Operating a Cat 320 Excavator The basics
Alright, I'm going to give you a quick run down of the startup procedures and how to operate a CAT excavator.
Alright, I'm going to give you a quick run down of the startup procedures and how to operate a CAT excavator.
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Step 1 of 44Alright, I'm going to give you a quick run down of the startup procedures and how to operate a CAT excavator.
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Step 2 of 44This one is a 320. It's the same for a 336 or most sizes are going to be the same controls.
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Step 3 of 44But in here, there's no key for this one.
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Step 4 of 44It's coded. This one doesn't have a code. Turn on the switch, wait for your screen to fire up.
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Step 5 of 44And now, hit the start button. It tells you what setting it's on, which person.
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Step 6 of 44It's just a guess. There's a bucket attached. It's on fast speed.
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Step 7 of 44It's on standard controls. Just touch screen it okay and you can't move anything until you lock it out.
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Step 8 of 44Once that bar comes up, it's fully operational. And now, they do that for safety reasons so you don't hop in or out with it operational.
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Step 9 of 44So now, it does operate. So now everything works.
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Step 10 of 44Alright, next on the list is your speed control, which is right here.
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Step 11 of 44I turn mine all the way up. And now, we can operate the joysticks.
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Step 12 of 44Right joystick will bring the bucket up. Pushing it forward will bring it down.
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Step 13 of 44To the right opens your bucket. To the left closes your bucket.
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Step 14 of 44The left joystick, going left, turns the entire turret of the machine left.
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Step 15 of 44To the right, right, forward, brings out the arm.
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Step 16 of 44Pulling it back towards you brings in the arm.
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Step 17 of 44And you have to work them in motion together to get the right, get things the way you want it.
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Step 18 of 44You can't just do one and then the other. You have to learn the motion of both together.
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Step 19 of 44Okay, now I'm going to show you how we move the tracks.
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Step 20 of 44You saw how we move the bucket and the arm, but now how we move the tracks.
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Step 21 of 44You can use the handles. I've never used them because usually you're doing both at the same time.
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Step 22 of 44But it's just foot pedals, forward and reverse. Your left track forward, right track forward.
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Step 23 of 44When you do both at the same time, they both move forward.
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Step 24 of 44So we're going to back up, which has a backup camera on this. It stays on all the time.
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Step 25 of 44Now we can swing around while we're doing that.
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Step 26 of 44So now I'm still backing up as far as foot controls, but I am going forward in motion.
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Step 27 of 44So the controls follow whichever direction the motor drive is.
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Step 28 of 44So just because I'm moving forward, I'm actually going in reverse.
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Step 29 of 44I just turn the machine around. It's the same speed either way, forward or reverse.
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Step 30 of 44Then going slower or faster, no less or no more power.
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Step 31 of 44And then we're going to go over here and knock down some trees.
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Step 32 of 44All right, we have a pretty large tree to knock down here.
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Step 33 of 44So I'm going to show you all.
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Step 34 of 44Since this excavator does not have a thumb attachment, which would grab and pull, I have to knock it over and then dig up the root.
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Step 35 of 44So I use both my controls at the same time.
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Step 36 of 44Knock down the tree.
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Step 37 of 44I need to have it away, so I'm going to kind of scoop it up a little bit.
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Step 38 of 44Grab it.
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Step 39 of 44Toss it. Now we need to dig up the root.
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Step 40 of 44Get these little suckers here.
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Step 41 of 44Somebody left a deer stand out here.
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Step 42 of 44With these little trees, it's easier just to kind of scoop up underneath so the tree to fall back towards you.
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Step 43 of 44Scoop it up. Move it out of the way.
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Step 44 of 44And that is the very basics on how to operate an excavator.