Ventrac Review pt2 "HOW NOT TO TEST A TRACTOR ?!?" because Franky is STILL Nuts PT.2

It's American quality, you guys. It's Americanmade. And honestly, I mean, we deal with a lot of companies, but the Venture people, they're family. They're just great people to do. They really are. I mean, we're not being sponsored to do this, and this is going to sound really hokey. This is what America's was built out. Yeah. When you say American quality, this is it. Like, not Ford in the '90s, American quality. You know, that sucks. But, you know what I'm saying? Now, it's like this is American quality, dude. It's just it's what everybody else wants to copy. And just And here's the testament, too. Like I hate getting salt all over mine, right? I always get salt all over it. I've had salt on it for 2 years and it's not rusting. That's how good the powder coating is. Making it. Keep going. What are you waiting for? What? Keep going. What are you waiting for? [Music] You know, I probably shouldn't encourage him on things like this. We are making a video called Frankie is freaking nuts. There he goes on the bench track. The snow is way dude. He's not even spinning now. What the heck? Look at him. That's crazy. [Music] Can't believe he's actually making headway. Does a better job in the grass than in the snow. I can't believe you actually went through that like it was nothing once you hit the grass. Yeah, about that little taxi. Let's make some pass through here. Okay, that way I can walk the box. You want me to drive you down the center? Around and in, in and out. Who cares? Well, I have to turn around here cuz they're too close to 2 ft of snow here. So, I'll turn around here and I'll go down the center. All right. Hey, make one. Hey, Frankie, can you make one around the outside, too? Yep. Tim, open and close that door. Tell me how heavy that is. Holy cow. Open it up. That's heavy duty, isn't it? I've never known Ventrak to not make something totally heavy duty. It's got You actually Tell me about the heat system. So, basically, when you're going to install the cab, it's going to come down, sit on here. We won't totally go into that, but what you're going to do is you're going to tap into your antifreeze lines right here. And you get caps with the the cab itself. So, in the summer, you just cap them there. In the winter, you're going to hook those up. It's going to run the lines through here to your heating system. You got three vents up the front. You got a fourth vent by your head. And then you also have the ability to reverse the fan on your hydraulic cooler, which is right by the joystick and right by your hip. You can reverse the fan and get your hydraulics uh the heat from your hydraulics flowing also right by your hands. So you have a you have two sources of heat. [Laughter] [Applause] vent track you guys is controlled just by one leather here. It's called the SDLA, right? Everything's here. Only issue is is when you're backing up and you're trying to use these two, it's gets a little hairy. So, they have a kit that just goes on the floor that you you can use that or the pedal just like forward and back like hydrostatic. Yeah. So, a foot controlled hydrostatic. Yeah. And it's inexpensive. I talked to him at the show. He's like, "Oh, it's it's inexpensive. Just get it and put it on your stuff." I'm like, "Oh, all right." He's going to go right through the middle of all that. I'm going to go back over the same way and then come from that way over. Wherever you want to do I just can't believe he's doing it. He is nuts. I like him. Yeah, I really do like the way they build these. I mean, plus mine has the coolest headlights. Stanley, look at it. You know, that makes it more modern. What? I think so. Guys, I remember the first time I seen a Ventrak. Honestly, I thought this is the ugliest machine I think I've ever seen. The design kind of grows on you when you start to appreciate the quality. That's the difference. And I was thinking the other day, you know what would be cool about this? And I don't know, you tell me, Stanley, what if they did away with the steering wheel and you just push these to turn it? Have you ever thought about that? Then you'd have no steering wheel. So, you push, you know, this way to go left and this way to go, you know. I don't know what. Oh, maybe I had too much trick last night. We're going to call this Deep Thoughts by Dan. Deep Thoughts? Well, I don't know. I mean, I just I see things that are cool, you know. Um, and I Does yours have the lights on it? Uh-uh. Okay. So, I added the lights to it. Um, lights are cool. I just like lights and I'm geeky like that, but I probably wouldn't put these on for my mowing needs because around trees I hit trees a lot. Yes. A lot of guys when they have that bar, which they unfortunately shouldn't do, but they pull it down. Yeah. No, I would never do that just in case it rolled or disable the safety switch. But I mean, this is for you with the DY wheels if you're out on the side of Florida highway or something. These out give the tractor tractor a bigger appearance. Can you flip that down? Show me what you mean. Yeah, they come out. So, you have a wider stance. It's kind of safer. Yeah. And plus the cool thing is is though when I do hit a tree, they bend. So I haven't broke any yet. Thank god. Oh, okay. So it'll bend backwards when you hit a tree. Yeah. Yeah. That's See, it's I don't Man, stuff like that is really impressive. Yeah. I mean, that's a huge aftermarket option. You know, this thing's pretty loaded. It's got a lot. But that looks like that must be a ventra. Ventra. It is a ventra. And the cool thing about it is is there's no wire cutting. And the vent track, I don't know if you've looked underneath, everything in the vent track is automotive style connectors with the uh gaskets. So, when I got these, it was just like, "Hey, just put this, route this through, and then right underneath the seat was a click, click, click, done, and it just hooked up to the switches on the dash." That's that easy. That easy, man. Yeah. Yeah. I'm definitely catching the video pranking. [Music] I had my gou for a minute at the beginning. Well, you won the bat. [Applause] [Music] I'm I No, I did not think it would do. Literally, I was betting against the Ventra. Yeah, so cool. And I got a slope gauge. You got a slope gauge on yours? All right, guys. So, a slope gauge is actually a readout that's right on the dash of the piece of equipment. And what it does is it tells you what angle your piece of equipment is at so you don't tip over and fall out. So, if you hit 45°, I got a slope gauge in my butt, Dan. Yeah, we don't have slope gauges in our equipment. We just know that when our butt cheeks clamp onto the seat beneath it, we're probably too steep. Like I said, Dan loves his vent track. Dude, I do. It's one of my favorite things ever, man. It's just the coolest tractor. The only thing, like I said, I always tell people, the only thing you're missing with a Ventra is the high-end loader, right? They do have a high-end loader. It's kind of pricey, but if you really need that, you can put it on. But I think all the other advantages take away that disadvantage. And honestly, how often do you really you know, me personally, I don't use that loader going? I'd use it all the time, but I use it for like I like lifting things, right? All right, guys. So, I actually didn't know that Ventre made a high-end loader. So, I did a little bit of research and I found this clip. Now, the guy voice kind of reminds me of being back in high school. It's either going to put you to sleep or in some kind of a weird hypnotic trance, but the video itself is actually pretty cool. Versatility has a new name. The Ventrak Versa Loader is one attachment capable of performing seven different tasks. Like traditional loaders, the Versa Loader offers you a standard 5 cubic foot bucket capable of lifting 500 lb over 6 ft high. The versatile design allows you to disconnect and get attached to six other optional attachments in minutes without tools or heavy lifting. Choose from tine forks, pallet forks, a 9 cubic foot mulch bucket, a boom lift, or even a hydraulic driven post hole digger or tree augur. It' be cool to like just have on if you had the high-end loader with your dump trailer. That would be perfect for you for loading. Yeah, but with the dump trailer, I ended up just driving up the ramps and dumping in. Oh, dumping inside. Yeah. And I mean, I get what you're saying. It's probably more efficient with a dump loader. But that's why this is not a conventional tractor, though. So, here's some of the stuff I've been able to do with the Ventre out on my job sites. It's got a grading attachment that is phenomenal. Those eight wheels help the machine float over the ground and then that grading bar on the front of it lets you get a finished grade better than any piece of heavy equipment I've ran out on my job sites. So yes, I've used the same attachment on skid loaders. This is better. Now he's going to reverse the blades. He's going to reverse the tiller and go forward. You can power rake in forward or reverse. for prepping for sod. This is the bee's knees. That thing just did [Music] hour and a half's worth worth of work in maybe 5 minutes. Not even 5 minutes. It's on my on my my counter on the video camera. It's 2 minutes and 36 seconds. Yeah, that's a awesome machine. Utensil utensil. Toy, whatever you want to call it. Toy. Yeah. Now, Ventrak has a lot of different attachments that run off a combination of pulleys, hydraulics, or both. Now, the first time I seen these pulleys, I'll be quite honest with you guys, I was like, "What is this thing from the 1920s or something?" I really had my doubts and my reservations and then I actually started to use the attachments that were ran off from the pulleys and I really started to like it because anytime you start to overtax the attachment, it gives you instant feedback. It'll it'll stop. You can hear the pulley. You can start to get the feel for it and you can go, "All right, I know what the limits of this attachment are." In all honesty, I absolutely love the pulley system that they have with this Ventrak unit. It's much better than I ever thought it would be. The quality of the Ventrak attachments is also amazing. If you are going to I don't even know if they make aftermarket attachments for Ventrak. If they do that aren't made by Ventrak, I don't know anything about them. I do know that the Ventrak attachments themselves are every bit as good as the machine. So, if you're looking at getting attachments, make sure that you get Ventrak attachments because they are just good. Just plain and simply, they're good. ventra.com. You guys check it out. Great people. Call over there if you have questions. Call your local dealer. Everybody asks us about price. They range anywhere from the low teens for a basic tractor all the way up. up and then you can get your accessories. But what you're buying is quality accessories. Yeah, they do make good stuff. Plain and simple. Ventre makes quality, very good tools. Yeah, it's going to suck when they come out with a new 4500. I might be I might be broke for a while. We're going to have tractor envy. I know. Oh man, this old tractor. You know, we're both going to be calling up vent track. God, we got the old model. How are those new ones? have to check those things out, you know. Yeah, I absolutely love it. Well, thanks, Dan. Hey, and if you guys don't know yet, Tools in Action, go check out Dan. Check out Eric. Eric's not here right now, but check these guys out. I love these guys. Uh, thanks for letting me crash. In fact, I went to Michigan and I was coming back. It was midnight and I'm like, I'm so tired. Dan, can I sleep at your house? Yeah, come on in. Hang out. You can always crash. He locked his door. I couldn't get in there in the middle of the day. I don't know why, but you're always welcome. We love the dirt monkey dirt monkey university. I'm actually going to start going to Dirt Monkey University soon. Nice. I'm thinking I got to get into that school mode, you know, cuz I want to start learning. Yeah. Check out Tools in Action, guys. Make sure you go over to Tools in Action. Check them out. They're my buds. Great people. Fun reviews. You guys check them out.