How to Master the Last Scoop: Tiltrotator Tips Needed

[SatS]

Back when I was getting the hang of operating an excavator, one thing that really got to me was trying to scoop up the last scraps of rubble or soil. I wanted to avoid having to climb out and shovel it in by hand. Then, someone tipped me off about swinging the arm left and scooping against the blade, which lets you see better and be more precise.

But I've seen in tiltrotator videos, operators don't do that. Instead, they rotate the bucket while clearing, sort of flicking the last bits in as they pull the debris back.

Is there a trick to this technique?

 

[6feetdown]

Back when I was getting the hang of operating an excavator, one thing that really got to me was trying to scoop up the last scraps of rubble or soil. I wanted to avoid having to climb out and shovel it in by hand. Then, someone tipped me off about swinging the arm left and scooping against the blade, which lets you see better and be more precise.

But I've seen in tiltrotator videos, operators don't do that. Instead, they rotate the bucket while clearing, sort of flicking the last bits in as they pull the debris back.

Is there a trick to this technique?

I'm only just getting it. I like to side swipe rotate bucket into blade then have to slew the boom whilst doing it

 

[DaveDCB]

Dig and hole and bury it..

 

[Vinpetrol]

Track over it

 

[V8Druid]

get a machine with a VA/TAB boom ... no sweat pulling against the blade properly then

 

[DaveDCB]

Track over it

That would be my next option..
but to be honest, I have no problem with jumping off the machine myself and shovelling the last bit, rather than pratting around trying to get the last bit up, sometimes making more mess than I’d like to admit

 

[6feetdown]

That would be my next option..
but to be honest, I have no problem with jumping off the machine myself and shovelling the last bit, rather than pratting around trying to get the last bit up, sometimes making more mess than I’d like to admit

Yep sometimes a lot quicker and gets you off your backside lol

 

[V8Druid]

Yep sometimes a lot quicker and gets you off your backside lol

learned to master using the blade .. lorra shovelling filling the 'Drema's buckets by hand

this is the extent of hand filling round here .............................................................. got a VA-r for the awkward bits and drop it in the carefully parked 2M ...........

.............for infill else where ....... after a bit of riddling

 

[Furniss]

The "amazing" Wacker will clean to the blade without offset.
Developed a nice little move where you come from behind the blade edge with the crumbs that snuck past, spin the bucket 180 as you come forward past edge of blade and nip last bit against it, all in one nice move.

If only I was on Tiktoc

Simple things and all that.

 

[JerryRtilt]

The "amazing" Wacker will clean to the blade without offset.
Developed a nice little move where you come from behind the blade edge with the crumbs that snuck past, spin the bucket 180 as you come forward past edge of blade and nip last bit against it, all in one nice move.

If only I was on Tiktoc

Simple things and all that.

Any crumbs left picked up with the Gripper individually

 

[SatS]

learned to master using the blade .. lorra shovelling filling the 'Drema's buckets by hand
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this is the extent of hand filling round here .............................................................. got a VA-r for the awkward bits and drop it in the carefully parked 2M ...........
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.............for infill else where ....... after a bit of riddling
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Nice work and nice trick using the bigger bucket to collect !

 

[V8Druid]

Nice work and nice trick using the bigger bucket to collect !

needed to pick it down over a wall after to barrow to a spot I couldn't get to ... so using me 6t Thwaites was out

 

[V8Druid]

needed to pick it down over a wall after to barrow to a spot I couldn't get to ... so using me 6t Thwaites was out

just tripped over some pix of this
down on bedrock ... .............................................................................................................................................................................using the 50mm Hill's gripper jaw to grab 70 pins to move the 2m about as I worked my way down the run


then dropped the VA-r (Variable Angle rotator - tilty to most), off as not enough room where this was going



Pam filled a few and I was filling & barrowing the two barrows .. too heavy for her to handle .. I'd do 3 to her one fill .. no other way to get it where I wanted it

 

[V8Druid]

and filling in with clean 40mm and a Kins 605

nothing like a dust bath for conditioning the coat