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Eric R Snow wrote:

Getting lessons from someone who really knows what
they are doing is great. I gotta go now because the machine is warmed
up and I wanna play.

They can be a lot of fun. While your nighbor probably said all this, it
bears repeating: Try to avoid having help in the movement zone - one
wrong lever push, bad things happen. Likewise, even though they are very
useful for picking things up, remember that any of several failures
(such as a burst hose) can mean the load will drop - and you want to
make sure that you only do that sort of thing so it all dropping, at any
time, will only hurt machinery, not people. If your machine has a ROPS,
use the seatbelt, every time. If it does not have a ROPS, it should not
have a seatbelt at all. In either case, be very careful about the ground
you are moving over and operating on - they can take a lot, but when
they get to the tipping point, there's little if any time to recover.

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