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Avoid Leaving 'Dribble' Snow

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How NOT to Plow in a Skid Loader- Hazards, Patterns & beginner mistakes 4 k video

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The presenter highlights a key mistake: leaving small piles of snow, often referred to as 'dribble', behind after plowing. He shows real-life footage of a poorly cleared parking lot with snow remaining on the pavement and along edges. This snow will freeze and turn into solid ice, making it extremely difficult to remove later and creating hazardous conditions. It is critical to ensure a 'zero tolerance' approach to leftover snow.

Goal: Ensure complete snow removal to prevent ice formation.

Tools and materials

  • Skid Steer ASV — To plow snow and demonstrate common mistakes

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demonstrate the pattern so we have a zero tolerance this does not look like it's zero tolerance this looks like somebody got lazy so all this has to be cleaned up oh look at what is this I mean I'm my own worst critic this is not acceptable okay here's a big pile of jig right in my lot you can't leave jig in your life you can't jig your lot just don't do get in your life I'm just gonna tell you right now don't jig in your life because a big sure the success of your snow plowing isn't just in equipment that's a part of it but a lot of it is also in the pattern that you use in a skid loader offers you the versatility and flexibility of using different patterns then you can get in a snow plow truck so you can plow the same lot with a skid loader entirely different than you do with the plow truck and we're gonna be going over that today in detail plus showing you some of the things that guys royally screw up on so when you're in a loader you may be on detailed duty you may be on mass moving duty or you may end up doing both detail duty means your job is to go into an area like this back drag everything away and then another piece of equipment their job is to come in and just move the mass piles of snow now when you work in a team like that you may be tempted to pull out do your job and then assume

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