On Sun, 06 Nov 2011 22:54:07 +0800, wrote:

On Sat, 05 Nov 2011 10:04:03 -0700, "Bruce L. Bergman (munged human
readable)" wrote:


(And for {$Deity}'s sake, don't anybody show Iggy that "Self Loading
Excavator into the back of a Dump Truck" footage for a few years. He
might get ideas he shouldn't have yet. That's an advanced level trick
for someone with a few hundred operating hours under their belt.
People like Adam Savage - and he freaked when he first tried it...)

I do it all the time to load my excavator on the trailer. The
ramps are too heavy for me to carry comfortably at about 50 kg each.
The ramps are long as #2 son uses it to carry cars he soups up for
customers and they have very little ground clearance.

OK, it is only a Yanmar B17, 1.3 tonnes and the car trailer (
flatbed ) is only about 600 mm above ground level.

Drive forward and place bucket on bed, lift front end with bucket
arm and drive forward until tread is on rear of trailer, lower dozer
blade so it cannot accidentally slide off, spin body so bucket is at
rear, raise body with bucket, drive on to trailer while operating the
bucket and blade to help push it on.

I do choose the loading place to get the rear of the trailer as low
as possible, so the Patrol is always higher than the trailer.

Yes, but that's onto the back of a car trailer without ramps, not
into the back of a full-size dump truck without ramps. Same process,
but the "Angle of the Dangle" is a little more serious, you're at
about 45 degrees as you spin it around.

Be sure to pull in the boom as you go around for the push-off, you
don't want to fall over sideways right about then.

And be real careful about selecting the tracks Forward or Reverse if
you've got the cab spun around to the other end. I'd almost have a
bystander throw chocks behind the tracks if I was doing it for the
first time, so I don't mess up too spectacularly...