Understand Drainage Patterns

issues down the road. So, we just want to get it contained as close to where it's going to melt as possible. Does that make sense to you? Makes sense. Plowing in a truck is definitely different than plowing in a skid loader. Yep. With a skid loader, you have the ability to go down, back, down, back, down, back, and move snow the fastest, most efficient way. With a plow truck, you're best off just pushing one way or another way. Make sure that you think about that before you start to lay out the pattern. Now, the first time you plow in any piece of equipment is going to be the worst time, isn't it? Oh, yes. Second time is going to be the second worst time, and so on and so forth. About the fourth or fifth time that you've gone through a lot, get it down, you get it down, but don't expect to get it down before that. Now, here's something else that should be done before the season actually kicks in. If you know you're going to be plowing a certain parking lot and you haven't plowed it before, I'm going to recommend you take orange flags. You can see one over there. That's an orange flag. And mark all of your obstructions. The reason I say that is if your first snow plow of the season happens to be a really big one, you know what I mean? Run into a curb or an island. Yes. And you get like this massive 8 in snow plow, you're not going to see anything below the snow. And I have seen guys tear trucks apart. Another killer. I call them man killers or man holes. Those are the worst. And if you are familiar with the manholes on your lot, point it out to the new guys. If you're not familiar with the manholes on the lot, make sure that you look at them and look for any ridge ridges, anything that could catch the edge of a bucket. The difference is a snow plow. Truck has what's called a trip edge. Okay, that trip edge, as long as the obstruction isn't too big, is designed to save the plow. the operator. I still cracked my head on the steering wheel more than once. But 33 years of snowplowing, you do it once or twice. That's not bad. But but a skid loader has zero trip edge. Skid loader has zero tolerance. I've seen guys come out with big eggs on the top of their forehead cuz they're plowing in second gear. That's another thing we've got to talk about. If you have a two-speed skid loader, what speed do you plow in? Plow in first. Unless you're doing light loads, then you can do the rabbit. Well, you plow in first. Yeah. You travel in second. You plow in first. Okay.…