Ok to put this post to bed

Hand brake and nuetral must be applied before any use of hydraulics..

Why ???
1/ if left in gear and handbrake off and you use throttle to raise your load as you would on an lpg machine or diesol the machine wants to move cause its in gear...

This is why hand brake nuetrel must be applied failure not to do this will result in 5 points against the operater unless the machine jumps forward then examiner can terminate test for a dangerous procedure.

How many trainees forget hanbrake but put machine in nuetral but on a slight slope roll forward ??? STOP THE PROBLEM TOTALY APPLY HANBRAKE.
17 YEARS Teaching and training sais to me there is no other way unless you want to end up in court and prosecuted for accidents caused by bad or incorrect training, Uk Code of practise states clearly hand brake applied and nutral before any hydrolics are used.....