Introduction to Pre-Season Preparation

[music] All right, guys. We're just going to take you through a little pre-season prep, go behind the scenes, and show you guys everything we do to get ready for the season. If you're wondering why it looks like I'm pregnant, it's well, because Ah! Ow! Don't Don't bite me. Don't bite me. This is George. George likes to hang out in my shirt when I'm recording videos sometimes. So anyway, we'll take you through everything that we end up going through because we have weeks of work that we end up doing to get ready. And you know, I didn't make this video because it's not the, you know, oh my god, drama, none of this stuff. But I realize maybe for some of you guys, you just want to see what companies do when they're prepping and you compare notes or you just look and go, "Oh, that's a good idea." Or, "Oh, that's a dumb idea." I don't care what you pull out of it, but I was just hoping that maybe you'd pull something out of it. So, if you do, perfect. This is going to be mostly Zach's show. This is what we do with him. I remember back in the day though that we used to uh we used to plow and do dirt work simultaneously. I'm not insane anymore. I mean, it was so tough because you have to switch over. It's the same equipment, but it's not the same setup. When you're going to dig in dirt, yeah, you could use a skid loader or a loader, but it's completely different tools attached to it. It's a different location. It's a different site, and there's just so much that goes into it that when we finally get to the point where we're going into snow season, we just shut down our dirt operation entirely. Those were the most miserable cold effing days ever when we would be plowing and doing demolition and dirt work because you never got a break and you would just pray that it wasn't going to snow because you if you seen snow in the forecast, you'd have to take at least a day or two days ahead of time and start switching all the equipment over to the other sites, getting it all ready to go, and then if it didn't snow, You just wasted your time.