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Factory Production Process: Machining, Welding, and Materials

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What happens here

The presenter and Rick proceed to a larger manufacturing facility where raw steel is transformed into finished plow components. This includes CNC machines for precision cutting and shaping, welding stations (with automated robot welders), and large brake presses for bending sheet metal. Rick demonstrates various stages of part production, from raw stock to finished cutting edges that incorporate patented carbide and AR500 steel for exceptional durability. They emphasize that all cutting edges (except for the rear plow) are carbide, the second hardest substance to diamond, ensuring long-lasting performance.

Goal: Illustrate the comprehensive in-house manufacturing process from raw steel to finished, durable plow components.

Tools and materials

  • Brake Presses Advantage — Bending large sheets of steel into plow components
  • Carbide Saber — Tipping for cutting edges, providing extreme hardness
  • CNC Machines — Precision cutting and shaping of metal parts
  • Hardox Steel — Creating durable cutting edges
  • Plasma Cutters Hypertherm — Cutting steel sheets
  • Robot Welders — Automated welding of components
  • Welding Helmet — Protecting eyes during welding
  • Welding Stations — Manual welding of various components, including carbide cutting edges
  • Raw Steel — Base material for all plow components

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>> This is our current controller. It's a lot like a Boss. There's nothing wrong with that. And it's got some great features. You can turn your light on and off with the controller. >> Okay. All right. And now we're not even in the assembly area yet. No, this is just >> [clears throat and snorts] >> uh a lot of wiring. This is the wiring area. All right. He does every part of the wire. Every last part of it. We do it all in house. You can see some of the >> [snorts] >> wire over there and this is how he wires up each one. We put them on and then each each one hits this stand. And he makes every one of these wires. All dielectric grease, the whole nine. Our back blade has a battery in it also. It's an AGM battery. Uh-huh. That keeps the voltage up. Our pump has a 600 hour motor on it, not a 300. So you're constantly charging this battery and it's drawing off this, so we're not getting that that dim >> voltage. Yeah, where the lights dim and you're waiting for it to come up and you've got to rev up the truck so you can get more juice to it. This is like a compensator. It's a capacitor, basically. That's right. Okay. Yeah. So let's go to let's go to the other side and see the manufacturing. Yeah. >> The wall of patents. Look at all these. 1 2 3 4 These are all patents, too? That are Those are the actual patents. These are plaques for the patents. And I actually have like two or three more. One fell down and I got another one since. Yeah. Yeah, this is uh So this is where everything goes from raw steel. And you actually manufacture all your own parts. All of them. Everything. Huh. There's rails for the back blade, wings, adapters. That's a Boss and a Fisher adapter. That's how we do That's our adapter so we can fit on everybody's truck. This is where we roll the center sections and and the wings. So now you can adapt to a Fisher as well. Boss, Western, Fisher, Snow Way, Snow Ex. Oh. Do you ever run into any issues by being able by hooking up to their systems or is that something they can't control? They really can't control it cuz it's not patented. If it was patented, then I couldn't. Okay. Makes sense. It's They don't I'm sure they don't care for it, but it it it works well for me because someone that has a Western, they can buy our plow and if our plow was to fail or they wanted to be plow instead of the F that day, they could go get their other plow and have redundancy, backup. They bolt wiring harnesses in.…

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