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Clear Sidewalks First

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When you let a Snowplowing Noob in the seat of the Truck

What happens here

The first and most crucial step in plowing a parking lot is to clear the sidewalks and any pedestrian pathways first. This prevents snow from being pushed back onto newly cleared sidewalks by the plow truck. The presenter emphasizes that if sidewalks are not cleared initially, shovellers will inevitably push snow back into the plowed areas, creating more work. When clearing, use a snow shovel to remove snow from the sidewalks and move it away from the main plowing area.

Goal: Clear all sidewalks and pedestrian pathways before plowing the main parking lot.

Tools and materials

  • Snow Shovel — Manually clearing snow from sidewalks and tight areas

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you see Andy doing right now is the very first thing that has to be done whenever we come into a parking lot and that is clear the sidewalks first then we can move on to do the rest of the snow plowing. If you don't clear the sidewalks first, you'll you'll plow the entire lot and then the shovelers will come through and they inevitably toss the snow into your clean lot, leaving you another mess to come through. What'll happen is that rivlet almost inevitably is going to do one of two things. It's going to go back up onto the sidewalk you just cleared or it's going to go into the lot. So instead of shoveling that out, what you've got to do is we got to take the truck and we've got to come right in tight to that and kind of go by feel nice and slow. I mean, you can hand shovel it, Andy, but the best way to do it is if you've got 1,000 ft of curbs and sidewalks on a site is to use the truck and to feel that edge. You don't want to slam into it. You just want to go into it and you want to just kind of hover real close to that. Then you may have to do a little bit of hand touchup at the end of it. But that's going to be the best way to do it. First time plowing with the truck. Let's see how he does. [Music] So if he does if he comes up the hill like that, he's going to push snow right into the sidewalk. He's trying to figure out that western plow controller. No, I'm not coming down there. Isn't that controller simple enough? You can just intuitively figure it out. Said with no sarcasm at all. There we go. Hey, just pretend it's an Xbox. Yeah, I don't play video games. He's actually a hunter. What's wrong? I can't get it to go left. It's cuz you're hitting the curb

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