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S3-120: All About Green, Westfield NJ
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The guys welcome Brian Zuravnsky, owner of All About Green to the show to hear how they run their snow operations in northern New Jersey.
Music Credits: Rev Theory
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Introduction and Weather Challenges
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Here we go, Snow Jibs Nation, back again, bringing you episode 120 of the Snow Jibs Podcast main show, powered by Top Gun Backblades. As always, I'm Steve.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
You know who my partner is.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Jeremy Lindstrom, Glacier Snow Management in the house. What is up, Jay?
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RICK JAMES
Hey, Steve-O, not a lot.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
How are we doing?
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RICK JAMES
Just another boring week here in Farber, North Dakota.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, no God's juice.
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RICK JAMES
I did a little bit this week, not a lot. We had rain coming, so I didn't spray the last couple days of the week. but but I probably could have least one more day, but I didn't. so
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Rain is bad for dust control.
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RICK JAMES
This next week, no, it's actually good. but They were talking like the weather, man.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
The weathermen, they don't like to be called that.
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RICK JAMES
The weather, man.
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RICK JAMES
Well, they're still screwing me even in the off season. They're telling me we're in your inch to inch and a half and you end up getting maybe a half inch. So, which is fine for dust control.
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RICK JAMES
It's actually like someone was little bit wet to spray, but they're talking about much rain. I didn't, I kind of held off. So my fault for actually listening to the weatherman again. So I'll never, I'll never learn my lesson apparently.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Foiled again by the weatherman.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, the doctors are getting you. Oh, my gosh.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah, I got to give him a 12 month meeting, I guess. So why not?
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The SnowJobs Podcast
That's it. What else is going on?
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RICK JAMES
So no, just doing that.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Anything?
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RICK JAMES
And we're still going through equipment, you know, going through everything, taking the mats out and painting everything and all the good stuff. We go through all the equipment all season and looking at some new accounts and stuff like that.
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RICK JAMES
How about you? What's happening on out east?
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The SnowJobs Podcast
A lot of rain. lot of rain. like Like, I'm talking a lot of rain. i think were ah We had like four and a half, five inches and in a week, so it's it's been but a very rainy start to spring here, or late spring, whatever they want to call it.
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RICK JAMES
Wow.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, it's, ah you know, moving along, moving along. Going to get some...
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RICK JAMES
Yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Get some sod put down this week and hopefully get the, like you said, get the rest of the machines tuned up, ready for next year for the winter. Put away, put to bed because we, what's that?
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RICK JAMES
Yeah. Get them all home? Are they all home and food filmed and ready to
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Everything's home. Yeah, everything's home. Everything's home. ah Everything is washed. Not everything has been filmed for the ah the big put away, but that is on the schedule for this week, depending on who wants to come in and
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RICK JAMES
and Oh, is that...
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The SnowJobs Podcast
and do it And it's kind of a laid back week because we are going into Memorial Day weekend this week. So guys get the hangover, I think, right?
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RICK JAMES
don't even know. I don't even keep track of anything.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, I think this coming weekend, I think next weekend is Memorial Day weekend, if I'm not mistaken. But I'm at least i'm I'm playing it like it's Memorial Day weekend.
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RICK JAMES
Not going to lie, once the...
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The SnowJobs Podcast
So if it's not, fuck them.
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RICK JAMES
Not going to lie, what's once the winter is over, I just kind of ah let her slide. I don't hardly watch the weather. I don't hardly do... you know i just do my thing and hopefully I get it all done.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Amen, brother. Amen. Oh, so what do we got today?
Meet Brian Zoravinsky from All About Green
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The SnowJobs Podcast
We're going to the great state of New Jersey. I use that term loosely.
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RICK JAMES
The Jersey.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Great state of New Jersey. But ah yes, we are in Jersey.
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RICK JAMES
mean, you know, that was a state. That's a real state.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
It is a real state. it's I mean, listen, it can't be any worse than New York.
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RICK JAMES
That was just part of New York.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
it's I don't know if it's a um know it's better, but it can't be any worse. That's for sure. But the armpit of America, our guest says.
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RICK JAMES
Armpit of America. Native America.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
ah but ah But we do. Today we are talking to Brian Zoravinsky of All About Green. They're out of Westfield, New Jersey. ah He is friends with a ah ah longtime, you know, big part of the show, Mr. Sean DiVincenzo of ah Native, what's Native Snow, New Jersey?
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RICK JAMES
and no
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RICK JAMES
mitten native america
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, if you don't know Sean, you'll recognize that.
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RICK JAMES
shit obviously say yeah know You should really just put that in my ma, the checkbook.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
that's Hey, ma, the checkbook.
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RICK JAMES
The checkbook.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
I want it now.
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RICK JAMES
Just sign i i'll fill in the I'll fill in the number.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
but ah we love Shawnee. That's it. We love Shawnee, but yeah, we're going to talk to Brian today here about how they do snow down in Jersey, dirty Jersey.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
And, uh, yeah, they got an interesting, uh, interesting layout down there.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah,
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The SnowJobs Podcast
So looking forward to hearing from him, huh?
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RICK JAMES
yeah I actually made the jersey this year, this last week.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
You were in Jersey. Yeah.
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RICK JAMES
i wasn't, I wasn't, yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Jeremy pushed snow in Jersey.
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RICK JAMES
I'm a, I'm a native New Jersey guy now, apparently.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
What were your thoughts on pushing in Jersey?
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RICK JAMES
Well, I don't know. I know if I can, it was, it was, fuck it was white snow that came down and we pushed it, so.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
After I got you out of the Bates Motel and into a Ramada. Oh,
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RICK JAMES
Yeah, yeah, we weren't, we weren't staying there. no. no We were not, we'd, we'd read me and, uh, Arctic Steve drove through. We're like, nope, nope.
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RICK JAMES
we went to the next one and we, the lady, then she goes, oh yeah, you don't want to stay there. You don't want to stay there.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
free serial killer with every room
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RICK JAMES
I'm like, yeah, we, yeah, we're like, ah, that's a good, good, good, good choice.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
but
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The SnowJobs Podcast
they already had holes drilled in the door my god ah but yeah that was uh yeah it was uh was it wet heavy concrete what did you get out there when you were pushing in jersey
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RICK JAMES
So.
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RICK JAMES
Shit. Yeah.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah.
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RICK JAMES
I mean, it was kind of wet, but it was – we didn't – it wasn't – I don't think it was as concrete as everybody talks about. it It was wet, but wasn't that heavy, and we didn't get a ton. But was it was fun. I'll do it again.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
All right. Well, you might have to.
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RICK JAMES
problem. I will.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Part of the A-team, right?
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RICK JAMES
Yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Might have to.
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RICK JAMES
I am the A-team.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
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RICK JAMES
I'm the capillary.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
All right. Well, so let's hear. ah We're going to hear from Team Top Gun. We're going to come back. We'll do a quick week in review as always, and then we'll get on with the show. All right. We'll we'll hear from our guest today.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
So we'll be right back.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
We are back. All right. So we can review the big news. I guess this week is Friday. This Friday, May 23rd, 8 p.m. Eastern, episode two of Storm Chasing with the Snow Jobs will go live on YouTube.
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RICK JAMES
two
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RICK JAMES
Yes. Tune in. Watch UD Maintenance. Kyle Martin and his crew.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
UD. UD Maintenance.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah. Watch Kyle Martin and his crew battle the big storm.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Battle of the lock.
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RICK JAMES
was locked in, boys and girls.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
It was lock.
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RICK JAMES
You watch it. it's It is good, though. It's really good. I watched it last night.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
I have not watched yet.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah. It was good.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
I got four minutes in and then life gets in the way.
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RICK JAMES
Really good. So. No, it's
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The SnowJobs Podcast
I'll watch the rest of it tonight.
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RICK JAMES
It's good. I liked it.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Good. Well, like it or not, Friday at 8 p.m., it will be live Eastern time.
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RICK JAMES
Drop and
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The SnowJobs Podcast
That's Eastern. I know all the guys out in the Midwest are going to be on their computers at 7.
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RICK JAMES
it. Central. Central. 7 Central. 86 Central. these six the french
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The SnowJobs Podcast
All right. That's it. So Friday, 8 p.m., Eastern. Tune in, YouTube, on the Storm Chasing channel. All right. Episode 2, UD Maintenance will be there.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
All right. Looking forward to it.
Upcoming Events and Community Engagement
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RICK JAMES
Then we're every week after that till up to Sima will be releasing every Friday. So.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
That's it. So you have that to look forward to. All right. Every week until something. That means it's only what, four, four more weeks after that to Simon.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah. Yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yes. I'm a, yeah.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah. You got it.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Simon is June 17th to the 20th this year, as Jeremy just said,
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RICK JAMES
Should we even say Sima or we just say parties and trade show?
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The SnowJobs Podcast
ah
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RICK JAMES
That's what we're going for.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
The party. Yeah. Looking for it's actually, everybody's only going for the Arctic party.
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RICK JAMES
The party and trade show.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
So I don't even think anybody's going to the show, but I don't even know if I can make the Arctic party.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah. Oh, boy.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
That's going to be an interesting, uh, we're gonna have to figure that one out and see if I can get there. But if I do make it, it would be in Tuesday and then out earliest Thursday morning, if not Wednesday night.
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RICK JAMES
Is that
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RICK JAMES
because of your ankle brace deal you got going on?
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. I can only be out of New York for like 24 hours.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
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RICK JAMES
I didn't.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
No, I got to be dad. I got to, you know family first. I got to do the right thing for the for the little man.
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RICK JAMES
You gotta do that.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
So he got selected to play in a big little hockey tournament.
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RICK JAMES
That's
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The SnowJobs Podcast
So it's going to have to go get him to Boston.
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RICK JAMES
cool.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
So got to do the right thing possibly. So we got to see if I can make it work. But, yeah, 17th to the 20th, Tuesday through Friday. in june is sima uh make sure you uh attend the arctic party for everybody ever all attendees sima are invited to the arctic party on wednesday night all right that's gonna be a great time it's gonna be 6 to 11 i believe they got uh they got everything they got open bar food they got they're giving away a razorback full
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RICK JAMES
Yeah.
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RICK JAMES
We'll be there.
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RICK JAMES
Full kit. Full kit.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Jesus, they are going all out.
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RICK JAMES
Are they doing it that night?
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Huh? They're doing it that night.
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RICK JAMES
Okay.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Spencer said they're giving away a Razorback full kit that night at the party.
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RICK JAMES
I wonder if I'll win. I bet I'll win it. Am I eligible?
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The SnowJobs Podcast
We will never win. We'll never win. We should.
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RICK JAMES
I like to.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
We never win anything.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
We're not allowed like we're ineligible.
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RICK JAMES
Oh, well.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, it's okay. It's all right. But yeah, that that sounds like it's going to be a blast. ah We have a little hand in that party as well. um
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RICK JAMES
Storm is awesome.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
and so I think storm Storm doing a little something too there.
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RICK JAMES
Something in there.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
So that's going to be a great party.
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RICK JAMES
Ooh.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
It's for everybody. ah So make sure you ah make sure you turn out for the party on Wednesday night of Syma. All right. I know it clashes with the couple hours they're going to open the trade show floor.
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RICK JAMES
Ooh.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
ah
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RICK JAMES
Ooh.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. but oh Oh, no.
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RICK JAMES
yeah
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The SnowJobs Podcast
You who I feel bad for, though? I feel bad for all the vendors that are going to miss that party because they have to be on the trade show floor.
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RICK JAMES
I'll just miss the beginning. I'll come after. It's only couple hours and a party goes until 11 or 12, doesn't it?
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The SnowJobs Podcast
What is it? only is Beginning? was it That's it? I don't know. i don't
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RICK JAMES
I don't really. i don't even know the schedule, honestly.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
I don't know either.
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RICK JAMES
but
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The SnowJobs Podcast
I thought it was like, oh, maybe it is only two hours.
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RICK JAMES
I'll be wherever I need to be. Wherever um where you guys tell me to be, I'll be. Just point me the right direction and I'll show up.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
There you go. So yeah, if you're going to Simon, make sure you block off Wednesday night to go to the Arctic party and we'll see you there. Six to 11. What else we got? Jay, anything else we can review?
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RICK JAMES
uh yeah let's let's let's get in here and buy some of those we need to we need you guys start buying some of our apparel be great since i gave a bunch of this awesome well
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. Yeah. sent a bunch of frios out fucker. ah ah ah
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RICK JAMES
promises made promises kept take care the family like
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The SnowJobs Podcast
ah No, it's all good. It's all good. We got to take care of people. Certain people need taken care of. That's good. No, it's all. That's great. So yeah, head over to snow jobs, nation store.com.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Jeremy is fully stocked, ready to meet your orders. All right. He's ready to fill them and ship them. He does get them out same day. It's, it's pretty incredible. He's very diligent with that. Got to tip the cap to him.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
It's a, it's pretty awesome. And then what else? Anything else for the week in review?
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RICK JAMES
had something.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
ah bells A Bell's episode is as as I thought it would be. It's a lot of multiple listens.
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RICK JAMES
yeah
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Like a lot of people saying, did he really say that?
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RICK JAMES
Yeah, that was a good one.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yes, he did.
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RICK JAMES
oh yes. And this week we'll be dropping, i think we're dropping dustings this week, aren't we? but We're going record with Jordan.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
We're going to try.
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RICK JAMES
Is that the
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The SnowJobs Podcast
i mean, we tried to do it last week and somebody canceled last second. So we're going to try and get dustings recorded this week. And we're also going to try and get an Arctic army roll call recorded this week.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah, we got do that too.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
So we will, uh, we should have two additional bonus episodes for you in the holiday weekend. So when you're out there getting annoyed by the wife and kids, you can go in a room and listen. We're going to drive and listen for a little bit.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
We'll give you some additional content on the holiday weekend.
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RICK JAMES
go. Yep.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh my gosh. What else? Anything else? We miss anything?
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RICK JAMES
I think that's it for at the moment there, bud.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
All right. Good enough. All right. So let's hear from our partners real quick and
All About Green's Business Focus
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The SnowJobs Podcast
we'll come back. We'll get into this with Brian.
00:14:38
The SnowJobs Podcast
All right, guys, we're back. So we are back. And, you know, ah dude, we got to specify whenever we have somebody from Jersey on with us that they do not listen or they do not record the show in their attic because Jersey dial up internet is all Sean was pixelated. Every time he's on with us, he gets pixelated and Brian is pixelated now. So if we lose this, it's going to be a problem.
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RICK JAMES
yeah
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The SnowJobs Podcast
ah so but
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RICK JAMES
and
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The SnowJobs Podcast
ah But anyway,
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RICK JAMES
Isn't all the drones flying around? Are they still flying around with the drones?
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The SnowJobs Podcast
It must be the drones. Yeah, it must be all the drones overhead blocking the ah Starlink. ah But let's welcome in Brian Zeravinsky of All About Green.
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RICK JAMES
Hey,
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Brian, how are you, buddy?
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All About Green LLC
What's happening guys?
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RICK JAMES
Bri.
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All About Green LLC
Thank you very much for having me. Appreciate it
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The SnowJobs Podcast
No problem, brother. You've been on once before but never had your own company profile episode, so figured it it was about time we yeah we had to repay the favor there.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:15:27
All About Green LLC
Anytime. I appreciate you guys having me on. And I think we did a recap of where were we? yes
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The SnowJobs Podcast
S and S was an S and S.
00:15:34
All About Green LLC
S and S. Yeah, it was S and S.
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RICK JAMES
S&S, I think it was, yeah?
00:15:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
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All About Green LLC
Yep.
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RICK JAMES
Yep.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
That was a good time.
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All About Green LLC
That was a good time. I'm looking forward to this year or too I think it's going to be great.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Absolutely. I wonder if he's going to, I wonder if he's going to do what we, what we told him, like, don't, don't worry about doing anything.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah, definitely.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Just basically introduce yourself in the morning and then let everybody just break up into their own talk groups and do it. Cause I thought that was awesome.
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All About Green LLC
Oh yeah.
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RICK JAMES
well sort
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Like guys migrated from group to group. It was, it was, just and it just flowed naturally. You didn't have to tell anybody to move on.
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RICK JAMES
It was good.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
I thought it was great.
00:16:03
RICK JAMES
Yeah, I like that. And yeah, we get just got...
00:16:05
All About Green LLC
Yeah, it was awesome. And and like i said, naturally everybody, yeah, everybody just kind of like co-mingled and you went off to another station and talked. It was great.
00:16:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. Eventually everybody found everybody. I think that was there.
00:16:19
RICK JAMES
We just saw you too, Brian, at fat Storks. That was pretty fun to see you there. so so place That nice to catch up.
00:16:22
All About Green LLC
Yeah, Storks was great. it was good to catch up with everybody there too, for sure. Storks is another great event. I mean, I'm an East Coast only guy for the most part.
00:16:28
The SnowJobs Podcast
Fantastic.
00:16:31
All About Green LLC
I tend to only make the events on the East Coast and it is an awesome event and it's getting bigger and bigger and better and better.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yes, sir.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Definitely is. that's Yeah.
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RICK JAMES
Came back to the mo hotel and
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The SnowJobs Podcast
It's nice to have the local events.
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All About Green LLC
Yeah, for sure.
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RICK JAMES
came back to the hotel and hung out with us for the night?
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All About Green LLC
With the kids, I think... so
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RICK JAMES
that's funny.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
What that, Jay?
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RICK JAMES
I said, yeah, Brian came back to la hotel that night and hung out with us for a while. That was fun. He got to watch Matty Young wipe out on his scooter and stuff. Yeah,
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Did you get some McDonald's? All
00:17:01
All About Green LLC
I got some McDonald's. Me and Pat Salmon ate the last two cheeseburgers before my Uber got there to take me back to the other hotel.
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RICK JAMES
yeah you did.
00:17:08
All About Green LLC
Thank you, Sean, by the way, for giving me the good heads up on the place to stay.
00:17:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
see all right.
00:17:09
The SnowJobs Podcast
So.
00:17:11
All About Green LLC
i appreciate that.
00:17:14
RICK JAMES
the
00:17:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah
00:17:15
All About Green LLC
Everybody's at one hotel and I'm at the other.
00:17:18
RICK JAMES
it's
00:17:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, Sean. ah Gotta love Sean. You know, and I thought he was crazy that he wanted to order that money that much stuff from McDonald's. But once he had the double cheeseburgers were like, I don't know if they were like, buy one, get one for a dollar. That's what they were.
00:17:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
And he's like, yeah, we need we need a bunch of those. And I'm like, dude, there's going to be a sack of food uneaten. I'm glad they all went. That's good.
00:17:40
RICK JAMES
I don't know where they... Well, I think they were gone before they got back there. Shawnee, didn't you even want them?
00:17:45
The SnowJobs Podcast
No, he what did he eat? He ate his 20-piece chicken nugget on the ride back to the hotel. Yeah.
00:17:51
RICK JAMES
um
00:17:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
Like, those nuggets didn't stand a chance.
00:17:54
RICK JAMES
yeah
00:17:56
RICK JAMES
ah ah
00:17:56
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah
00:17:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah We love our Sean. That's for sure.
00:18:00
RICK JAMES
know we do
00:18:01
The SnowJobs Podcast
Thank God.
00:18:02
All About Green LLC
All
00:18:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, Jeremy, you want to take us away? get us into this?
00:18:07
RICK JAMES
You got it. How about you, Brian? Let's you tell everybody all about all about dream when you got started and what you're all about.
00:18:13
All About Green LLC
right. Sounds good. All about green started when I was about 15 years old. um grabbed my dad's mower, weed whacker, kind of like i everybody else's story. Started cutting lawns in the neighborhood, pushing it from house to house and just kind of got some more and got some more and but Then I was going off to high school, going off to college, and i had built a pretty you know decent sized route.
00:18:40
All About Green LLC
um I went school in Pennsylvania, so it was only about an hour away. So I tried to manage it from school and I did a pretty good job. But at the time, it kind of exploded a little bit more. So I took on a business partner who was a friend of mine in town and me and him,
00:18:58
All About Green LLC
Just kind of kept growing the business and growing the business. We formed the LLC in 2007 and we both had a special love for snow and we just kind of took it and ran with it from there. So we we grew both a resident. We did more residential landscaping side and then got our foot in the door on the commercial side for snow removal.
00:19:19
All About Green LLC
And we just kept growing it and growing it from there.
00:19:22
The SnowJobs Podcast
Very cool.
00:19:23
RICK JAMES
Awesome.
00:19:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
Awesome. So what are you guys currently doing? Like what, what's all about greens, bread and butter as far as services and stuff?
00:19:30
All About Green LLC
So on the green side, we are your basic maintenance company. we do We cut grass, we cut bushes, we lay mulch. um we don't really We don't do any design, we don't do any hardscape.
00:19:42
All About Green LLC
We try to keep it simple. um hard
00:19:45
The SnowJobs Podcast
Amen.
00:19:45
All About Green LLC
Part of it for me is i am not involved in the business on a day-to-day level, so it's easier for me to manage my managers by just keeping it simple. We just do the do do the basics, but it works for us.
00:19:59
All About Green LLC
and And I have great guys that are with me.
00:20:00
The SnowJobs Podcast
hundred percent
00:20:02
All About Green LLC
It's the only way I'd be able to do it. So it works.
00:20:06
The SnowJobs Podcast
I hear that. It's all about the people.
00:20:09
RICK JAMES
Mm-hmm. Got to have the good people.
00:20:10
All About Green LLC
Yep. There's no doubt about that.
00:20:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
What about on the snow side?
00:20:13
All About Green LLC
yeah Got a good crew
00:20:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
What what are you guys what are you guys doing snow-wise, services-wise?
00:20:17
All About Green LLC
On the snow side, we are all commercial. We have a little bit of industrial. Our bread and butter are the vanity like luxury apartment complexes that are a combination of luxury apartments but also have a commercial aspect to them. So They're large communities that have you know a Walgreens, a CVS pizza place that are attached to it.
00:20:46
All About Green LLC
So that's our that's kind of our niche.
00:20:47
RICK JAMES
Mm-hmm.
00:20:49
All About Green LLC
We got involved with a company about 10 years ago and they have just exploded. And as they bring on new buildings, we just... They just literally call us and say, hey, come take a look at this.
00:21:01
All About Green LLC
And we only do the snow for them, too, which is interesting. you did they They asked us to do landscaping a long time ago. I said, I don't think that's where our fit is. i think we're we we we would prefer to be your snow company and focus on that. And they seem to be okay with it. And that's what we do.
00:21:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, that's, yeah, I mean, that's definitely the way to go. And I think there's there's plenty of people, they can get anybody to do the maintenance, like the green maintenance. it's the It's finding a quality snow contractor in the Northeast that's never going to fail for a property like you just described.
00:21:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
Like, that that's high maintenance people. You know, like, they they expect white glove work, and and that's that's that's a good fit then if you have that.
00:21:33
All About Green LLC
definitely
00:21:39
The SnowJobs Podcast
Good for you.
00:21:40
All About Green LLC
It really is. And that's, I think, what separates us from the other companies in this area is that we are there. We are there We're white glove service. And we've been that way from day one.
00:21:53
All About Green LLC
And I think that's that's just really what they like. And the landscaping side, i was just upfront with them right from the beginning. I'm not your landscaping company. You guys have these intricate, you need enhancements, you need other things.
00:22:05
All About Green LLC
We can't provide that for you, but we can provide you We can be on your site 24 seven for snow and they're, they were happy with it.
00:22:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
yep
00:22:08
RICK JAMES
Awesome.
00:22:12
All About Green LLC
And and it's worked it's worked for almost better part of 10 years, which has been awesome. And now they're growing more and more and more. So it's kind of nice for us because we've built in natural ah growth for us and not crazy. It's not like, you know, they don't come to me and say, hey, i have 10 more buildings for you this year. You know, it's like, hey, we're building this building, you know, but this will be open in two years. This will be open in three years. So it gives us some time to to build and get the right equipment that we need.
00:22:37
The SnowJobs Podcast
hundred percent.
00:22:37
RICK JAMES
ah
00:22:37
The SnowJobs Podcast
No, that's awesome. That's a great setup. And that's like you hit the nail on the head though. I mean, that, that guy's growing and you're, he's growing big. I mean, he's growing in part because of the work you're doing, because he can put a contractor on there for the hardest stuff, which is the snow and you're not going to fail him.
00:22:54
The SnowJobs Podcast
So it's like a natural thing for him to just say, all right, I got another building. I'm calling all about green. They're going handle it.
00:23:00
All About Green LLC
Yep, which is funny because they're calling all about green for snow.
00:23:00
RICK JAMES
Yeah,
00:23:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
yeah That's it.
00:23:04
RICK JAMES
I was going say, you can just say, is that all about snow or all about snow?
00:23:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's smart. It's smart to call it that.
00:23:08
RICK JAMES
Oh yeah, yeah, we talked about that beforehand. yeah
00:23:11
All About Green LLC
that'
00:23:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
Call it that.
00:23:12
RICK JAMES
Yep, yep, true story.
00:23:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
but All about green just refers to the money.
00:23:16
RICK JAMES
yes There you go.
00:23:17
All About Green LLC
it might It might have been all about the green at one point and we got rid of the the, but we're not going talk about that now.
00:23:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's it.
00:23:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, shit. That's great. Oh. ah
00:23:24
RICK JAMES
yeah
00:23:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah shit that's great
00:23:27
RICK JAMES
So you're just strictly all commercial and some industrial, you said, and there's no residential anymore for mowing, right?
00:23:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah
00:23:31
All About Green LLC
Yeah, no residential. I played that game for a while too, and I think everybody's thought about it on here. Too many people wanted their driveway shoveled at 7 a.m., you know, Monday through Friday, and then Saturday would come and they could do it themselves.
00:23:43
RICK JAMES
Mm-hmm.
00:23:46
All About Green LLC
They didn't want to pay. it just is it was just not where we wanted to go as a company, and we were expanding on that side. Yeah. and ah Outside of my driveway and maybe you know my business partners, moms, and a couple other people, we do not touch any more driveways. We have a couple smaller industrial um buildings, like a steel a cop a steel plant that we do, um and a couple other industrial buildings. Nothing nothing like too too big for us but
00:24:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
Amen. I was talking to somebody the other day ah that he does a good amount of of larger snow like like we do in our area, but he still does driveways. He's still got like 30 or 40 driveways. And we were talking about the driveway game and everything. And he's like, I think I'm going to drop them all. I'm like, I'm shocked you're still doing any at all. He goes, well, you know, they've been with me for so long. I'm like, you try and stay loyal.
00:24:39
The SnowJobs Podcast
I'm like, yeah, but what? as it what So what's got you finally to the point where you're just going to drop the driveways? He goes, because I do complexes that are like 500,000 to a million square feet of pavement.
00:24:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
And I don't get a 10th of the phone calls I get for a 200 square foot driveway. yeah like He goes, you got to be shitting me. like i was yeah I told you this, but yeah, it's it's so funny too.
00:25:04
RICK JAMES
know
00:25:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
you get yeah But that's that's their world. When you're doing a a private house driveway, that's all they care about is that one driveway. They don't care what else you do for snow. They only give a shit about their little driveway. And like you said, it's got to be done completed by 659 because I'm going to the post office at seven to wait until it opens at eight.
00:25:27
RICK JAMES
out.
00:25:27
All About Green LLC
Oh yeah, 100%.
00:25:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
hundred percent 100%. Absolutely.
00:25:30
All About Green LLC
It's, it was, I think the biggest thing one morning, it was like three o'clock in the morning, four o'clock in the morning.
00:25:30
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's so funny.
00:25:35
All About Green LLC
And we had just been fighting all night long breakdowns, you know, guys quitting, whatever it was. And then I looked over it and I'm like, Holy God, we have 25 driveways to do right now.
00:25:48
All About Green LLC
And I was like, that's it. Uh, that, that was, that was the breaking point for us. I was like, tomorrow morning, I'm calling all 25 of these people and telling them that we are out. Like we're no, no more.
00:26:01
The SnowJobs Podcast
It gets to that point, man. It definitely is. So the the properties that you're doing for Snow Now, what's what's your response area like around your your hub there? Is it like you know you're four hours in either direction like Sean, or or is it yeah are you are you keeping it tight?
00:26:14
RICK JAMES
Yeah. Nice.
Snowfall and Weather Forecasting
00:26:16
All About Green LLC
I'm keeping it very tight. Our route is is like no more, we are no more than 20 miles.
00:26:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
Okay.
00:26:22
All About Green LLC
Like where we are a 20 mile radius from basically our main site, which is where we can kind of store most of our stuff or kind of we just we disperse from.
00:26:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
Okay.
00:26:32
All About Green LLC
So we're like 20 miles in each direction, but but that's really it. We don't we don't leave that that area and there's a ton of work.
00:26:39
The SnowJobs Podcast
What, what an interesting concept.
00:26:40
All About Green LLC
So it's great.
00:26:44
RICK JAMES
Have a circle?
00:26:44
All About Green LLC
ah
00:26:45
RICK JAMES
Have a tight area?
00:26:46
All About Green LLC
is Yeah.
00:26:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's it. I have a tight circle.
00:26:48
RICK JAMES
Have a service area? That's not...
00:26:50
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yes.
00:26:52
RICK JAMES
Whatever.
00:26:53
The SnowJobs Podcast
You can't fly to right yeah have a service area that you can get to with driving in a reasonable amount of time.
00:26:55
All About Green LLC
Yeah.
00:27:00
The SnowJobs Podcast
You don't need to take a plane from one end of it to the other.
00:27:02
RICK JAMES
think anything's reasonable in New Jersey. Isn't it driving? Isn't it pretty tight around there?
00:27:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
I mean, I don't know
00:27:08
All About Green LLC
No, you, it's, ah you know, top to bottom, it's, you can, you can drive for several hours top to bottom. It's not a, ah it's not, you know, it's no Pennsylvania, but you're gonna, you're gonna drive.
00:27:19
All About Green LLC
You can, you can have a three hour hike from top to bottom, more more.
00:27:22
RICK JAMES
yeah
00:27:22
The SnowJobs Podcast
Man, is that a boring drive, though, since you brought it up across Pennsylvania?
00:27:24
All About Green LLC
Oh, turnpike.
00:27:25
RICK JAMES
and Okay. You guys want to talk about boring drives.
00:27:27
All About Green LLC
Oh, yeah.
00:27:29
RICK JAMES
I'll tell you a boring drive.
00:27:31
All About Green LLC
it's
00:27:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, yeah.
00:27:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's not boring, though. That's all straight with no turns across the North Dakota. You know?
00:27:38
RICK JAMES
Yeah. Just got to watch out for that livestock.
00:27:39
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah Oh, yeah. Well, yeah. you got to watch out for bison in the road. But that's about it. Otherwise, you put it on autopilot. Just do it.
00:27:48
RICK JAMES
Oh, Brian, I'm out here and, you know, The Midwest and we've had a couple of low winters. What's ah New Jersey's winters been like lately or what what do you guys average and what have you been getting, I guess?
00:27:58
All About Green LLC
all Our average out here is 28 to like 30, maybe 32, something in that range. But of recent, we have had some, ah we've had lower total winters. It is not, ah it is we have not had a, we've not had the big winter in a while. I'd say I think since probably 2021 so.
00:28:22
All About Green LLC
so
00:28:22
RICK JAMES
Mm-hmm.
00:28:22
The SnowJobs Podcast
what ah where What part of Jersey you actually in for for listeners?
00:28:26
All About Green LLC
We are in North Jersey.
00:28:30
The SnowJobs Podcast
Okay.
00:28:30
All About Green LLC
So we're not, we're not, we're kind of like, it it's, it's an interesting area where we are.
00:28:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
Gotcha.
00:28:34
All About Green LLC
Cause some people would say it's North Jersey. Some people would say we're central Jersey. We're kind of in that 78 corridor, but closer to the coast than out, than out West. So I call it North Jersey.
00:28:44
The SnowJobs Podcast
I got you.
00:28:45
All About Green LLC
You know, it's, it's not Bergen County, Sussex County, where they get all the good snow. um we're We're in more of that urban area, closer to like Elizabeth, Newark, Newark Airport. or I'm 20 minutes from the airport.
00:28:59
RICK JAMES
So, correct.
00:28:59
The SnowJobs Podcast
Gotcha. Okay. So what the what are you good for storm-wise?
00:29:00
RICK JAMES
so
00:29:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
Like Jeremy was asking about, like what types of storms do you guys get when you do get them?
00:29:08
All About Green LLC
We get a lot of the mix. We can start out as snow, go over sleet. go to freezing rain, go to rain, can start the other way, vice versa. We very rarely of recent have gotten a straight snowstorm.
00:29:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
Hmm.
00:29:24
All About Green LLC
It is, you know, throw everything, everything mother nature's got at you for every single storm.
00:29:30
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yes, run the gauntlet every time out.
00:29:30
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:29:32
All About Green LLC
Every time.
00:29:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah Every form of precipitation there is, we're going to get it any time in the winter.
00:29:37
All About Green LLC
Oh, it's it's so much fun. because and And when you think you finally have like that nice, perfect snow, boom, all of a sudden it's sleeting. And you're like, oh boy, here we go again.
00:29:49
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep. Yeah, never lasts. Never lasts down there. Oh, my gosh. Those industrial sites you're doing, you what kind of industrial is it? Do you mind?
00:30:00
All About Green LLC
ah there''s One's a steel plant. Another one's a small logistics center.
00:30:06
All About Green LLC
um And then we just picked up this year, i think it's another like smaller logistics center. nothing Nothing major, but I would say they're averaging like 250,000 to square feet.
00:30:06
The SnowJobs Podcast
and Okay.
00:30:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
Okay. Well, nice.
00:30:21
RICK JAMES
Okay. Yeah.
00:30:22
The SnowJobs Podcast
Very cool. What else you got, Jay?
00:30:26
RICK JAMES
Well, what's your weather? What you're talking about your weather there. Do you use a contractor weather service?
00:30:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh.
00:30:31
All About Green LLC
Oh, I do.
00:30:32
All About Green LLC
I do. I am a i'm a true believer in paying for the weather service because they have ah they have bailed me out many, many a time.
00:30:32
RICK JAMES
What do you got?
00:30:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
Who do you got?
00:30:42
All About Green LLC
i
00:30:42
The SnowJobs Podcast
Really? We have never heard that.
00:30:44
RICK JAMES
Wow.
00:30:44
All About Green LLC
i Listen, know we I know we, and listen, I will 100% agree that they're never they it's the only job where you can be wrong.
00:30:46
RICK JAMES
Lock it in.
00:30:52
All About Green LLC
But for me, and WeatherWorks has been really, really good to me for the last five to seven years. I think it's probably year seven.
00:30:59
The SnowJobs Podcast
right.
00:31:01
All About Green LLC
I also the same way you call Rob and Nick, I probably call WeatherWorks 25 times a story.
00:31:02
RICK JAMES
That's good.
00:31:02
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's a stronghold. weather works as a Jersey is a WeatherWorks stronghold. Everybody in Jersey has them.
00:31:07
RICK JAMES
That's right here. That's right here.
00:31:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
But I call them for like, I don't know, 80% less.
00:31:18
All About Green LLC
Yeah, that's true. Very true.
00:31:19
RICK JAMES
that
00:31:19
All About Green LLC
There is no doubt about that. There is no doubt about that.
00:31:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
I got, I got priced. I definitely like when I was pricing everything, I'm like, yeah, let's, let's, let's see what all, you know, well,
00:31:29
RICK JAMES
You tried them last year. Did you try them last year?
00:31:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
No, no, no. ah Well, yeah, two years ago, we did we did do do a trial.
00:31:32
RICK JAMES
Or two years ago. Two years ago. thought you liked them. Yeah, you liked them.
00:31:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
Great information.
00:31:37
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:31:38
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, great information.
00:31:38
RICK JAMES
you like
00:31:39
The SnowJobs Podcast
They were they were definitely they were right, but they got the same storm wrong that weather pros got wrong two years ago, whatever it was.
00:31:43
All About Green LLC
Yeah.
00:31:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
And I remember looking at the when it finally was over and they sent me the actual pricing for what I was getting. I was like, you guys are you're killing me. like This isn't even close. Like, you know, yes, the the amount the amount of information you get is great, but I didn't need half of it.
00:31:59
All About Green LLC
yeah
00:32:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
Like, you know, a semit temperaturea send me send me refreeze, yes or no, send me what's coming 10 days out. And then, you know, that's what I need. And for one zip code, it was like ridiculous.
00:32:16
The SnowJobs Podcast
The difference in pricing was just ridiculous to me. So I was like, okay, I love i loved it.
00:32:19
RICK JAMES
They also probably don't have Emmy.
00:32:22
The SnowJobs Podcast
What's that?
00:32:23
RICK JAMES
They also probably don't have an Emmy, so, you know.
00:32:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
They don't have an Emmy.
00:32:25
All About Green LLC
They don't have an Emmy, no, that's for sure.
00:32:26
The SnowJobs Podcast
I guarantee they don't have a TV Emmy. But no, I mean, listen, they're absolutely great. Like weather works. they They do great work. We haven't heard anything, you know, bad from them.
00:32:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
There's the guys that have them love them. I know Sean, Sean, we argue that all the time. And Sean is a staunch supporter, you know, of them.
00:32:43
RICK JAMES
least Chelsea weather.
00:32:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
And, and then, yeah, I mean, sure.
00:32:45
All About Green LLC
Yeah, I think part of it too for me is we have to for some of our contracts. like they They require WeatherWorks to be your third-party company.
00:32:50
The SnowJobs Podcast
Sure.
00:32:55
All About Green LLC
So, yeah, in our yup in our contract, it says you know ah verification by WeatherWorks.
00:32:56
The SnowJobs Podcast
They actually say they actually put a name to it, not just any weather company.
00:33:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's interesting.
00:33:07
RICK JAMES
ah
00:33:07
All About Green LLC
Yeah. Yeah.
00:33:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
Huh?
00:33:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
Who requires that? I mean, i you don't have to tell me. I was just wondering. That sounds that's that's interesting to me that they require an actual company.
00:33:15
All About Green LLC
Yeah. Yep.
00:33:17
All About Green LLC
They have required and to name them, you know, like ah like it wasn't like, oh, we need a third party.
00:33:18
RICK JAMES
We have that too.
00:33:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. Yeah.
00:33:23
All About Green LLC
It was like, it was, you know, as you're sending your invoices, please, you know, send your third party verification from WeatherWorks.
00:33:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
Interesting. That's very interesting, actually. Never heard that before.
00:33:34
All About Green LLC
Yep.
00:33:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
Hmm. All right. Well, ah but they've been good for you.
00:33:38
All About Green LLC
They've been great. I know one of the meteorologists by We Are we are Tight.
00:33:39
The SnowJobs Podcast
Good.
00:33:42
All About Green LLC
I know his kids schedule. i know all those kids are.
00:33:44
All About Green LLC
I got the hole the whole nine yards. He vacations in LBI. We were trying to meet for drinks last year. I mean, we are or we are tight.
00:33:44
RICK JAMES
but
00:33:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
Dude, that's important, man. no matter what No matter what company you use, to be able to access them like that, you know having accessibility when you have a question at midnight.
00:33:54
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:34:02
The SnowJobs Podcast
yeah know nickel Nick will tell you he won't answer. He'll still answer at midnight, 2 a.m. m He may not be happy, but he's going to pick up the fucking phone. So yeah it...
00:34:10
All About Green LLC
Oh, yeah. That's, I think, the selling point for me for WeatherWorks is I can call them 24-7, 365. Somebody picks up the phone and they can tell answer any one of my questions.
00:34:21
All About Green LLC
10-2-4-7.
00:34:22
The SnowJobs Podcast
No?
00:34:23
RICK JAMES
All right, let's do it right now.
00:34:24
All About Green LLC
So like i can do it right now. I actually did it earlier today.
00:34:27
RICK JAMES
Let's do it right now.
00:34:28
All About Green LLC
Yeah.
00:34:30
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's awesome. then i mean Listen, that's like I said, we've never heard a bad word about them.
00:34:31
RICK JAMES
ah
00:34:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
they yeah They do a great job. So that's that's good. but It does seem to be a Jersey stronghold, though.
00:34:39
All About Green LLC
It does.
00:34:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
they
00:34:40
All About Green LLC
There's a, yeah, there is.
00:34:41
The SnowJobs Podcast
A lot of guys in Jersey have it. Not so much in New York, but in Jersey, definitely. like If we've talked to 10 people, eight of them are you know that that use weather services, eight of them are WeatherWorks.
00:34:52
All About Green LLC
Yeah.
00:34:52
RICK JAMES
Mm-hmm.
00:34:53
The SnowJobs Podcast
So that's cool. Hey, good for you. Yeah. what ah how How were they last year, this past winter?
00:35:01
All About Green LLC
they were They were pretty good. You know, I mean, a little, so well, they were they they were very good.
00:35:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
Pretty good.
00:35:06
All About Green LLC
although They got you know some of the timings off as far as like starting and stopping. Nobody's ever perfect. on you know
00:35:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
Everybody's time.
00:35:12
All About Green LLC
We know that.
00:35:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
Everybody's time was off. Everybody's time was off on a couple.
00:35:15
All About Green LLC
everybody's time was off, you know, and you're trying to figure out like, all right, did we start final passes? Do we not like, you know, so you're everybody's time was up. I'd say the only one of recent memory that they got wrong for me was the, what was the frontal Genesis, whatever that crazy storm was not this winter, last winter at the end of the winter where it got, where they said we were going to get an inch and we got 12 in like three hours.
00:35:33
RICK JAMES
Huh.
00:35:39
All About Green LLC
Yeah.
00:35:39
RICK JAMES
Oh.
00:35:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, wow.
00:35:41
RICK JAMES
Wasn't a sideliner, was it?
00:35:42
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, reach around, Scylinder, reach under.
00:35:44
RICK JAMES
The reach around? Was that reach around?
00:35:44
All About Green LLC
It was, yeah, it it was not this winter.
00:35:45
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah
00:35:46
RICK JAMES
Total Genesis reach around?
00:35:47
All About Green LLC
It was the end of, I want to say it was the end of last winter. They were like, no, everything's going to stay safe, stay south of you. You guys are good. You know, maybe you'll get an inch or so. So we go out and pre-treat and i got up at like midnight or so. And I'm like, this is not that we are in the middle of the dark color. Get on the phone with them. And they're like, yeah, everything shifted north.
00:36:09
All About Green LLC
Like you guys are in the heart of it. It's coming down two inches an hour.
00:36:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
a
00:36:13
RICK JAMES
Whoopsie daisy.
00:36:13
All About Green LLC
oh God. Yeah.
00:36:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
Got it.
00:36:15
RICK JAMES
I thought that you guys only like three inches last year before. Okay. Okay.
00:36:20
All About Green LLC
That was, the I guess, three years. Last year we got, yeah, that was the last storm of the year. we got by a so But the crazy part about that storm was we're only a 20-mile radius. I would say our southern locations in that 20-mile radius got 8, 10, and 12 inches, and the northern parts only got 2 and 3.
00:36:39
RICK JAMES
okay
00:36:39
All About Green LLC
It literally was a tight van that just ran right south of 78, and we just got crushed.
00:36:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
ated
00:36:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, i remember that storm.
00:36:46
RICK JAMES
Okay.
00:36:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. Okay.
00:36:48
All About Green LLC
yep Yeah, they they gave it some name.
00:36:48
The SnowJobs Podcast
I know what you're talking about.
00:36:50
All About Green LLC
I don't remember what the name was.
00:36:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
No, that, yeah, that, I believe that was the, I believe that was the same one that Nick was saying, like the seven different models were so all over the place about what was actually going to happen, where ah they, they didn't know up to even like 12 hours before the storm. They're like, we can't put a pin in this.
00:37:09
The SnowJobs Podcast
We have no idea. yeah And that was when Nick just told me like, hey, listen, 10 o'clock, 10 p.m., look out your door. If it's already snowing at 10 p.m., you're getting a foot. If it doesn't start till 2 a.m., you're getting two inches.
00:37:18
All About Green LLC
Yeah.
00:37:21
All About Green LLC
Yeah.
00:37:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
He goes, we have no idea where it's going to set up.
00:37:25
All About Green LLC
Yeah.
00:37:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
So I remember that one.
00:37:25
All About Green LLC
no that That was it.
00:37:25
RICK JAMES
I
00:37:26
The SnowJobs Podcast
the rusty tro That's called the rusty trombone. That was the ah the name for it.
00:37:28
All About Green LLC
yeah
00:37:30
RICK JAMES
love it.
00:37:32
All About Green LLC
Luckily enough, I had an inkling when they were like very, you know, shifty on the phone. i like, well, we're not sure. i'm like, everybody keep your phones near you. This is this one could go south quick.
00:37:43
All About Green LLC
And and I was right. And luckily enough, everybody responded quick enough that we didn't really have too much downtime. But yeah, it was that would that was that was the interesting one.
00:37:50
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:37:51
RICK JAMES
love
00:37:54
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. I mean, listen, that could happen. look That could happen to any of them. And when Nick, like I remember questioning Nick and being like a little pissed, like it's 12 hours out, dude. You still can't tell me what the hell's coming.
00:38:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
And he sent me the the runs. He sent me all seven them. He goes, go ahead. I'll let you make the forecast. You show me at all seven of these model runs that are all saying something completely different to the tune of 200 miles.
00:38:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
you know You tell me where to where it's going to set up on you.
00:38:20
All About Green LLC
Oh, yeah.
00:38:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
And I'm like, ah yeah, all right, you got me. like I can't pick it.
00:38:25
All About Green LLC
My favorite terminology in the forecast is if there's a slight shift.
00:38:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
so
00:38:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, yes.
00:38:30
RICK JAMES
Yeah, the yeah.
00:38:30
All About Green LLC
yeah If you you read that, you better be ready to go because there is a good chance that it's going to happen.
00:38:31
RICK JAMES
About half a degree. Half a degree.
00:38:38
The SnowJobs Podcast
man, the wild cards.
00:38:38
RICK JAMES
Unless you're ready. Unless you're ready for it.
00:38:40
All About Green LLC
Mm-hmm.
00:38:41
RICK JAMES
You're ready for then it won't happen.
00:38:42
The SnowJobs Podcast
yeah Yeah, exactly.
00:38:43
All About Green LLC
Exactly.
00:38:43
All About Green LLC
hundred percent. You bring everybody in. You're like, all right, everybody get in, be on site at this time. And then you're like, oh, it shifted south. You're like, oh, great.
00:38:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
like
00:38:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
Have they ever, has WeatherWorks ever used the term, this is a lock?
00:38:56
All About Green LLC
No, no, no.
00:38:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
Okay, all right, good.
00:38:58
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:38:58
All About Green LLC
Luckily enough, we have not heard, I have not heard a lot.
00:38:59
The SnowJobs Podcast
All
00:39:02
RICK JAMES
ah why
00:39:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
right. Listen, for anybody listening out there, this is just for fun. We have fun with the weather, guys.
00:39:08
RICK JAMES
It's some inside jokes.
00:39:09
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, man.
00:39:09
RICK JAMES
We love it. Yeah, they do.
00:39:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
Most of them laugh along with us. I really don't know if WeatherWorks likes us or hates us we doing all this, but...
00:39:15
RICK JAMES
Oh, well.
00:39:16
The SnowJobs Podcast
what But i know I know true weather and and weather pros, they're good sports with it, and they give that they give us the ship right back.
00:39:22
RICK JAMES
Yeah. ah you They give it right back.
00:39:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
So it's a lot of fun.
00:39:25
RICK JAMES
It's not
00:39:25
All About Green LLC
For sure.
00:39:26
All About Green LLC
I'll find out after this because, like like I said, I talk with them probably four times a week anyway. So they'll be after they hear this, they'll be like, oh, all right.
00:39:26
The SnowJobs Podcast
What?
00:39:32
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh,
00:39:33
All About Green LLC
you're throwing us under the bus, huh?
00:39:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
all listen, it's great.
00:39:36
RICK JAMES
Real weather, man.
00:39:37
The SnowJobs Podcast
Like like I said, we if we...
00:39:38
RICK JAMES
Make sure we use it.
00:39:39
All About Green LLC
That's it. oh yeah.
00:39:39
The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, yeah, and like we said, we've talked to if we talk to 10 people in Jersey that have a paid weather service, they all use WeatherWorks, and they're all staunch supporters, and they love them.
00:39:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
So they havet we've never heard a bad word about about their service. And like I said, when I did the demo, it was a lot of information. It was good information. It was accurate. The only one they got wrong was the one that the other ones got wrong too.
00:40:02
The SnowJobs Podcast
So, I mean, it's obvious.
00:40:03
All About Green LLC
Yep.
00:40:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
Obviously, they're they're looking at the same stuff, and and they're good at what they do. So good for you.
00:40:09
All About Green LLC
Definitely.
00:40:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
All right, Jay, what else? You want to do the Jeremy Lindstrom, Dinesse leasing equipment segment?
00:40:15
RICK JAMES
I sure do.
00:40:16
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, he's getting excited. Go ahead.
00:40:19
RICK JAMES
All right, Brian.
Snow Removal Equipment Strategies
00:40:21
RICK JAMES
Let's go into your equipment.
00:40:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah
00:40:22
RICK JAMES
What do you got for equipment? Pushers, trucks, all this.
00:40:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
What are you saving Sean's ass with?
00:40:26
All About Green LLC
All right, let's do it Everything.
00:40:27
RICK JAMES
Yeah, what do you what do what do you say about Native American?
00:40:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
but
00:40:28
All About Green LLC
everything i Everything I own is on a native site at some point during a storm. No, I'm just kidding.
00:40:34
RICK JAMES
the
00:40:34
All About Green LLC
Just kidding.
00:40:35
RICK JAMES
Sorry.
00:40:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
oh
00:40:35
All About Green LLC
I love you, Sean. I'm just kidding.
00:40:37
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, we love him.
00:40:38
RICK JAMES
He doesn't look.
00:40:38
All About Green LLC
okay ah touch by um we are We'll start with trucks.
00:40:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
Thank you.
00:40:43
All About Green LLC
We are we have five trucks. They are all Fords. I'm a Ford guy. been a Ford guy start to finish. um We have one ah f five fifty landscaping body ah with a um nine six Fischer XV2 on it.
00:41:03
All About Green LLC
I have a 2000, what do I have? I have an F350 with another, with everything I have is XV2s. I'm a Fischer guy too. So all the trucks are XV2s.
00:41:15
All About Green LLC
um So we have F-250 and then three F, sorry, one and three F-250s. have 1.9 yard stainless in two have poly 1.9 in the other 350. For machines, we have two Bobcat S-250s. I have two Bobcat S-570s.
00:41:28
All About Green LLC
in two of the two fifty s and i have a poly one point nine in the in the other three shift for machines we have
00:41:36
RICK JAMES
with
00:41:38
All About Green LLC
two bobcat s two fifty s i have two bobcat s five seventy s And then i have a UTV with a ah boss plow on the four foot boss plow on the front.
00:41:54
All About Green LLC
No salter in that one. um Then we have for sidewalks. I have two snow Raiders old school style. Um, and then an unlimited amount of Aaron snowblowers, brooms.
00:41:54
The SnowJobs Podcast
cool
00:42:10
All About Green LLC
We've kind of shifted back towards the Toro single or like, I guess they're not single stage, but the, uh, the light, the light duty, but they're really heavy duty snowblowers.
00:42:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
00:42:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, that's single stage. The rubber paddles.
00:42:22
All About Green LLC
They are single stage. Yes. Yeah. The rubber paddle ones.
00:42:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, and dude, those things I've been told by people like they don't have single stage blowers.
00:42:25
All About Green LLC
Yup. Yup.
00:42:25
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:42:30
The SnowJobs Podcast
I'm like, why do you not have? Well, because we get the heavy wet slop and it doesn't work on those. I'm like, dude, those are the only things that work for us when we're in really serious slop.
00:42:38
All About Green LLC
Only things. Yup. I haven't used those Aaron snowblowers in three years. The last time we, when we was during the blizzard, when the, you know, the city and the towns push all the stuff on the, onto the public sidewalks, then you got cut through stuff.
00:42:50
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
00:42:51
All About Green LLC
Those are what those are for outside of that. It is those Toros are awesome. They are awesome.
00:42:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
Good. Same with us. We have not, we have not, and we've tried everything. We've tried the Ventrac snowblowers. We've tried ah the SSV snowblowers on the Ventracs. We've tried the, we have a sea of Arians two-stage snowblowers.
00:43:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
Those things have not come out of the shop in probably four years since we started using those Arians Pro 21 single stages.
00:43:11
All About Green LLC
Yep.
00:43:18
All About Green LLC
yeahp
00:43:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
Those things eat everything.
00:43:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
It doesn't matter how much water is running out of that slop. They still eat it and throw it. They're the only things that work.
00:43:25
All About Green LLC
And fires it away.
00:43:26
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yes, they're the only things that work.
00:43:26
All About Green LLC
Yep. Agreed. Fires it. Yeah.
00:43:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep. 100%. Yep.
00:43:29
All About Green LLC
And the best part is too, is you can, you can pick it up. Single, single man can grab that snowblower, pick it up, put it in the back the UTV, put it in the back of a pickup truck that you can do.
00:43:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
hundred percent
00:43:38
All About Green LLC
It's, it's the only thing that's a lifesaver. I think guys don't didn't want, they requested those over the big ones.
00:43:41
RICK JAMES
no
00:43:44
All About Green LLC
They're like, these are these are useless.
00:43:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
100%.
00:43:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's the only thing I've bought in the last four years is those Pro 21 single stages, the Arians ones.
00:43:47
RICK JAMES
Probably
00:43:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
And the nice thing about the Arians is those they design the handlebars so that it's made for one guy to stand on the bed of the pickup and reach down and grab it and slide the whole thing up backwards into the bed.
00:44:04
All About Green LLC
Oh, that's home run.
00:44:05
RICK JAMES
not. Probably not a Bell Sun.
00:44:06
The SnowJobs Podcast
What's that, Jay?
00:44:07
RICK JAMES
Probably not a Bell Sun a lot, though.
00:44:09
The SnowJobs Podcast
not not ah Anybody outside of Abel's son-in-law could do it.
00:44:10
All About Green LLC
No, not about Sunblock.
00:44:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
There you go, Abel.
00:44:14
RICK JAMES
yeah You guys set it up. I had to say, you guys set it up. i was like, oh, yeah. Ah, shit.
00:44:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
hey
00:44:18
RICK JAMES
Nice.
00:44:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
We ain't raising no pussies here, man.
00:44:21
RICK JAMES
yeah
00:44:21
All About Green LLC
Nope.
00:44:23
RICK JAMES
awesome yeah
00:44:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
What are you pushing on the ah the Bobcats?
00:44:26
All About Green LLC
That's it.
00:44:26
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, cool.
00:44:27
All About Green LLC
um I also have a case 321 that I got last year.
00:44:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah cool
00:44:32
All About Green LLC
um
00:44:33
RICK JAMES
nice
00:44:33
All About Green LLC
ah So I am you guys are going to hate this, but I am the old pro tech rubber guy because two reasons is lot, a lot ah lot of our properties because they're these vanity bougie places.
00:44:41
RICK JAMES
Yep, yep.
00:44:48
All About Green LLC
They have cobblestone sections in the middle of their properties.
00:44:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
Sure.
00:44:52
RICK JAMES
ye
00:44:52
All About Green LLC
So you just really can't, if you, you start crushing those cobblestones, the expenses of us replacing them and fixing them are just wildly.
00:44:53
RICK JAMES
yeah
00:45:02
All About Green LLC
So we've stuck with the protex, um, and two Jersey, we do a lot of squeegee work.
00:45:09
All About Green LLC
So those protex are, are awesome for, for squeegee work.
00:45:09
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
00:45:12
RICK JAMES
They're good for it. Yeah.
00:45:14
All About Green LLC
I mean, it's, it's, oh yeah, hundred percent.
00:45:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, we don't hate that at all. The right tool for the right job.
00:45:16
RICK JAMES
Oh, yeah.
00:45:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah
00:45:18
RICK JAMES
Well, definitely.
00:45:18
All About Green LLC
Um,
00:45:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
If they work for what you need them to work for, then they're the best thing out there. That's awesome.
00:45:22
All About Green LLC
Oh, yeah. it's It's great.
00:45:23
RICK JAMES
Yeah, they. Protex are good for that.
00:45:25
All About Green LLC
So that's that's what we that's where we roll. I have a one 8-footer, three 10-footer, and then four 10-footers.
00:45:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's great.
00:45:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
Cool.
00:45:33
RICK JAMES
Okay.
00:45:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
that That, I mean, that makes a hell of lot of sense.
00:45:35
RICK JAMES
Protex still a pretty stronghold out there, don't they? Protex has a pretty good stronghold on the East Coast.
00:45:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, they do. Yeah.
00:45:40
All About Green LLC
Yeah, they do.
00:45:41
The SnowJobs Podcast
There's still a lot of them.
00:45:41
All About Green LLC
Yeah.
00:45:42
The SnowJobs Podcast
New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, lot of protects.
00:45:43
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:45:44
The SnowJobs Podcast
Absolutely.
00:45:44
All About Green LLC
My Bobcat dealer. Yeah. They, that's all they're selling is all pro techs. And they've come out with like a lot, they have their live edges and and all the new technology. So, and and I've seen the scrape and obviously believe that we've have you talked about Sean sites are down the block.
00:45:53
RICK JAMES
you know
00:45:57
All About Green LLC
So I've seen the artics and I think for the newer industrial places that we've gotten, that's the road we're going to go. As far as the, because there's no cobblestones there on those.
00:46:08
All About Green LLC
I think and it's a no brainer for, for the, for the push on those. So
00:46:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:46:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
Do the pro tech, uh, does the pro tech with their live edge? I mean, it kind of defeats the purpose, but do they do the live edge in, in the rubber edge to the hard, the hard duty rubber there? No, just, just the metal going to say, wonder if you could do something with like a live edge, but what still have like the poly or the rubber.
00:46:22
All About Green LLC
Not that I've seen. No.
00:46:23
RICK JAMES
don't I don't think so, no.
00:46:24
All About Green LLC
It's all metal. Yeah.
00:46:30
The SnowJobs Podcast
wonder if that would work at all.
00:46:32
All About Green LLC
I don't know.
00:46:33
RICK JAMES
I
00:46:33
All About Green LLC
Yeah. i
00:46:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
don't Probably, probably stupid.
00:46:34
All About Green LLC
it Yeah, I think it would be tough to do.
00:46:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
but
00:46:37
RICK JAMES
don't know. If it's stupid, deal that somebody will let you know. I guarantee you.
00:46:39
All About Green LLC
Yeah.
00:46:39
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, absolutely.
00:46:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's probably stupid.
00:46:41
RICK JAMES
This line will work.
00:46:41
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, it's probably stupid. I was just thinking for cobblestones, you know, get every nick and cranny or nook and cranny there.
00:46:42
RICK JAMES
Yeah. Yeah. yeah
00:46:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
But the yeah, no, that makes a lot of sense, dude.
00:46:46
RICK JAMES
know
00:46:48
The SnowJobs Podcast
If you got those and we've we've started seeing that around here, like the thresholds of intersections and stuff and even though like the dumbest thing ever.
00:46:50
All About Green LLC
Yeah.
00:46:56
The SnowJobs Podcast
Why would you put uneven cobblestones as a crosswalk?
00:47:00
All About Green LLC
Oh yeah, 100%, that's all these are.
00:47:02
The SnowJobs Podcast
like
00:47:02
All About Green LLC
Every single one's like that.
00:47:02
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's so stupid. Like people are going to trip and fall over those in July.
00:47:07
All About Green LLC
Yeah.
00:47:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, it makes no sense. Makes no sense.
00:47:10
All About Green LLC
Yep, it makes no sense.
00:47:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
But yeah, we're starting to see those um on the bougier places around here. We're starting to see that. ah they They put them in as the crosswalks. I'm like, that just is dumb.
00:47:19
All About Green LLC
Oh yeah, they have a whole half moon U-turn area. The entire thing is cobblestone.
00:47:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
and Jesus.
00:47:26
All About Green LLC
Entirely. You get there, you're just like, you got to literally switch out and then put, yeah, it's just, it's ah it's a, it's a headache and a half, but they, the, the projects were great.
00:47:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yes, sir.
00:47:35
All About Green LLC
I got, I have no I've had no complaints. Price point two. They're awesome. So it's easy, you know, it's easy for us to, to, to do it.
00:47:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
Awesome.
00:47:40
RICK JAMES
Yep. yeah
00:47:42
All About Green LLC
And like i said, the squeegee work in the last couple of years between the sleet, And also for us, it's not bitterly cold and we really don't have a ton of fast freezing going on.
00:47:54
All About Green LLC
So we're able to push and and kind of, you know, between a pre-treat and a quick post-treat, we're right down the blacktop after using the Protex. So it's kind of been a good it's been a good place for us today.
00:48:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
There you go.
00:48:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
Listen, we tell everybody the right tool for every job is what works for you. You know, there's no right answer.
00:48:12
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:48:12
All About Green LLC
Definitely.
00:48:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
You know, there's only what works well for you. So good for you.
00:48:17
All About Green LLC
Definitely.
00:48:18
RICK JAMES
yeah
00:48:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
No, it's nice. So you got all Fisher. ah How's, how have they been for you?
00:48:24
All About Green LLC
Great. We have, I've had no complaints.
00:48:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
Good.
00:48:27
All About Green LLC
I have a great dealer that's right.
00:48:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
Who's the dealer? Give them a plug.
00:48:30
All About Green LLC
A&K in Rollway, New Jersey. Chris and Numberto, they are amazing.
00:48:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
Okay.
00:48:35
All About Green LLC
They are, they're, they just, they do a great job, great service. um They always have every part, um you know, that that you need. So it's, they've they've they've been awesome for us. But as far as like the actual products themselves, I really have had no real problems with them.
00:48:52
All About Green LLC
You know, we are we are aggressive as far as our cleaning.
00:48:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
sweet
00:48:53
RICK JAMES
And
00:48:55
All About Green LLC
um We lift our salters out after every storm. We're power washing everything. We're fluid filming everything. we kind of we go nuts because it's the only way that you keep your equipment and your investment working, especially with the cost of things nowadays.
00:49:06
RICK JAMES
that's one
00:49:11
All About Green LLC
It's just wildly insane. So they hope...
00:49:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
You can't afford to replace them.
00:49:16
All About Green LLC
You can't. It's it's crazy. It is really, really insane.
00:49:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
00:49:19
All About Green LLC
I was pricing new XV2s, and I was like, you got to kidding. That's the price now?
00:49:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
00:49:27
RICK JAMES
Thank you.
00:49:28
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep. I know.
00:49:29
All About Green LLC
So I do like the polys.
00:49:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
and know all about it.
00:49:31
All About Green LLC
I think our poly versus our stainless, although the lifesaver that I found for the stainless ones, because it really hasn't been cold lately, is ah I got the cover the custom covers for them.
00:49:42
All About Green LLC
So we can pre preload them, and then you put the cover on them, And adds a little bit of weight to the pickup truck. So it definitely helps as far as plowing is concerned. and we've had knock on wood.
00:49:42
The SnowJobs Podcast
Okay.
00:49:52
All About Green LLC
No, they don't freeze. You know, we know if it's going to be extremely cold, we don't leave any salt in them. But you can preload them. And as long as material is dry, its it's been it's been a home run.
00:50:03
All About Green LLC
So those those covers have helped.
00:50:03
RICK JAMES
Are they chain driven then?
00:50:08
All About Green LLC
ah They are chain driven. Yep. all All of them. Even my poly is chain driven.
00:50:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
Cool.
00:50:13
RICK JAMES
Gotcha.
00:50:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
What are you, uh, since you brought it up, what are you, what are you guys running? You're running granular, obviously, uh, no liquids.
00:50:20
All About Green LLC
We are running all granular on our asphalt.
00:50:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
but
00:50:23
All About Green LLC
We are running all 90% liquids on our sidewalks with the Snow Raiders.
00:50:28
The SnowJobs Podcast
Okay.
00:50:28
RICK JAMES
Okay. Okay.
00:50:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
What do you are you, are you doing untreated are you doing treated granular?
00:50:32
All About Green LLC
A little bit of both. Mostly untreated, but if we know there's a cold spell coming and we and you know we're going to need a little bit more boost, well ah we can get ah I can get a load of of treated.
00:50:39
RICK JAMES
Do
00:50:43
All About Green LLC
But for the most part, it's it's untreated.
00:50:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
Gotcha. Very cool.
00:50:47
RICK JAMES
you ever you store salt on site down on your sites or you just load them up and go?
00:50:52
All About Green LLC
We do. We have our salt bins at, I'd say, three ah three one yeah three of our sites. So we can deploy from those three sites and they kind of cover everywhere.
00:51:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
Nice.
00:51:05
RICK JAMES
would you ever do like Would you ever do like a salt bucket on your equipment, like on site?
00:51:06
All About Green LLC
So, yeah.
00:51:10
RICK JAMES
Does you have salt on site or not really in your wheelhouse?
00:51:11
All About Green LLC
So with with looking at the ah the the, what is it, the nor'easter? What's the the Arctic one?
00:51:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
Double down.
00:51:21
RICK JAMES
Double down?
00:51:21
All About Green LLC
The double down. I looked at the double down at Storks and it's definitely something to look into. um Especially with having the loader on site now, it's it definitely something that I was looking into because again, you know you have the machine there and if you can just salt with that thing, you can expand and the trucks can go other places.
00:51:40
All About Green LLC
It's a no brainer. puts a guy and back in the loader, he's making some more hours and it's definitely something that has sparked my interest for the future.
00:51:50
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, it seems like it'd definitely be the play for a guy who's maybe got sights three, four hours apart.
00:51:55
All About Green LLC
for sure
00:51:56
The SnowJobs Podcast
No. Oh, love him death.
00:52:01
RICK JAMES
He can help a buddy.
00:52:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah
00:52:08
All About Green LLC
Hey, dude, can you stop down here and check out this loader real quick?
00:52:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah
00:52:11
All About Green LLC
I'm only i'm only three and a half hours away.
00:52:14
RICK JAMES
yeah ah wow That's what friends are for, man.
00:52:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah i love him the death
00:52:18
RICK JAMES
That's what friends are for.
00:52:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah ah He's my boy.
00:52:20
All About Green LLC
at
00:52:22
The SnowJobs Podcast
oh my gosh.
00:52:22
RICK JAMES
Thank you.
00:52:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
oh Those ah Snow Raiders, are those the original original Snow Raiders with the Honda engines?
00:52:30
All About Green LLC
uh the what what i have is is the original what my first one is the honda engine honestly the new one that i just picked up before the last they said we were going to get three storms and we got one i think is the color one so uh i'd have we didn't use it we bought it because there was three pending storms coming and
00:52:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:52:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's a Kohler. Yeah. Okay. how the How's the Kohler been? Okay.
00:52:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
00:52:52
All About Green LLC
You know, I think we ended up using it once for like pre-treat. So I didn't, i I don't think I've had used it enough to give you, to give a good review on it so far.
00:53:01
The SnowJobs Podcast
Gotcha. No problem.
00:53:02
All About Green LLC
um But we did get the drop spreader on it versus the, the exact path.
00:53:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
The exact path. That is the nuts, bro.
00:53:08
All About Green LLC
Sick.
00:53:09
All About Green LLC
It's sick.
00:53:09
The SnowJobs Podcast
That is the fucking nuts.
00:53:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:53:10
All About Green LLC
Yeah. Yeah.
00:53:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
Boss nailed that. That that spreader. They actually absolutely nailed that. Everything. the The little channels that make the salt go actually outside the frame rails.
00:53:21
All About Green LLC
Yup.
00:53:22
All About Green LLC
It is. It's brilliant. And the amount of material that you, like the amount of bags that we were using versus what we ended up using in the exact path.
00:53:22
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's i mean it brilliant.
00:53:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:53:32
All About Green LLC
It was like, I'd say it cut it down by like one and a half times.
00:53:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
hundred percent 100%. Easily, because you can meter it out to the kernel, and you can put down just what you need to do it with no excess.
00:53:39
All About Green LLC
Oh yeah.
00:53:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's perfect.
00:53:43
All About Green LLC
Zero. And we have to use the Dead Sea Magnesium like as one of the requirements on our site. So like those are the tiny, tiny little pellets that are going in there. And that thing holds them.
00:53:53
The SnowJobs Podcast
yeah
00:53:54
All About Green LLC
Nothing drips out. nothing Nothing drops out of those things. And they are dropping them perfectly on the sidewalks, exactly where they got to go.
00:54:02
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
00:54:02
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:54:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep. So boss definitely did that one. Right. That exact path is the nuts.
00:54:06
All About Green LLC
Yeah, I'd like to do the mag, but I just can't get myself around spending that money for the attachments. The broom is definitely something I'd like to do. We have the Aaron's Walk Behind Brooms.
00:54:18
RICK JAMES
yeah
00:54:18
All About Green LLC
I'm just not there yet.
00:54:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
00:54:19
All About Green LLC
I don't know. I can't i can't wrap my head around it.
00:54:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
we we can't We can't do the mag here. like we we can most like God, it's got to be. I'd have to guess 75% to 80% of our sidewalks are 36-inch.
00:54:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
We can't use the mag.
00:54:33
All About Green LLC
Yeah. Yeah.
00:54:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's too wide. So that.
00:54:35
All About Green LLC
So that's where we we run into the issue is in the interior of these commercial properties, they have all like five, six foot sidewalks. And then on the public sidewalks, which we still have to do, they're all 36 inches.
00:54:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
Mm-hmm.
00:54:47
All About Green LLC
So it's like you're kind of in a catch-22.
00:54:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:54:49
All About Green LLC
I bought... i bought
00:54:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
like can
00:54:52
All About Green LLC
I got a great story. I bought a, when they were developing one of the properties, we got to look at the blueprints and they were like, oh, these sidewalks are going be seven, eight feet wide. So I bought a 72 inch broom for the Bobcat figuring I'll just run the Bobcat up there.
00:55:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
hey
00:55:06
All About Green LLC
We'll go right down the side. They ended up putting light poles in all of the sidewalks.
00:55:11
All About Green LLC
So they, we couldn couldn't use the broom anymore.
00:55:11
RICK JAMES
yeah
00:55:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
Sure.
00:55:13
All About Green LLC
Nope.
00:55:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
In the middle of the sidewalk.
00:55:14
All About Green LLC
work
00:55:15
All About Green LLC
the
00:55:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:55:17
RICK JAMES
Oh yeah, yeah. yeah
00:55:18
All About Green LLC
and broom sat at our yard. We've run it around to clean up dirt and dust and it it has literally just sat there. Every time I look at it, I'm like, what a waste of a purchase this thing has been.
00:55:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah You know, you can always do something bigger with something smaller. You can't do something smaller with something bigger.
00:55:37
All About Green LLC
and I should haveve never looked at the blueprints because as soon as i so as soon as i we got to the site come November, I'm like, whoa where'd those light poles come from?
00:55:38
The SnowJobs Podcast
um
00:55:45
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
00:55:46
RICK JAMES
weren on there. You make
00:55:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, man, that's funny. Cool. Anybody else?
00:55:50
All About Green LLC
We are, a for our for the sidewalks too with the Snow Raiders, the liquids have been great.
00:55:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep. ah yep
00:55:55
All About Green LLC
It's been a good ah it's been a good entry point for us.
00:55:58
All About Green LLC
Yeah,
00:55:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
What are you putting through there?
00:56:00
The SnowJobs Podcast
Are you getting actual brine or what are you doing in them?
00:56:02
All About Green LLC
yeah so I'm getting rid of this. um We use Cinetech out of Pennsylvania, and they're are they're ready to use pre-mixed materials. Brine. So we get it in 250-gallon tanks.
00:56:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
Cool.
00:56:15
All About Green LLC
They deliver it to us, which was which has been great. um And it's a great, great pre-treat, great post-treat. Really haven't had any issues, maybe once or twice, a little bit with the humidity and some of the cold temperatures.
00:56:27
All About Green LLC
We've had to switch over to granular, but otherwise, it's been great.
00:56:30
The SnowJobs Podcast
hu it's just straight brine or is it Brian with additives in those, in those quotes?
00:56:33
All About Green LLC
It has additives in it.
00:56:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
Nice. What, uh, what's the price point? Like, did you, did you figure out the price point per gallon?
00:56:40
All About Green LLC
Yeah, i think it's wrapped around like $2 a gallon.
00:56:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
Okay. So that's, uh, what's the normal price point on a thing? It's sub one J for just straight Brian.
00:56:49
RICK JAMES
Straight Brian? Yeah, little over a dollar. Yeah, around the dollar.
00:56:53
The SnowJobs Podcast
Okay.
00:56:53
RICK JAMES
A little over a dollar. Dollar a dollar.
00:56:55
All About Green LLC
Yeah.
00:56:55
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's not bad with additives then.
00:56:56
The SnowJobs Podcast
I mean, I'm not a Brian guy, but that would make sense for sidewalks for me that I might have to get more information from you.
00:57:03
All About Green LLC
Yeah, it's not, ah it hasn't been been bad at all. it's ah They're pretty good. They did run into an issue this year with because of the frequency of the storms. I called them, don't know, want to say late January, early February, and I was like, hey, I need a couple more um totes. And they were like, yeah, we have nothing.
00:57:20
All About Green LLC
Like, we have a tote of concentrate, and you can make your own. And I was like, oh, that's not good.
00:57:27
RICK JAMES
so
00:57:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
it
00:57:28
All About Green LLC
So we had just we had to scramble a little bit. um to fake to find a toad. I ended up finding one which got us through the end of the season. But yeah, it was ah definitely first time in, I would say, you know, a decade that I ran into an issue with them with not having enough supply.
00:57:45
The SnowJobs Podcast
Interesting.
00:57:45
RICK JAMES
Okay.
00:57:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
Hmm.
00:57:48
RICK JAMES
Well, how many gallons you go through in the storm roughly?
00:57:48
The SnowJobs Podcast
All right, cool.
00:57:52
All About Green LLC
ah For us, it's not a ton. I would say we're going through like
00:57:52
RICK JAMES
Any idea?
00:57:58
All About Green LLC
80 gallons, maybe 100, depending on what we're putting down.
00:58:02
The SnowJobs Podcast
okay
00:58:02
RICK JAMES
Yep.
00:58:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
Okay That's still cheaper than the salt
00:58:08
All About Green LLC
Yeah.
00:58:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
Interesting Cool yeah I gotta get more information on that for from you Maybe I'll give that a shot next year
00:58:10
RICK JAMES
Yep. Plus you you put it where you want it. Yep.
00:58:13
All About Green LLC
I think... It's great for the pre-treat too. If you're going to do anything, it's perfect for the pre-treat because you're not crushing your guys. Like we running pre-treating, going home, trying to sleep for an hour, coming back out where now we're pre-treating like 24 hours in advance.
00:58:32
All About Green LLC
And, you know, we're doing it 10, 11 o'clock at night.
00:58:32
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:58:34
All About Green LLC
It dries in like less than an hour, I would say. And you don't see anything on the sidewalks. And then everybody goes home. They get a good night's sleep. And then they're coming back in prior to prior to the storm. So it's it's just lit to the guys being more rested, if anything.
Operational Challenges and Solutions
00:58:49
The SnowJobs Podcast
How have you noticed ah The effectiveness of ah of Keeping it at bay once it starts Precipitating
00:58:57
All About Green LLC
You gotta make sure you're getting a good coverage. And I think that's kind of part of the issue with the Snow Raider. And I think Steve, you've talked about this before.
00:59:04
All About Green LLC
They they really shoot like direct lines, like pinpoint lines down via the pencils.
00:59:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep
00:59:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. Yeah. They're pencils. Yeah. They're pencils and they're not, I found that they didn't put out the proper flow that you needed. Like you had to go over it two times to do it, but we also switched the nozzles.
00:59:17
All About Green LLC
Yeah.
00:59:20
All About Green LLC
So did we.
00:59:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
We just switched the tips.
00:59:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. And then we were fine.
00:59:23
All About Green LLC
Yep. So we were able to get it it sprays a little bit better and we still go over it two times just because I'm like, you're better to go heavier than lighter.
00:59:26
RICK JAMES
like a fan.
00:59:31
All About Green LLC
It just holds it a little bit longer. So.
00:59:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
Okay, cool.
00:59:37
RICK JAMES
Yeah, we were we usually fan it on, but usually a few you know if it's going to get really cold, then you use those pencil tips and it'll bust through or anything you know for post-treating is what i'm talking. you know Because then it'll bust through and then it'll expand once it gets underneath that ice.
00:59:49
All About Green LLC
Yeah.
00:59:52
RICK JAMES
But don't know.
00:59:54
The SnowJobs Podcast
Very cool.
00:59:54
RICK JAMES
That's our... We're a lot colder out here.
00:59:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
How many guys are you running during a storm, Brian?
01:00:01
All About Green LLC
We are running 25, I'd say give take 25.
01:00:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
Cool. Very cool. Good size operation.
01:00:07
RICK JAMES
i How's it up to get you guys? you get lot of guys come back every year or you got to always be hiring or what's your status there?
01:00:15
All About Green LLC
Uh, we have a real, we have a tight crew. I would say of like 10 guys that have been with me for a very long time. They operate the skid steers and the loader and the the trucks. Um, I've incorporated my main crew that for the green side, they've started using the trucks and the Bobcats more. There are, there basically are on call salt team 24 seven.
01:00:38
All About Green LLC
Um, and they are an endless supply of guys for us. Luckily, Wilmer and Carlos, they bring in, they just ask how many guys you need and they show up. And I've kind of put it Wilmer's hands like, listen, you bring these guys in, if they don't work, you you tell me we don't we don't bring them back.
01:00:55
All About Green LLC
Like you figure out the guys that want to work. Like I'm not paying people to not work, but you know, you know, the guys that you're bringing and you know, the guys like you're going to have to cover their butts.
01:00:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep. Yep.
01:01:05
All About Green LLC
So, you know, a couple of times last year we brought in one or two guys and after the storm, walmer we, you know, we had our post storm chat and he's like, yeah he's not coming back and he's not coming back.
01:01:06
RICK JAMES
No. Good.
01:01:14
All About Green LLC
Oh, all good. Like you, you say the word.
01:01:16
RICK JAMES
no
01:01:17
All About Green LLC
Um, but yeah, if it wasn't for them, it it would be pretty tough.
01:01:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
it
01:01:18
RICK JAMES
and
01:01:20
All About Green LLC
There is, there is not a, there is not a big, um, source of of like young guys out here that are trying to grind to you know get out here. So it's it's all it's all of ah it's all their community.
01:01:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
Gotcha.
01:01:35
RICK JAMES
and
01:01:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
Cool. Very cool.
01:01:36
All About Green LLC
We've just already been trying to run into an issue with finding guys to run like the Bobcats and the Loaders. like i've I've run through a lot of guys last year. I was only trying to fill like two positions.
01:01:48
All About Green LLC
you know, guys would show up and they'd say like, I can't make it. I got something going on. You know, it's the, the, um, the reliability has really seemed to slip in the last like two years or so.
01:02:01
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, I think that's most I think most people experience those problems. So I don't think that's unique to you.
01:02:07
RICK JAMES
yeah i see you around around
01:02:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. Seems like the quality, the quality of workmanship in the younger generation is taking a dive.
01:02:10
All About Green LLC
Yeah.
01:02:16
The SnowJobs Podcast
You know, I don't think that's a big secret or a big stretch to say that.
01:02:19
All About Green LLC
No, I think it's something everybody's everybody's dealt with, you know?
01:02:20
RICK JAMES
well yeah
01:02:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
Exactly. I think there were the the it used what used to be the norm is now the exception, you know, and you just got to find those exceptions.
01:02:30
All About Green LLC
hundred reserve Yeah, we had a great kid work for us this year, Nick. He he was awesome. He's like 22 years old
01:02:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
Mm-hmm.
01:02:41
All About Green LLC
part-time firefighter, part-time works for the school. And it just like bought a truck with a plow. It was like, can you, you know, yeah have any work, let me know. i was like, you know what? Like you want to hustle? He was like, yeah. He's like, even if I can't plow, I'll run salt with you. I'll do sidewalks, you know, but if I can plow, great. I was like, yeah, let's do it. And he showed up every storm, every time I called, you know, or he'd be like, Hey, I'm just going to go to dinner with my girlfriend, but if you need me to salt, just let me know.
01:03:06
All About Green LLC
I mean, that's that' you know that's the that's the exception to the rule.
01:03:08
RICK JAMES
Yep.
01:03:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. And the cool thing about the exceptions is they generally surround themselves with other exceptions. They're generally not friends with losers. So like they can bring in other people that they know are just like them.
01:03:22
All About Green LLC
Oh, God, 100%.
01:03:22
RICK JAMES
ye
01:03:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, that's cool. Yeah, you got to get the exceptions. Find the exceptions and you'll be ah you'll be well on your way to to canceling out your labor issue.
01:03:33
All About Green LLC
oh god yeah a hundred percent
01:03:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
What else you got for him, Jay?
01:03:38
RICK JAMES
don't think we should take commercial. I got a good drink.
01:03:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
All right. we're Jeremy says hit some commercials. We're going to pay some bills here from our partners. We'll be right back.
01:04:37
The SnowJobs Podcast
All right, we're back. Hearing all about Jersey. Well, we're back. Brian's not back yet.
01:04:43
RICK JAMES
Brian, he's MIA.
01:04:44
The SnowJobs Podcast
Brian left. He's out.
01:04:46
RICK JAMES
must must He needed a drink too, huh?
01:04:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's it. He's like fuck these guys and their questions.
01:04:51
RICK JAMES
Ah, he's got his earbuds
01:04:51
All About Green LLC
I drank too much water.
01:04:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, he's back. See, there's a lag. The Jersey dial-up internet lag.
01:04:55
RICK JAMES
in.
01:04:56
The SnowJobs Podcast
We can't see that he's back, but he's back.
01:04:59
RICK JAMES
the He's Starlink.
01:05:00
RICK JAMES
He needs Starlink.
01:05:00
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah
01:05:01
All About Green LLC
Right as I clicked onto my computer to do this, it said, you have an iOS update. I'm like, oh boy, this is going to go really well.
01:05:07
RICK JAMES
Huh.
01:05:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, man, I will be pissed if we don't get this done. ah What else you got for him, Jay?
01:05:14
RICK JAMES
Are you running any snow tires on those and those on your heavy equipment?
01:05:16
The SnowJobs Podcast
Let's go. Let's keep going.
01:05:21
All About Green LLC
So I'm not. I know you guys swear by it.
01:05:23
RICK JAMES
Well, you don't really need Farrah.
01:05:24
All About Green LLC
i don't We don't really need it. I have not had an issue with any – even with the concrete, it doesn't really – we don't really run into an issue here.
01:05:26
The SnowJobs Podcast
No.
01:05:32
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:05:34
All About Green LLC
So I don't –
01:05:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, no, if you don't freeze down there, if your pavement don't freeze, you probably don't.
01:05:35
RICK JAMES
Right.
01:05:38
RICK JAMES
Right.
01:05:38
All About Green LLC
Yeah. And our pre-treats, like it's keeping it melting underneath for the most part. So we're, you know, we're, we're usually, usually also too, because of the amount of volume and traffic that we have going on in and out of all these buildings, we're getting like a mid storm treatment in there too. So it's really keeping the melting going on that lower level that we're, we're not really, we're not really running into an issue where we're losing grip with our, with our machines. Yeah.
01:06:02
The SnowJobs Podcast
Gotcha.
01:06:02
RICK JAMES
Gotcha.
01:06:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
what ah What are you guys doing as far as your contract structures? What you doing? Seasonals, hourly, per push?
Contract and Business Management
01:06:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
What's what's most of your stuff?
01:06:12
All About Green LLC
I am playing Russian Roulette. ah We are mostly push per push. um We had a lot of seasonals or we had, excuse me we were 60, 40 seasonals per push.
01:06:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
Okay.
01:06:23
All About Green LLC
And then we got outbid like by a company. They came in and they outbid us. We had like seven or eight properties with one company and they were 30% cheaper than we were.
01:06:35
All About Green LLC
And
01:06:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, Jesus.
01:06:36
All About Green LLC
They couldn't. Yeah. and And the better part is it happened in middle January. They called us up and were like, yeah, we got a better quote for and we're going to we're going to go with them. So here's your last page. Here's your second payment.
01:06:49
All About Green LLC
Like you're we're we're yeah we're out.
01:06:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
Wow. That's kind of fucked up.
01:06:54
All About Green LLC
It was bad. And my father-in-law is a lawyer and I called him up and I was like, what do I do here? I'm like, do i I, my gut instinct is to go after him. And he, we ran the numbers and he's like, listen, you could do it. He's like, it's, it's not worth it.
01:07:08
All About Green LLC
He's like, you're going to walk away with, you know, 10 after lawyer fees. And if they really tie this whole thing up and you go after it, you're going walk away with no money. So I ended up
01:07:16
RICK JAMES
Mm-hmm.
01:07:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
Did you have ah like a ah show cause ah termination or in the contract or no?
01:07:22
All About Green LLC
I was young at the time, so this was this was before.
01:07:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
Gotcha.
01:07:25
All About Green LLC
It was a very good learning lesson for me, that much I can tell you.
01:07:28
All About Green LLC
so
01:07:28
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
01:07:28
The SnowJobs Podcast
Amen.
01:07:29
All About Green LLC
um A part of the reason why we haven't been able to lock up a lot more of our ah the seasonals is the company that we work for, they're developing a lot of these properties. So they're constantly growing.
01:07:41
All About Green LLC
So as i I've tried to pursue it with them, they'll be like, well, let's do per push this year because there's three more buildings that are going to come on onto this site you know next year or the year after.
01:07:53
All About Green LLC
So it's it's been a sticking point for me because I've tried i've tried to do it. But I think once you know we've gotten to the point where some of these properties are finally fully developed, so I think now it'll be a good area for me to to open the door to having a seasonal contract. But yeah, for the most part, i amm ah I'm playing roulette.
01:08:13
RICK JAMES
Yeah. changer.
01:08:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
Or at least like ah like maybe you could approach them and just say, like listen, I need a mobilization fee. like This equipment that we're coming to your site with is not cheap. like We can't just bet per push, and then you know what happens if it doesn't snow?
01:08:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
like Jersey had almost two completely snowless winters in the last five, so like then you're you're up shit creek.
01:08:28
All About Green LLC
Yes.
01:08:32
All About Green LLC
Yes. No, it's it's something, especially the two buildings that I'm looking at for them now, it's going to be a lot more ah equipment and there's going to be a lot more purchases.
01:08:32
RICK JAMES
yeah
01:08:36
RICK JAMES
change
01:08:41
All About Green LLC
So I think that's that's the route that we're going on of like, you know, we've been doing it this way for a while, but the cost of the equipment and everything else we've always talked about has has led us to the point where we we can't afford to take that risk anymore.
01:08:54
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah and you've always done a great job for him, so they're not going to want to let you go and, and try something unknown. And I mean, 30, anybody that's coming in 30% cheaper than what they're already paying is that that's got to scare you as it as a buyer.
01:09:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
i I can't imagine how they do this.
01:09:09
All About Green LLC
Yeah, that was a different real estate company that we worked for and they were looking for a bottom dollar and they got bit hard because they called me back and i we had already moved on with other properties and and I just said, sorry, can't do it, can't help you.
01:09:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
Like what?
01:09:24
All About Green LLC
You wanted to go that route, that's the route that you're going to go and I'm not going to do this game with you anymore.
01:09:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
01:09:25
RICK JAMES
Great. you see
01:09:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep. Live with it, bitches. That's it.
01:09:31
All About Green LLC
Oh, God, yeah. A thousand percent. Yeah. The one thing I can say for the company that we have where I feel a little bit safer, and and I know Jersey has had a lot of these, but we we we we do so much salting that even on the snow-less winters, we're still putting down a ton of salt because if it's raining and it's cold, like they want no risk.
01:09:31
RICK JAMES
yeah
01:09:50
The SnowJobs Podcast
Sure.
01:09:51
All About Green LLC
They're basically like free salt. full full control of app of applying salt and and other things so I you know I don't think I've been burnt too bad I've had some bad winters but I haven't haven't been fully burnt yet so it's you know it's
01:10:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
There you go. Okay.
01:10:05
RICK JAMES
yeah.
01:10:06
The SnowJobs Podcast
I keep forgetting that about Jersey that that's like you guys have a lot of salt events.
01:10:11
All About Green LLC
a lot like uh two years ago when we really got seven or 17 inches of snow seven inches whatever it was we still salted like 24 times
01:10:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
01:10:19
All About Green LLC
Because every time it would rain, they would be there would be, you know, the weathermen would say, oh, there's going to be a flash freeze.
01:10:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
Gotcha. Gotcha.
01:10:26
All About Green LLC
So we were out doing a treatment.
01:10:26
RICK JAMES
yeah
01:10:27
All About Green LLC
We're out doing spot checks. Like, we were still out a lot. And what's nice is that even though we don't have the seasonal contracts, we've we come to your site to check to make sure that we're we're charging for it.
01:10:38
All About Green LLC
So there's a lot of, like, other protections within the contract that that don't allow us to to get hurt.
01:10:38
RICK JAMES
Oh, yeah.
01:10:42
The SnowJobs Podcast
Good Amen That's awesome bro Good for you Is there a lot of I mean obviously there is You just talked about Is there a lot of competition In your area for snow
01:10:44
All About Green LLC
But that is not a seasonal.
01:10:49
RICK JAMES
What did
01:10:54
All About Green LLC
Yeah, there's ah there is like there's a lot. um I think it's gotten a little better um as far as the competition of weeding out the guys, you know, the Chuck and the truck and ah the the other guys that are undercutting.
01:11:07
All About Green LLC
That story I talk about was probably 8, 10 years ago with the undercutting.
01:11:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
Mm-hmm
01:11:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
No.
01:11:11
All About Green LLC
But, I mean, it's still hard. there's so I think we've gotten so low on prices that it's everybody's fighting the uphill battle of trying to get them back to where they need to be.
01:11:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
now
01:11:22
RICK JAMES
Mm-hmm.
01:11:23
All About Green LLC
So it is but yeah, there's a, there's a lot of competition. I think our niche is a good place for us to be because we're not battling for your 1 million, 3 million square foot industrial buildings.
01:11:35
All About Green LLC
We're not suited to do that, but you know, I'd say 1,500,000 square feet, know, that area is ah is a good place for us to be.
01:11:44
The SnowJobs Podcast
sure
01:11:45
All About Green LLC
And it's ah it's a place that The bigger companies don't want to deal with them. And some of the other smaller companies aren't suited to do it. So i' it's a good it's a good it's a good place for us to be. And I think there's a lot of work for us in that area. So...
01:11:59
The SnowJobs Podcast
Amen.
01:11:59
RICK JAMES
Good.
01:12:00
The SnowJobs Podcast
Good for you. What else you got from Jake?
01:12:03
RICK JAMES
Do you see any purchases coming up that you think you want to make? or what do you what do you What are you looking to buy?
01:12:06
All About Green LLC
I do. I had a conversation with Lucas Strait. He sent me some numbers. We're going to be looking to expand our equipment side. i think truck-wise, we're in a very good position.
01:12:15
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:12:17
All About Green LLC
ah maybe you know Maybe just turning over trucks, getting rid of some of our older ones for newer model ones you know under warranty.
01:12:25
All About Green LLC
um But i the 321 was awesome this year.
01:12:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
Mm-hmm.
01:12:25
RICK JAMES
Yep.
01:12:28
All About Green LLC
It replaced... a lot of equipment on the one site that we had. So, I mean, it's it's a sweet machine. It's perfect for maneuverability, size, um tight spaces.
01:12:40
All About Green LLC
ah It was great. you know And the Bobcats are awesome too. They're tight. You can do a lot of a lot and a little in a little space with theirs. So I think the Equipment Avenue is the route that we're going as well. I know everybody else kind of talks about the same thing. I think i think it's just it's a no-brainer, especially for operators too.
01:12:56
All About Green LLC
Don't need to have a license.
01:12:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
Amen.
01:12:57
All About Green LLC
You don't need to worry about, you know, you can get anybody, guys, girls, you just get them to the site and they can they can operate it. So I think we're looking to probably put on hopefully one to two more 321s.
01:13:05
RICK JAMES
Good
01:13:12
All About Green LLC
and Probably, i' would say one most likely the this year and maybe another one for for next year.
01:13:17
RICK JAMES
ah see
01:13:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
They are great machines. They've been great for me. I love them. Cool.
01:13:22
All About Green LLC
Yeah, there it was awesome. Getting to see the productivity of it this year was was great. um'm I'm very um very proactive of like always having additional equipment on site.
01:13:28
The SnowJobs Podcast
sweet
01:13:34
All About Green LLC
So we had two Bobcats, two trucks. you know Then we put the 321 on there and all of a sudden I'm like, but we don't need this truck here.
01:13:37
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
01:13:41
All About Green LLC
We don't need this Bobcat here. we don't you know like It replaced a lot of the additional equipment that we had.
01:13:44
RICK JAMES
yeah
01:13:47
All About Green LLC
So hopefully it opens up some doors for us to expand ah next year.
01:13:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep. That's what it does.
01:13:52
RICK JAMES
i still You probably still need in that area to help a friend, though.
01:13:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
that
01:13:57
All About Green LLC
I'm just going to move you down the block.
01:13:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
a
01:13:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah
01:13:58
RICK JAMES
I love it.
01:13:59
The SnowJobs Podcast
but
01:14:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
but
01:14:06
RICK JAMES
oh
01:14:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
oh Oh shit, that's great He's gonna be so mad at me
01:14:12
RICK JAMES
hello
01:14:12
All About Green LLC
I know. I think I got to send him a side text right now.
01:14:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah
01:14:14
All About Green LLC
Like I said, you're, you're, I'm breaking you over the coals right now, brother.
01:14:16
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh man, he loves it He loves it All publicity is good publicity ah He's awesome
01:14:18
RICK JAMES
so He's on strike right now anyway.
01:14:20
All About Green LLC
Oh,
01:14:21
RICK JAMES
He's too busy holding that ticket sign. He's too busy holding ticket sign.
01:14:24
All About Green LLC
a hundred percent.
01:14:25
RICK JAMES
Should
01:14:28
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, what else you got, Jay?
01:14:30
RICK JAMES
we go in five and five?
01:14:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
We can do that.
01:14:33
RICK JAMES
right.
Growth Plans and Company Culture
01:14:34
RICK JAMES
Where would you like see your company in the next five years, Brian?
01:14:38
All About Green LLC
um I would like to see my company expand on the snow removal side for sure. i look probably to, like I said earlier, to add on some more pieces of equipment and kind of keep growing with the companies that we're working with and take on a little bit more of the middle-sized industrial stuff. I think that's that's where we're aiming for.
01:15:00
All About Green LLC
Green side, I'm kind of okay with slow growth, you know, keeping the guys busy in the offseason but not taking on too much. i have two kids.
01:15:11
All About Green LLC
I coach softball. I coach baseball. So, you know, family family first. Steve, like you said earlier, you know, I don't and don't want to take up too much of my time worrying about the greens.
01:15:23
All About Green LLC
They do that all winter along with the snow.
01:15:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
Nope.
01:15:25
All About Green LLC
So I'd say, I think, I think the expansion on the snow side is, is where is our route.
01:15:26
RICK JAMES
Yep.
01:15:26
The SnowJobs Podcast
Amen.
01:15:32
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep. You only get one shot at being a dad. That time is, it goes fast, man.
01:15:34
All About Green LLC
That's true. And what's not, Oh, my daughter turned six on Tuesday and I can't, I'm, I'm in shock that she's going to six.
01:15:37
The SnowJobs Podcast
It goes really fast.
01:15:39
RICK JAMES
Oh, yeah.
01:15:45
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep. It's crazy.
01:15:46
All About Green LLC
It's, and she's my younger one and it's, it is, it is crazy how fast time flies.
01:15:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
01:15:51
RICK JAMES
Yep, 100%. hundred percent
01:15:52
All About Green LLC
So and I'm lucky for the guys that I have working for me are on the younger side. So they're hungry. So they' they want to expand.
01:15:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
good
01:16:00
All About Green LLC
And I've had some real conversations with them of in order for this to work, in order for this to grow, I can't be here working in the business. I need to be working on the business.
01:16:10
All About Green LLC
And they've accepted that.
01:16:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
Amen.
01:16:12
All About Green LLC
And they don't, you know, they And they know that I'm not going to be there, but they also know that in order for them to make more money and for this to work, they have to be able to do it without me. And they've, knock on wood, have done an awesome job. Wilmer's been with me for eight years.
01:16:26
All About Green LLC
Carlos is with me for four years. And Luis has been with me for the last two years. And they just are awesome. I can't say enough about them. Like they are, they're great.
01:16:35
RICK JAMES
Awesome. That's great. Good.
01:16:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
Good. Awesome. That's all that matters. So what's been the best decision for your company that you made in the last five years?
01:16:45
All About Green LLC
Mike's not micromanaging anymore.
01:16:48
The SnowJobs Podcast
All right. Good.
01:16:49
All About Green LLC
i Quick backstory. I had my business partner, God rest his soul. He had a heart attack five years ago out of the blue, 38 years old. just
01:16:50
RICK JAMES
and
01:17:01
All About Green LLC
We were talking about going to the snow stakes. So we kind of had to revamp, um you know, after he passed, we kind of like stepped back and saw where the company was and where we wanted to go.
01:17:01
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, that sucks.
01:17:14
All About Green LLC
um And then I lost my main guy who I thought was going to take the reins. So it was like, you know, double, double gut punch.
01:17:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep. Mm-hmm.
01:17:22
All About Green LLC
um But then that was when I kind of started having the main conversations with these guys because ah you know I work a full-time other job. So Monday through Friday, 7 to 5, am not around.
01:17:35
All About Green LLC
So we sat back. I stopped trying to micromanage them. i got We all we kind formulated a game plan. They bought in, and we've run with it for the last five years. And it is it has been it has been great.
01:17:47
All About Green LLC
It has really, really helped to expand the business and...
01:17:48
RICK JAMES
good
01:17:51
All About Green LLC
They like it. They like the responsibility, having more responsibility. And every year we set new goals for what we want to do. And we've been we've been hitting on all cylinders. So it's been it's been really good.
01:18:02
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's awesome, man. Good to hear it. That's great. um Any lessons that you learned in your early stages of business because you've been doing this a while or even as you grew that you think ah would be beneficial to younger guys here? and
01:18:18
All About Green LLC
um I would say don't do work just to do work. Make sure you're making money on everything you're doing. I don't care what it is. i don't care if it's the property next door. Don't just do it to do it.
01:18:30
All About Green LLC
Do it to make sure that everything is priced properly.
01:18:30
The SnowJobs Podcast
Amen.
01:18:32
All About Green LLC
I did a lot of work for free and cheap because I thought it was going to lead somewhere and it did not lead to the so the places that I thought and I've kicked myself you know a million times over for it.
01:18:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep. Yep.
01:18:43
All About Green LLC
um Find good workers and hold on to them. You know, I think having real frank conversations with them right out of the gates is the way to go. Don't try to hide it. I've hid things. I've tailored to people, it's catered to them.
01:18:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
yep
01:18:56
All About Green LLC
You know, you need days off. You have issues with a girlfriend. I've done it all. And I think it's just, you're you're never going to grow that way. You're just going to end up fighting a battle every week.
01:19:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
Amen.
01:19:06
All About Green LLC
So I think that's another another thing. just Just be upright. Tell them what you expect of them. And if it's not what... you think that they're capable of doing, then just cut the cut your ties and move on because you're only going to give yourself a headache if you don't.
01:19:19
RICK JAMES
Yeah, great.
01:19:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
Amen. Love it.
01:19:22
RICK JAMES
Awesome.
01:19:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
What else, Jay?
01:19:24
RICK JAMES
wow Oh, Brian, we always do this part. Like, why don't you tell me some good, if you got any good stories to tell me, but I kind of want to have a good, tell me a good story about Sean.
01:19:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, he's got good stories.
01:19:34
RICK JAMES
mean, let's keep thinking about Sean.
01:19:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
He plows with Sean. He's got to have good plowing stories.
01:19:36
RICK JAMES
I don't know, so I'm like, I'm not going to ask him whether, I mean, you can, but I want a Sean story because why not?
01:19:38
The SnowJobs Podcast
but ah
01:19:41
All About Green LLC
Me and Sean have a great relationship. We we help each other out. um He is, he he is ah you know what, right after, I i think I met Sean about a year after my business partner died and Sean has filled that snow void.
01:19:45
The SnowJobs Podcast
He loves you, man. He speaks very, very highly of you.
01:19:47
RICK JAMES
Oh, yeah, yeah.
01:19:56
All About Green LLC
Like me and my business partner would talk
Partnerships and Anecdotes
01:19:58
All About Green LLC
snow for hours. My wife is like, how do you guys have the same conversation every night? It's like, she's like, you guys, they're talking circles about the same thing. The whiteboard's Where are trucks going? Where are plows going? Et cetera, et cetera. And then when he passed, I kind of like lost that void. And then all of a sudden, I think I met him on plow site.
01:20:15
All About Green LLC
I think we were, I forget what it was like.
01:20:16
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
01:20:17
All About Green LLC
And he's like, oh, you're in this area. I'm in this area. So we ended up like, yeah, let's meet. We'll chit chat. And then after that, like literally started texting and calling and talking snow. And, you know, it's it is that's that's all we all we do. And then we ended up having some sites that are next to each other. So it's been it's been it's been great to to work, work with and be a part of like watching him grow and being able to help him.
01:20:42
All About Green LLC
um, on his sites and vice versa. I mean, he's bailed me out a couple times too. So it's, it's been awesome.
01:20:49
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's great. Yeah, he's great, people.
01:20:50
All About Green LLC
ah plow Good plow stories. I was thinking about this as I, uh, earlier today, ah I would say when when i first started,
01:21:01
All About Green LLC
um We were working for another company. The guy needed us to do sidewalks. And then so we were snow blowing snowblowing all the sidewalks. And then the next door, he's like, hey, do you guys want to run a salt truck for me? we're like, yeah, let's do it.
01:21:15
All About Green LLC
Never run a bobcat before. So I had no idea what a safety bar was and that it was above your head when you went to operate the Bobcat. He just gave me the code and said, hey, go ahead and do it.
01:21:25
All About Green LLC
So I jump in the Bobcat and I'm trying to operate this thing. It's jerking back and forth. I got a bucket load of salt. I'm like lifting it up. And as I lift it up to go load the salter in the back of 550, I just go o boom, right down on my face.
01:21:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh.
01:21:41
All About Green LLC
Right in between the saunter, in between the truck, and I'm staring at the ground. And I'm like, holy shit, what do I do now? I'm like, i don't I can't get out. I can't go anywhere. I can't do anything.
01:21:55
All About Green LLC
So I call a guy up. I'm like, Jimmy, I'm stuck in the Bobcat. It fell over. He's like, what do you mean it fell over? I'm like, it literally fell over. I had a bucket full of salt and this thing is jerking back and forth and it just went all the way over. He's like, do you have the fucking safety bar down? I'm like, what?
01:22:10
All About Green LLC
He's like, yeah, look above your head, the safety bar. I'm like, no, I don't. He's like, yeah, put that down. So I ended up jerking the machine back and forth to knock off enough salt out of it and then was able to unwedge myself from between the salter.
01:22:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah
01:22:28
All About Green LLC
So that was my first experience on learning a, I'm learning where a, where, where a safety bar is.
01:22:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
oh man, that's a good one I like that
01:22:35
RICK JAMES
Oh, boy. Yeah, that's been long time.
01:22:37
All About Green LLC
Another time we were cruising around as I'm working for the same guy at the time, he had a site in Newark and The salt that he had put in the salter was all jammed up. This is the old gas stainless ones.
01:22:52
All About Green LLC
And it's about three o'clock in the morning. I'm in Newark. There is the salter jammed. And he's like, just shovel it out. I'm like, dude, I can't drive the truck and shovel the salt out.
01:23:03
All About Green LLC
Like, what do you want me to do? He's like, I don't know, figure it out. So I saw some like, i I'm going just, yeah.
01:23:09
The SnowJobs Podcast
I'll figure it out.
01:23:11
All About Green LLC
I saw some dude sitting there by the front door bit of the shop, right? I think it was. And I'm like, eight you think you could drive this truck for me? He's like, yeah, I can do it. I'm like, all right I'll pay you. I'm like, here's 50 bucks. Just go five miles an hour and do circles around this parking lot while I hand shovel. It could have been a crackhead for all I know.
01:23:32
The SnowJobs Podcast
It probably should have been a crackhead.
01:23:32
All About Green LLC
Oh my God. Yeah, so I did that, and then, i don't know.
01:23:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
Why wouldn't you have him do the shoveling? usually you You drive the truck.
01:23:39
All About Green LLC
I don't know. I don't know. it was It was stupid.
01:23:41
RICK JAMES
Who was the crackhead?
01:23:42
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah
01:23:42
All About Green LLC
and In hindsight, I was like, he could just drove straight out of the lot with it.
01:23:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
yeah
01:23:46
All About Green LLC
But, you know, it's 3 o'clock in the morning. We're on our, like, 40th hour of working. All I could think about was just getting this thing unloaded.
01:23:54
The SnowJobs Podcast
That guy, that was like a dream come true. He's like, wait a minute. You don't want me to shovel it? You want me to drive the truck? Who's the crackhead now? Oh,
01:24:01
RICK JAMES
Yeah, exactly.
01:24:04
All About Green LLC
ah 100%. Yeah. yeah And again, hindsight, I'm driving home thinking that exact thing like, wow, you could have just drove away in this truck and i would went flying out the back like dumb move.
01:24:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
oh that's great.
01:24:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, man, that's funny. The shit you do after 24 hours of plowing.
01:24:17
All About Green LLC
ah
01:24:19
All About Green LLC
Oh, yeah.
01:24:20
RICK JAMES
Yep. Oh,
01:24:20
All About Green LLC
And then I think the last good one I have is that we were finishing up after a storm. Sun's out. Same thing. We're on like hour 36. We're in our last like medical building, that small medical building we do. It's kind of wide open. And I got the V out and music's blasting. And my buddy's in one side and I'm in the other.
01:24:40
All About Green LLC
And I'm going about 40 miles an hour in reverse. And I just don't see the light pole. And I just ripped the wing off of the XV2. Just hit the light pole.
01:24:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
all
01:24:49
RICK JAMES
u
01:24:49
All About Green LLC
Wham! Thing just goes completely forward, mashes around, and then flies all the way back into the side of my truck.
01:24:57
All About Green LLC
Oh, I was like, wait ah what a way to end the storm.
01:24:57
RICK JAMES
Oh,
01:25:01
RICK JAMES
yeah.
01:25:01
The SnowJobs Podcast
Ouch.
01:25:02
All About Green LLC
Yeah.
01:25:02
RICK JAMES
That store must be free.
01:25:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep. ah Yeah, that storm was for free.
01:25:05
All About Green LLC
Oh, yeah. Exactly. Thank God there was a skid on the side. We were able to, like, realign it enough and put a chain around it to keep it up on the truck so we could drive it back up to the shop to get it to get it fixed, but...
01:25:19
All About Green LLC
It was and was, yeah, I can go on and on.
01:25:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
Goodness gracious
01:25:22
All About Green LLC
I got a whole lot more, but Jersey Plow Stories, man.
01:25:24
RICK JAMES
Yeah, I'm sure.
01:25:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah Jersey plow stories We can do a whole could do a whole episode on that
01:25:29
All About Green LLC
Oh, there is no doubt. There is no doubt.
01:25:29
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:25:30
The SnowJobs Podcast
and
01:25:31
All About Green LLC
I started doing plowing for that other guy when I was like 18 years old. He would pay me to drive to Massachusetts and work in Massachusetts. so I'd drive from college to his yard, pick up a truck, drive to Billerica, Massachusetts, plow up there, drive back, and
01:25:48
All About Green LLC
i have a I have a love for snow removal that's that's an insane, which I think we all do.
01:25:48
The SnowJobs Podcast
no shit
01:25:55
The SnowJobs Podcast
We're all insane.
01:25:55
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:25:55
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, we're all absolutely insane to love doing it.
01:25:56
RICK JAMES
That's picture.
01:25:56
All About Green LLC
Yeah.
01:25:57
RICK JAMES
ahs picture
01:25:59
All About Green LLC
My friends in college are like, well, you're nuts.
01:26:00
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh,
01:26:01
All About Green LLC
I'm like, yup. I'm like, I fucking love it.
01:26:02
RICK JAMES
Yep.
01:26:04
RICK JAMES
yep
01:26:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
that's awesome.
01:26:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, good for you. That's the only way to be good at it. we well We always say that you can't be good at this unless you absolutely love it, unless you're crazy enough to love it.
01:26:08
All About Green LLC
Yeah.
01:26:14
All About Green LLC
Definitely.
01:26:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
um
01:26:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
You got anything for us before we let you go, brother?
01:26:17
All About Green LLC
um No, I would just say you know i think thank you guys because you guys have have really brought the whole community together. i mean there's I don't think I obviously would have never met you guys, Sean, and all the people that I've met at Storks and Snow Alliance and everybody else that has such a love and a passion there's not many people out there, you know? um So I think it's really good that it's able to bring together the the whole community with people and then the knowledge um and all that stuff.
01:26:49
All About Green LLC
I think it's just been, it's just been a really, really awesome, awesome thing. So I think you guys just keep running with this and hopefully it just keeps getting bigger and bigger and, and everybody can, ah can learn from it.
01:27:00
All About Green LLC
And yeah.
01:27:02
The SnowJobs Podcast
Seems to get bigger every week. Every week somebody's saying they heard something on an episode that helped them and, you know, Snow Jobs University.
01:27:04
RICK JAMES
Appreciate Yeah,
01:27:08
RICK JAMES
yeah that's what we're here for. Yep.
01:27:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's ah it's ah well a big community now.
01:27:10
All About Green LLC
Oh yeah.
01:27:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
A lot of teachers teaching each other and it's awesome.
01:27:16
All About Green LLC
Definitely. The knowledge part's great.
01:27:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's great.
01:27:18
All About Green LLC
You know, and obviously I use Sean to like, Hey, do you know anybody? And obviously he knows you guys. I think it was the, like what we had, we had an issue. It's like two text messages later. There was like 12 responses. Like, Oh, this is what it is.
01:27:29
All About Green LLC
Check this, check that. Like I would have been lost two years ago without, without being able to do that.
01:27:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
That...
01:27:34
All About Green LLC
I would have been sitting there and trying to read a manual, trying to Google YouTube.
01:27:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
that
01:27:39
All About Green LLC
Nope.
01:27:39
RICK JAMES
Yep.
01:27:39
All About Green LLC
Two text messages and like 20 minutes later we had the problem figured out and like 12 messages. Like that's something I think is like irreplaceable.
01:27:48
The SnowJobs Podcast
i I definitely agree.
01:27:48
RICK JAMES
That's awesome.
01:27:49
The SnowJobs Podcast
i think that is probably the the top thing that's the coolest thing about, you know, the show and the community around it is that literally what you just said, if you, whatever you need in this industry, you get ahold of somebody now.
01:27:54
RICK JAMES
It's the people.
01:28:01
RICK JAMES
Somebody knows it.
01:28:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
And within 10 minutes, you'll have the name and number of the guy to call for your problem to, and they'll help you out.
01:28:09
RICK JAMES
And they'll help you out. Everybody help you out.
01:28:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
Exactly.
01:28:11
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:28:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
it's It's really cool that we ah you know that around this show there's been such a cool community of guys that are all willing to help out and and fix everybody's issues. and if we don't know well like We don't know everything.
01:28:22
RICK JAMES
Yeah. That's what it's all about.
01:28:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
Jeremy knows a lot. I know a little, yeah a hobby pusher.
01:28:25
All About Green LLC
No.
01:28:28
The SnowJobs Podcast
But you know we what we what we do know is we know a lot of fucking snow guys now.
01:28:29
All About Green LLC
Definitely.
01:28:29
RICK JAMES
Know a
01:28:33
RICK JAMES
lot of people, you know.
01:28:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
So you fucking you you send us a question, we're going to put you in touch with the guy that knows the answer best for you.
01:28:34
All About Green LLC
yeah
01:28:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
01:28:41
All About Green LLC
Exactly.
01:28:41
RICK JAMES
Yep.
01:28:41
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's ah pretty cool.
01:28:42
All About Green LLC
and between all the equipment that everybody has, everybody's run into the, like, whatever problem you're having.
01:28:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
hundred percent
01:28:47
All About Green LLC
Somebody's had that problem already.
01:28:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
100%.
01:28:47
RICK JAMES
Yep.
01:28:49
The SnowJobs Podcast
100%.
01:28:49
The SnowJobs Podcast
mean, even, what was it, Matty Young with the Ventrac thing, like right before the storm last year?
01:28:53
RICK JAMES
Yep. yeah
01:28:54
The SnowJobs Podcast
i He was like, I think it's this. my my One of my friends says it's this. and We put him with ah the Ventrac expert, and like 20 minutes later, he like, yeah, no, it's this. Don't worry about it. You got to do this on Monday.
01:29:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
As soon as the place opens, this the part you need. and Done. It's great.
01:29:09
RICK JAMES
ye
01:29:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
Now that's the best part I think about the show. So thank you very much.
01:29:12
All About Green LLC
Yeah, definitely it definitely is.
01:29:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
We appreciate it though, brother.
01:29:15
RICK JAMES
Yeah, thank you, Brian.
01:29:15
All About Green LLC
Thank you, guys. Yep.
01:29:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
No problem. All right. Well, thank you, Brian, for coming on with us, giving us the time. It is late Saturday night. ah He had a and nice little block party today. So we appreciate him putting it together for us and getting on with us and battling that Jersey dial up.
01:29:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
and buts ah That's going to do it for episode 120, 120 episodes of the Snow Jobs podcast main show. All right, guys, everybody watch Storm Chasing Friday night, 8 p.m.
01:29:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
Eastern. Tune into YouTube on the Storm Chasing channel.
01:29:49
RICK JAMES
subscribe.
01:29:50
The SnowJobs Podcast
Check out episode two. And as for everybody else, listen, have a very happy and safe Memorial Day weekend. ah You know, enjoy the time with your families.
01:30:02
The SnowJobs Podcast
Be safe out there. Drink responsibly. Have a great week. And yeah.