Snowplowing in a new loader 4K

good morning one and all how are you today we are getting started finally Mother Nature's taking a crap on us it's letting us finally get some snow plowing in got to check the oil Jake we got Jake here we've got uh we're going to fire up the Sledge we're going to fire up all these loaders and we're going to get uh get going start he's running the glow plugs a few times it's not she wants to go she's trying nice the mecalac I want to try out that baby I'm going to put Craig in the Cabot let's go meet Craig hey Craig how are you what's up dude nice to meet you nice to meet you too so um I'm You' seen the site before yeah like like three three weeks ago okay yeah yeah cool um we'll take I'll take you around we'll fire up the equipment and we'll uh here's the keys to yours okay is there a a password or a you we got to check the oil first Craig so we'll check that oil all right guys I am going to uh get started we with Craig we'll be back here in a [Music] moment [Music] he [Music] oh [Music] all right guys first snow event of the year and first time running this loader so I legitimately have never plowed in this thing the only thing I've done with it is uh pull it off from a trailer and park it so we're all going to have some fun to go along for a ride together we got a brand new guy Craig came in he's already whipping around in that cabota svl 97-2 love that machine that cabota was uh definitely a uh surprise machine to me how well that thing does [Music] you can smell the newness in here smell do this pilot controls so the mecalac has uh for you guys that may or may not know mecalac has what's called pilot controls which PS the controls forward backward right on the joystick and I'll tell you H if you're going to order a machine order one with pilot controls so nice everything is handled right down here with my little nose pickers I don't have to shift oh I know it sounds a little diva-ish not having to shift reach up and shift but when you're plowing for 14 18 20 hours straight it does add up after a bit right but this is more of a practice run to be straightforward with you guys this isn't really a much of a snowstorm we've got a few inches here a few inches there and trying out these new Teflon blades too they're not technically tefla and there's some kind of a a it's a poly blade on my arctic boy she scrapes really good scrapes every bit as good as the steel at this point uh I want to try to find the the lights [Music] though in the cab yeah I can smell the what are these lights oh jeez more lights and more lights there's lights everywhere what the heck is that rear there pretty obvious I'm learning the ins and outs right so this meac uh loader for you guys that don't know has two speeds slow and fast and it has a diff lock on slow but not on fast when you're in fast mode you're not allowed to uh lock her out which is great cuz if I want to put an operator in here right there I just diff loock her out if I want to put an operator in here um I don't have to worry about a tearing up a piece of equipment in high [Music] gear funny story and true story I had an operator he was a good guy but man just some of the things that make you go hm right he uh was plowing in my Kabota r530 and uh smashes into a ATM and tears it apart just tore it to Pieces rip the door door right off from it the whole 9 yards and while I'm standing there looking at this uh ATM machine that I now have to fix that I didn't have to fix before but I now have to fix you know operators mistakes happened I wasn't mad he goes man Stan I'm getting really a good hang of this machine I'm plowing in rabbit gear in it I'm like you know maybe you should not be plowing in rabbit Gear with this thing windows are a little foggy got some snow there Jake left us a nice little pile to hog out the windows are finally starting to Tha out machine's warming up let clean this out o rabbit here is just a touch of a button away I like it I'm in rabbit gear right now feels good doesn't feel too fast wonder how that'll be going down the road though wonder if I'll want it to be even a little w oh