When you assume.....................................
Hello, MDD.
When you assume.......................................................
It would appear that you are making an assumption here, that you suspect that I might need a little more practice on an excavator simply because I said that an opening bucket made it a LOT easier to pick up the last crumbs of dirt.
May I suggest that you read Brian's comment on this.
Now I don't claim to be the world's best excavator operator, never have and never will. I don't spend enough time on them for that. How-wevver, there have been a couple of times in my 'brief' career when I have made 'the world's best excavator operator' look a little slow - or silly - or both. (I think they must have held some sort of championships somewhere each year for about the last 180 years because I have met a few of them.)
I have dug trench, back-filled trench and other excavations, used compactor wheels, trimmed batters and floors, bulk-loaded, boxed out roads, cleared trees and scrub, levelled house sites to +/- 3/4", demolished buildings, hammered rock and concrete, processed scrap metal, dug holes in frozen ground (You may note that I live in DownUnder. There was NO snow or ice on the ground where/when I dug the holes in the frozen ground.) used hydraulic shears and pulverisers on excavators, ripped, built rock walls, used a continuous miner head and various grapples, cut trees up for mulching and a few other jobs, all with hydraulic excavators, AND picked up the last few crumbs of dirt on a site, both with a normal bucket and with an opening bucket. I KNOW which way is easier.
Now how much more practice do I need?