Patent ID: 7016765

Claim:
A method of handling a load at a high desired load handling position comprising the steps of: a) using a mobile loading machine of the kind having a loading arm connected at one end to a body of the machine, the arm arranged for raising and lowering movement at least about a generally horizontal axis between a lower traveling position, and a higher load handling position, and the arm having an outermost end having a loading implement for carrying the load; b) manoeuvring the machine with the arm in the lower traveling position generally below the load handling position, and then one of: c) directing a signal from a vertically fixed position on the body upwardly towards the load handling position in a plane in which a reference point of the loading implement is movable as the arm is raised about the generally horizontal axis to ascertain whether the machine is correctly laterally positioned so that if the arm is lifted, the loading implement is positionable at the load handling position, manoeuvring the machine as necessary until the machine is correctly laterally positioned and then raising the loading arm to raise the loading implement towards the load handling position.