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Plow with 'Feel' Along Edges

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

What happens here

When plowing alongside curbs, objects, or grass, it is crucial to 'feel' the edge with the plow blade. This means approaching slowly and carefully, allowing the blade to gently touch the edge without slamming into it. The video demonstrates this technique, showing the blade subtly engaging the curb. This method helps avoid damaging the curb, grass, or sprinkler heads and minimizes the amount of snow that might spill back onto the cleared area. While a little hand touch-up might be needed afterward, it's more efficient than damaging property or having to re-plow large sections.

Goal: Efficiently plow alongside curbs and objects without causing damage.

Tools and materials

  • Snow Plow Truck Western — Plowing along curbs and edges

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It's cuz you're hitting the curb now. Do it. Yeah, that's it. You're fully extended. That's it. It's all you got. Some people's children. Oh, let's see you plow. Got to feel that curb. Don't look at me. Don't look at me. All right. All right. In Andy's defense, he's not used to being on camera. And I've seen people get really nervous for some reason when you stick one of these in their face. All right. You didn't notice, I get really nervous. And not to mention in front of cameras. Now, a lot of times we're going to come into a site and we're not going to have a wide open parking lot like we have over here. We're going to have a parking lot that the engineers have put all of these little islands and things like that in it. And you know why the engineers put those islands in, Andy? Annoy us. Absolutely. Because don't have to plow the snow around. So, as we plow a a parking lot, the more we plow it, the better we get at it. And we always want to figure out where the drainage patterns are on a parking lot because inevitably snow is going to do what? Nope. And if we pile snow over the openings to the storm sewer inlets, water's going to get out. The water's going to go right into the parking lot and create an icy mess. The drainage pattern for this parking lot was actually altered by us because this parking lot had almost a foot of sheet ice every time it would melt because the existing drainage pattern was won right over here. Remember that building that was there? Did you see the building that was there? No. Okay. We literally just tore a building down on this site because the building was there and this entire parking lot drains straight through here when we're plowing. As we're plowing, we're trying to wing it this way, but you always get that mess that comes back on top of it. See? There you go. If you missed it, he had his blade up on the grass, which means that we would have been replacing sod or sprinkler heads. Hey, slow down. Slow down. Tighten it up. Tighten it up and go by feel. There you go. It's not a race. Even with a little bit of snow. Perfect. Now, next round, come through and be it and collect it. Even with the little bit of snow that we're plowing today, you can still see how it pushes it up onto the sidewalk. When you're plowing edges of sidewalks, curb lines, things like that, it's not a race. It's absolutely, you go slow, very slow, so you can feel that blade just touching that curb line and you'll feel it. It's like it's almost…

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