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Arctic's Durability Testing Philosophy

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The Arctic team members discuss their extensive product testing process. They explain that they purposefully abuse their snow pushers to identify and address weaknesses, ensuring the final product can withstand misuse by operators and endure various challenging conditions. This approach involves running newly designed plows for one to two seasons to gather real-world data and make necessary adjustments before commercial release.

Goal: Understand the rationale behind Arctic's rigorous product testing.

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so you guys actually look for the worst lots you can just to test these out as that I mean you guys actually have lots that you don't need to plow but you pull so you can beat the crap out of your own plows is that right yeah if we don't already plow it will try to plow it and then every every time you redesign the plow it doesn't go out to guys like me it goes out you have 450 guys out plowing you use it for a full what season or two or what's the scoop on that I don't know it's about two seasons if it's a big change we'll run the plow we'll make 50 of them for ourselves to run and then we make sure that if there's any issues with that change we can make the adjustment before it goes out to the end-user okay okay so what is this where are we at Lucas or in the back 40 of our maintenance facility and this is like this this brave yard for all the crap you guys break on your own yes so this is where we break it and then change it this is where it goes to die I guess if you want to call it leaving it out in the pasture it's all Raptors though yeah I don't see those sectionals yes one of the things like if you noticed this flower right here they've suffered a hit on the left and it bent the moldboard well not really gonna be able to do anything with it now it's not worth fixing the reason there's no sectionals here is because you get tangled part fix them very easily we're this like you're not gonna be able to straighten this out and that's dead what it's gonna cost to get that moldboard it just doesn't make sense I had a guy we bought a brand-new snow bucket it was brand new I spent 800 bucks it was my

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