Moving marble - GIF

[KustomsbyKent]

I really hope that guy is just "showing" for the camera and not doing that on a regular basis. Either way, he's making a very dangerous situation for himself and others nearby.... a hydraulic hose that fails, or a cylinder that fails is going to make that go south real quick. Or a blip of the steering wheel causing the counterweight to move closer and further unloading the rear end. Plus the unnecessary stress and strain he's putting on the machine, it's going to have short life.

I've operated skidsteers for most of my life, and the first one we had, still have it, didn't have any sort of roll cage on it. We quickly learned that you keep your load close to the ground, especially when it's heavy. If the back end comes off the ground, which it did quite frequently, you keep it low and slow. That machine had plenty of lifting power, but not much power from the engine, so you learned to be efficient and smooth. Jerking the controls doesn't help anyone and is also hard on the machine. And yes it has the foot pedals for lift/tilt and hand levers for fwd/rev & steering.
If I was the boss and saw that happening, he'd be off the machine and get more training. Do that again, and bye bye.

I liked Hemmjo's story, those guys are extremely lucky they didn't kill someone that day. The machine breaking was a good lesson for them.