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Repair Twisted Snow Plow Spreader

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Snowplowing Wet concrete snow

What happens here

A significant mechanical issue arises with a snow plow spreader: its frame is twisted, preventing proper attachment to the pickup truck. This necessitates a collaborative effort involving several crew members and a backhoe to physically lift and manipulate the heavy spreader into alignment. The difficulty in aligning the 'four bolts' highlights a lack of proper equipment inspection or maintenance that would have identified the twisted frame before the operation. Manufacturer manuals would provide detailed inspection points for plow frames and attachment mechanisms.

Goal: The team discovers that the snow plow spreader's frame is twisted and won't properly attach to the truck, requiring multiple people and a backhoe for an improvised repair and re-attachment.

Tools and materials

  • Hand tools
  • Pickup Truck (Ram) Ram
  • Snow Plow Spreader (Michigan) Michigan

What they say

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a safe place for it i gotta find a pine tree to hide it under okay so on a normal night snow plow night um two days before we're scheduled to go out i have all the equipment moved out to the site prepped and ready to go as if we're gonna plow that evening okay don't tell them not to move don't move because your collar's got the hole in it that's got to line up with this shaft this was a cluster here i to the frame is slightly twisted imagine that from hitting stuff too hard but what i was saying is two days before an event i have everything ready to go as if we're plowing that night then the day of the event before we go out all right everybody and it won't go up high enough to get into the back of the truck so let's get creative it's like from inside here once that's what i should see that mother nature gave us an ice storm so let's uh let's do the best we can all right zach i'm gonna try to lift that thing up just enough that i can back it up all right actually let's chain it up let's get a chain okay paint the picture the trail that plows all the way up but the truck is much higher than the plow so we're gonna lift it up with the tlb and then try to get it all hooked up with the twisted frame and all and this was this was not the bad part of the night i gotta get four bolts lined right up so this is what we got going on i think we gotta get this in there we gotta get that pin lined up and then that's gotta go that's got to go in there but she's iced up in there i'm going to guess right i would assume yeah all right even my plug is iced up what do you got i mean it froze solid driver screwdriver okay well all right that should i can test it to see that should be it zach that should be it i should be able to lower it other way it's hung up on that trailer hitch

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