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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Squish" data-source="post: 124689" data-attributes="member: 22475">I am less than 20 hours in the saddle of a teardown-refurb 463 (I believe the precursor to the S70). The little buggies really can bounce you around. I agree that you should throttle back to say 50% and really figure out how to smooth out the controls. What I did was just set myself to a patch of ground and just moved dirt around for a few hours (be sure to wear ear protection). As well, I spent a few hours moving piles of snow around the property. It just comes with time, and you can start easing up the power. I think of it this way: If you're familiar with driving in winter or on ice, when the tires start to slip, you don't slam on the brakes or you'll spin out. You just feather the brakes and steer out of it...same sort of thing with the loader, just coax it to do what you want to do. Again, I've never driven a loader before, but it came fairly quickly as the controls became familiar/automatic. I found they really aren't good on snow/ice on anything more than an 8 degree slope. I bought good chains for the rear tires, but even with the wide tires, these can really struggle on hills. Flat property is no problem at all, they get around fine, but hills....Oh, and remember to back up steep slopes. That phat counterweight really wants to tip it. I found that a loaded bucket helps if you need to drive up forward. I see the date on the post, so you likely have got this figured out by now. They're such fantastic little machines.</blockquote>

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