cuttin edge
Senior Member
I'm not really struck on joystick tec. I know it's come a long way but. We had a Fiat Alis backhoe. Joysticks were on the seat, out riggers were on a switch on one of the joysticks. If you wanted to move the front bucket, you pressed a switch on your right hand joystick and held it. This joystick was now your loader control, and you could lift your boom so you could drag the machine back or push ahead without swinging around and driving it.Release the button and control went back to backhoe. With the seat in the forward position, the RH joystick ran your loader. If you wanted to lower your rear boom to go under a door or wire, another button pressed and held would return backhoe functions while you faced front. After 5 years, the controls would randomly switch. You would be digging with the backhoe while your front loader would be going up and down.