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Initial Plowing Operations and Equipment Performance Assessment

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Snowmageddon!

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What happens here

Zakk provides a nighttime overview of the snow-covered lot, highlighting the challenging conditions: wet, heavy snow that offers 'zero traction' and makes driving difficult. He notes the Kubota loader's poor performance in these conditions due to lack of traction. He then shows the larger, yellow Solis loader with Arctic Sectional Sno-Pusher attachment which performs better due to its studded tires and specialized plowing features. He mentions having to use the Kubota to pull the Solis when it got stuck, stressing the need for better equipment for these conditions.

Goal: Evaluate snow conditions and the performance of various loaders and attachments.

Tools and materials

  • Arctic Sectional Sno-Pusher Arctic — Plowing heavy snow efficiently
  • Kubota R530 Loader Kubota — Plowing, but struggles with traction in heavy snow
  • Nokian Hakkapeliitta Tires Nokian — Provide superior traction on snow and ice for the Solis loader
  • Solis Loader Solis — Plowing, performs well with studded tires

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[Music] all right good evening good morning everybody or whatever you want to call it I don't know this picks me up or not but we're back out for technically pretty much snow mageddon I wish I wasn't kidding but it's like I don't know 4 to8 depending on where it is is for snow and it's that wet heavy slush on the bottom so it's like going to be zero traction for anything and it is not going to be a fun day cuz we got to get this school opened up and everything and we got get everything done before 7 and in the end uh yeah we're on a time crunch we got to get all these schools done I'll film what I can but I'm only one person stand is way down in wherever uh at a truck show oh so we're down his his filming capability yeah so I'll get what I can but we we got to get all this stuff cleared and it's wet heavy it's not fluff so hopefully the Sledge is not is going to push through a lot of this CU with the nice tires on it mine doesn't have the greatest tires but it does have the low range me the skid I don't think we're even going to fire up cuz it's ice skating rink on just normal snow so those dirt dirt tracks absolutely suck you going to get no traction we're going to make less progress I'm just waiting for the guys to get in here I got the Sledge fired up got the quota fired up oh Sam's on his way with the truck okay my truck's right there but it loader is more productive than my truck but I think we got another guy coming in to uh W drive that it it here shortly so then he'll be helping us plow as well but yeah that's what we're going to get done hopefully the Sledge is good and cuz we we we've had a slew of stuff not working almost every other every other snowfall something's not working because the Caboda hasn't been working pretty much cuz it just does not like the cold does not like anything for some reason and it doesn't have snow tracks on it so it gets no traction whatsoever even on flat ground and then and so the loaders have been basically doing it and then the Sledge outperformed everything last snowfall but that was also light and fluffy yeah but yeah no I'm just waiting for all the guys to get here here and then we're going to start or I might just start pushing here and get this cleaned up so all right enough for me talking enough of probably not you guys probably can't see me we're going to go start working if you're in the market for a skid loader for snow plowing do not buy the cabota svl75 D2 don't just don't I would buy the K cabota 97-…

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