My Father-in-law use to own his own construction business, and I consider him a expert on a bulldozer or tractor with a FEL.
So last week I was a little surprised that he asked me if my small Kubota with FEL can -dig- (its a
B2920). I replied that it did, and he asked me to bring it on up. So when I got it there, he lead me and the tractor out to a field and asked me to dig down in a location. Seems he's about to put in a well, and decades ago he pulled down a old barn into a pit in this field and burnt it up and covered it up, and now that he's putting in a well he wanted to see if he remembered where he had burried the barn, so that the well could go someplace else.
So I dug (poorly, as I'm new to this) and at about 3 ft, hit old timbers. I enlarged the hole, and found other old timbers. He was satisfied at that point, so I got to cover it all up.
When I brought up that he should have been running the tractor, his reply was "Nope, no matter how good you would have watched, you learned more by doing. You've got to do it to get the feel. Watching just won't do."