Remote operating and teaching.
Hi, D6peg.
I once worked with a bloke who got very tired of a certain foreman walking alongside the left corner of the blade signalling, "Up, up, up, down, DOWN, up, sideways, backwards, etc., etc.." This operator slammed the blade on the ground, knocked the throttle down to idle, locked the powershift in neutral, leaped off the machine, raced forward and started kicking the daylights out of the corner of the blade. As he was kicking the blade, he was yelling expletives at it and asking, "Why can't you do what the man is telling you?"
The foreman watched this performance, shook his head in wonderment and walked away - which would seem to indicate that he had no need to be there in the first place. You might like to try that one on some of your customers sometimes.
Hi, Rino.
It is a very rare student to whom you can 'teach' feel for a machine. You can tell them the things that contribute towards feel for a particular machine and encourage them to look for those things as they are working but, when all is said and done, it still comes down to their own awareness of what they are doing and what the machine is doing as a result of what they are doing. Along with that, there needs to be an awareness of the attitude of all parts of the machine in relation to the required end result.
Teaching will never be easy and there will always be some who catch on quicker than others and some who never really do. Even these latter ones can often be turned into reasonable production operators but will seldom make really good production operators or finish operators. C'est la vie.