This industry, like so many others, is killing itself by searching and hiring 'experienced' operators only (3 years 5 years experience required), but nobody wants to train or take a chance with a newbie. How can Industries sustain numbers of qualified employees when older ones retire, but new ones are not being trained or hired to be given a chance to become 'experienced'?

I am in New Zealand and at 56, i am nearly the youngest guy in our earthmoving business! Young people for years have been told that going to University and joining a profession is the only way to get ahead and have an enjoyable life and to look down on more practical career paths. New Health and Safety rules also play a huge role in discouraging young people getting into the industry.

I operate a wheel loader in a recycling plant, feeding the system as well as loading and tarping trailers.....I watched the main operator as a picker on the line for about a year until I finally got my chance and when he coached me he said it’s all about angels and has never steered me wrong , I still continue to be coachable as I can never learn enough , thank you for this channel I barely found it, one day I hope to move onto your line of work rather then just dealing with enormous amounts of product/recyclables.

I don't drive anything as large as that loader, but watching someone "do it right" helps understand what should and shouldn't be done. Keep'em coming.

Been running equipment, mainly loader for a few years now and I love it. Dream job.

My job has 2 of these in the yard. After a kid showing me a quick run of a load I wanted to learn more. Thank you for taking all this time to help the new guy👍

Thank you guys so much for this video! Rest assured that at least one more person is eager to pursue this industry and is thankful for your expertise, craft, insight, and willingness to share it with beginners!

Just got my ticket today, can't believe that I will be getting paid go do this!

Yes, please! Thanks for putting these up. It’s the little nuances that separate the lever pullers from the operators. Thank you!

This totally helped. I watched it a few years ago and stuck with me and helped me get a new job today at a composting facility.

The only thing I would add to this video is showing how to check the oil, coolant, and hydraulic oil levels. As well as mentioning letting the machine warm up before working it. The "pretrip" is just as important as operating it. Great video.

This was PERFECT! Over here in Sweden i have just started my course along with 11 others. This is invaluable info like this. For me has a non swede. I also get to understand it better! This I will be showing the guys next week!

thank you for this video. I'm learning to run a loader where i work tomorrow, so i've been looking for videos for tips before i actually get trained. this definitely helped.

This was super helpful! I follow a few channels like this to help me be prepared for my entry into my local heavy equipment operating union. 😊

I do this in a star nursery rock yard loading both regular pick up trucks with trailers and dump trucks. These videos are awesome for sharpening my skills.

I work at a quarry and this video helps out,showed coworkers how it's done correctly

We have a Volvo endloader at work and love it.... and yes, we have that incompetent guy that digs with the tires and leaves the potholes all over the quarry! Love this type of video.

Thank you. I am a new female operator in Australia where we have a skills shortage also. This has given me an opportunity to learn a new career and I am just loving it!!

Thank you for the video I'm a new operator and I'm learning as I go I appreciate the tips and tricks

I'm enjoying these types of videos.

Great video awesome work Stanley keep em coming!!!

That was great info Stan, as a part time loader operator at my concrete plant its great to see it done right, I picked up good pointers, thanks

Thank you for another great video. Keep these videos coming please. I run smaller equipment and i am always looking to learn something new. I would like to be able to run the larger stuff one day.

Thanks for the lesson

Your dope for this channel. It's helping me get even better

Yeah man these vids are great i casually watch these and i work in home construction so it sparks interests in it

keep making more videos. There great! The video was super helpful. Different than any other videos that i have seen. They were very easy to understand and intimate. Not like a robot instructor going too fast. KEEP MAKING more of these VIDEOS

This is very helpful, thanks for making content like this

Awesome video and tips! i'd love to learn more and get in the industry.

“Lever pullers” is being too nice.. we refer to those guys as “Seats”

Great video. I've been a forklift operator for many years, and now operate Telehandlers, but on forks only. I want to get into Front End Loader operating soon and can see how my experience with Telehandling can relate to this.

I think they're useful. I enjoy seeing these.

nice lesson , all true ,, been there a lot myself, really enjoy running a loader , as well as other equipment , bigger the better ,,

Thanks for this videos. They are entertaining and very educational.

I sincerely thank you guys for your time and explanation on different scenarios. Does and do not operate the loader this way. Awesome!👍👂👀🧠🤑 Much Appreciated.

Thx for the video! I’m a new operator. This has helped a lot! 😁

Training now here in FL. Hopefully your tips help me pass my NCCER Cert.

learning this is key to move alot of material at a quarry

Nice video with lots of tangible skills and very educational content. 💪💪

Great video, vary informative. Use a loader a lot and every tip help

Yes man thank you for making this video. It was a lot of help

Very useful video mate. Thanks from Canberra, Australia.

some good advice from someone who was shown how to load a bucket correctly very early on in his career. these people aren't doing it. always keep the bottom of the bucket horizontal. when the loader stops moving into the heap raise the bucket until the loader starts moving in again. do not curl the bucket- keep it horizontal. when it stops moving in to the heap raise the bucket again and again do not curl the bucket up. keep doing this until the load has filled the back of the bucket. then curl up. you have a brimmer. if it is necessary to keep the floor clean, give the bucket a jiggle to shake off the excess before going near the truck. once you have got the feel of how easy the heap is to load raise the bucket smoothly and steadily as you drive in so the machine never stops moving. do not wriggle and curl the bucket into the heap. the way i have described is far better. this heap of clean little rocks is a pushover to load out. when you have to deal with lumpy sticky stuff there is another technique to add to your skills. do the best as i have described then reverse out then hit the brakes hard as you give maximum curl. this is to throw everything to the back of the bucket. then go in and do it again to fill the bucket fully.

These are really useful videos . Thank's . Keep up !

THANKS BRO AWESOME TIPS.

Thanks really helpful please make more

Never piss off your loader. I moved my truck while the loader was doing his thing. Eff me. Once, and only once. Respect to you loader guys.

I've learned a lot from this vid👍

great informative video guys, Thank You

I want to be an Volvo wheelloader and heavy equipment, Pay loader Operator. Great Show. God Bless.

Nice way to load trucks as I'm a loader operator while I'm here in Melbourne

The way i was taught was that if the bucket ain't owerflowing and all corners full it aint right.

Ill be going to school for it! Thanks so much for these types of videos!!!

Another great video💪

I like the feel/sound of hydraulics threw my fingers on the levers over the new electric solenoid hydraulic controls of modern equipment ... if that made sense....lol I grew up on a 4 sticker Ford backhoe and play it like a piano and the first skid steer I operated was Universal Loader, which became Case Uni-Loader. Damn I am old....

About once a week I think about leaving my desk job and doing an apprenticeship in equipment operation with my local operators' union. It's something I've wanted to do since I was 5, and it's a desire that has never gone away. I keep hitting road blocks, from others trying to discourage me to the reality of having to earn 20% less for a few years until I got some experience. I don't think the time is quite right, but when I do recareer myself, I'm still leaning this direction.

Great video. Can you do videos from in the cab pov style? I think rookies would be surprised at how little you can actually see while operating. When you're operating a loaded you can't see what's going into your bucket. Have to do it all by feel.

I agree with you in terms of where the shortage is. Weve hired 3 young guys trying to find guys to get ready for the retirees. They dont want to be trained or go the extra mile. The shortage is the new operators that want to learn and go the extra mile

Great job. I have so many questions answered in this video. Like why do the wheels have to be move at a certain time when loading onto truck. Thanks buddy. I have a passion for thses

Great video , love it

Was this filmed at the Shippensburg, PA Volvo plant as it looks very familiar? Awesome video

Yes it’s helping, thanks

OMG I can't wait for those videos.... That's gonna be Soo hilarious!!

Totally cool to watch....if you do more of these with both of you, it would be cool to get him in the cab on a decent hands-free wireless mic, so he can comment with you live! Thanks for sharing!

Nice machine!

Love your videos

Stan I use to send my boss after parts. I use to operate a John Deere 444, a Cat 966, a Volvo L180 was the latest. Also a John Deere 316, a Cat 426. Cat D5 to D8. Cat 120. I use to work for a Highway building company. Later I worked at a Transfer Station. That is where I got to Experience John Deere equipment and then Volvo. I love these Videos.

Lovely video sir

Great video Stan we need more like this and we need more Nikki

I enjoyed that video thinking of getting my ticket for it

Great videp brother thanks for the awesome videos god bless you and your family

Been running loaders for 15 years. Got a Volvo 250H yesterday. Been running a kamatsu WA - 500 for past several years till my hydronic lumps went bad.

Very fun ! I am not even in the industry & love the content !!

Thanx fore this 👍 it helps me o LOT keep EM comming PLz and thanx

These videos are awesome

Love the videos thanks man

Excellent job

Heck yeah that was good a good vid. I didn't know that makes real sense interesting. Thanks man.

Awesome video cheers 👍

awesome videos. Thank you.

Great stuff! Check out the mad skills.

All of your videos are very very helpful and should help 90% of people that watch for real these videos if you pay attention and actually try to learn will help the newbies and even pros learn more about the profession, you do a great job at these

Have chris load his bucket from a natural bank with blow sand as his footing, and show how to use the torque converter to control wheel torque.

Sweet machines, Ill be running a 621f Loader this year doing snow! I wish I could get in contact with chris. As he is in dire need for operators

Good stuff, ran loaders for decades and also 15 years at a highway dept. One thing is you learn "site" points on the bucket for each of your trucks so you do roll the bucket exactly at the right point while also moving forward with the loader to get the load centered. I got his stagger comment...salt being lighter you want to stuff that truck..so instead of "stagger" on a typical tandem its two buckets up front then one to the back..:) (Volvo L120E's & 15ft boxes) Retired now...watching the new guys herky jerk that loader is a sad thing. BUT they will learn. I think one thing that was different when I first started was attitude. It was a status thing to be damn good, a mark of excellence to do a quick efficient and smooth load operation. Now its a slam bang I don't care type of thing that's prevalent. Where you really separate the operators from the stick yankers is stacking a salt pile, building the road in that loose material. THAT'S a skill. Wish I could post pic of the operation in the salt shed.

Just a recommendation would be to check out the compact wheel loaders. Although I mostly run a Cat 924k loader, I’ve noticed the increasing demand and popularity in the compact loaders due to their power and size advantage. Just my 2 cents and love the channel!

Good show!

I have a passion for the craft of operating a piece of equipment with such power to transform the earth into what's needed. Then again, I'm a musician and therefore, a dreamer of sorts. I'd love to get into an operator career.

Definitely cool and helpful video! 👌🏻More would be greatly appreciated

Your video's are awesome

Keep making them plz I like them

More PLEASE!

these videos are great im always the driver getting loaded but I would like to learn it all I pay attention on how im getting loaded though I would like to learn it all

Nice show am interested n working there

You are doing a Very Good Work for Everyone who willing to become An Operator ! i Rely like you for that and continued it okay!, We love it and God bless you more with your entire Company! i will love to join but l lives in Cayman islands thanks for your Teachings

I've been operating this machine since the year 2008 . I started off as a 19 year old and I'm now 35 years . From working in road construction to asphalt plant. From quarry to Dredging. I've worked with Julius Berger Nigeria limited and Dredging International (a subsidiary of DEME group) I won a gold safety award in in the year 2013 for 5 years and 5,000 man hour without loss time or injury. I love this job.

Hell ya keep them coming

I had to feed material bins load dump trucks push rail cars push stock piles and clean up around the yard and the plant do this 14 hours a night at high speeds lol but I loved it I miss running heavy equipment

Awesome video

Yeah I always learn something new when I watch your videos, keep up the awesome content, and I will say in agreement with another comment made that the industry is lacking in entry level training positions, anybody can learn and become great at what they do if and when given the opportunity and support, you said it yourself good operator's are the guys you want to keep and do everything you can to make that guy happy, so where does that leave any room or extra time and energy to make other good operator's??? Have to find a good balance I think and always be willing to teach a bencher or backup in case something happens to your main, if a lot more construction companies offered paid training and entry level operator positions much like getting class A cdl I think we would see a lot of younger and eager people willing to pursue these jobs, another big issue on the other hand is a lot of younger people don't want to actually work for a paycheck lol, it's all business degrees and human resources or creative arts lmao, doing real labor and working longer hours for big money isn't appealing I guess...