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

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What happens here

When cars are still present in the parking lot, the plowing strategy changes. The operator must prioritize safety by always yielding to cars and pedestrians. The presenter advises against aggressive plowing around occupied areas. Once an area with cars is clear, backdrag any remaining snow from that area into the cleared zone to ensure thoroughness. The demonstration shows a plow truck clearing snow from occupied parking spaces, emphasizing repeated forward and backward movements.

Goal: Safely and effectively plow around active traffic and parked vehicles.

Tools and materials

  • Cotton Batting — Representing snow in the model
  • Parking Lot Scale Model Homemade — Illustrating plowing patterns around cars
  • Plow Truck Ram — Demonstrating plowing around cars
  • Skid Steer ASV — Plowing snow safely around obstacles
  • Toy Cars Hot Wheels — Representing parked cars in the model

What they say

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away from the corners now now there will come times when all of the cars have not cleared out of the parking lot when that's the case you always yield two cars or active traffic you can have your sirens on you can have them flashing and technically us but they're supposed to yield to you but that doesn't mean you can be stupid and cut in front of a car you always yield to cars and pedestrians it's just an easy way to stay out of trouble and as a snowplow operator here's a giant red flag you will have cars that park behind you while you're operating intentionally I've seen cars that want to get hit they want to collect the insurance money that's a high that happens that just happens now in this case with a plow truck here's where we're gonna get separation or difference in their ploughing pattern with a plow truck we would then push forward back up push forward back up push forward and back up if we were going to be plowing the same lot with the skid loader we have the ability to push sideways spin push sideways spin and then if we have a plow on that skid loader we can angle everything over now the truck if they wanted to do the exact same pattern would go forward then backward forward backward while they're going backwards they're not typically moving snow they're just backing up to go in place the distinct advantage that a skid loader has in a situation like this is its ability to turn 360 or 180 go plow the reverse way and then spin again see the edge of this sidewalk this is not okay this is a dome this wasn't us though this was the sidewalk crew so the sidewalk crew comes in after us and instead of pushing the snow up that way pushes it into our lot and leaves this behind meaning we've got to come back and clean it up so if you're part of the sidewalk crew work with the people plowing the lot don't work against them don't think they're gonna come in and want to tidy up after you because a lot guys we don't want to clean up if this sidewalk guys and lot guys don't put your snow on the sidewalks those sidewalk guys got one heck of a hard job it's harder than our job I'm gonna tell you right now truck any sidewalk guy will trade jobs with any plug I he'd rather sit in a plow truck where he's nice and warm he can listen to the radio he can sip coffee and he could complain about the sidewalk guys that's what a sidewalk guy wants to do they're out

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