Oldcraneguy
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Being an older guy I never had to deal with dual axis controls until the late 90's by which time I already had 30sum years in the seat, the exception being hyd. backhoes/excavators where joysticks seemed a good choice.
In 2000 I was on a 8670 Link-Belt that I loved dearly, linkbelts always seemed to be operator friendly to me from the old console/dash days. Couple years later I did a little time on a 1080 Liebherr with joysticks that I didnt care much for only because of the controls and the fact that the response time seemed excessive, it was a new machine but I was glad to be off of it when we got a 2 yr old 875C grove which I stayed on till Ray Anthony bought us out and started back in the crane business.
Ray brought in several older 8665's and 1 8670 and a cpl of 50 ton P&H's all with joysticks and I hated every one of them but after six months or so He started buying AC80 Demags(Terex by then) which I also disliked but not as bad.
Im just wondering if its just me being old and set in my ways or if others feel the same way about backhoe controls in a crane? To me they are an inferior control for a crane, Im sure I'll never change my mind about that I'm just curious how other operators both young and old feel?....Don....OCG
In 2000 I was on a 8670 Link-Belt that I loved dearly, linkbelts always seemed to be operator friendly to me from the old console/dash days. Couple years later I did a little time on a 1080 Liebherr with joysticks that I didnt care much for only because of the controls and the fact that the response time seemed excessive, it was a new machine but I was glad to be off of it when we got a 2 yr old 875C grove which I stayed on till Ray Anthony bought us out and started back in the crane business.
Ray brought in several older 8665's and 1 8670 and a cpl of 50 ton P&H's all with joysticks and I hated every one of them but after six months or so He started buying AC80 Demags(Terex by then) which I also disliked but not as bad.
Im just wondering if its just me being old and set in my ways or if others feel the same way about backhoe controls in a crane? To me they are an inferior control for a crane, Im sure I'll never change my mind about that I'm just curious how other operators both young and old feel?....Don....OCG