Barge-Mounted Clamshell Crane

[9W Monighan]

AHH, I'm used to Bucyrus-Erie machines, they all hoist up by pushing forward on the hoist lever. I've run Bay City shovels and you pull back to hoist like most others. I heard several arguments before about why B-E does things different but can't remember why they did it. It makes sense to me because the first shovel I ever operated was a 10B B-E 3/8cy shovel.
If I ever get an operator on my 9W that likes Marion controls; I'll just reverse the hoist stick.

[Jared]

Seems like I heard the reason for that, at least on the big draglines anyways was so you could push/pull both levers in the same direction when the bucket was moving away or towards the machine. Somewhere on Youtube a dragline operator was explaining why that was but I can't remember what or whose video it was. I figured on the small machines that's just the way the control linkages worked out. I wonder if the BEs with air controls are the same way?