360 Excavator - Essential to Have a Ticket?

[Cab-over Pete]

I've never known anything like a digger for daft mistakes. I've had mine a couple of months and I've driven them occasionally for years, but on a good day of digging it can all be going well when , all of a sudden my hands detach from my brain and the bucket vanishes into the ground or the tracks are a foot off the deck!

I don't make daft mistakes like that on any other machine. First thing I tell anyone around me is that I'm no expert and to be careful!

 

[ILovebaling]

Hi horizontal, my avice would be , always turn round to face the direction your tracking, look up for them power lines, if your near buildings or roads digging buy a cable detector and never load your tractor and trailer over the cab! Also when your diging excavate in layers and if you don't know what might be down there don't use a bucket with teeth on. Hope I might have saved you a few quid and kept you a bit safer.

Yes, watch out for those overhead electric cables, not that i would know about ever knocking one down.

 

[Tha Ulsterscot]

Pete it just takes time, when you get to the stage that you forget about your hands and you control the bucket with your mind, your there.

 

[Cab-over Pete]

I do find that if I just let go of everything for a moment, it all seems to work fine after that!!

 

[suffolksmallholder]

Use the force Luke!.....
SS

 

[mjganfield]

Cpcs cards are purely for construction site h+s regs, as long as your insurance covers 360s it's fine you may need public liability tho, I've driven diggers and tractors all my life, was offered some tractor work recently on a big building site near me but I had to take the cpcs course before I was allowed on site. Cost a nice 400 notes

 

[DFC]

Cpcs cards are purely for construction site h+s regs, as long as your insurance covers 360s it's fine you may need public liability tho, I've driven diggers and tractors all my life, was offered some tractor work recently on a big building site near me but I had to take the cpcs course before I was allowed on site. Cost a nice 400 notes

What colour card was it that you took?

 

[nick...]

Must be a red card if its the first one,blue comes with experiance and a full yellow work log book.another wast of time.i asked em for a new one after filling in the first.they wanted 35 quid.needless go say i never got one
Nick...

 

[mjganfield]

It's the red card I have atm, but can apply for a blue in a few months

 

[nick...]

They will want some more of your hard earned for that
Nick...

 

[DFC]

Is it the red card that gets you on site? Is that just the h&s day?

 

[mjganfield]

You need to have a CSCS h+s certificate to be able to take your CPCS course.

 

[ianw]

Then you need another course to use a quick hitch these days as the numpties like to not check its locked on and drop it down the trench on a groundworkers head

 

[d williams]

Cpcs cards are purely for construction site h+s regs, as long as your insurance covers 360s it's fine you may need public liability tho, I've driven diggers and tractors all my life, was offered some tractor work recently on a big building site near me but I had to take the cpcs course before I was allowed on site. Cost a nice 400 notes

What's insurance got to do with it the hirer should be liable for insurance on site

 

[Derrick Hughes]

The main thing is when you turn round you don't walk into a lamp post

 

[Derky]

Now then.
Cs cards waste of time unless on housing developments, we dont run them. We all have NPORS which is to start a days health and safety and a day practical if your not good then a test. We went straight in with the test. When we look at a job we show our training file of all our tickets and if they insist on cs then we dont price for it. Most of our work is for large private individuals, or one man bands. The only one we have issues is with the national grid but they are now happy with the amount of training we have done and ongoing we do.
Now Pete, learn your extremities if your in tight digging when you get there before digging have a spin round to see where your limits are. If you have a wobble just let go of controls. 360s very difficult to tip over. I nearly done one last week but it was dismounting from a tall heap without a track so you loose your counter weight. Hope Bessie is going well, missed her last week had to hire in a komatsu which had a cd stuck on hard trance and would not switch off, would not grade and then the bearings went on idler and track fell off oh the delights !

 

[Cab-over Pete]

I've got a lovely digger here Derky!!

You should have said!

 

[multi power]

If a job requires a ticket, you really don't want the job and operators with the most tickets tend to be the worst drivers.

Just my opinion.

the best 360 operator i know, an owner operator contractor with a small fleet n a few staff has no tickets

 

[Zetor]

the best 360 operator i know, an owner operator contractor with a small fleet n a few staff has no tickets

Sounds familiar!

 

[Derrick Hughes]

the best 360 operator i know, an owner operator contractor with a small fleet n a few staff has no tickets

I got a bus pass will that do