In September 1999 I picked up a new Caterpillar 315BL for our work at Snoqualmie Falls. For the various tasks where we used
the machines, we found that the PSM buckets/thumbs held up the best overall, and now we had 4 little backhoes with PSM gear.

Rick McBee (pictured) ran this machine from the day we picked her up and he was a fantastic hand on the bucket/thumb setup,
although I suspect he hated them and half the time a grapple would have been easier for the brush piling we used them for.