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Prepare Equipment at North High Location

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What happens here

The video transitions to 'one week later' at the first maintenance location. Zakk explains that prior extremely cold temperatures (negative 10-15 degrees Fahrenheit during the day and negative 30-50 degrees Fahrenheit at night) prevented earlier maintenance due to issues like jelled-up diesel fuel and stiff grease. Now that the weather is warmer (around 40 degrees Fahrenheit), Zakk begins preparing the heavy equipment for maintenance, starting with warming up the engines of the Kubota R530 compact loader, another Kubota skid steer, and the SDLG L918F wheel loader. He notes that the Kubota loader and skid steer were running fine from the previous snowstorm but require fueling and greasing.

Goal: Warm up and prepare heavy equipment for fueling and greasing due to improved weather conditions.

Tools and materials

  • Ford F-Series Pickup Truck Ford — Transporting the crew and fuel to the job site
  • Kubota R530 Compact Loader Kubota — One of the heavy machines to be maintained
  • SDLG L918F Wheel Loader SDLG — Another heavy machine to be maintained

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along and show you what we do as we do it all right good morning everybody it's now a week later from when we last were here but that's cuz last week it was negative at least 10 15° during the day and at night it was negative like like 30 50° I'm going to take stand truck here we're going to go grease and fuel up all the equipment cuz it was it was just too extremely cold and we're running into we'd have gelled up Fuel and whatnot and just grease don't want to move and that it's like yeah no it's just whole big thing but now we're going to go do it now that it's warm I'm going to take you guys along and go from there so thumbs up all right everybody we made up here to North High had to stop and get some grease got that fired up got the Kota fired up got the Sledge fired up letting them warm up bit even though it's like 40° out hoping this one runs right it didn't want to run the last time on the last snowstorm when it ran just by the snowstorm fryer so I don't know what his deal is hopefully it's something or just might have just jelled up which I don't know how we had diesel treatment everything hang but this ran and that ran so this has got like half a tank on it that one's got 3/4 of a tank so fill them up grease them up get them ready for the next snowstorm or just get them ready to sit for the Year this is a we can get something in March but otherwise usually by April we're starting to pull stuff off so we got another month to go but I don't see us the forecast gas

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