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Introduction and Initial Plow Overview

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Metalpless VS Arctic! Head to head snowplowing SHOWDOWN 4 k video

What happens here

The video opens by introducing two operators, Hunter and Tim, who will be demonstrating and comparing two different professional snow pushers. Hunter operates a Metal Pless plow attached to a Ram 4500 truck, while Tim operates an Arctic Sectional Sno-Pusher attached to an ASV RT-75 skid steer. The initial segment features Hunter describing the Metal Pless plow's capabilities and how it integrates with the skid steer's controls, emphasizing its ease of use without extra wiring or joysticks.

Goal: Introduce operators and compare initial features of the snow pushers.

Tools and materials

  • Arctic Sectional Sno-Pusher Arctic — Snow removal, featuring a segmented blade and adjustable wings
  • ASV RT-75 Skid Steer Loader ASV — Compact track loader to operate the Arctic plow
  • Cat 257D Skid Steer Loader CAT — Compact track loader to operate the Metal Pless plow
  • Metal Pless Sno-Plow Metal Pless — Snow removal, capable of wing adjustments
  • Ram 4500 Truck with Plow Ram — Heavy-duty truck used for plowing

What they say

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all right guys this is hunter how you doing hunter meet you he owns max excavating right and you've been running metal plus for how long that's my first year how do you like it I'm really impressed super impressed so on the phone max was telling me he could smoke to loader that's what he said just get to skin loaders that first it's a cage but we'll see what [Music] with a piece in my ambush shot as I walk to the water for a last goodbye - right so he said when he healed on the keys or over our head I lived in that grit but now he'll learn at the end with the tables turn forgive me sing me [Music] Tony try to find [Applause] [Music] all right so let me ask you something how do you wire this into the the loader I mean how do you actually hook it up so you can control the wings same pin system that the snow claw right yup and then two hydraulic hoses yup and then everything else so joysticks do you have a separate joystick to run a metal foot so whatever the machine actually has can do it Oh see now I've seen other loaders and talked to other people that have said the opposite that they had to actually wire yeah so they had basically marry their order to their to their metal plus because they can't switch between them because of the 13th instance any so you can switch from any 13 bit set up right so let's talk about the tale of the tape yours goes from what's your name 13 8 to 13 on the metal plus we're locked in at 13 on the a on the Arctic okay you got a 74 horsepower skid you're 257 D cat 257 D which actually runs the Arctic or the ASVs track system so we pulled out we made sure we're gonna make this about as close as we possibly can our ASV is got 74 horsepower as well so really the main difference between these two setups well

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