Pete F
Member
I've done a search and can't find the answer to the question as to which is the normally used excavator control pattern in Australia?
I know the topic has been done to death here, but the majority of information on the net comes from North America, and it often varies from elsewhere in the world. Further, my excavator pattern is currently set differently to my friend's excavator, so one of us isn't running what most others are here What's adding further to the confusion is that the terms ISO and STD seemed to be switched depending on where the person is in the world!
It's no big deal, but I'm new to excavators and may as well learn a pattern that's mostly used on others here. I have a Bobcat mini-excavator and it is set to what says is "ISO" (both on the controls and in the manual), it is not that same as the Wikipedia entry for ISO for example. Right hand forward lowers the boom, Left hand forward pushes the arm out. I thought that was the normal for most excavators, but was confused when I found my mate's was different.
I know the topic has been done to death here, but the majority of information on the net comes from North America, and it often varies from elsewhere in the world. Further, my excavator pattern is currently set differently to my friend's excavator, so one of us isn't running what most others are here What's adding further to the confusion is that the terms ISO and STD seemed to be switched depending on where the person is in the world!
It's no big deal, but I'm new to excavators and may as well learn a pattern that's mostly used on others here. I have a Bobcat mini-excavator and it is set to what says is "ISO" (both on the controls and in the manual), it is not that same as the Wikipedia entry for ISO for example. Right hand forward lowers the boom, Left hand forward pushes the arm out. I thought that was the normal for most excavators, but was confused when I found my mate's was different.