No disrespect meant to anybody nor jabs meant. However there is only thing that will fix problems like roll over accidents and so forth. That is experience. You can watch videos and read books and look at brochures forever but sitting in the seat and operating the controls is what makes an operator. I have seen experienced operators operate equipment and put it in places and do things with it on a daily basis with no problems that the engineers that write the manuals say it won't do. I have also seen operators that did less Not know the machinery that would destroy the equipment and themselves on level ground with nothing to cause a problem. It is more of a knowing knowledge than a learning knowledge if that makes sense. Some might say a heart knowledge that is only gained by doing over and over.
I remember when I was a kid I would go to the woods with my grandfather. In those days they hurled pulp wood in 6' lengths stacked crosswise on a truck. They drove the trucks in the woods and loaded them and drove them out. There were some older men in the crew that would walk the ground where the trucks were going in. They had a kind of bouncy way that they walked. When they would hit a certain place they would mark it. They could tell you immediately when they walked across it whether or not a loaded truck would go across it without sinking. They could tell you how much wood could be put on the truck and it still come out. They just knew because they had done it so much.
That is the way with operating most any equipment in less than desirable conditions. It takes experience. Sadly today we try to legislate safety instead of learning the equipment.
Anybody that operates equipment has to put it in marginal places at times. At the end of the day knowing the machine and what it will and won't do is what will bring you home alive.
We all want to be as safe as we possibly can.
