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Down Pressure and Trip Edge Functionality

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What happens here

The Razorback plow is equipped with a 'down pressure' feature that enables efficient scraping and peeling of packed snow and ice. By holding a button for three seconds, hydraulic pressure is applied directly to the three cutting edges of the plow. This feature ensures constant contact with the ground, unlike traditional float mode where the plow might skip over obstacles. This continuous ground contact also prevents the plow from losing snow when encountering minor obstructions, allowing it to clear them and immediately return to scraping without missing snow or requiring re-plowing. The spring-loaded trip edges, located on each wing, absorb impact from obstacles, causing the wing to pivot upwards and immediately return to the scraping position once the obstruction is cleared.

Goal: Illustrate the down pressure feature for scraping and the trip edge mechanism for obstacle navigation.

Tools and materials

  • Arctic Razorback Plow Arctic Razorback — Demonstrating down pressure and trip edge functionality
  • Obstacle Block — Simulating an obstacle for trip edge demonstration

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because of the fact that the wings kick out so you will never run your tires from your roll off on the edges of the blade. >> And now it's finally released. Finally available to anybody on the market. >> Everything's done. >> Look up your local dealer on our website, Arctic Snow and Ice products. >> down pressure. >> All right, so another feature that we are very proud of, we now have the ability as I talked to you before about the wings being back or you get into heavy snow pack, we have down pressure. 3 seconds holding the button applies that pressure to those three cutting edges only allowing you to be able to scrape and peel. Packed snow and ice. Look at that truck bounce up and down. Look at that. That's down pressure right there. Float mode, his other two sections jump a little bit. >> Okay, so this is float mode. Go for it. Now, did you notice how those other two sections jumped up about an inch? Okay. Now he's going to do it again with down pressure to show how well that scrapes the ground. Those other two sections aren't going to move. Okay. Did you see that? Did you see that? >> see that. >> Full contact the whole time. Now, not like regular straight blade plows where you trip over something and the plow flies up in the air and depending how fast you're going, how much snow you miss, this now keeps in contact with the ground, clears the obstacle and immediately returns allowing you to keep all of the snow you already have contained and no need to go back and re-plow. Thank you. All right, good. Now, as you can see here, our spring-loaded trip edge is just beginning its action. At this point right now where it's hitting the block, the edge is already tripped. That force is now going to be distributed to the poly blocks making this section rise up allowing that edge to fully return back to scrape mode. So, as soon as it clears the block and hits the ground again, it's ready to start pushing. Move back here. Let's see if he can push through it. See if he can push through it. Boom. It's already back in scraping mode before it even clears that obstacle. All right, let's watch this wing here. Back up. We're going to show THEM AGAIN, BLAKE. NOW, IF YOU NOTICE WITH THE WING, NOT ONLY do we have a spring-loaded pivoted edge right here that's on a hinge, but we also have the three pivots in the wing itself allowing whatever force is against here to be relieved by the wing, back into cutting and back down into…

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