Grader4me
Senior Member
Well, I got my 3 weeks in. My job with the cat m was leveling class "b" material. I would level and bring it as near to grade as I could. The second grader came behind with the trimble getting it spot on grade. After compacting etc. class "a" material would go on. I got a chance to operate a 140 H on class "a" with the gps system...wow! It was flat out work 13.5 hours a day, seven days a week. We averaged 10,000 tons per day.
Now my thoughts on the Cat 140 M...When I first got on the grader I asked if I could grade a small piece of road to get use to the controls before I started leveling. Steering was the hardest for me..rest of the controls was a piece of cake. I started leveling in about an hour. I keep remebering one posters comments here not to have a death grip on the steering joystick...completely correct...after I relaxed it was fine...still reached for the steering wheel and levers for awhile tho...lol
I really like the grader..only thing that I found is after I parked for a bit I had to recalibrate the steering by moving the joystick slowly back and forth..until you do that nothing else would work...sometimes it took a little while..not a good thing when your going flat out...I'll post a couple of pictures later.
Now my thoughts on the Cat 140 M...When I first got on the grader I asked if I could grade a small piece of road to get use to the controls before I started leveling. Steering was the hardest for me..rest of the controls was a piece of cake. I started leveling in about an hour. I keep remebering one posters comments here not to have a death grip on the steering joystick...completely correct...after I relaxed it was fine...still reached for the steering wheel and levers for awhile tho...lol
I really like the grader..only thing that I found is after I parked for a bit I had to recalibrate the steering by moving the joystick slowly back and forth..until you do that nothing else would work...sometimes it took a little while..not a good thing when your going flat out...I'll post a couple of pictures later.