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Simplified Hydraulic System

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MAJOR changes to SNO Power Plows

What happens here

Rick explains the significant investment in research and development to perfect the plow. He highlights the initial skepticism from some regarding the complexity of the previous model, which featured many hydraulic hoses. The key change discussed is the drastic reduction in the number of hydraulic hoses, from approximately 14-16 down to just 7, and how they are now neatly routed and protected behind the moldboard.

Goal: Understand the simplification of the hydraulic system and hose reduction.

Tools and materials

  • New Snow Power Plow Snow Power — Demonstrating the new hydraulic system
  • Older Snow Power Plow Snow Power — For visual comparison of the hydraulic systems

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let's just go through this you said you spent off camera over a half a million dollars just in research and development trying to perfect this plow and what you've done is completely night and day almost different except for the mboards right we spent a lot of time I did more than 15 uh beta test plows and we had a lot of curbs buil but as we were building them we would take that plow and change it and beat it up and to where it was no use anymore and we built another one and kept on going and it it was over 8 months and it delayed for this winter so a lot of guys were questioning like I'm just going to go through like when guys first seen this they looked at it and said that's a lot to break and now over here everything has been cleaned up you actually went from it looks like I'm just guessing somewhere around 14 15 16 hoses on this unit down to seven down to seven down to seven okay and then the way we we captured them I just didn't want it to fail and people were looking at it saying I can't even keep up with the hoses I wouldn't even know what's wrong on which hose and I just went through the drawing door there was like 10 different things that were must have and that's what I did this cylinder went uh we flipped it from being this way to that way that brought the hose up there's the old and the hose is right next to the ground so now the hose is protected behind Okay this cylinder here used to be up here and we had ribs up

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