00:00Welcome back again and to some of the little larger pieces of rental equipment that you'll
00:16see around the rental yard and the job site and certainly even around your home that you want to
00:22try on. Don't be afraid of some of these machines if you're a newcomer it just takes a little bit
00:28of practice and a little bit of care and anybody can operate them so we've shown many people for
00:33the first-time jobs that they do and they want to tackle them themselves do them the way they want
00:38to do them and this would be one fairly standard piece of equipment a skid steer as this is referred
00:45to and so if you're asking for it or you're looking on the website the skid excavators and skid steers
00:52category is where you would find this this is a track machine and the initial purposes of having
00:59track machines was on mud soft soils areas where the you don't want to damage the surface too much
01:07they're not the machine that wasn't originally developed to be used on asphalt and concrete it's
01:16a hard ride when it's you're using a track machine on those surfaces but also it's very very hard on
01:22the tracks where's the mode asphalt is one of the most abrasive materials and tracks aren't aren't that
01:30good on using them on asphalt but some people want them for the stability and the the weight of the
01:35machine because your track assembly is heavier than with tires so just pick the machine that suits the
01:43surface and suits your your safety and your your job site certainly in the early springs the track
01:51machine and mud are real soft surfaces are is better than using a tired machine the tired machine can get
01:57stuck a little easier but in the wintertime machine with tires is probably something that's preferred
02:06it's quicker it's easier to turn and that may be an easier machine to use and if it's
02:13dry soils and dry areas a tired machine is just fine as far as Costco a track machine is always
02:21going to cost you more to use than a tired machine but then again you won't have to worry about flats
02:26when you get into a crap track machine either now this machine here is about a 72 inch wide bucket this
02:32would be terrific for doing any kind of landscaping loading stone soil going into a big pile picking it up and
02:42loading it or taking it somewhere backfilling around the house after you've done a waterproofing job and
02:48you want to backfill as opposed to maybe using the excavator that you would have to dig it the you might
02:54find the skid steer a lot quicker as far as labor goes and that's something consideration to have if you
03:01are paying people to do certain jobs and even if you're getting the machine make sure you consider the
03:07fact to the cost of labor is the quickest way to do the job and that may be of concern now this
03:15particular machine has a cab on it sometimes all year round machines have cabs on them sometimes just
03:22in the winter obviously to keep the heat in the machines now come air-conditioned heated radios
03:29heated seats there's a lot of different options not that they're necessary but this is what comes in a
03:36lot of the machines now so in the summer sometimes you might we don't some machines won't have doors
03:42on them just for the sake that's a little more comfortable even with an open air cab and and
03:47especially if you're doing a job site where you've got a lot of workers around and you need to yell
03:51instructions or any of that kind of thing consider that whether you want a machine with a cab on it
03:57one thing to remember and the biggest thing to remember if you have a cab door on your machine is
04:01don't have the door open and lift up the arm and rip the door off it's done many times in the season
04:09by different people or contractors so don't leave your door open don't think you can when you have
04:15your your bucket up or anything the door is not going to open all the way because this arm is going to
04:20be up and stop it so also uh be aware and get instruction on how to open the door it's just a
04:27simple lever uh some people see these red hinge levers on the side um these are for panic uh in
04:36case if something happens you can pull those levers down and you can get the the door the door glass out
04:41but they're if you take them out and you lose the pieces you're not going to get the glass or the door
04:45back on so bear in mind and take a few minutes to understand how to open your door and how to close
04:51the door now good idea to keep a window a little bit open as well because some of the tabs uh when
04:58you're closing them will almost be airtight and it's very hard to close your doors unless you leave
05:02the window opening a little bit of air in now controls are as this one has an air ride seat
05:14bear bear in mind that these controls your arms safety arms have to be down before you can use
05:20anything or do anything joystick controls one operates the bucket up and down and dumping of the
05:27bucket and the other one will operate your uh your drive your tracks the nice thing advantage of uh
05:33of the joystick controls now is that you just point your joystick what direction you want to go
05:40and the machine will do the forward and back with either the tires or the tracks and make it uh an
05:45easier ride and make things uh smoother when you're turning and everything so you don't have to worry about
05:51thinking about that yourself to pull one back one forward you're just pushing one forward and it's going
05:56to do the it's going to do those things for you everything's automatic um you can uh have you'll
06:02have a uh again a safety control security code to put into the machine and you get that from your
06:09rental operator they're changed frequently so that you'll have access to the machine you'll have to put
06:16that code in before you can access doing anything any of the controls or anything with the machine
06:20and uh run at full throttle uh when you're operating remember that the uh the engine isn't running a
06:27transmission or anything they're running hydraulic pumps so unless the pumps are running at full speed
06:32even if you're going slow you don't have power so you got to run the machines when you start digging
06:37and using it at full throttle so that you have enough power to do the job you want to do
06:43uh obviously there's uh windshield wipers in the rain there's fans for uh cooling inside and uh
06:51the um other thing like we said is make sure your door is is solid and closed when you slam it closed
06:58um other than that uh you do have the foot pedal is usually just uh on the floor like a car
07:05and uh you can have that as well and use it it's dual there's a knob up on top that you can set the
07:10throttle full speed all the time or you can use a a throttle on the floor a gas pedal so to speak on
07:18the floor to increase or decrease your speed uh just like you would in the vehicle so that's kind of
07:25it for this machine uh bear in mind that there's smaller narrower buckets to try and get into smaller
07:30areas if you have to take a fence panel or out or something uh measure it and make sure you know what
07:35size width machine you're getting and also as with all machines uh check your height make sure if
07:42you're going underneath an overhang or you're going near reef troughs or you're going some other structure
07:46that you're not going to hit the top uh don't think that you're going to drive these through carports
07:51and uh and grow open-ended garages that you can drive through without checking your height and uh you
07:57may be surprised you may be fine but you've got to do some uh research before you start uh bringing
08:02machines in to uh get into a certain area if you haven't checked also weight is heavier with these
08:08bigger machines if that's a concern especially if you're dropping driving over septic tank areas or
08:14or any kind of areas that have got a buried line or a weeping tile something like that that you don't
08:20want to crush and so your these machines are the skid steers are a little lower in height than your
08:26excavators but in any case check your dimensions check your weight check your access areas and
08:35then pick the right machine for the job and you'll be much happier in doing it so hopefully this helps
08:41you along and gives you some guidance and hopefully you'll subscribe
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