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Canmore Ab. Canada | I picked up a new backhoe and can choose SAE (Cat) or ISO (John Deere) control styles by the flip of a switch. Which one should I learn and why? Thanks. Dan...
Edit. Yep, it looks like it is the other way around. Dan...
Edited by WesterOne 4/23/2013 22:20
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Columbia Basin, Ephrata, WA | I think Cat is ISO or "excavator" controls and Deere is SAE or "backhoe loader" controls.
Right or wrong I know the SAE pattern.
It seems that most machines now are switchable, so it doesn't matter which pattern you learn.
Edited by Ben in the Basin 4/21/2013 18:08
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Northern Kentucky | If you plan on running anything other than Deere I would learn "cat" style I feel like its more natural but I'm biased since that's what I own and run.
Edited by DVFarms 4/21/2013 17:53
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Crawfordsville, Arkansas | Learn both. I can run either. Learned on a Case backhoe but later on gave a trackhoe a try and got the hang of it after a half hour. Jumping from one to the other takes a few minutes to adjust. |
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arthur , ontario | I am used to JD myself! had it on both a ford hoe tractor and now an excavator .Had a cat guy try to run the excavator and had quite the humbling experience! But I will admit to preferring hand and foot in a skidsteer over pilot controls! |
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Sioux Falls, SD | I use SAE but it is a 50/50 split on our place between all of us. |
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Ohio | which one is which? im used to the right joystick curling the bucket and moving the dipper and the left stick moving the main arm and swing. |
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| As someone who has ran both CAT and Deere type controls, I run (and now prefer) Deere controls over CAT. I like the fact that you have control of the dipper stick and bucket on the same stick, I feel it's easier for fine grading. |
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| cat is iso....we run iso on everything |
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| We have an older CAT backhoe that has the old style (SAE) controls. We visited the CAT museum in Peoria last winter . They have a Excavator simulator there with the CAT type controls. It only took a couple minutes for me to get on to the "excavator" type controls. Before I was finished I had about 8-10 people watching and marveling how well I was doing, most had already tried and had problems. I never bothered to tell them I owned a backhoe. :~))
A friend has a small "Bobcat" excavator that he uses in his contracting business. He hates running our backhoe, says everything is backwards to him.
Edited by boog 4/21/2013 22:57
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Northwest Illinois | My six year old daughter did the trackhoe simulator at the John Deere Pavilion in Moline a few weeks ago. She got pretty good at it too. I guess she can only work for an excavator with Deere hoes now cause thats what she is used to. I think I did worse because I was always second guessing myself. She snapped right into it because she wasn't trying to impress anyone. Mind over matter. |
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