk behind the stick. not a good feeling but funny as hell as long as your not trying to make production lol
Under the rubber foot mat there is a 3/4 in. bolt valve to turn the machine from John Deere controls to Cat controls or SAE. Almost all excavators have that switch over position.
+1483samurai not all machines come with 2 or 4 way valves. The 324 I was in today didn't have a switching valve (and wasn't in the computer either). Had to suck it up and run ASE for the first time ever. Took a little getting used to but I finally got the hang of it.
@Cat314DLCR the boom control and stick controls are on different levers
I spent more time looking at your rear view mirror at the gap between the dirt and your tracks than what you were actually doing. Keep it up, love the vids!
I've been there! You wouldn't think switching 2 controls would make that big of a difference. You had me rolling the whole video though!
I use to pick up CATS shipped in from JAPAN and they all had Backasswards Controls, so I can really feel for ya buddy!
haha i feel your pain..a mate who i wrk with always changes the control pattern when his on it i jump on and nearly push the machine over trying to boom up :) love your videos man keep up the good work
Occasionally I go back through the archives and watch an older video. Gooood lord u had me blowin snot bubbles I was laughing so hard at ur cussing and frustration!!! I'm a deere fan and appreciate most equipment you can change the controls but when u cant good lord it makes me feel like I hit myself in the head w my own bucket and no one to blame my own dumb self !! Lol. Love all the new pond vids and definitely appreciate you and all that you share w all of us Yahoo's:)
They need bigger tracks and body for long boom or should add additional counter weight behind the excavator
I seriously laughed my ass off the whole time, but ik how aggravating it actually is that’s what makes it so hilarious!
I used to hate JD controls, but now I love that pattern. it makes more sense to me. I can operate CAT controls, but it takes me a while to get the reversed pattern down.
After watching so many of your videos... coming back to the past... OMG I'm crackin' up laughing at this video. Keep on Smilin' n cussin'
I can imagine the laughs they had at the standards meeting when they made SAE, ISO and X/X (jcb) control systems for the excavators... You worked 10yrs using SAE? Hey try ISO, its fun :D
I had the privilege of getting shown both patterns
@@bendriscoll7040 doesn't mean your good at both
@@jpa1282 u don't have to be
Yeah I’m not good at all with SAE. I can do it but I’m stressed and pissed the whole time. Been running iso for 26 years or so. It just feels more natural.
pretty damn good for jd controls, man. really damn good.
Sorry for your struggles Chris but the bright side is it made for an interesting, entertaining video.
Love it, best video so far. That is how I would be running that machine.
Nice it's been a while since I laughed that hard LOL I love it keep them coming
Got me thinking about years ago, I tiped over a haultruck because of those controls.
The excavation company I started with ran all John Deere controls then I moved to a company ran all cat controls the most frustrating 3 hours of my God damn life
Finally got to see you ride a bronco that gave you a little challenge!
It doesn't seem like a big deal, but when you run an excavator, you don't think of what control to use, you just watch the bucket and move it where you want it. I got in a cat 325 once that had the controls switched. Didn't know there was a switch to change the controls to "normal"
That Kobelco has a valve in the back hydraulic compartment that you can switch over. I ran a 210 that had it.
That reminds me of the first few hours running my backhoe! Now I don't even think about it, but there's no way I'd want to switch to another setup (mine's SAE.) It occurs to me that one could "cross their arms" and get better results.
This is BY FAR my favorite video of yours bahahahhhahahahaa
This is my favorite ld18 video ever
@MegaAnt111 there was not one, mechanic had to swap the hoses
I had to watch it again it's so funny. I feel your pain.
BWaahahahaha!...I love it!!....throws in a string of cuss words and never misses a beat commentating...you are multi-talented....I laughed my ass off and rewound this shit 20 times
Valid question. Though similar, Deere controls have the same features EXCEPT Instead of the Boom up/down being on the right side (and stick out/in on left) it's vise-versa. Some excavators offer both, some don't. I personally have learned on Deere controls (unfortunantly) and so when I hopped into the cab of a Cat 320B the other day It was quite a day. lol.
Good 3D effects, I thought one bucket was coming in the cab with us.. lol
"Chris, you're not supposed to put it back in the water!" Best line ever.
@freeskakel I can pull off deere controls on a standard machine but the long reach through a curve to it, I had to have them switched to cat LOL
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haha. Chris looks like you're haven so much fun lmao
What a fun job! Gets to play with mud and dirt and makes money doing it.
I almost pissed myself laughing, great video
In spite of the switch, you were making good progress on the grass in just 5 minutes of this video. Send more.
I guess they can't use weed killer since it's a water source. I had a small hoe once and I liked the 'heavy' controls, swing and boom, on the left and the 'light' controls, stick and bucket, on the right. I'm right handed and my left arm is like a club foot so it worked out.
hilarious!!! I see this is an older video but I had to comment... I am like you SAE is natural ISO is foreign. I have my RC excavator set up where I can switch it because I have a friend who uses ISO and I tried it today I pretty much looked like you in this video 🤣😂
the controlls you are use to are switched over, so boom up, boom down, bucked in and out are on the left lever and the others are on the right lever
That’s the funniest thing i have ever seen in my entire life. I laughed 6:39. I am crying. I know the pain. When you started going really fast that had me dead man. Holy shit that was a good one
It's good to see even good operators have off days. Makes me feel not so bad as a learner - getting all those moves together to look so smooth requires considerable concentration.
What do you normally use, SAE or ISO?
Doesn't it have the capacity to change it over?
You gave us all lots of laughs.
Gosh I lost it at 5:10 ROFL. It's almost like the machine has a mind of its own.
So to put the stick out you just push the right joystick forward instead of the left one being pushed forward?
What you should have rented is an excavator with pontoon tracks on it
was it set in ISO? our kubota has a switch under the seat to run either iso or std
I know its an old video but I feel your pain brother. The damn Gradalls are even worse.
atleast for doing all that hard back breaking work you don't complain about it
I'm a plumber who operates backhoes for underground plumbing and when we switched to mini excavators I could not work the CAT controls at all until I found the switch. I wonder if the bigger excavators have a control switch I would love to operate a big excavator
That will make for a hard tiring day. My brain would be fried after 2 hours of that.
Lmao. I know how you feel. I grew up running john deere controls. I've been running cat the last 8 years. Last time I tried jd controls it was like speaking Chinese.
I can't believe there's not a valve somewhere to switch the pattern like most machines
wow, Chris is human after all and curses at the controls! :P
The long reach up there at the Meekins auction was ISO as well remember?
We should get you a machine with Northwest control pattern. THAT WILL REALLY GET YOU GOING. LOL. If I remember right, it has a right hand swing.
Andrew Brenneman that's what they call cat controls
I know cat & jd controls. The ONLY difference is the crowd & boom. My dad ran a machine briefly that had Northwest controls. He hated it after running Cat controls for so many years.
Sorry your pissed but this is one of your funniest ones.
I watch ALL your videos, this one is hands down one of my favorites “Ragged MotherFucker” 😂
Do you stick/slew on the left stick and boom/bucket on the right? Not sure if thats the ISO standard. You make great video's, its great to see how contracting difeers from the UK
Boom and bucket on right joystick, sitck and slew on left joystick... that's iso, swap sides your stick and boom... that's sae
isnt that a piss off, god damn it, i remember the first day i took my course and they were cat controles, so, god, damn, frustrating hahaha.....i just kept saying, stick, boom, stick, boom.....and yes, it makes you look like you have noooo idea what your doing....you just brought me back to that day hahaha...
I run cat controls so I look the same way when I run Deere controls I feel your pain but I'm dying the video 😂
ya'll see that 4lbs Bass flippin around inside the bucket... lol :D
You did well, it´s hard with a long boom/stick..
I watched this video for the first time today. Hilarious, and you speak English fluently. Laffing my ass off.
That was hilarious!!
Those 2 different controls make a big difference
I have thought about trying to find an Excavator job but don't even know where too look for one.
LOL! Been there...Where'd the stick go? (look way up) Oh, there it is...
Ha ha ha you made my day chris you going to dredge that pond or skim it lol
I have always run John Deere controls, so I enjoyed watching the backwards shows but I know it is the same for me when I run cat controls
LMAO, reminded me of Will Smith trying to fly the spacecraft the first time.
Backassward just became my new favorite word. Lol
i have had to switch from excavator controls to backhoe controls before and it is ridiculously hard to change
Next time , let me know, I also prefer JD controls, bucket and stick on same control lever and boom and swing. I'll drive down and help...lol I look just like you trying to run friggin CAT controls
This so funny because I just had the same thing happen to me its very hard to switch from what your used to you have to think about every move you make and go slow
whats the place your working at?
If you run a loader, then Deere controls make sense. Meanwhile you could just hit the pattern changer and be done with it.
I'm workin on a little pond now with a leibherr with cat controls, Cat controls make so much more since
thats what i sound like running anything with cat sontrools LOL
wait until you try JCBs X Pattern backhoe levers. they take some getting used to but when you master them, they're good to use.
love deere controls
Im stupid but whats the difference between cat and deere controls?
Of course the controls are backwards on a long reach. Makes perfect sense.
Couldn't stop laughing 🤣
lol this is exactly how I feel running deere controls
very funny i loved it
I Fee for Ya.. I bought a Hannix,Mini and it had Chines Set Controls!!!!!! Finally found the Adjustment handle,, No factory help,unless I spoke Chinese,,Great Machine in Long Run! TY
Lol been there done that! You have to laugh at yourself also when you watch.