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S3-111: Round Table Answering Listener Snow Questions
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The guys welcome back Brandon Reilly from LADC, "Arctic Steve" Smythe of Storm Equipment, and Mike Santolucito of Outdoor Pride to help give their take on some listener snow questions.
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Introduction and Snowstorm Experiences
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The SnowJobs Podcast
All right, Snow Jobs Nation. Here we go back again, bringing you episode 111 of the Snow Jobs Podcast main show, powered by Top Gun Backblades. As always, I'm Steve. You know who's with me?
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Jeremy Lindstrom in the house. What is up, brother?
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RICK JAMES
Hey, Steve-O. ah Not a lot.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
How we doing, man?
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RICK JAMES
up Pretty good. Pretty pretty good.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
How was your big snowstorm?
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RICK JAMES
i'm Pretty exhausted. it this It was a good one. It
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The SnowJobs Podcast
What'd they call for?
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RICK JAMES
the was 4-8 or something.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Four to eight. Oh, man.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
How much did you get?
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RICK JAMES
They downgraded it. They downgraded it and then upgraded And then like 12-wise 4 is supposed to hit. They downgraded again. so What did we get? um think the official total is three tenths.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
man. Nope.
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RICK JAMES
Sorry. yeah Absolutely not.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
ah but Were they all calling for it or were there different different ah reports and different forecasts?
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RICK JAMES
Yeah, it was pretty.
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RICK JAMES
ah All locals were in True Weather was, and then ah Weather Pros never really predicted anything on it, honestly.
Weather Forecast Accuracy and Equipment Versatility
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RICK JAMES
So so they they were the winner.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
They obviously didn't think there was much to worry about.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah, I teched Nick a few times and he and he wasn't too worried about it. So got to give him an A-plus on that one.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Winner, winner. Winner, winner.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
The doctor.
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RICK JAMES
We're going to have to get those guys lab coats so when they go to these trade shows they can wear lab coats.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Definitely.
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RICK JAMES
So they're.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Absolutely. Absolutely. Oh, well, that sucks. So you didn't get to do anything. No pushing at all. Or
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RICK JAMES
Uh, yeah, I did end up pushing. Yeah. I, I pushed some topsoil.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
you did.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
oh okay.
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RICK JAMES
Topsoil.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah. We had 60 mile winds and we had, uh, one of our clients, uh, yeah, they had a lot of dirt. It was up by an empty field and it was a brand new building and they had big tournaments in this weekend and they were tracking mud into the building.
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RICK JAMES
So went over there and we pushed, uh, all right.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, really?
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RICK JAMES
Went over there and pushed some topsoil with the Arctic. So the Arctic will push topsoil.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Glacier to the rescue.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh. Did you freeze?
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RICK JAMES
We're good.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
You back?
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RICK JAMES
I'm back.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
You froze. You froze for a second.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah. Oh, I don't know. Yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
but but All right.
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RICK JAMES
It was, uh, yeah, we pushed, we pushed topsoil and yeah I guess we will push anything. We're that desperate.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
There you go. did And did you pushed it with an Arctic?
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RICK JAMES
Yeah. We're going to broom it, but, uh, the guy to want to broom it. It was, he thought was too wet to broom. So, which I think we could have broomed it, but by broom it later this week, I know we could have, but, uh,
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The SnowJobs Podcast
I think you probably could have. Vroom Vroom will get through it. I think the Vroom Vroom would have done it, right?
00:03:27
RICK JAMES
I would have done the big brooms and big 12-footers.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Okay.
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RICK JAMES
It's a big parking lot. so
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Gotcha. Cool. Anything else going on there?
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RICK JAMES
Absolutely not.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Same here.
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RICK JAMES
Nada.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Nothing. Winter is officially, I believe, over. I don't think, even even though there's, i think we're supposed to get, ah well, 0.50, so a half an inch maybe on ah Wednesday.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
I don't see it. I just, and I don't see it.
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RICK JAMES
They were talking about a little bit coming this week or another trace or something on Wednesday or something, Tuesday, Wednesday, but I don't, don't.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
I'm not believing it.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
For you.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah, I saw that. this album It's out of the forecast already. So it sounds like the city, Minneapolis area, might there they're calling for something down there possibly on Wednesday. So we will see.
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RICK JAMES
I'm going probably get my tankers ah tomorrow and bring them back to the shop get ready for a dust season.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
There you go. There you go. It's coming. It's coming. The interstates are getting dusty. Get it done.
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RICK JAMES
God's juice.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
God's juice time. Gotta love it, brother. Yeah, we um we have little little tiny, like, tenth of an inch, half an inch here and there show up on that 7 to 10 day calendar at 6 a.m.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
And then by 6 p.m. it disappears. And then next 6 a.m. it's there. So, depends, I think, what time the...
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RICK JAMES
Would that be the...
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The SnowJobs Podcast
what time the snow is going to hit, whether or not it's going to be there or not. If it's in the morning, it'll be there.
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RICK JAMES
Would that be...
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The SnowJobs Podcast
i What's that?
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RICK JAMES
Is that the standard tenth to one inch you get every every day?
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, no. Well, yes, but no. Ours is, um I would say, you know, we have that. it it It appears and then disappears and then appears again, disappears. So it's like, you know, I get it. It's 10 days out, but it gets kind of like,
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The SnowJobs Podcast
I don't know. Frustrating when you see it there. 12 hours later, gone. 12 hours later, it's back. It's like that old 80s movie, The Final Countdown. The storm appears, then disappears, reappears.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
But yeah, that's it.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah, it's another frust frustrating winter.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
I think we're done, man.
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RICK JAMES
frustrat winner Yeah, yeah, they had a pretty good...
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The SnowJobs Podcast
It is. Yeah, it's I mean, it's it's over for us. I mean, very frustrating for you, but it seems like for Minnesota, seems like it may have just arrived. They had a push last week.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Didn't Aaron put something out about possible push and ah him on Wednesday?
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RICK JAMES
Two weeks ago.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I saw that, but we'll see.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
So we'll see. might be what it what is What did Rob call it?
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RICK JAMES
Yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Shoulder season? When you have the late winter or the, I don't know Remember all the new terms he was inventing on the ah on the winter weather outlook episode that he did?
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RICK JAMES
and
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RICK JAMES
I don't remember that term, but I wouldn't be surprised.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
You don't remember. All right. I think you said it was shoulder season.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
If we go back to those episodes, I think it was shoulder season.
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RICK JAMES
Shoulder season.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
I'm like, what the fuck is that?
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RICK JAMES
Huh.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
What are you talking about?
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RICK JAMES
Huh.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
oh man. But, yeah, I think it's over for the Northeast.
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RICK JAMES
Shoulder.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
ah Maybe, maybe, maybe one more, possibly, because there are still overnight temperatures are still in the 20s, but daytime temperatures. think we were up to 68, 70 yesterday.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Today it was in the 60s again. So I just don't see it. think we're good, bro.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah, I was hoping that I was hoping somebody would get some if I could head out east again or not, but it doesn't look like that's happening. We've been idle for over a month.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
I wouldn't plan on it.
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RICK JAMES
We've been idle for over a month here, so. Oh,
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The SnowJobs Podcast
well You're going to be out east in a month anyway.
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RICK JAMES
yeah. Yep.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Storks, baby. Storks. So you'll be here before you know it, just not won't be pushing snow.
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RICK JAMES
Storks.
Guests Introduction and Storm Academy Involvement
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RICK JAMES
Yeah, that'll be fine, too.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
but Yes, sir. Well, you've had a busy week, right? you Did you do some teaching, did you?
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RICK JAMES
yeah Yeah, I went down to Storm Academy and helped out there. I wasn't, I guess, planning on doing that, but it was was really fun. Good time. there ah And were all a bunch of great women there out there that were wanting to learn, so it was pretty cool.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
And they requested the legend.
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RICK JAMES
I don't think I was requested, no.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
I heard they paid extra for that. Honestly, i heard they paid storm extra if they could get Jeremy Lindstrom there.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah, really? Well, that would have been great.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Like that was a request.
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RICK JAMES
because Is it checking the mail for me, then? Because I'll take a check.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
um
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RICK JAMES
Because...
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The SnowJobs Podcast
ah We'll have to ask Arctic Steve because we have him with us tonight. We have ah Arctic Steve from Storm Equipment. We got two other Snow Jobs Nation favorites with us.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Brandon Riley from LADC after a hiatus is back with us finally. And Mike Santalicito from ODP, always a favorite for the group. ah winter maybe Like we said, winter may be over in the Northeast for us or close to over, but...
00:07:59
The SnowJobs Podcast
Like we we're also saying, it might just be arriving from Minnesota. They got a push last week, and they might have another one coming this week. Brandon is in full Mickey Mouse Snuggie.
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RICK JAMES
There's the Snuggie.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
He's he's rocking it already.
Upcoming Events and Networking Opportunities
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The SnowJobs Podcast
he's So, you know, we want to hear – we haven't talked to Brandon in a bit, so we want to hear about how his winter's gone for LADC. We definitely want to talk to Steve about – A few successful events that they've recently put on at Storm Academy.
00:08:22
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah That seems to really be taking off for them and going well. So we know we want to hear how they arranged for the legend Rick James to ah to get up there and do some guest spot teaching. And we got a couple of listener questions that were sent into the website that we want to try and ah answer for some guys out there.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
And whatever snow other snow topics that are bothering these guys and they want to kick around. But as always, before we get to that, guys, let's hear from Team Top Gun. We'll be back to do a quick week in review.
00:09:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
All right, guys, we're back. So since we just heard from Top Gun, we might as well put this one first on the Week in Review and stuff we got to get at you. ah Top Gun's doing a special promo right now for all of you black the backblade enthusiasts.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
All right, they're offering $999 off any blade purchased before March 21st, as well as $500 in either plowrite marking stakes or the light-up markers. What the heck are, you know what brand those are?
00:09:49
The SnowJobs Podcast
the light up plow markers.
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RICK JAMES
The light up ones?
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The SnowJobs Podcast
What are they?
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RICK JAMES
fuck.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
I can't remember the brand.
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RICK JAMES
I have those, too.
00:09:55
The SnowJobs Podcast
But, yeah, you can get those or you can get $500 in plow right if everything is paid up within two weeks of your purchase. So March 21st, get $1,000 off your back blade and get an additional $500 in marking stakes or light up snow markers for the plow if you're paid in full within two weeks of the purchase.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
So definitely take advantage of that. That don't happen every day. I don't know if they've had a sale at all yet, so that's good.
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RICK JAMES
No, think they ever had
00:10:22
The SnowJobs Podcast
Give them some money back. Give the boys some money back. There we go. um April 26th, going to be here before we know a guys. That is, as always, Storks Snow Alliance Day. It's the 26th, a welcome party put on sponsored by Case Construction Equipment. We want to thank them for that.
00:10:38
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's going to be on the 25th, the night before. ah If you haven't bought your tickets yet, there are still some tickets available, but they are definitely going quick. All right, so make sure if you're coming, check. Get on the websiteor's website, the Storks website, get it bought and get it done.
00:10:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
Get your hotel rooms in the area, whatever you need to do. It's going to be a great day. We had a great time last year, and I look forward to seeing everybody there. ah the 24th of April. That's the day before the case construction welcome party and two days before Storks Day.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
That is going to be the Influential Encounters Women in Snow group. They're meeting in Pennsylvania. ah They're doing that in conjunction with the Storks Snow Alliance event. So if you're a woman interested in joining this group for their PA meeting ah before Storks, you can find more information on that at influentialencounters.com.
00:11:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
um We've heard nothing but great things. Darcy seems to love being a part of that group. They just were out. I think that's what we were doing. We're talking about a storm Academy, right? Influential encounters with the group.
00:11:37
RICK JAMES
Yep, yep, sure was.
00:11:38
The SnowJobs Podcast
Sweet. You had a good time.
00:11:41
RICK JAMES
Yeah, really good time.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
They're showing you how to run equipment teaching you.
00:11:45
RICK JAMES
Nope, I was showing them.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, you were showing that you shot you didn't learn anything. You didn't learn anything. They didn't show you anything.
00:11:51
RICK JAMES
No.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
No. All right. All right. Just, know, Rick James doesn't give an inch. Nope. Nope. He's the greatest.
00:11:58
RICK JAMES
Okay.
00:11:59
The SnowJobs Podcast
He is the greatest.
00:12:02
RICK JAMES
Ugh.
00:12:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
Uh, but yeah, that, that seemed like a great event. I heard good things about it. And, uh, like i said, if you, if you definitely, if you're a woman out there in snow and you want to be part of a ah group of like-minded women, uh, that are promoting themselves and promoting the group as a whole and sharing information, making each other better, just like we're doing on this show, you know, definitely check out their website, influential encounters.com.
00:12:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
What else, Jay, you got anything else?
00:12:29
RICK JAMES
Our sales going on still.
00:12:30
The SnowJobs Podcast
but I got the usual stuff. Yeah, the Snow Jobs Nation store open and stocked. Get your stuff. I got to actually order more Nation stickers. Snow Jobs Nation stickers.
00:12:40
RICK JAMES
March Madness sales going 20% off everything in the store.
00:12:44
The SnowJobs Podcast
Sweet. Jeremy has lost his mind. He's giving discounts everywhere. Take advantage. This does not happen.
00:12:50
RICK JAMES
just want to get rid of this stuff in my office and get some different stuff.
00:12:55
The SnowJobs Podcast
How many stickers do you have left? Do you have enough stickers out there?
00:12:58
RICK JAMES
No. Nope.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Got to order more. All right.
00:13:00
RICK JAMES
Nope.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, because we got to take some the storks, too.
00:13:02
RICK JAMES
That's funny.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
So that's it. That's all you got left out of all those.
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RICK JAMES
That's it. That's not it.
00:13:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
Holy shit. All right.
00:13:06
RICK JAMES
Yep.
00:13:06
The SnowJobs Podcast
All right. We'll definitely get those ordered. Like and subscribe on whatever platform you listen to us on. That is apparently working. Listen notes dot com. Our listener score went up again. So keep doing that, guys. That's awesome.
00:13:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's great to see. it's It's great for us. It's great for the show. um And we appreciate you on that. You got anything else, buddy?
00:13:28
RICK JAMES
Well, apparently Mike wants more backpacks, he says. Did you ever order those?
00:13:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
More backpacks. Which one? The Snowdrop Nation ones?
00:13:35
RICK JAMES
Yeah, I never got them.
00:13:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
All right.
00:13:38
RICK JAMES
I thought you had ordered some.
00:13:39
The SnowJobs Podcast
I thought I did. i thought I ordered them. yeah Maybe I didn't. I'm in 100 different directions right now. So I will definitely get them done, Mike.
00:13:45
RICK JAMES
It was like three months ago.
00:13:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
I will do them tomorrow. What's that?
00:13:49
RICK JAMES
You said that like three months ago ordered them.
00:13:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah Well, it hasn't changed. Unfortunately, it has not changed yet. I keep waiting for it to ah to change a little bit, but it doesn't seem to. It's just the new normal. So I will definitely get that done tomorrow, Mike.
00:14:02
The SnowJobs Podcast
going to write that down literally right now on my phone so that I remember to do that in the morning for you. Order more Snow Jobs Nation backpacks for Mikey.
00:14:10
RICK JAMES
you
00:14:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
Got it. Done.
00:14:12
RICK JAMES
but
00:14:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
All right. Let's hear from our sponsors. If Jeremy's got nothing else, or our partners, rather, and we'll be back and get off with the boys here. Ready? Good? All right. Roll them.
00:15:28
The SnowJobs Podcast
All right, we're back, guys. So let's bring in the boys, all right? Steve, Brandon, Mike, how are we, guys? are we doing?
00:15:36
Brandon Reilly
We're good.
00:15:38
Steve Smythe
Doing good.
00:15:38
Mike
Doing great.
00:15:39
The SnowJobs Podcast
Great. We do have to make one more announcement ah and for the because Brandon actually reminded me. Brandon was putting in the little group chat there. ah The Rev Theory music makes me want to watch Blue Mountain State.
00:15:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
They are doing another season. They just announced that last week. I shit you not.
00:15:57
Brandon Reilly
Reacher's going back as that
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Reacher is going back as Thad Castle.
00:15:59
RICK JAMES
the No way.
00:16:00
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep. Yes. Yeah, they announced it. I can't remember what network is doing it, but yes, they arere they're definitely doing it.
00:16:08
RICK JAMES
What are they doing?
00:16:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
Crazy, right?
00:16:09
RICK JAMES
Alumni? Alumni game or something or what?
00:16:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
I don't know. i have no idea what the premise is, what the storyline will be, but they did say there's a new season of Blue Mountain State coming. Hopefully they use the same music.
00:16:19
RICK JAMES
Huh.
00:16:21
Brandon Reilly
Yeah.
00:16:22
RICK JAMES
Yeah, it's a great show.
00:16:22
Brandon Reilly
Hopefully they bring Sad Castle back because just made...
00:16:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, he's in. He's in. but He was the one that made the announcement. He's in. Definitely. So that we have to look forward to that, too. Maybe we'll get a mention. think Snowdrops could get a mention on there.
00:16:35
RICK JAMES
Yeah. Oh, God, yeah, I'm sure.
00:16:36
Mike
Probably.
00:16:38
Steve Smythe
But maybe they'll put you guys in the episode.
00:16:41
The SnowJobs Podcast
Wow, that'd be even better.
00:16:42
Steve Smythe
me
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The SnowJobs Podcast
maybe Maybe Jeremy. I'm nobody. Maybe Jeremy, though.
00:16:45
RICK JAMES
Yep.
00:16:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
I'm apparently even bigger nobody because Arctic Steve is taking credit for being me, I hear, all over the place.
00:16:47
RICK JAMES
and
00:16:52
Steve Smythe
That was my, well, there was many, many many highlights, many highlights from Storm Academy this this last week, but like that was one of them.
00:16:53
RICK JAMES
yep yeah
00:17:00
Steve Smythe
lady come over and I won't say names, but she came over and she said, I really, really appreciate you doing this snow podcast. And Johnny from Arctic standing next to me he's kind of looking at me I'm like, you are so welcome. I i so appreciate you so much for listening.
00:17:16
Mike
yeah
00:17:16
The SnowJobs Podcast
And Big Daddy didn't blow you up?
00:17:16
RICK JAMES
but
00:17:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
oh man. That
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RICK JAMES
um Big Daddy was Snapchatting me. He's like, hey, there's this lady over here who thinks this is Steve from the podcast.
00:17:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
great. See?
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Mike
It's
00:17:25
Steve Smythe
I'm just trying to get it from Arctic Steve to podcast Steve, whatever way it happens.
00:17:26
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah
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RICK JAMES
As we're like, yeah, it's not going to happen.
00:17:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah that is great oh
00:17:31
Mike
a compliment.
00:17:31
Steve Smythe
and then And then you spilled you spilled the beans.
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RICK JAMES
him
00:17:33
Steve Smythe
Jeremy was a surprise ah surprise coach out there, but he was requested. We just didn't pay him. We just told him he was coming for a blueberry donut.
00:17:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
see
00:17:41
RICK JAMES
ah ah Oh, shoot.
00:17:42
The SnowJobs Podcast
they withheld your They withheld your appearance fee.
00:17:45
Mike
Black bag, white van.
00:17:47
Steve Smythe
I couldn't even get that for him.
00:17:49
Brandon Reilly
I think this your favorite because you can be in two places at once, Steve.
00:17:49
RICK JAMES
Yeah, I did request them.
00:17:52
Brandon Reilly
you could I mean, the illusion of Steve is everywhere.
00:17:54
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's it. That's it. That's it. Oh, man.
00:17:58
RICK JAMES
Huh.
00:17:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, we did I did hear about that. I heard somebody's taking credit for your moves, bro.
00:18:02
Steve Smythe
yeah
00:18:03
RICK JAMES
ah
00:18:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah
00:18:05
Steve Smythe
As I was sitting with the juice box in my hand.
00:18:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's. That's awesome.
00:18:07
Steve Smythe
That
00:18:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
So when one of the when somebody wants to pick me off, they'll ah so associate your face with that guy.
00:18:08
RICK JAMES
Yeah. Yeah.
00:18:12
Steve Smythe
could be.
00:18:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
so wow
00:18:14
Steve Smythe
ah couldn't that could be
00:18:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
oh That's funny as hell. So, I mean, we can start with that since you guys ah you guys did that. The yeah Influential Encounters had ah an event at Storm Academy. That was a pretty big deal. So why don't you tell us how that day went?
00:18:28
Steve Smythe
We had that on Wednesday. Val Lisek and gi Jillian Burns co-hosts organized the influential encounters for that. And Darcy that works for us at Storm did just an amazing job of putting it together on our our and and working with the working with all the ladies that came in for that. It was, it was so awesome.
00:18:48
Steve Smythe
These ladies are from all over the different snow organizations around the country and they all do different aspects of our industry from, you know, there was operators there, uh, ones that run sidewalk crews to office and owners.
00:19:03
Steve Smythe
Um, and it's kind of all aspects. So was pretty cool. We weren't able to make snow because it was what it was a Jeremy almost 68 degrees that day, but, uh, we had, uh,
00:19:12
Brandon Reilly
you
00:19:13
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:19:14
Steve Smythe
We had a big pile in the back. We were able to bust snow up and spread it around. So I guess they said it looked like a true northeast snowfall, wet and slush.
00:19:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
Sweet.
00:19:21
Steve Smythe
So we were able to do that. They got in some machines and we did a little education. We had Jeremy, I got plenty of photos of him being the loader operator.
00:19:31
Steve Smythe
So had a bunch of, nope, he did a phenomenal job.
00:19:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
nobody Nobody better at that.
00:19:34
RICK JAMES
Oh.
00:19:35
Mike
Nope.
00:19:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
Just ask them.
00:19:38
Steve Smythe
And, and, and,
00:19:39
RICK JAMES
You don't have to ask me, I'll tell you.
00:19:41
Steve Smythe
And for the record, I did take away stuff from that. Every time we do one of these or whatever, I do learn stuff from from these different people. So I am open-minded a little bit. but
00:19:50
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's awesome. That's awesome.
00:19:52
RICK JAMES
You're such a liar.
00:19:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
What'd you learn? What'd you learn?
00:19:54
Steve Smythe
I learned I'm ah Steve from the podcast.
00:19:56
The SnowJobs Podcast
There you go.
00:19:58
Steve Smythe
Thank you.
00:19:59
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah ah That's great.
00:20:00
RICK JAMES
so
00:20:01
The SnowJobs Podcast
um But that that is a really cool thing.
00:20:01
RICK JAMES
the
00:20:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
I'll tell you, jordan Jordan's got to watch out that Darcy doesn't just ditch Storm and just become a party planner because, man, does she she puts on great events.
00:20:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
Like, she just crushes event planning.
00:20:17
Steve Smythe
She does such a she does a really great job with that.
00:20:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
She really does.
00:20:19
Steve Smythe
And just I mean, yeah, she just I mean, she's so passionate with it. And yeah, it was great.
00:20:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
She kills it. She kills it every time out.
00:20:25
Mike
That's what you need.
00:20:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, that's awesome. I'm glad they had a great day. Was it one day or two days? What'd they do out there?
00:20:31
Steve Smythe
It was one one day um they came in and we did it on Wednesday. They flew in. most of them flew in like Tuesday afternoon and then left left Thursday at different times.
00:20:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
Cool.
00:20:40
Steve Smythe
So it was a, it was a great event.
00:20:42
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:20:43
Steve Smythe
That was our fourth one of the year. We had a few groups prior to that and yeah, it's ah each, each one we do, it gets a little better and a little more, a little more comfortable doing it.
00:20:54
Steve Smythe
And we have a great group of, yeah, great group of vendor partners that have equipment there as well.
00:20:56
RICK JAMES
That was good.
00:21:00
Steve Smythe
So it's, ah it's awesome, you know.
00:21:02
Mike
Good for you guys.
00:21:02
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's great, man. That's great. It's great that it's coming to fruition how it was envisioned.
00:21:07
Steve Smythe
Mm-hmm.
00:21:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's really cool.
00:21:09
RICK JAMES
Yeah, there's a i mean there's any kind equipment you want there to use to try out and they They tried them everything.
00:21:09
The SnowJobs Podcast
I think dis sky's the limit for it.
00:21:16
RICK JAMES
they we had both set up and we had three different loader guys driving loaders. and They had the brine sprayer going. They had sidewalks. They had um yeah pickups.
00:21:27
RICK JAMES
They had... don't know what else they had.
00:21:28
Steve Smythe
Yeah, we had pickup plows, loaders, we had sidewalk equipment, brine equipment out there.
00:21:33
RICK JAMES
Oh,
00:21:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
You let somebody use your Razorback? Oh, okay.
00:21:37
Steve Smythe
Johnny, and like he kind of i said I told him he could rent it.
00:21:37
RICK JAMES
yeah.
00:21:39
The SnowJobs Podcast
just Just John. um Okay.
00:21:42
Steve Smythe
He had to come back clean.
00:21:43
RICK JAMES
I don't
00:21:44
Steve Smythe
he had to wash it when he was done. Yeah.
00:21:48
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, that's great, man. I'm glad the Storm Academy is is working.
00:21:49
RICK JAMES
know.
00:21:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
it's just
00:21:51
Steve Smythe
yeah
00:21:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's a great idea. It's great for the industry. It's great for companies to be able to get out there and train their guys in actual conditions.
00:21:57
Steve Smythe
It's just something that's needed.
00:21:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
100%.
00:21:58
Steve Smythe
You know, there is nothing nothing really else out there.
00:22:00
The SnowJobs Podcast
hundred percent
00:22:01
Steve Smythe
We do our snow rodeos in the fall and whatnot and go through some operator training and then, but it's this this is real world. You're not under the gun, you know? You're not pressured.
00:22:09
The SnowJobs Podcast
Absolutely.
00:22:09
Mike
Yeah, you get time to think and breathe and pivot and
00:22:09
The SnowJobs Podcast
No, I love it.
00:22:12
Steve Smythe
Yes. Yeah, we had a couple weeks back, we had a girl that was in one of the truck plows and she just said, this is so awesome.
00:22:13
RICK JAMES
yeah
00:22:19
Steve Smythe
She goes, every time I ask during a snowstorm, everybody's so busy to help, you know? Just spend the time.
00:22:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. You're under, you're under pressure.
00:22:24
Steve Smythe
but
00:22:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
You're under the gun. Yeah.
00:22:26
Steve Smythe
And that was me, me for years, you know, somebody needs some help or you got a new guy, you go spend 15 minutes and you jump in a machine and yeah you're on the next fire and then you'd feel guilty driving to the next job because you didn't you didn't even give this person a chance, you know, so.
00:22:39
Steve Smythe
But, oh, it's pretty cool.
00:22:39
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's cool.
00:22:39
RICK JAMES
yeah
00:22:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
And so are you guys taking reservations already for next season?
00:22:44
Steve Smythe
We will, we're just we're just talking about that now and starting to get that all lined up and by Simon will have a ah calendar up and.
00:22:44
RICK JAMES
Bye.
00:22:51
Steve Smythe
different dates picked and whatnot. So hopefully next year it's not 68 degrees in March and we can we can actually use the snowmaker.
00:22:56
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:22:56
Mike
Right.
00:22:58
Steve Smythe
That was the that was the the tough part this year. was just a bizarre year as Brandon knows. and
00:23:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
going to have to put up one of those domes, one of those like inflatable domes that you can climate control.
00:23:05
Steve Smythe
it
00:23:10
Steve Smythe
Oh, it's been talked about.
00:23:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
but um I bet.
00:23:11
Steve Smythe
It's
00:23:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
There you go. and that You can do it.
00:23:15
Steve Smythe
been talked about.
00:23:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
You can do it.
00:23:16
Steve Smythe
Yep.
00:23:16
The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, you got to let me know.
00:23:17
RICK JAMES
You can do anything if you got the right capital.
00:23:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. When you start, when you start scheduling, let me know so we can, you know, Jeremy schedule fills up very fast.
00:23:19
Steve Smythe
Well, it's just nice and and our journey
00:23:25
Steve Smythe
Yep.
00:23:26
RICK JAMES
God.
00:23:26
Steve Smythe
And just thanks again, Jeremy, for coming. It's just, you know, you're one of a kind and you and I, you and I just mesh so well.
00:23:30
RICK JAMES
ah Yeah.
00:23:32
Steve Smythe
I mean, we met a few years, we knew each other, but we met, met, you know, ah down at GIE here, what, couple years back and just start becoming good friends. And just the way you run your snow operations is pretty much carbon copy to what I did.
00:23:41
RICK JAMES
Mm-hmm.
00:23:46
Steve Smythe
It's just the group, the groups that, you know, work underneath you, you're the glue of that. So it's just, that's how you and I mesh so well. It's pretty sweet.
00:23:53
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, you guys are totally in sync.
00:23:54
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:23:55
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's like you do a podcast together every week for the last two years.
00:24:00
Steve Smythe
Don't I?
00:24:00
RICK JAMES
ah Yeah.
00:24:02
The SnowJobs Podcast
man, it's great.
00:24:03
Mike
i mean, you're here now.
00:24:04
Steve Smythe
this
00:24:06
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's so funny. Yeah, that was a great phone call to get. Yo, they're doing Storm Academy. Steve Smythe is out here saying he's you. I'm like, okay.
00:24:14
Steve Smythe
no I wasn't saying anything.
00:24:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
Okay.
00:24:16
Steve Smythe
I was just nodding my head.
00:24:16
RICK JAMES
He didn't say he was here.
00:24:17
Steve Smythe
They were saying I was you.
00:24:19
RICK JAMES
They thought, yeah.
00:24:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
I somebody called me and told me you had a hello.
00:24:21
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:24:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
My name is name tag with Steve from the podcast.
00:24:24
Steve Smythe
but
00:24:25
RICK JAMES
Yeah,
00:24:25
Steve Smythe
My name's Steve. No, that was when we were out in Chicago filming Arctic. I had my name Steve Velarde on my shirt.
00:24:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah That's awesome. That is awesome.
00:24:35
Steve Smythe
right
00:24:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
Multiple places at once.
00:24:35
Steve Smythe
ah good
00:24:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
I love it.
00:24:37
Steve Smythe
Good time. good Good people.
00:24:37
Mike
Thank you.
00:24:38
Steve Smythe
Great time. Sound like everybody had a ah good time, so that's awesome.
00:24:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's awesome. Yeah, that's that's what it's all about.
00:24:43
RICK JAMES
that was definitely fun.
00:24:44
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's great.
00:24:44
Steve Smythe
the shout Shout out to the Storm ah storm Equipment Group, too, that helped out with it. I mean, these guys are phenomenal. so
00:24:50
The SnowJobs Podcast
They're all awesome.
00:24:50
Steve Smythe
Yep, good people.
00:24:51
RICK JAMES
Yeah, yeah, i was good.
00:24:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
They're all awesome. you're yeah If there's a better culture out there from a dealership, I would love to see it.
00:24:53
RICK JAMES
All right.
00:24:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
If anybody, I mean, maybe Storks. Like you think about that event that they put on every year, and that is a 100% participation.
00:25:04
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:25:06
The SnowJobs Podcast
Everybody comes in and makes that go. And we just basing it off of one year, we didn't go the first year, but last year we were there, and we didn't need for anything. So, I mean, and you look at how successful they are.
00:25:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
So there's there's definitely a correlation between great culture, you know, makes great people want to work there and go the extra mile.
00:25:17
Steve Smythe
Yeah.
00:25:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
And right now it's the extra mile seems like it's extreme.
00:25:25
Steve Smythe
Yeah,
00:25:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
Just doing like just doing the right thing is is incredible. Like, oh, my God, this doesn't happen anymore. So.
00:25:35
Steve Smythe
I'm super excited to get out to Storks. Last year, my daughter got married that when you guys were out there, so I couldn't miss that.
00:25:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, you missed the fight.
00:25:42
Steve Smythe
I missed enough in her life, so with snow, i couldn't do I couldn't miss the wedding.
00:25:42
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, you missed the fight.
00:25:45
Steve Smythe
and
00:25:45
The SnowJobs Podcast
No, you can't miss that, bro. You can't miss that.
00:25:47
Steve Smythe
Oh, yeah.
00:25:48
The SnowJobs Podcast
There'll always be another snow show.
00:25:49
Steve Smythe
oh yeah
00:25:50
Mike
Mm-hmm.
00:25:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. yeah I don't know. Is there, is, are you in training yet, Jeremy? Are you, are you training for the, for the round two?
00:25:59
RICK JAMES
Oh, always, always ready. I'm always, always ready.
00:26:01
The SnowJobs Podcast
You're always ready to go.
00:26:03
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:26:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah
00:26:04
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:26:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
Did you, ah you saw the pictures?
00:26:05
RICK JAMES
I'll knock them out. USA, baby.
00:26:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
You saw the pictures, right? Of the, ah of the, the new jet black snow jobs edition Arctic.
00:26:11
RICK JAMES
What pictures?
00:26:16
RICK JAMES
Oh, yeah. Yeah. The couple you shot me. Yeah, those are pretty nice.
00:26:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
That is going to be sick. ah The logos are going on. So yeah. What are we going to do with that? You want to raffle it? You want to, what do you feel like?
00:26:30
RICK JAMES
like that yeah i think we should just sell raffle tickets for it or something like that. Or do what other people do, sell raffle tickets.
00:26:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
right
00:26:37
RICK JAMES
or um yeah We'll figure it out.
00:26:39
Mike
What the first box coming off the assembly line?
00:26:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah It is we It's a special edition They made ah a jet black Arctic With the snow jobs logos on the side plates
00:26:40
RICK JAMES
ah fair
00:26:50
Mike
Nice. That's what to raffle off.
00:26:50
Brandon Reilly
Cool.
00:26:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
The Snowjobs Nation. Yeah. So it looks sick.
00:26:54
Mike
It's sick.
00:26:54
The SnowJobs Podcast
It looks really sick.
00:26:55
Steve Smythe
That's a 10-footer.
00:26:55
The SnowJobs Podcast
It was, that like, yeah, 10-footer, LD10. They didn't like the – Spencer was, like, super – like, he was like a hawk on that thing. Like, I just said jet black, and he's like, we got something better.
00:27:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
We got this, like, a metallic black.
00:27:09
RICK JAMES
Yeah, I heard about that. Mm-hmm.
00:27:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
Like, it it really jumps out at you.
00:27:11
Mike
I got a black you've never seen before.
00:27:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's like the – Yeah, it's like the he said, the jet black is great, but I got something special for you. Like, we'll we'll make this real nice. And, you he sent a couple pictures of it painted, and it's like, holy crap, man, that thing looks so sick. It really looks cool.
00:27:28
The SnowJobs Podcast
So can't wait to see it.
00:27:29
RICK JAMES
You're going
00:27:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
The rumor is it'll be at Storks. So hopefully it does make it out there. We can see it. But it should be pretty cool.
00:27:35
RICK JAMES
to be badass.
00:27:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
thanks Big thanks to Arctic for that one. That's ah that's awesome.
00:27:38
RICK JAMES
Oh, yeah.
Snow Equipment and Industry Events
00:27:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
Phenomenal. they've been They've been awesome. They've been great. But, the yeah, we get ah do we we got hats coming for Storks, Jay, with the new logo?
00:27:48
RICK JAMES
i Yeah, I'll call them tomorrow. they were supposed to give me that logo or that, whatchamacallit, the what we call it the the
00:27:55
Steve Smythe
Improve.
00:27:56
RICK JAMES
proof of it.
00:27:56
The SnowJobs Podcast
The proof, yep.
00:27:57
RICK JAMES
yeah so
00:27:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
Sweet.
00:27:59
RICK JAMES
So i'll call I'll call tomorrow, Spencer out there, Media Shack, and I'll see what's up.
00:28:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
I can't wait for storks, man. The winter's great. I love snow. I love pushing snow, but I miss seeing everybody. Like when you're traveling all from the spring all the way to almost the winter and then you got to, know, we don't see anybody for what, three months, four months.
00:28:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
That sucks. It really does.
00:28:20
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:28:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
So we haven't seen it everybody since October and some of them since before that. So it's, it's good. It'll, it'll, I'm excited to get back out there and see most of the guys and, you know, meet a bunch of new people.
00:28:32
The SnowJobs Podcast
Be cool. Can't wait.
00:28:33
RICK JAMES
Is Patty Salmon doing the thing yet? Did we decide on that? Or is doing the... ze don ah
00:28:37
The SnowJobs Podcast
May. ah Yeah, I got to call him tomorrow. That's another thing I got to write on my phone. I could do tomorrow. We got to firm a date for that. But yeah, he's definitely they said they're doing it.
00:28:47
Brandon Reilly
Is that T9 or the iPhone?
00:28:50
The SnowJobs Podcast
What's that?
00:28:51
Brandon Reilly
Is that nine or are you going to use your iPhone?
00:28:54
The SnowJobs Podcast
No, no, I'm putting on the flip phone.
00:28:57
RICK JAMES
Yeah. ah
00:29:00
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, man. I'm still figuring this tech stuff out, man. It's it's crazy. It's crazy. um
00:29:06
Steve Smythe
Patrick's event was awesome.
00:29:06
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, so, yeah, that's a the the Northeast De-Icing Solutions. That was a great first event, and that's only going to get better as well. And that's it man. Like 1% better every year.
00:29:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
Just keep building these events, these small regional events that start out small, and and they're going to blow up.
00:29:19
Steve Smythe
Okay.
00:29:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
They're going to blow up because not everybody can afford to travel to the big ones.
00:29:26
Mike
Where's, when's your event?
00:29:28
Steve Smythe
no
00:29:29
Brandon Reilly
Yeah.
00:29:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
What's that?
00:29:30
Mike
When's your event?
00:29:30
The SnowJobs Podcast
The big one, the big one, the big one's coming.
00:29:33
Mike
Yeah, what are we thinking? and We're a year away? We're two years away? Five years?
00:29:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, if if we weren't working so much this winter, I lost a lot of steam on that project this winter, but I would say 2026.
00:29:36
RICK JAMES
Thank you.
00:29:44
Mike
Nice.
00:29:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
I would say that's when you could when you could see it coming. And yeah, i the the person I've been chatting with is...
00:29:49
Mike
That's okay. Perfection takes time. We get it.
00:29:53
Mike
ah just gonna throw something together and shove it out there and sell it for a song.
00:29:56
The SnowJobs Podcast
No, you don't want to do that. you want to and And we also want to hear from people what they actually want. you know like what What do you not feel like you get from current shows that you go to? What do you want it to feel like? What do you want it to be like? Do you want it to be more like a a networking event? Do you want it to be more seminar-based?
00:30:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
you know Do you want to be, okay, we'll have, like say, 10, 15 breakout roundtable groups, and each of them are in a different topic. Register for those where you can kick it you know kick the ball around the table for an hour and a half with other guys.
00:30:23
Mike
Thank you.
00:30:26
The SnowJobs Podcast
You know, ah we got to figure out what everybody wants as far as that stuff. You know, you'll ah you'll always have the trade show. You know, you'll always have the equipment and stuff to look at and all that stuff.
00:30:37
Steve Smythe
those round Those roundtable discussions, you can learn so much just, you know, instead of listening to one person up doing the seminar, you can roundtable, just get information from other contractors and not even in your market stuff.
00:30:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
Absolutely.
00:30:49
The SnowJobs Podcast
Who's watching TV? Who's watching TV right now?
00:30:50
RICK JAMES
no
00:30:52
Mike
I just turned on the video that Jeremy sent.
00:30:56
The SnowJobs Podcast
don't Don't open anything Jeremy sends you.
00:30:58
Steve Smythe
and
00:30:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's a trap. It's a trap.
00:30:59
Mike
Not on on the computer.
00:31:00
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah,
00:31:02
Brandon Reilly
It sounds like you turned out the sound of music in the background.
00:31:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
yeah. yeah i was like, holy crap.
00:31:05
RICK JAMES
I did not send you that kind of video.
00:31:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:31:08
RICK JAMES
I was just sending them. I just forgot to send the guys a picture me pushing that dirt last night. so I sent it to him.
00:31:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
Uh, but yeah, we're gonna, we're gonna keep, we're gonna keep working on it and, uh, we'll get it right. but You don't want to release something half-assed. So, uh, like I said, we lost a little steam this winter with such a busy winter, but, uh, so Brandon, welcome
Winter Season Recap and Weather Model Accuracy
00:31:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
back, brother. How's it been for you this winter?
00:31:30
Brandon Reilly
It's been about the same as last year, except
00:31:32
The SnowJobs Podcast
oh really? Really?
00:31:33
Brandon Reilly
ah it's funny because like temperature-wise, it's complete opposite. Last last winter was was warm. ah for all of it and low snow. Like last year we topped out at 34 inches is what the central part of the Twin Cities came out as their official numbers, at least to True Weather Certified so snow totals.
00:31:52
Brandon Reilly
And I was just looking and right now we're sitting at 29.8. Obviously we haven't at the end of March or April yet. Um, last year, March for us was 18 inches of snow. And if I remember right, both of those, it was two storms. There were two big storms where they were just weekend storms.
00:32:10
Brandon Reilly
So it's possible for us to get, you know, maybe a, another couple inches of snow here to get over that 30, 30 inch mark.
00:32:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
yeah
00:32:18
Brandon Reilly
Um, lots of de-icing. We've gone through record salt this year and the salt, Salt was shit this year. It was just terrible this year. It was so bad. there was so much moisture into it.
00:32:31
Brandon Reilly
It was.
00:32:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
We've heard that everywhere.
00:32:31
Steve Smythe
A lot of that salt here was all stuff that was carry over from last year yet in the piles.
00:32:32
The SnowJobs Podcast
We've heard that everywhere.
00:32:35
Brandon Reilly
you Yeah. And maybe even before then too, right? Like, I mean, it was just, it was so bad.
00:32:41
Steve Smythe
Yep.
00:32:41
Brandon Reilly
I think I did a couple tests that some came out between nine and 14% moisture inside the salt.
00:32:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
Really?
00:32:47
Brandon Reilly
And so, you you know, you'd lay, your guys would go lay and it would just, you know, drop right through the snow and and it wouldn't do, wouldn't do anything.
00:32:48
RICK JAMES
well
00:32:53
Brandon Reilly
So,
00:32:54
The SnowJobs Podcast
The one-inch circle around the pellet. Oh, man, that sucks.
00:32:57
Brandon Reilly
They're like, oh, there's all this salt everywhere. And it's like, it they're trying to get it to burn.
00:33:02
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:33:04
Brandon Reilly
um So yeah, they they're saying we're, think it was talking to Jeremy before, True Weather put out their threat assessment for Wednesday. It looks like we might see maybe maybe an inch and a half to three, depending ah where this thing kind of shifts. It's still too far out to say.
00:33:20
Brandon Reilly
what's gonna happen. Plus I've been watching the our camera systems and our pavement temperatures have been so warm. I mean, this weekend, obviously the stuff that Jeremy got the 0.3 on the Northwest corner of Minnesota, we got that four to eight.
00:33:34
Brandon Reilly
So right on that hovering side. and um And, but down here in the Twin Cities, they were saying we were gonna get anywhere from 0.1 to an inch. And we maybe got a couple sleeting flakes throughout the day, but pavement temperatures were 44 degrees.
00:33:48
Brandon Reilly
So, you know, nothing came of it.
00:33:49
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep, nothing happening.
00:33:51
Brandon Reilly
Yep. So we'll see, you know, the first half inch is going to melt for sure.
00:33:52
Steve Smythe
We'll see.
00:33:54
Brandon Reilly
We're just, we're too warm. The sun will be out. It's a daytime event. So we'll see.
00:33:58
Steve Smythe
The good thing is it does look like on the GFS as it's tonight, it looked like that thing might move in Tuesday night, though. So it would be kind of a carbon copy like we had last two weeks ago Tuesday when we got that foot.
00:34:04
Brandon Reilly
Okay.
00:34:08
Brandon Reilly
Yep. Yep.
00:34:09
Steve Smythe
So it'd be nice finish off the season with another concrete 12 inches.
00:34:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
has
00:34:15
Brandon Reilly
Another six to 10, that would do it.
00:34:15
Steve Smythe
Okay.
00:34:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah
00:34:17
Brandon Reilly
That would, that would,
00:34:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
yeah Has there been a model, one of the models that have stood out as better than the other models for you guys this year? Like more accurate?
00:34:25
Steve Smythe
It was like the GFS is the carrot, you know, that dangles. What do you think, Brandon?
00:34:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
For you? Yeah. But does it pan out?
00:34:30
Steve Smythe
feels like, you know, it was.
00:34:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
like Because for us, the Euro has pretty accurate this year.
00:34:35
Mike
Yeah.
00:34:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
pretty accurate this year GFS has been like, like you said, Steve, they're, they're fucking showing you mega storms.
00:34:42
Steve Smythe
Yeah,
00:34:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
And then they just disappear and drop off and get like, get in line.
00:34:44
Steve Smythe
it was like, like Fargo this week, it was there, was there.
00:34:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
And they get in line with. Yeah.
00:34:49
Brandon Reilly
Thank you.
00:34:49
Steve Smythe
And then when it finally started loading up on the NAMM and then the NAMM 3K, it started moving over to the east a little bit. and
00:34:55
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:34:55
Steve Smythe
So it feels like that GFS kind of dangles the carrot, gets everybody excited. Then when it it narrows it down, it tightens it up a little bit, but.
00:35:00
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:35:01
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. The Euro has been the one long range model that seemed to have seemed to stay in line when the short range models come out. It seems to be agreement with them that,
00:35:10
Mike
Yeah. It's usually not like that for us, Steve, right?
00:35:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
No, no. Usually, well it was last year, too. The Euro was what they were going on last year a lot, too. like nick Nick kept saying that, that the Euro has been the most reliable as far as being in the ballpark that that'll far out.
00:35:26
Mike
Yeah. Yeah.
00:35:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
But years past, it was always a GFS. like i was The GFS was was always on Canadian, forget it, Icon, whatever.
00:35:34
Mike
Yeah.
00:35:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, no.
00:35:36
Mike
Usually for us, the Euro was like snowmageddon. Didn't matter what was coming through. It was saying, oh, it's going the worst 30 inches of your life. Here's three.
00:35:43
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:35:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, exactly.
00:35:43
RICK JAMES
yeah
00:35:45
The SnowJobs Podcast
Exactly.
00:35:45
Steve Smythe
Mm-hmm.
00:35:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, it was right. It's been right on the tracking, though, um which has been good. The the snowfall, I mean, the snowfall has been pretty good.
00:35:51
Mike
yeah
00:35:54
The SnowJobs Podcast
i can't say like that anybody like weather pros has been pretty close. You know, if they're calling for one to three, you're getting one to three, maybe three and a half out of that.
00:36:06
The SnowJobs Podcast
You know, they've they've been pretty good. There was only the one storm. Like I said, the one storm. in November where they said, you know, Valley, just, you know, wet pavement. And we got six on the pavement.
00:36:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
That was the only one. And everybody got that wrong. So you can't really hold that against them. Everybody got that wrong. But other than that, they've been pretty dead on for us this year. They missed one changeover by four or five hours where the, you know, the event was going to change over to so freezing rain, which we talked about in a previous episode.
Spring Transition Challenges
00:36:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
That was a, that was a little bit of a pain in the ass, but again, everybody missed that. So
00:36:41
Brandon Reilly
I do wish they had a platform, though, instead of just the texting part of it.
00:36:44
The SnowJobs Podcast
they do now they're coming with it.
00:36:45
Brandon Reilly
Yeah. Yeah.
00:36:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. They're starting it there. And they also have their snow ruler. but think That's a horrible idea.
00:36:51
RICK JAMES
Oh yeah, I saw that. Snow ruler.
00:36:54
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah
00:36:54
RICK JAMES
It's great idea.
00:36:55
The SnowJobs Podcast
You're going to give guys rulers. They're going to be taking pictures of things you don't want to get pictures of with the ruler.
00:36:59
RICK JAMES
Like what? Like what, Steve?
00:37:00
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah Oh, I don't know if if it's a glacier on Wiener Wednesdays. Any number of hot dogs can be measured out there, right?
00:37:08
RICK JAMES
You never know.
00:37:09
The SnowJobs Podcast
Next to the ruler.
00:37:09
Steve Smythe
and I will make sure, Jeremy, when come up, I have my ruler.
00:37:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
You never know.
00:37:12
RICK JAMES
I've been
00:37:15
RICK JAMES
I've been charging rulers, Steve. That ain't happening.
00:37:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's funny.
00:37:21
Mike
Jeremy decides where the base is.
00:37:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
but
00:37:25
Steve Smythe
Jackie, we need a measurement.
00:37:25
RICK JAMES
i'll i'll I'll certify it.
00:37:28
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, man. Mikey, what's going on with you, buddy? You guys doing spring cleanups already up there?
00:37:34
Mike
sent guys out yesterday and today, starting the sand sites, getting ahead of them, and then We're already starting to pull snow stakes on some sites.
00:37:44
Mike
I've got clients email me as a Friday, asking when the equipment's going to leave us at not, not for the month, Jack, like April 15th, that's your contract date.
00:37:45
RICK JAMES
Hmm.
00:37:53
Mike
It's staying there.
00:37:53
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, right?
00:37:54
Mike
and
00:37:54
Brandon Reilly
They've been asking him for that for two months now.
00:37:56
The SnowJobs Podcast
but
00:37:56
Mike
I know.
00:37:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
They want you pulling stakes before the contract's up?
00:38:01
Mike
Yeah. I, a lot of them fall over like it, the fiberglass ones, it doesn't matter. Someone's either going walk by it, you know, hit it with their backpack on their way and knock it over and I even pick it up or, someone around the corner on these islands or whatever, and they're just laying down and we're not there every day.
00:38:14
Mike
So we don't see it. And their onsite team's not going to grab it.
00:38:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. Yeah.
00:38:16
Mike
So it's just messy. You know, they just want to get it tidied up. The weather's good. They're out walking. know, the boss is probably out doing some tours in the buildings and they're seeing it. So that's why we got ahead of the sand, got some ownership tours coming up and same thing on some other sites. So just trying to get ahead of it while we can and the weather's good.
00:38:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
We recommend that they leave them in, but there are sites like right now where it's pretty much obvious that I don't think we're getting anything else. But you never know. With the Northeast, ah you know, one of those late March, early April nor'easters could come up the coast.
00:38:42
Mike
Yeah.
00:38:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
Who knows? But the pattern hasn't supported it yet. But we actually just, we we we tell them when they call and want the stakes removed, we'll remove them. Or you can have, if you if we're not doing the the lawn on that site landscaping, ah we will.
00:38:59
The SnowJobs Podcast
say you can have whoever remove them just you know you're going to sign you're going sign a thing that says hey if we get a storm and there's curb damage or uh you know turf damage we're not we're not replacing it
00:39:04
Brandon Reilly
or the whole experiment.
00:39:08
Mike
Yeah. You're not liable.
00:39:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
So that's all. But that's, ah yeah.
00:39:13
Mike
That's smart.
00:39:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, i mean, because we did it. We did it like four years ago. We pulled and we had a nor'easter come up like whatever, March 28th or something. But the whole month of March from the first on was 50 degrees.
00:39:23
Mike
Hmm.
00:39:26
The SnowJobs Podcast
It was super warm the whole time. It didn't seem like we were getting anything else. And they wanted them gone. The landscape crew was already out doing work. So they pulled them.
00:39:34
Mike
And in that instance, and you know, the drill, you just tell the guys like, Hey, yeah, we're just put it in the corners as soft as you can.
00:39:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
Crap. And we killed everything. Yeah.
00:39:41
Mike
No curb to curb, you know, just get the shovel and down mint edge to edge, but leave, leave anything you can stay away from the edge.
00:39:48
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
00:39:48
Steve Smythe
Well.
00:39:50
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep. Easier said than done sometimes, especially when they they're having, it's so heavy and wet, they're having trouble moving it as it is, you know, stopping at the wrong spot.
00:39:51
RICK JAMES
It'll melt.
00:39:57
Mike
Mm-hmm.
00:39:59
The SnowJobs Podcast
You don't want to stop short because you can't get moving again. So they push it a little too far and then yeah you got like a foot of turf damage, but it is ain't the end of the world.
00:40:09
Mike
Yeah.
00:40:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
But yeah, so that sucks, dude. Does that bum you out? Like you you're definitely more of a snow guy, right? Than the green season.
00:40:17
Mike
Yeah. It's, I like the green season, first predictability and, you know, obviously you get some gaps in between where you can kind of enjoy yourself and the family and take some time.
00:40:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
Cool.
00:40:25
Mike
But I always, I like the chaos of the winter, you know, it just keeps you on your toes. I still like watching the weather forecast. I'm not out there all the time anymore, but, I still get out there in my car.
00:40:37
Mike
I check on some sites. I help the guys out anywhere I can, train the guys if I can. And that's just what I enjoy doing the most is just training guys.
00:40:42
The SnowJobs Podcast
cool
00:40:44
Mike
in Landscape season, our guys are pretty solid. there There's some stuff I'm sure I could teach them, but the snow side, I feel like there's always something these guys can learn and that I can learn from somebody else. And just bettering that half of our our business is what I love doing.
00:40:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
Amen. Amen. All right. Well, you guys ah feel like helping some boys out. We got a couple of listener questions sent into the web website that, the you know, we're going to hopefully help ah get everybody's take on, help these guys get some answers that they're looking for.
00:41:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
Everybody good.
00:41:14
Mike
Let's do it.
00:41:14
Brandon Reilly
Yeah.
00:41:15
RICK JAMES
Mm-hmm.
00:41:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
All right. So the first one.
Educational Resources and Community Value
00:41:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
We got is from Adam Morris. He wrote, I am getting back into snow after 12 years out of it. A friend of mine told me about the snow jobs. I wish I had this resource years ago.
00:41:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
I may not have got out of it when I did. I'm trying to gain as much current knowledge. I'm sure things have changed ah before hitting it hard next winter. Do you guys think it is worth joining Syma for educational purpose or are there other Information streams out there that are better or organizations I can join.
00:41:49
The SnowJobs Podcast
What do we think?
00:41:51
Brandon Reilly
I wouldn't waste the money if I was just starting up.
00:41:53
Mike
Yeah, this is.
00:41:54
RICK JAMES
No.
00:41:54
The SnowJobs Podcast
Okay.
00:41:55
Brandon Reilly
know There's other things you can put that money towards that would be more beneficial than...
00:41:55
RICK JAMES
Nope.
00:41:59
The SnowJobs Podcast
So moved.
00:42:00
Brandon Reilly
i've never looked at I've never looked at the educational part or... and i've never i don't even think I go to the website.
00:42:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:42:08
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:42:08
Mike
This podcast gives you everything you need to know.
00:42:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
Uh,
00:42:10
Mike
Honestly, it's good to have, you know, the ASCA, it's good to have Simon. They do have their resources and their benefits, but this is where going to get the real life feedback right here.
00:42:18
RICK JAMES
yeah
00:42:21
Steve Smythe
You get a lot of, you get a lot of the, you know, everybody, everybody that's on here is boots on the ground or have been boots on the ground and you're getting, you're getting real, you know, real time information.
00:42:22
RICK JAMES
What resources?
00:42:27
Mike
Yeah.
00:42:31
Steve Smythe
I mean, I'll, you know, sign on that. There are other platforms that are good too, but like, with the Snow Jobs Nation Facebook site, guys can definitely just post something on there. And in within seconds, it feels like somebody posts a question.
00:42:44
Steve Smythe
and It feels like within seconds or if not minutes, people are responding. And it's it's not like on some of the other social media platforms where guys are smart asses, you know, send them back. It feels like on that that one, guys are actually trying to help people.
00:42:56
Steve Smythe
So it's pretty cool.
00:42:57
Mike
Yeah, agree with that.
00:42:58
RICK JAMES
Mm-hmm.
00:42:59
Steve Smythe
Really cool, actually.
00:43:01
RICK JAMES
Yeah, definitely.
00:43:01
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, we try and we try and put that in the membership thing for that group is that this is not any other snow group. This is a supportive environment and you know helpful environment. So please keep it to that. And so far, guys have.
00:43:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
i don't think we've I honestly don't think we've not approved any post going on there. I'd have to talk to to Sean and Robert about that because they they manage it.
00:43:20
Steve Smythe
yeah
00:43:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
But and I don't think we've not put anything up there.
00:43:27
Mike
Thank you.
00:43:27
Steve Smythe
And the, yeah the other thing is, you know, he can always reach out to any of us.
00:43:28
RICK JAMES
I don't think so.
00:43:31
Steve Smythe
Any of the guys that have been on this show would definitely, you know, I know for me, now that the so snow season's wrapping up, I'm going to probably go into depression here for a little bit.
00:43:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
yeah
00:43:35
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:43:39
Steve Smythe
So any anytime I could talk snow, now that I'm not doing any of the green side stuff anymore, I, you know, there's that, there's that wall, right? We, You don't really want to go bother or talk with contractors much on snow equipment yet because guys are just finishing up and they're they're getting going on um landscaping. so
00:43:55
Brandon Reilly
Mind us.
00:43:55
Mike
Alright, let me just set my bi-weekly reminder here.
00:43:56
Brandon Reilly
It's over.
00:43:58
Mike
Check. Wellness check for Steve.
00:44:01
Steve Smythe
Yeah.
00:44:02
RICK JAMES
Arctic, Steve.
00:44:02
The SnowJobs Podcast
Arctic Steve. Arctic Steve.
00:44:03
Steve Smythe
Jeremy, hey, well I'll just say this.
00:44:03
RICK JAMES
Arctic, Steve.
00:44:05
Steve Smythe
I'll throw that out there. and i was up I went up to Fargo and I was up there yesterday and. When that blue sky was out, we were sitting at Jeremy's place there and we're looking out the window, sitting on his couch, watching the weather channel. And it was blue sky. I think both of us looked like we were de depressed.
00:44:19
Steve Smythe
Yep.
00:44:20
RICK JAMES
yeah was the Yeah, season's coming to the end.
00:44:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep. Yep.
00:44:22
RICK JAMES
if i mean, it's got to move on to the next one, but we can always talk snow. out Obviously, we talk every week on this show. I mean, that's where you're going to get, like you guys said, these we're all boots on the ground kind of guys, so when you can message any of us on either and any platform, more or less, and if you questions, we're obviously going to reach out reach back out to anybody.
00:44:29
Steve Smythe
ye
00:44:43
Steve Smythe
And these these small ah small events too, like the you know Patrick Salmon's event and in Storks, and then you know we have our Stormfield Day.
00:44:43
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:44:44
The SnowJobs Podcast
ye
00:44:51
Steve Smythe
It's just like these these smaller, more intimate events. You learn so much from talking with these guys, and it's awesome.
00:44:57
Mike
Yep.
00:44:58
RICK JAMES
Yep.
00:44:58
Steve Smythe
so
00:44:59
Brandon Reilly
going to say even LinkedIn too, you know, some of these, you know, it's the same same thing.
00:45:01
Steve Smythe
Mm-hmm.
00:45:03
Brandon Reilly
You can reach out to some of these these contractors that you think maybe are are too big for your time and they're not going to answer you. And you'd be surprised to responds and you um answer your questions.
00:45:10
Mike
Far from the truth with a lot of those guys.
00:45:13
RICK JAMES
Yep.
00:45:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:45:13
RICK JAMES
Yep.
00:45:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, I mean, I would say that.
00:45:14
RICK JAMES
Yeah, it's I just don't, like I said, just don't think it's worth the money to, I mean, that's a lot of money to throw out.
00:45:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
Go ahead, Jay.
00:45:20
RICK JAMES
And honestly, I don't think ah I've got much value back in it.
00:45:21
Brandon Reilly
Yeah.
00:45:22
Mike
Yeah.
00:45:24
RICK JAMES
I'm not trying to dog them, just being honest. So, you know, you you get more from just talking to all your buddies or just guys like we just said, anybody else, mean, without having to pay a fee.
00:45:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, nothing wrong with that.
00:45:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, I mean, that's the great thing about the show is you can come in here and listen for an hour and you can get, like tonight, five different opinions on something. And everybody's got their own experience, own opinion. And, Adam, I would just tell you, there's plenty 111 episodes now plus. I think we've done overall with all the specials and stuff You can find whatever you need in here. And what we've done with the show as a byproduct is we basically created a Rolodex. If you hear somebody on one of the episodes, it's talking about a topic that you're you're interested in learning more about.
00:46:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
Reach out to them. Most of them are on Instagram. That's how we found them, you know, to come on the show in the first place. And, ah you know, we if you don't if you can't find somebody that you heard on an episode that had somebody had something you were you were interested in, then reach out to us, like Jeremy said, and we'll put you in contact.
Production Rate Advice and Industry Collaboration
00:46:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
um You know, the snow jobs is for better or for worse If nothing else, it's a giant Rolodex now. yeah if You know, if you got an issue, like i think I think Brandon Riley was the first one that ever told us about plow ride marking stakes.
00:46:43
Brandon Reilly
100,000 shakes
00:46:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
So, i you know, if it wasn't a brand that I had never seen him, never heard about him before. And now I'm like, I can't live without these fucking things.
00:46:48
Brandon Reilly
and still using fiberglass.
00:46:50
The SnowJobs Podcast
I know.
00:46:51
Brandon Reilly
hundred thousand
00:46:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah
00:46:52
Brandon Reilly
like and you're still using fiberg glass
00:46:54
The SnowJobs Podcast
I know. i know.
00:46:55
Steve Smythe
that's like That's a huge value of this, though.
00:46:55
The SnowJobs Podcast
i couldn't.
00:46:57
Steve Smythe
kind of You know, the equipment, everybody uses different different equipment and runs it different ways in different markets and whatnot. So you can get feedback, and unbiased feedback from so many different people. So it's awesome.
00:47:07
Mike
Mm-hmm.
00:47:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah yeah Brandon Riley is no shit in the last two years has probably saved me at least $3,000 because I have not had to rebuy fiberglass steaks. I'm, I was treating fiberglass steaks as a consumable.
00:47:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
Basically you were buying them for the season and then throwing 40 to 50% of them out. If they, if you could even find them, if they weren't splinters in the pile, you know, half the time i haven't had to rebuy, know?
00:47:34
Steve Smythe
Because you're using the...
00:47:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
yeah,
00:47:35
Brandon Reilly
Cost difference.
00:47:37
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, huge to begin with.
00:47:39
Steve Smythe
And you can back over some of those stakes, and then if you bend them, he might warranty them, too.
00:47:44
The SnowJobs Podcast
You cut them.
00:47:44
Steve Smythe
Remember that from Tony's event?
00:47:45
The SnowJobs Podcast
just the Brandon taught us the scissor trick, too. if Oh, yeah.
00:47:48
Steve Smythe
Yeah. we were having but we're having at the
00:47:49
Brandon Reilly
Yeah, it's a couple inches shorter and stick it in the ground.
00:47:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
Done.
00:47:53
RICK JAMES
They
00:47:54
Mike
That's it. Still works.
00:47:55
Steve Smythe
remember
00:47:55
Brandon Reilly
yeah
00:47:55
The SnowJobs Podcast
But it's it's stuff like it's stuff like that.
00:47:56
Steve Smythe
effort that from twenty um he's a
00:47:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, it's stuff like that, though.
00:48:00
RICK JAMES
worked great. They worked great.
00:48:02
The SnowJobs Podcast
They do. They work phenomenal. So it's stuff.
00:48:03
RICK JAMES
It was like 20, it was like, sorry.
00:48:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
What's that? Go ahead.
00:48:06
RICK JAMES
was say, it was like, it was like 28 below here and I backed one over with the semi-trailer, popped right back up.
00:48:06
The SnowJobs Podcast
No, go ahead.
00:48:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
Right back.
00:48:11
RICK JAMES
was like, holy the shit, didn't even bother it.
00:48:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
Right back.
00:48:11
Steve Smythe
Yeah.
00:48:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
00:48:13
Steve Smythe
And they're such you're such a great company to work with, too.
00:48:16
The SnowJobs Podcast
Absolutely.
00:48:16
Steve Smythe
You know, order it, the stuff's out right away. It says you can't beat it.
00:48:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
America.
00:48:19
Brandon Reilly
My kids love them too. They're like swords. They're great.
00:48:22
Steve Smythe
Yeah.
00:48:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, and they don't get splinters when they get hit with them.
00:48:24
Mike
but
00:48:25
Steve Smythe
Nope, they don't.
00:48:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's the best part.
00:48:25
Mike
the less The less itchy swords.
00:48:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah Yeah. Yep. Yep. ah But yeah, I mean, that that's what I would tell you, Adam, as far as um do I think it's worth it for educational purposes?
00:48:38
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah Before the show, I'd say yes. I think now I don't think so. I mean, I took all their online stuff that they had. I did my CSP.
00:48:50
The SnowJobs Podcast
um There was a lot a lot of stuff in there. was not for me. Like, I don't know if that makes sense ah for my size. car I don't know what size his company is just starting back out. So it can't be big, but for a smaller guy like myself, a lot of it didn't pertain to me.
00:49:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
So I would say if you're spending money, you know, money might be tight. If you're just starting out again, you know, be careful where you're spending your money. Don't, don't get rid of any money on purpose. If you don't have to.
00:49:20
Brandon Reilly
Yeah.
00:49:21
RICK JAMES
yeah
00:49:21
Brandon Reilly
Yeah. Equipment's expensive as it is. So
00:49:22
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, absolutely. And that's what's going to push snow. the The stuff on the Simon website is not going to help you push snow.
00:49:29
Brandon Reilly
absolutely.
00:49:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, we got condo. I'm not reading that.
00:49:34
RICK JAMES
yeah
00:49:36
Steve Smythe
That'd be a good one.
00:49:36
RICK JAMES
yeah That's a good one.
00:49:39
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's a really good one.
00:49:39
RICK JAMES
True story. True story.
00:49:41
The SnowJobs Podcast
True story.
00:49:42
Steve Smythe
and vi
00:49:42
The SnowJobs Podcast
True story.
00:49:43
Steve Smythe
a good one
00:49:44
The SnowJobs Podcast
All right. ah We got another one here. ah Paul Weber from Albany, New York area writes, I'm trying another Simon question. I am trying to figure out production rates for bidding purposes. The rate Simon gives.
00:49:55
The SnowJobs Podcast
How do you guys feel about them? Are they a good starting point for a new to quoting snow person? So I guess a new person quoting snow. Are they is that a good place to start the Simon production rates? Or how would you guys recommend he figures out his own?
00:50:10
Steve Smythe
Every... Every... right.
00:50:10
RICK JAMES
every every area is different i mean you're gonna every every every region is different every different it's what kind of production you get out what kind of equipment you have there so you gotta all that stuff's got to be factored what are you gonna do per t&m per push seasonal whatever you still have to figure all that out one way another so your salt rate mean i mean what you're gonna put down for salt i mean
00:50:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
Absolutely. Every pusher is different.
00:50:14
Steve Smythe
every every
00:50:21
Brandon Reilly
Thank you.
00:50:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
Mm-hmm.
00:50:32
The SnowJobs Podcast
I think he's just specifically talking about if if you've been to the Sima, Sima has production rates for like a truck, pickup truck with an eight foot plow, 10 foot pusher.
00:50:40
RICK JAMES
Yeah. yeah
00:50:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
um But that it's vague. It's old and it's vague.
00:50:46
Steve Smythe
a threat The problem with that stuff is like that stuff, in my opinion, is so outdated.
00:50:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yes.
00:50:50
Steve Smythe
It's like eight foot plows.
00:50:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:50:51
Steve Smythe
Sure, sure you know Douglas and you know ah listen and all of them, the manufacturers still make an eight foot plow, but most of the people are buying that for the residential driveways now, for their own homes, not even to do driveways.
00:51:01
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:51:03
Steve Smythe
Yet your wing plows out now, it's there's there's so many variables. You know, are you route working it? Are you dedicating dedicating the machinery to your idea site?
00:51:11
Brandon Reilly
Yeah. and
00:51:12
Steve Smythe
You know, it's just, there's so many variables, but that's another thing. I mean, he's he's definitely welcome to reach out to any of us and we could talk about it.
00:51:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
Exactly. That's what I was just going to say. i was going to say, yeah.
00:51:21
Steve Smythe
It's a loaded, yeah, it's such a loaded question. It's just, there's so many different variables. And mike Mikey, you you deal with that end of a lot. what's What's your thoughts on that?
00:51:32
Mike
Same. i mean, it really just comes down to your crew at the end of the day.
00:51:33
RICK JAMES
you
00:51:36
Mike
It's a good starting point if you're just looking for a baseline, but just know that there's going to be like a 40% shot that you're going to be plus or minus where you want to be.
00:51:38
Steve Smythe
Yep.
00:51:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
Mm-hmm.
00:51:47
Mike
You know, just get out there with your team, track them with a stopwatch, know your obstacles on the site that are going to slow you down the most and just keep building that data from there.
00:51:48
Steve Smythe
It's even.
00:51:56
Mike
And you'll eventually get where you need to be for your production rates.
00:51:59
Steve Smythe
Yep.
00:52:00
The SnowJobs Podcast
Brandon.
00:52:00
Steve Smythe
And then.
00:52:01
Brandon Reilly
Yeah, I've never even looked at them, so i I can't tell you what Simon says as a baseline is the number to say, hey, then that's closer. It's not even closer. Yeah.
00:52:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
I don't remember the numbers.
00:52:11
Brandon Reilly
yeah
00:52:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
I just remember I think it was eight foot plow ah loader with 10 foot push box, stuff like that. Very vague, very genetic, a generic rather. ah Didn't say the brands didn't say, you know, how long the side plates were on the box, anything like that.
00:52:28
The SnowJobs Podcast
So I can't remember any of the production numbers, but, you know, it was very vague in there and old, outdated.
00:52:32
Steve Smythe
And feel, like I said, he can feel free to reach out to any of us and we can love to talk.
00:52:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
Exactly. like
00:52:36
Mike
Mm-hmm.
00:52:37
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's probably your best bet. if you Depending on what you're plowing with, Paul, that's what I would tell you to do. I would say you know reach out to somebody, tell them what you got, what you're plowing with, and you know we'll be able to point you to somebody that has you know that can tell you what you what to expect for a production rate because it just you know not all stuff is created equal. I mean, a 10-foot Arctic is going to push more volume than 10-foot ProTec.
00:53:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
it's you know They don't roll.
00:53:05
RICK JAMES
It all depends on your snow.
00:53:06
Brandon Reilly
But then you also have like stores where like clients require snow in certain locations.
00:53:06
RICK JAMES
all depends on your snow as well, too, you know.
00:53:09
Brandon Reilly
So there might be an easier way to to do it. But then you add this added thing that you didn't know about.
00:53:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
Sure.
00:53:14
Steve Smythe
Correct. You know, all in the you know the back 40 or something.
00:53:16
Brandon Reilly
Hey, the, yeah, all has to go to the West.
00:53:17
Mike
Yep.
00:53:19
Brandon Reilly
Okay. so now you're taking five acres to the West instead of being able to, you know, dish it out on on both sides of the property or all over the property.
00:53:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:53:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:53:27
Brandon Reilly
There's just, there's a lot of variables.
00:53:28
RICK JAMES
two inch fluffy snow or a 10 inch wet heavy snow. i mean, that's going to, you know, see you got to everything, everything.
00:53:32
Brandon Reilly
Yeah.
00:53:32
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, absolutely.
00:53:33
RICK JAMES
I mean, you just got to, it's, it's, it's going to be crazy.
00:53:34
Brandon Reilly
Yeah.
00:53:35
Mike
Ground temps, air temps.
00:53:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
Everything in the Northeast is going to be slower.
00:53:38
RICK JAMES
I mean, you guys, I don't know. I guess I haven't looked at the production rates they have either, but.
00:53:43
Steve Smythe
Yeah, even you get into it.
00:53:44
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, i don't remember what they were. i haven't been there in a long time, so I really don't remember what they were. But I would say for accurate up-to-date data, just reach out to somebody, you know, wherever that you heard on the show here or somebody in your area that's willing to share.
00:53:59
The SnowJobs Podcast
And, you know, they could probably, between the two of you you could sit down and figure out basically what you could expect as far as your bidding point, you know, to make sure you're not underbidding. Anybody got anything else on that one?
00:54:11
Brandon Reilly
say also trying to find maybe a coach. I know that, you know, that that gets brought up a lot. Just do your investigation on the coach, you know, before just don't biggest name, but sometimes you can find a local guy that's willing to guide you.
00:54:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
Sure.
00:54:22
Brandon Reilly
um And a lot of guys learn that way. it's It's brought up in a lot of different podcasts about all business types. And like you said, just do your, do your investigation first. So it's not just, I'm giving this guy a buttload of money for no reason that that's actually going to be beneficial to you.
00:54:32
Steve Smythe
Thank you.
00:54:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:54:37
The SnowJobs Podcast
Do you have a coach, Brandon?
00:54:37
Mike
Yeah.
00:54:38
Brandon Reilly
I do not, but I just,
00:54:39
The SnowJobs Podcast
Mike, do you have a coach?
00:54:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
No.
00:54:43
Mike
Yes. we
00:54:44
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, okay. You do. Who's your coach for snow?
00:54:46
Mike
we We have two.
00:54:51
Mike
No, I guess one for snow. We have two, one for land and one for snow. But for the snow, it's going to our Aspire team. So sometimes your your software company will have
00:55:02
Brandon Reilly
Yeah, I did it.
00:55:03
Mike
some ideas or like, you know, best practices get quick numbers to track your production rates, no matter whoever you're starting with. I mean, everybody's gonna be different with their customer service, but Aspire has been really helpful doing that with us.
00:55:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
Interesting. Okay.
00:55:17
RICK JAMES
Mm-hmm.
00:55:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
Steve, you got a coach?
00:55:20
Steve Smythe
everybody that's on this podcast.
00:55:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
But never like ah you know never paid anybody to coach you in snow?
00:55:27
Steve Smythe
We never paid anybody. The guy that I started with at 14 years old, he's 70 now. He still goes out every storm and pushes. he's just he's ah He's been a mentor to me in this industry since day one. And we we talk almost still daily and Just you just run stuff by him, you know, and vice versa.
00:55:44
Steve Smythe
Like he'll ask me because, you know, some of the new new equipment's new to him, you know, so we can just bounce stuff off of each other. And Brandon and I talk, you know, all the time and Jeremy and I and Mikey and whatnot.
00:55:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:55:54
Brandon Reilly
yeah
00:55:58
Steve Smythe
It's just all of us, you know, the whole big circle and everybody that's on that big group text and just everybody's so helpful,
Knowledge Sharing and Regional Snow Operations
00:56:05
Steve Smythe
you know.
00:56:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
would think the one thing associated with like the last couple of years and and the guys around this show is there's nobody that you've heard on this on these these episodes, any of them, 111 of them, that if you called them, they're not going to give you 10 minutes, 15 minutes, probably more like an hour, you know the way our guys talk, and ah and give you all the answers you could possibly need.
00:56:06
Mike
Yeah.
00:56:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
I mean, everybody here, everybody's been the same type of guy. So I would say that's a good place to start.
00:56:32
Steve Smythe
that That's, that's, that's what's so awesome with this group. It's like when I was running snow operations in the city, it's like, I still talk to, you know, still talk to Brandon and that all the time back then, but it's like, you, I always worried about my bubble, what I was doing.
00:56:46
Steve Smythe
And I, I kept my playbook pretty close, you know, it's like, I had no problem.
00:56:49
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:56:50
Steve Smythe
Like, Hey Brandon, yeah, we're going out tonight or whatever. But my playbook was kept pretty close to close to chest.
00:56:55
Brandon Reilly
I
00:56:55
Steve Smythe
And what we, not that it's some big secret, you know what I mean? You're, you're pushing snow, but You know, there might be something if we're going out doing a little pre-treat ahead of time or something, but now it's just like, it's just an open book and these guys are, it's just awesome.
00:57:08
Brandon Reilly
was going to say, you get a lot of, hey, what are you thinking? What are you seeing? You know, I get popped around.
00:57:12
Steve Smythe
Yep.
00:57:12
RICK JAMES
Yeah,
00:57:12
Mike
Yeah.
00:57:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
Mm-hmm.
00:57:13
RICK JAMES
thoughts are off, everybody.
00:57:13
Brandon Reilly
I know that every time I go on into the podcast, I'll get someone say, hey, I heard you mention this. Can I give you a quick call? And like, yeah, here's my number. We'll give it out. And, you know, it ends up being an hour phone call about, 10 different things that were, that were, you you know, on his mind or their mind and back and forth and the stuff you can learn from, like you said, just even different markets, right?
00:57:30
Brandon Reilly
Mike's and Steve, you're on the opposite side of the country.
00:57:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:57:33
Brandon Reilly
It's completely different than where
00:57:34
Steve Smythe
Yeah.
00:57:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
100% completely different.
00:57:36
Brandon Reilly
um
00:57:37
Mike
Yeah.
00:57:38
The SnowJobs Podcast
I could not do snow in Minnesota.
00:57:41
Brandon Reilly
ah
00:57:41
Mike
I would love to try.
00:57:42
Brandon Reilly
but you got a glimpse of it this year. Weren't you cold? You you got to see what it was like to not melt and be cold.
00:57:45
The SnowJobs Podcast
but
00:57:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
I could not. do If I was doing this as like year after year after year with these little one-inch to nothings every couple days, fuck that, dude.
00:57:56
RICK JAMES
One's a big, that's a big storm.
00:57:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
Give me the heavy, wet, big dumps. What?
00:57:59
Mike
It was weird to see snow sticking around for a couple of weeks.
00:58:00
RICK JAMES
One's a big storm.
00:58:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, we had, I mean, we like i I've said this before, we had lockdown cold from the first week of December all the way till two weeks ago.
00:58:03
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:58:12
Brandon Reilly
That's normally us. ah
00:58:14
Steve Smythe
Yeah, we could have.
00:58:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
Dude, my my kids were skating in the front yard until the beginning of last week. That was the last day of skating they could get on the ice, but they had ice all the way from December first So it was awesome.
00:58:26
RICK JAMES
Hmm.
00:58:26
The SnowJobs Podcast
It was great. We had cold, a lot of cold this winter. But then you have the the downside to that. When you have nothing but lockdown cold, generally that limits your big dumps of snow because the dry air that is associated with it, you know, keeps that keeps these nor'easters away. They need to mix the warm air and the cold air need to mix to get you, you know, the the what we're used to up here in the northeast to six plus.
00:58:50
Mike
Yeah, it's good point.
00:58:50
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, it's.
00:58:50
Brandon Reilly
I'll say I, I normally that is true, but there's times that the cold has brought in a couple good inch, you know, like probably six, seven inch snowstorms out of it. And you'd be like, how it's, it's, it's negative 10.
00:59:00
Steve Smythe
We'll
00:59:02
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:59:02
Brandon Reilly
How is this even possible?
00:59:02
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:59:03
Steve Smythe
get it. We'll get a clip ah before that comes in and it really kicks off.
00:59:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
I can't remember.
00:59:04
RICK JAMES
Hmm.
00:59:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
i can't. Yeah. Well, I can't remember the last winner we had here just in my area. I know you know we're in kind of little little cool window here, but I can't remember the last winner where we didn't hit double digits on one event.
00:59:20
Mike
Mm-hmm.
00:59:20
Brandon Reilly
Okay.
00:59:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
We were single digits.
00:59:21
RICK JAMES
yeah
00:59:22
The SnowJobs Podcast
Our biggest was nine this year.
00:59:25
Brandon Reilly
Wow.
00:59:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah it we We never went over nine. We had a lot of events, but we never went over nine. And I can't remember the last time that happened where we didn't have one. There have been years we've only had three storms, four storms, but they they were all 18 inches, 12 inches. They were all big nor'easter dumps.
00:59:43
Brandon Reilly
I remember making the joke on that last event here in the Twin Cities at 8 to 11 inches.
00:59:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
Nothing.
00:59:47
Brandon Reilly
I was like, wow, this is what it's like on the East Coast. You can plow for hours at 8 a.m.
00:59:50
The SnowJobs Podcast
yeah
00:59:52
RICK JAMES
yeah
00:59:52
Brandon Reilly
m All of a sudden, everything just starts melting magically. Like, this is so nice.
00:59:55
RICK JAMES
yep
00:59:56
The SnowJobs Podcast
It doesn't suck.
00:59:56
Steve Smythe
It was kind of fun a couple weeks ago when I was doing
00:59:58
RICK JAMES
i got I got that Snapchat from Brandon.
00:59:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
It doesn't suck.
Equipment Purchases and Dealer Support
01:00:00
Steve Smythe
that.
01:00:01
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah It doesn't suck, dude.
01:00:03
RICK JAMES
na It makes you makes it look a lot nicer.
01:00:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
01:00:06
Brandon Reilly
Yeah, this is all, you know, ice for until the salt truck gets there.
01:00:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
01:00:07
RICK JAMES
Frozen ground.
01:00:10
RICK JAMES
Yeah. Yeah.
01:00:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
yep Oh, man, that's funny. well We got one more here. let's Let's kick one more for these guys. ah I don't want to butcher this. I don't know if it's Thomas or Tomas Schluter. schlutter I am starting to grow my snow business and currently have three trucks. I'm buying my first compact loader for next season.
01:00:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
I have... A two-part question. What brand of compact loader do you guys feel gives me the most bang for my buck? And second, i cannot afford and i cannot afford an Arctic or Metal Plus or Tier 1 Plow, as you guys call them.
01:00:49
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah What would you recommend I check out in the next price bracket down from them as far as pushers? So we'll try and answer that one.
01:00:55
RICK JAMES
for it
01:00:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
What do you guys think for loaders, for compact loaders?
01:00:58
RICK JAMES
kind of depends on where he's located.
01:01:00
Mike
Yeah, you do it your dealer support.
01:01:00
The SnowJobs Podcast
Best bang for the buck, compact loaders.
01:01:00
RICK JAMES
i mean, I mean,
01:01:02
Brandon Reilly
Obviously your your dealer is going to be so like what, which, you know, avenue you want to go on, but then there's, there's so many different compact wheel loaders, right?
01:01:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
Steelers number one.
01:01:11
Brandon Reilly
Like you could, you could get in pretty easy with a 21 F, which is a 66 horsepower, 9,000 pound wheel loader that can push a 10 foot pusher all day long, super easy, put snow tires on it. And it's,
01:01:22
Brandon Reilly
you know, reasonably priced, right? And same with the 204 from John Deere. I'd stay away from the 903. I think it's, it's teared down too small to compete in that same bracket.
01:01:31
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:01:32
Brandon Reilly
And then obviously you can 74 244, 321 Fs, you know, the cat 908, like all the the normal ones.
01:01:32
RICK JAMES
yeah
01:01:42
Brandon Reilly
It just depends on what you're kind of looking for. um And then I would say like when you say tier one, Facebook marketplace has plows for sale pretty cheap. And if you are, say you wanted to tier one Arctic, they're rebuildable. So if you could get ah a decent deal on ah a used Arctic for, let's say a 10 foot for six, 7,000 and you had to put edges on it, that's,
01:02:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, jump on that.
01:02:05
Brandon Reilly
Yeah, it's not the end of the world. um So I'd say that if, you know, it's okay, depending on the plow, it's okay to look at kind of the used market on some of that stuff that is rebuildable. Obviously, the ones that aren't, I would stay away because they can tweak and and and not work the same. but
01:02:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
I got a follow-up question to your to the follow-up question here. ah Brandon, have you seen Marketplace? What's your Facebook Marketplace look like in your area this this winter?
01:02:30
Brandon Reilly
Well, what do you want? There's everything.
01:02:32
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah Exactly, right? It's here, too, though. I mean, we've had a good winter, and it's here, too. Nothing but snow equipment for sale all winter long here.
01:02:37
Mike
Thank
01:02:40
Brandon Reilly
Yeah, I would say it's been consistent flow. And if you talk to any of your dealers, I mean, they're struggling to sell product. I mean, Steve, you're on the product sales side.
01:02:51
Brandon Reilly
With a no low snow winter, it's hard to push product, and guys are holding on to that cash. So marketplace becomes that place where people are starting to unload. You can get maybe a discount on something that's halfway decent. and
01:03:04
Brandon Reilly
Being a dealer price, some so some of that stuff still comes with warranty.
01:03:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
Okay.
01:03:07
Brandon Reilly
so
01:03:08
Steve Smythe
Yeah.
01:03:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
So what would you say to him if if you if you left ah Metal Plus and Arctic out of it? what would What would you tell him to look at?
01:03:15
Brandon Reilly
I would look at a 21F with like a tier two. So that would be, ah is the, is the, would that be the boss 10 foot box thing?
01:03:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
It could be.
01:03:25
Brandon Reilly
Okay.
01:03:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, just basically anything that ain't Arctic or Metal Plus. I think it's price range he's talking about.
01:03:30
Mike
Anything with a steel edge.
01:03:30
Brandon Reilly
So like a cage or snow wolf would be, I think a, a decent tier two that you can look into and get kind of that dual function.
01:03:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
01:03:37
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
01:03:38
Brandon Reilly
If you want like the cage that has the wings and you could do a lot with it.
01:03:43
Mike
Just make sure they take that cage and put it on a level parking lot. The guys like to tweak those, those frames on those boxes.
01:03:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
See, Mitchell said he didn't.
01:03:51
RICK JAMES
No. Fuck.
01:03:53
The SnowJobs Podcast
Mitchell said, no, he didn't. I said the same thing that that's what I was told that the, the, you can tweak that box pretty good.
01:04:00
Brandon Reilly
I've had the fast hatch. So that the, the snow bowl version for 10 years now um it's never tweaked, but it's, it's, I mean, it's just a normal straight blade with a flimsy side.
01:04:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
01:04:13
Brandon Reilly
So it's, I mean, it's nothing special, but it works.
01:04:16
The SnowJobs Podcast
Gotcha. All right, cool. What about you, Mike? What do you think answering that question?
01:04:20
Steve Smythe
Bye.
01:04:23
Mike
I always like Bobcat because the pricing is usually middle of the ground and their, their customer service is pretty good. Their road service is pretty good. Um, but depending where you are, yeah, of course.
01:04:33
Brandon Reilly
depending where you are.
01:04:35
Mike
But if you're looking for a tier two plow, yeah, I've used the box.
01:04:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah Again, dealer serve dealer dealer support.
01:04:42
Mike
I've used the LD and the SK, uh, eight to 12 foot, boxes and they're not bad. i mean, you can in adjust the shoes. They're all bolt on patterns. So you can shift them up and down pretty quick to get the little more of life out of the cutting edge.
01:04:56
Mike
But yeah, it, the boss.
01:04:57
Steve Smythe
Thank
01:04:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's the boss.
01:04:59
Mike
Yeah.
01:04:59
The SnowJobs Podcast
Okay. Yeah.
01:05:00
Mike
Yeah. It's a, it's a nice cloth.
01:05:00
RICK JAMES
boss.
01:05:01
Mike
What it is, especially if you're trying to save a buck or two, just anything, anything, but rubber say no to rubber.
01:05:01
RICK JAMES
boss
01:05:02
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. Cool. All right.
01:05:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
Got it. All right. So Bobcat. So what would you say? Like an L 95 or L 90, whatever you guys are running.
01:05:14
Mike
Yeah.
01:05:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
Okay.
01:05:15
Mike
Yeah. It's a good, it's a perfect size machine.
01:05:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
Cool. All right. What about you, Stevie? Stevie.
01:05:22
Steve Smythe
I've been in quite a few of the different brands. I was always ah i was always a cat loyal you know for compact. was always a 908 for me, but now since I got out of my bubble a little bit, I've been venturing into other brands.
01:05:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
Mm-hmm.
01:05:32
Steve Smythe
and Like Brandon said, that case, is case the 221 or 321 are great. They're all great. It just comes down to dealer support. you know who Who's going to who's gonna be able to get you parts and who's to be able to get you up and going because they all break.
01:05:42
Mike
Yeah.
01:05:42
RICK JAMES
Oh
01:05:47
Brandon Reilly
Yes.
01:05:47
Steve Smythe
ah
01:05:48
Brandon Reilly
Even new ones break.
01:05:49
Steve Smythe
even Even brand new ones.
01:05:49
RICK JAMES
yeah.
01:05:50
Steve Smythe
And if you're looking you know if you're looking to first get into your first compact, then maybe new isn't necessarily something you need either.
01:05:56
Brandon Reilly
make
01:05:57
Steve Smythe
yeah There's so many of them out there that have low hours.
01:06:00
Brandon Reilly
yeah
01:06:00
Steve Smythe
you know even Even go in and lease one for a year um so you can try some different stuff to see what works for you. There's there's plenty of ah you know plenty of opportunity to do that.
01:06:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
01:06:12
Steve Smythe
um as far As far as plows, you know, like Brandon was saying, a lot of lot of the dealers are sitting on sitting on some inventory.
01:06:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
What about you? Go
01:06:16
RICK JAMES
Little close.
01:06:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
ahead.
01:06:22
Steve Smythe
There's a lot of dealers that have demo units that are out too with with customers and they come back towards the end of the season or dealers are wanting to kind of um unload some stuff at the year year end and now tis the season for that for for the dealers.
01:06:28
The SnowJobs Podcast
Sure.
01:06:34
Steve Smythe
Get something that's under yeah get something that's ah under warranty and whatnot.
01:06:34
Mike
ah Rentals too.
01:06:35
Brandon Reilly
Yeah.
01:06:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. Yep.
01:06:39
Steve Smythe
it It comes down to
Storm Academy Equipment Testing
01:06:40
Steve Smythe
dealer support as well too. I mean, they all Fran, all of them, the cages and snow wolves. And, you know, we got a bunch of Douglas dynamics products down with the storm Academy and they all, they all do a good job.
01:06:50
Steve Smythe
It's just, who's good.
01:06:50
The SnowJobs Podcast
I was going to ask you that. What do you have out at storm Academy currently pusher wise?
01:06:55
Steve Smythe
So we got, we got their box. ah We have their box or Douglas's box. So, you know, depending on what color ran we got.
01:06:59
The SnowJobs Podcast
Okay. Yep. That's a pile driver.
01:07:01
Steve Smythe
some
01:07:02
The SnowJobs Podcast
No. What is that?
01:07:02
Steve Smythe
Yes. Yeah. The pilot driver.
01:07:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's what it is. Pile driver.
01:07:04
Steve Smythe
Yeah. I think that we got, we got Fisher, Snow X Western.
01:07:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
Okay, cool.
01:07:08
Steve Smythe
It's just, it's just different colors, you know?
01:07:09
The SnowJobs Podcast
And that's the hydraulic wing plow one.
01:07:11
Steve Smythe
um That's the XL. We have that down there too.
01:07:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, okay.
01:07:14
Steve Smythe
We have that. We have a SnowX version and we have, and we have, we have all the colors down there and they're, they're great too.
01:07:16
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, wow. All right. They sent you everything. Nice. Nice.
01:07:22
Steve Smythe
You know, it's just, oh,
01:07:23
Brandon Reilly
That SnowX one, i ah we have one out and we got a demo for the season, but I didn't realize the wings and the edges are both carbide and on that on that plow.
01:07:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
Hmm.
01:07:34
Brandon Reilly
So the the winged plow from SnowX and you get the the trace active edge or whatever, that's a carbide.
01:07:38
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
01:07:39
Brandon Reilly
It's three-eighths carbide on the edges and it looks like it's about a quarter inch carbide on the shoes as well. So the shoes are carbide, which I didn't and didn't know that until we
01:07:50
The SnowJobs Podcast
Interesting.
01:07:50
Brandon Reilly
started and I was like, Oh wow. That's actually impressive. Cause normally you don't see carbide in the shoes.
01:07:56
The SnowJobs Podcast
So that would stand to reason if you had the Fisher or the Western version of that, that would still be the same deal.
01:08:01
Brandon Reilly
I think so.
01:08:01
Steve Smythe
Correct.
01:08:02
The SnowJobs Podcast
Cool.
01:08:02
Steve Smythe
Yep.
01:08:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's, that's interesting. see. I didn't know that. Nice. Puts it up a notch in my book. That's good.
01:08:09
Steve Smythe
Yep. This comes down to dealer support and, you know, what you can afford, you know.
01:08:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, well, that's cool then that Douglas sent you so much stuff.
01:08:15
Steve Smythe
Yeah.
01:08:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's really cool. Thank you to Douglas dynamics for supporting that idea. Cause that's, that's pretty cool. That's good. Good on them. Do you have a, you have a cage?
01:08:24
Steve Smythe
ah we We do not have a cage.
01:08:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
Cage.
01:08:28
Steve Smythe
Currently, we reach we reached out to them and didn't get didn't get a lot of follow back on that. And I know they're busy doing what they're doing.
01:08:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
I'll take care of it. They love us. They love us. I'll take care of it.
01:08:38
Steve Smythe
It's one of those deals. It's like, you know, the the train's there and it's it's leaving the station. It's like, you know, we're what we'll welcome any brand that come there. We're not, you know, obviously we sell Metal Plus, but that's not what Storm Academy is about.
01:08:50
Steve Smythe
And we'd rather see all these all these different brands there so people can see them and and try them out.
01:08:54
The SnowJobs Podcast
i don't I think it's just short-sighted.
01:08:55
RICK JAMES
yeah I got scolded.
01:08:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
You did?
01:08:58
Steve Smythe
What's that?
01:08:59
RICK JAMES
Yeah. Yeah.
01:09:00
The SnowJobs Podcast
Who scolded Jeremy Lindstrom?
01:09:00
RICK JAMES
Because we're not Darcy was, we're not pushing plows here. I'm like, I'm not pushing em p paul I'm just telling which one's better.
01:09:08
Steve Smythe
It was.
01:09:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, yeah. I mean, that's ranking plows. That's not pushing plows. That's ranking.
01:09:12
RICK JAMES
Like we're not selling them here. We're not, where it's just the first school. I'm like, that's fine, but I'm still going to tell you what I think is better.
01:09:16
Steve Smythe
it was
01:09:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
I just don't. I don't get that, though. Like, I mean, if you have an opportunity that's never happened before where you could have your product in front of even this year, short season, that you're just getting it off the ground, four different groups of people, one group that has members from all different parts of the country that could use your product and actually see, oh, wow, you know, we like this.
01:09:33
Steve Smythe
Yeah.
01:09:41
The SnowJobs Podcast
We need to investigate this more. Why would you not want to take the shot and throw one out there?
01:09:46
Steve Smythe
It doesn't make sense why you wouldn't, you know?
01:09:48
The SnowJobs Podcast
There must be a reason.
01:09:48
Steve Smythe
And it's like,
01:09:49
The SnowJobs Podcast
I just don't understand what their reasoning would be.
01:09:51
Brandon Reilly
ah of Wisconsin. So it's close. It's not like it's a, it's a, right. I mean, they're, they're made in Wisconsin.
01:09:56
Steve Smythe
yeah.
01:09:57
Brandon Reilly
So it's,
01:09:57
Steve Smythe
I've talked to, I blew in my face, you know, the guys, all the the vendors that have their equipment there now know that we're not pushing it. We're not using it as a, hey, look at this, look at that type stuff. it's It's a tool in the toolbox.
01:10:09
Steve Smythe
The vendors, when the vendors are here speaking to the the people too, Arctic was here last week, west Douglas Dynamics was here. Nobody's pushing their product. They're just there. They're offering support on what their product does.
01:10:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, exactly.
01:10:21
Brandon Reilly
Thank
01:10:21
Steve Smythe
It's so awesome.
01:10:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
And you could do that if you have a group that's coming in that say, hey, listen, we really were interested in these 321 cases.
01:10:25
RICK JAMES
Thank
01:10:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
You have one out there. So is it possible to get somebody from case like, you know, a manager or something to come out and talk to our group?
01:10:33
Steve Smythe
yeah we we we Yeah, we have a couple of kate cases donated to us.
01:10:37
The SnowJobs Podcast
Done.
01:10:38
Steve Smythe
We got a 621 and a 321 sitting in our lot right now, you know.
01:10:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's awesome. But that but i mean that kind of thing, though, where if you know that group has a concentration that they're coming out there and they want to see a certain product in action, you can make arrangements to have somebody from that company come to that day.
01:10:45
Steve Smythe
Mm-hmm.
01:10:48
Steve Smythe
And we sent.
01:10:51
Steve Smythe
Yep. Darcy will send out a survey to the the clients that are coming in to see what kind of they want to pick up off of the Storm Academy.
01:10:53
Mike
That's huge.
01:10:58
Steve Smythe
And if it's, you know, some particular piece of equipment and we open it up every time we have a Storm Academy, we send out ah a memo to all the vendors and they're welcome to come at anytime.
01:10:59
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
01:11:07
Steve Smythe
They're even welcome to come when we're not doing it.
01:11:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
01:11:09
Steve Smythe
If they want to show a customer of theirs, their product, we don't care. You know, it's just that that's what it's open for. So.
01:11:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
And everybody wants that Snow Jobs Nation approved decal on their product.
01:11:17
Steve Smythe
Yep. 100%.
01:11:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
You know, that's the only way to get it
01:11:18
Steve Smythe
pon ver
01:11:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
know, that's the.
01:11:20
Steve Smythe
It's like going to the Simon trade show, but actually being able to use this stuff and everybody's work working together.
01:11:20
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:11:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yes, exactly.
01:11:26
Steve Smythe
And it's not like, Hey, you can't walk by my booth because you don't sell my product.
01:11:30
Brandon Reilly
Well, just even like the aspect, you go and you spend all this money on a plow and you don't always get all the information, right?
01:11:30
Steve Smythe
You know.
01:11:31
RICK JAMES
ah You can't go, but you can ahead, man.
01:11:37
Brandon Reilly
So to be there in this spot and to be like, hey,
01:11:38
The SnowJobs Podcast
hmm.
Market Trends and Innovative Solutions
01:11:40
Brandon Reilly
if I break Arctic, if I break two pucks, how can I make this plow continue to plow throughout the day?
01:11:44
Steve Smythe
Yep.
01:11:45
Brandon Reilly
We had to figure that on our own, right?
01:11:45
The SnowJobs Podcast
Mm-hmm.
01:11:46
Brandon Reilly
It was just a trial and error.
01:11:46
Steve Smythe
and i How many times have all of us been to dealers? You know, we'll go look at plows at dealers and that particular salesperson, not the OEM vendor, but that salesperson might, I mean, they might sell 10 different varieties and they really, they really don't even know, you know, and now you can go there, you can meet with the OEM and yeah.
01:11:59
Brandon Reilly
oh Yeah. Yep. yeah
01:12:02
RICK JAMES
but It's yellow. got a cutting edge.
01:12:05
Steve Smythe
Oh, that's the best, that's the best plow in the world, right? Until it's out there, but
01:12:08
RICK JAMES
shiny.
01:12:10
Mike
What makes it great?
01:12:12
Steve Smythe
so it's, it's awesome.
01:12:13
RICK JAMES
It's shiny.
01:12:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
I'm sorry it took us off on a sidetrack there. but ah Jeremy, what do what do you think?
01:12:18
Steve Smythe
Nope,
01:12:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
i steve what Sorry, Steve. Did you not finish? Go ahead.
01:12:22
Steve Smythe
nope, go ahead. Go to Jeremy on that.
01:12:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
Jeremy, what do you got? Loader and pusher.
01:12:26
RICK JAMES
No, I would say the same thing everybody else is saying. a lot There's a ton of different compact loaders out there. I mean, but all like Steve said, everybody else, it comes down to your dealer support.
01:12:37
RICK JAMES
But i I know a lot of guys on the East Coast have talked about you know the Yamaha compact and I think is there Hyundai ones and stuff?
01:12:42
The SnowJobs Podcast
Stole my shit. Yep. oh
01:12:43
RICK JAMES
hondis and stuff like that so i think they're pretty reasonable out there so a guy you know think they got pretty good leases what i've heard from guys saying mean obviously the case is a great loader case many loaders are great john deere john deere cats are all you know they are what they are they're they're good loaders like comes down your dealer support as far as plows i mean same thing everybody else has said i mean is i'm just repeating everything they said there's hundred different plows out there but you know it's what you can afford and what you think is going to work for you
01:13:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, absolutely. um Tomas or Thomas. Sorry. I would, I would echo what, what Jeremy just said. um I love my cases, but even they're starting to creep up there.
01:13:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
Like a three 21 is what Brandon, like one 10, one 20 now.
01:13:29
Brandon Reilly
Depending on your dealer, I've heard that they're more they're more expensive your way than the RRs.
01:13:32
The SnowJobs Podcast
They're definitely expensive here. They're yeah. They're pricey.
01:13:36
Brandon Reilly
119, 121, I think, in in here.
01:13:37
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
01:13:37
Brandon Reilly
And i'm i've seen I've seen people say that it's closer to 130 out by you.
01:13:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's yeah. It's up there, but I mean, I love them. They they're great. Um, my dealer My dealer support in my area is not good. I travel an hour and 15 minutes on a trailer ah to get to a good dealer, um which they take great care of me, GT Mid-Atlantic.
01:13:56
Steve Smythe
Thank you.
01:13:56
Brandon Reilly
For good.
01:14:01
The SnowJobs Podcast
But um what I would tell you to do, it sounds like you know you're on the smaller side. You got three trucks. You're looking to get into the equipment now. um Go with what's going to make you the most money with the least amount of expenditure that you have the highest, your your highest estimation for reliability.
01:14:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
Like don't buy, ah you know, I don't even know what brand. Like I've seen loaders with no names on them being sold in in a lot in Connecticut.
01:14:25
Steve Smythe
Thank you.
01:14:26
The SnowJobs Podcast
Like it's like Dow Gong or something like, you know, really like crappy stuff like that. It's got a Cummins engine. So they publicize that. Of the brands, like Jeremy said, the Yanmars, I know a guy upstate New York ah that has one, and I've asked him a couple times. He's used it in snow for three years now.
01:14:44
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's a V... either a V8 or a V10. So it's either 74 horse or 100 horse. He says the only thing he's has been great for him. He loves it. The only thing he will tell you is change the hydraulic hoses when you get it.
01:14:59
The SnowJobs Podcast
They use cheaper hydraulic hoses. So don't wait for problems to happen. Go with a Parker hose. I think he said um change them all out. It'll cost you a couple hundred bucks to do that.
01:15:09
The SnowJobs Podcast
And that way you won't have any of the problems that he experienced with him.
01:15:13
RICK JAMES
Just make spares so you have
01:15:15
Steve Smythe
Yeah, we had a,
01:15:15
RICK JAMES
I'd say just make spares.
01:15:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
What's that?
01:15:16
RICK JAMES
I'd say just make spares so you have them when they blow so you have it.
01:15:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, there you go.
01:15:18
Steve Smythe
I have a swear for sure.
01:15:19
RICK JAMES
You know, yeah.
01:15:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
um
01:15:20
Steve Smythe
we had it we had
01:15:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
But they run on it. They have a Yamar diesel in them. Yamar diesel is pretty damn well bulletproof. Those things are are very, very good diesel engines, and they're reasonably priced if you have a dealer in your area. that That's an even bigger plus.
01:15:32
The SnowJobs Podcast
My other recommendation would be Hitachi. Hitachi has some crazy good leeach deals ah lease deals going um for snow guys, for snow leases in certain areas. So I would check them out. They are in no...
01:15:45
The SnowJobs Podcast
um They were known as no frills loader, but they actually do have decent creature comforts and in the newer models that they're making right now. ah So I would check them out too, because they're still reasonably priced.
01:15:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
And then i think XCMG is dropping 74 horse. So...
01:16:01
Steve Smythe
They'll have a compact road, too.
01:16:02
The SnowJobs Podcast
so
01:16:02
RICK JAMES
I just post
01:16:02
Brandon Reilly
None.
01:16:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
I mean, they're supposed to. That's worth checking out. If you got some, if they if they do hit the U.S., who knows all the tariff crap now, but if they do hit the U.S. in the next month or two, and you can put hands on them, check them out, see if they're worth your while.
01:16:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah Jeremy, do you have something, bud?
01:16:20
RICK JAMES
I was just going to say, also, if he doesn't have the capital to even go to a compact loader nowadays, he could probably, I don't know what kind of plow he has, but he could probably put one of his pickup plows off to side and he could buy a Snow Power or one of the new Arctic Razorbacks and that'll probably turn your pickup into a little compact.
01:16:32
Brandon Reilly
Right.
01:16:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
01:16:38
RICK JAMES
Might save you some capital there if you just grab a
01:16:39
The SnowJobs Podcast
Excellent point.
01:16:40
Steve Smythe
That's a, that's a for sure.
01:16:41
RICK JAMES
just grab ah
01:16:42
Steve Smythe
I kept hearing about that F-14 and we use those down in in Kansas city and they had that 12 inch storm down there and we had that F-14 on that 5,500. And that thing was other, other than the stacking ability, that thing was a compact loader out there.
01:16:55
Steve Smythe
So.
01:16:55
RICK JAMES
Right.
01:16:55
The SnowJobs Podcast
Hmm.
01:16:56
RICK JAMES
Yeah. I mean, if you weren't ready to jump up to a compact, you could, you know, cut and buy a new plow, you know, save some money on the compact and just, and you still got one plow as a backup.
01:17:06
RICK JAMES
So.
01:17:07
Brandon Reilly
That's what's...
01:17:07
Steve Smythe
Yeah.
01:17:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
100% I like that
01:17:07
Steve Smythe
Yeah. Yeah. We had a young guy that reached out to me last summer, early last summer, actually same situation. He had three pickup trucks and he was going to a compact and he said he ah he was looking at a metal plus. He said, what do I get for a loader? I said, do your homework on your dealer that's around you.
01:17:23
Steve Smythe
And then talk to me once he got the loader figured out. And he settled on a John Deere because it was a close dealer and they had the support. So.
01:17:30
Brandon Reilly
and sort
01:17:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
I just had that. I just had that conversation the other day with a guy. He was asking me like a new truck plows. What are you thinking? What do you like? I'm like, I would just say that if you're not like the, the Razorback and the the snow powers, they are going there. If they can keep up with the demand, they're going to put such a hurt. And like, nobody's going to buying an eight foot six truck plow anymore.
01:17:54
Steve Smythe
No,
01:17:54
The SnowJobs Podcast
Nobody's going to do it. You know, you've got other options now, you know,
01:17:58
Steve Smythe
but now it's now it's not even, you know you know, obviously Douglas has got wing plows and so is boss and whatnot, but now it's the, it's the scrape, man.
01:18:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, they got the wide out.
01:18:06
Steve Smythe
It's the scrape on these things on, on the new ones coming out and all, you know, snow power and, and Arctic it's just, it's unbelievable.
01:18:06
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
01:18:11
RICK JAMES
down pressure.
01:18:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
But it's still a straight blade. The wide out, the problem with the wide out is still a straight blade. It's in a flat parking lot. Yes,
Personal Anecdotes and Future Plans
01:18:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
it gives you the ability to scoop more and windrow.
01:18:20
Steve Smythe
Sure.
01:18:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
But if you got to make a purchase, like us say you got a state plow something, leaving leaving the berm, the the three foot berm we've all experienced when pulling into a lot during a big storm.
01:18:33
Steve Smythe
Yep.
01:18:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
And now it's slightly uphill. Good luck with a straight blade. You know, I mean, it's just you need that articulation. You need to be able to to get through that that thing. And that's why I really like the snow powers. And I really like, you know, the ah the Razorback for that. I really like that.
01:18:51
Steve Smythe
Have you guys got to use your Razorbrack yet, Steve?
01:18:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
And I think.
01:18:54
The SnowJobs Podcast
Hell, no, they killed the snow for us when that thing showed up. That was the day it became 55 degrees every day since.
01:19:00
Steve Smythe
how How cool is that, that we were like the first one to have the Razorback other than Arctic? I'm still like jacked about it.
01:19:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. I'm not happy about that. We didn't get a chance to use it this year.
01:19:09
Steve Smythe
It was actually Jeremy's and they're like, oh, you can just keep it. But it's like.
01:19:13
RICK JAMES
Are we?
01:19:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. I wasn't, uh, like I said, I knew the second, the second that showed up, I knew that was the end of the winter.
01:19:19
Steve Smythe
Yeah.
01:19:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
Um,
01:19:20
Mike
way it goes. so
01:19:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, you knew it. You know, you know, it was like Jeremy with his LaRue blower last year. He's so excited to get that thing. You knew the motherfucker was not getting an inch of snow all winter that he could use that LaRue.
01:19:29
Steve Smythe
yeah
01:19:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
He was so excited. He was talking about that LaRue for six months and you knew it was it wasn't going to cooperate.
01:19:35
RICK JAMES
we
01:19:37
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's the kiss of death for snow guys when you buy new equipment.
01:19:40
Brandon Reilly
Yeah, it was our snow melter that killed it for us.
01:19:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
You know. There you go.
01:19:43
Steve Smythe
Have guys used that yet, Brandon?
01:19:44
Brandon Reilly
No, because we got it delivered in April after the 190th winter, and then we got 30.
01:19:47
Steve Smythe
Yeah.
01:19:48
Brandon Reilly
Oh,
01:19:49
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. Nope. It was stuck in customs for how long?
01:19:51
Mike
that's That's good.
01:19:53
Steve Smythe
Yeah.
01:19:53
Brandon Reilly
ah five months.
01:19:54
The SnowJobs Podcast
Five months in customs.
01:19:54
Mike
yeah
01:19:56
Brandon Reilly
We were supposed to have it in December of the big winter. We got it in end of April, last April, after the big winter.
01:20:01
Steve Smythe
Last year, right? Yeah.
01:20:04
Brandon Reilly
So we've had it now.
01:20:05
Steve Smythe
Yep.
01:20:05
Brandon Reilly
Two years sitting in our shop. But, um yeah, it's it's not moved since we since that we saw the truck come in. We're like, so nice of you to come on an 80-degree day.
01:20:15
Steve Smythe
I remember that you posted it. it was like shorts while they out when it showed up.
01:20:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's crazy. yeah But that is the kiss of death, man.
01:20:23
Brandon Reilly
yeah
01:20:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
Whenever you buy a pricey piece of equipment, it's going to make your winter go bye-bye. But um as far as pushers, though, Thomas, just to wrap up, um not Metal Plus or Arctic. I'd say you're in the Snow Wolf Quattro. ah You're in the Cage.
01:20:42
The SnowJobs Podcast
um What are they? Snow Fires? Is that what they're called? the The box with the detachable box and straight blade? Is it Snow Fire? don't even know.
01:20:50
Steve Smythe
Yes, yep, snow fires.
01:20:50
RICK JAMES
Sure.
01:20:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, okay.
01:20:52
Steve Smythe
ye
01:20:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
um And then the ah the new Douglas Wing Plows, I think they're on the same price point as that. um I don't know of any of the others that I know of that I've actually seen or know anybody that uses them.
01:21:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
um No, I'll just go with those. Check those out. And like I like what Brandon said. There's there's so many fire sales going on right now for guys that either priced wrong and got a lot of snow and oh god got screwed because they were working on low snow models or no snow models or guys that didn't get any snow and were on you know seasonals and are hurting. So there's fire sales on on Facebook Marketplace. You can find some great deals on Artix, Metal Pluses.
01:21:33
Brandon Reilly
Everything.
01:21:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
So, yeah.
01:21:34
Brandon Reilly
Everything.
01:21:34
Steve Smythe
Yeah.
01:21:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
Everything. Yeah. Everything.
01:21:36
Steve Smythe
Yeah.
01:21:37
The SnowJobs Podcast
Everything.
01:21:37
Steve Smythe
so
01:21:38
The SnowJobs Podcast
Sidewalk machines with two hours on them.
01:21:39
RICK JAMES
By a whole snow company.
01:21:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
I saw that the other day. Whole snow companies.
01:21:42
RICK JAMES
mean,
01:21:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
01:21:43
Brandon Reilly
let's see Yeah, there's companies, yeah, there's companies literally, like, even just not even on Marketplace, there's just people posting that they're selling all their stuff on just all the groups, all the snow groups that are out there.
01:21:50
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
01:21:53
Steve Smythe
yeah
01:21:53
Brandon Reilly
um There's people posting a bunch of stuff out there and sometimes you can get a pretty good deal on hopefully something that's not too destroyed.
01:21:59
The SnowJobs Podcast
Guy the other day said he was subbing. He subbed for a guy for like six or seven years, and the guy owed him money for this season, couldn't pay him, so he just gave him the truck. He said, I'm done.
01:22:08
Steve Smythe
Yeah, we we've seen that here, right, Brandon?
01:22:09
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. Here you go.
01:22:12
Brandon Reilly
yeah
01:22:12
Steve Smythe
We've seen that in this area too happen a few times.
01:22:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
I'm folding up anyway. Here, take one of these trucks. ah Here you go. Merry Christmas. Like, holy shit.
01:22:19
Brandon Reilly
You might not be able to to make up that last money, but that that asset will be like that.
01:22:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
Absolutely. I'll take it. Oh, man. Well, let's ah let's run some commercials. We'll come back. We'll do a little bit more with the boys, then we'll let them go to bed.
01:23:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
All right, we're back. Brandon's side gig is a voiceover expert for Plow, right?
01:23:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
I still say that, man. You and Matt sound exactly alike.
01:23:35
Brandon Reilly
Honestly, I feel like... so
01:23:38
The SnowJobs Podcast
Crazy how much you guys sound alike.
01:23:40
Steve Smythe
They do.
01:23:42
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, who's got anything else? Anybody got anything else you want to talk about? it Get off your chest.
01:23:47
Brandon Reilly
you
01:23:49
RICK JAMES
Nope.
01:23:50
Steve Smythe
Sandy's donuts were good.
01:23:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
The what?
01:23:53
RICK JAMES
Oh, yeah. Sandy's donuts are good. Yep.
01:23:56
Steve Smythe
Brickhouse pizza didn't disappoint.
01:23:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
Where's Sandy's donuts?
01:23:59
RICK JAMES
So.
01:24:00
Steve Smythe
it
01:24:01
RICK JAMES
Nope.
01:24:02
The SnowJobs Podcast
Where's Sandy's donuts? If you're going to give a plug, you got to give a proper plug.
01:24:05
RICK JAMES
It's in Fargo here. It's a local donut shop.
01:24:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, Fargo.
01:24:10
RICK JAMES
Yeah, they sell them everywhere around here. But yeah, it's a good place to get donuts.
01:24:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
They're good.
01:24:14
RICK JAMES
Oh yeah, really good.
01:24:16
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. Interesting.
01:24:17
RICK JAMES
Set the box on with Steve.
01:24:18
Brandon Reilly
What time did you get into Fargo, Steve?
01:24:20
Steve Smythe
What's that
01:24:20
Brandon Reilly
What time did you get into Fargo? like
01:24:22
RICK JAMES
Time to go to Brickhouse.
01:24:23
Steve Smythe
that? 10.30 Friday night.
01:24:26
Brandon Reilly
Okay. what what was the what was the When was it supposed to start snowing for you?
01:24:31
Steve Smythe
was supposed to start snowing by what? 5, 4.30, 5 in the morning, something like that.
01:24:35
RICK JAMES
Yeah, yeah.
01:24:35
Steve Smythe
Kept getting up looking and the wind was ridiculous.
01:24:37
Brandon Reilly
Nothing.
01:24:39
RICK JAMES
Nada.
01:24:39
Brandon Reilly
Yeah.
01:24:42
Steve Smythe
But then coming home coming home yesterday afternoon, it was like you got towards Alexandria and the cut was.
01:24:46
Brandon Reilly
How's Andrea? You hit the...
01:24:48
Steve Smythe
And then I'm looking at all these piles in the parking lots as I'm driving on the freeway and I'm just getting annoyed because it's like we couldn't, we couldn't even push dirt, make a pile, but you did.
01:24:49
Brandon Reilly
I was
01:24:58
RICK JAMES
I did. did push dirt.
01:25:02
The SnowJobs Podcast
Not to be outdone.
01:25:03
Brandon Reilly
gonna say, I got a video of someone pushing the main drive of of something.
01:25:05
RICK JAMES
I got i got a video of it, so I didn't do it.
01:25:11
Steve Smythe
Yeah, they had, there was, there was a couple, well, as you got into Moorhead or whatever, there was a little bit more and
01:25:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
man.
01:25:17
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:25:17
Steve Smythe
There's some drift stuff off some buildings. so there was a couple of machines running around.
01:25:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
Sounds good.
01:25:23
RICK JAMES
Yep.
01:25:23
Brandon Reilly
How did that work for you, Jeremy, being it was spring break?
01:25:27
RICK JAMES
ah
01:25:28
Brandon Reilly
If it would have, let's say, turned into a big thing.
01:25:28
RICK JAMES
and reason and Another reason why it didn't snow is I had everything full, ready to rock.
01:25:36
Brandon Reilly
Okay.
01:25:37
RICK JAMES
even even A lot of guys came home on Friday that were on spring break, so they were back. but i i had a few I had a few guys gone, but i had backups, so the backups were ready to go, and Steve obviously came. so i Everything was going be full.
01:25:50
RICK JAMES
so
01:25:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, at Arctic Steve, you're good. That's all you need.
01:25:54
RICK JAMES
is
01:25:55
Steve Smythe
924, loader one, man.
01:25:57
RICK JAMES
Yep.
01:25:58
Steve Smythe
My baby.
01:25:58
RICK JAMES
It's a great machine.
01:26:02
The SnowJobs Podcast
What else? Anybody got anything else? All
01:26:04
Brandon Reilly
Not too much that i can think of.
01:26:06
Steve Smythe
as Hopefully we get we hopeful hopefully we got our storm Tuesday night and we'll see what happens.
01:26:06
The SnowJobs Podcast
right.
01:26:10
Steve Smythe
Hopefully we can end the season here in Minneapolis on a bang.
01:26:13
Brandon Reilly
We only need.2 to break 30.
01:26:13
Steve Smythe
and
01:26:13
RICK JAMES
I might have to come down the city, Steve.
01:26:15
Brandon Reilly
I
01:26:15
Steve Smythe
Yeah.
01:26:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
Is that your floor? All right.
01:26:19
Brandon Reilly
i don't have a floor, but that's just, that's the special that we're safe is, ah you know, when if we get 30, it's like, okay, you broke the halfway point.
01:26:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
That a boy.
01:26:21
Steve Smythe
That's a lot of floors, yeah.
01:26:28
Brandon Reilly
here you say it It still sucks.
01:26:28
The SnowJobs Podcast
You're an average. Okay.
01:26:30
Brandon Reilly
It's terrible, but at least you you got over that 30 number.
01:26:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
01:26:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
Gotcha.
01:26:34
Brandon Reilly
If we were to say 18 inches, it would be terrible.
01:26:40
Steve Smythe
Yeah, we'll see. I mean, it kind of looks like more in the southern metro, Brandon, and southern Minnesota.
01:26:44
Brandon Reilly
It's supposed to it supposed to be mostly be Mankato, Albert Lee, Rochester.
01:26:45
Steve Smythe
So maybe Storm Snow will like Maybe Storm Snow will ask me to help.
01:26:49
Brandon Reilly
That that was the the main track. And then just put us into the one to three.
01:26:55
Steve Smythe
They never ask me to help. they get Those guys got it dialed in so good, they don't ever ask me. I'm like, come on, man.
01:26:59
RICK JAMES
That's
01:27:00
Steve Smythe
I just want to come out and fly in the snow. Invite me with once.
01:27:03
RICK JAMES
all got.
01:27:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
Brenna, are you still doing something in like North Dakota somewhere? You still got?
01:27:09
Brandon Reilly
Yeah.
01:27:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
01:27:10
Brandon Reilly
Yep.
01:27:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
How much did they get out there?
01:27:12
Brandon Reilly
ah What is my not sitting at right now?
01:27:15
RICK JAMES
Minot?
01:27:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, mine it.
01:27:16
RICK JAMES
Why not Minot?
01:27:16
The SnowJobs Podcast
That thought was it.
01:27:17
Brandon Reilly
They had a very busy beginning of winter. oh Let's see. True weather.
01:27:23
RICK JAMES
Yeah, when I'm like, died.
01:27:23
Steve Smythe
the doctor.
01:27:24
Brandon Reilly
North Dakota. That's 20. No. So they're sitting at the exact same. Oh, I didn't. Wow. They're sitting at the exact same that we are. 29.8. wait. Sorry. No, sorry.
01:27:36
Brandon Reilly
no it
01:27:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
Ooh.
01:27:36
Brandon Reilly
um no sorry twenty nine point nine Um, but they had, they had a lot, um, of de-icing and lot of little events going up until about Christmas.
01:27:42
The SnowJobs Podcast
and Wow.
01:27:48
Brandon Reilly
And then they were cold and that cold killed it. But then they've also, they've been going on the same roller coaster we have where it's been like excessively warm. And then you get polar plunges down to negative, something that goes back up to 40 and does it again. Basically it's like a week cycle of a wave. It's terrible.
01:28:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
Crazy.
01:28:06
Mike
What's the average in that area?
01:28:07
Brandon Reilly
Uh,
01:28:09
Brandon Reilly
I don't know off the top my head. I think it's in the sixties, fifties, sixties.
01:28:13
RICK JAMES
um My nuts got to be in the 50s, upper 50s, I believe. so Oh.
01:28:19
Brandon Reilly
It's just, it's cold. They like, that's telling like they were negative 45 for about a week.
01:28:22
RICK JAMES
Oh.
01:28:26
Brandon Reilly
Um, this year, last year it was like almost two weeks. it was terrible. The machines, we were paying, you know, paying the guys to come out DJ machines. And I got to a point where, um, Case and Titan Machinery is basically like, I don't have anything to get out there to de-gel because all of our trucks are ah frozen.
01:28:42
Brandon Reilly
we can't We can't do anything. um And so it's just a total different ballgame to play in.
01:28:48
The SnowJobs Podcast
Crazy nuts.
01:28:49
RICK JAMES
have to go to Montana and start a business.
01:28:52
Steve Smythe
I
01:28:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
There you go. ah Mikey, you got anything else?
01:28:58
Mike
Not bad. Nothing I can think of.
01:29:01
The SnowJobs Podcast
All right. Good enough. No problem. I think we covered everything. Steve, you good?
01:29:06
Steve Smythe
think I'm good. Mikey, you guys get hit you hit with the Northeast or we'll call us, we'll be out.
01:29:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
Jay?
01:29:11
Mike
Yeah.
01:29:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, i think I think we're safe.
01:29:12
Mike
The only reason we didn't get one is because storm chasing happened this year.
01:29:16
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. Yep.
01:29:17
RICK JAMES
Ha ha ha.
01:29:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
01:29:18
Steve Smythe
You guys had a good storm during that one, I heard.
01:29:19
Brandon Reilly
You would have been seasonal average, didn't you?
01:29:21
Mike
Yeah, we did.
01:29:22
Mike
It was a good one.
01:29:22
Steve Smythe
Oh.
01:29:24
Brandon Reilly
Like, you you were busy, right?
01:29:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, we did good. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, we were.
01:29:27
Mike
we We're busy.
01:29:28
The SnowJobs Podcast
We're over our seasonal average.
01:29:28
Mike
Yeah. Yeah.
01:29:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. We're events wise. We're way over our normal seasonal average of events.
01:29:35
Mike
yeah
01:29:37
The SnowJobs Podcast
Shit. Probably by a third. Yeah, we had a lot of we had a lot of events. I mean, we.
01:29:43
Brandon Reilly
when does your season typically end?
01:29:44
The SnowJobs Podcast
Crap.
01:29:45
Brandon Reilly
is it Is it normally this time, or do you normally...
01:29:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
No. Well, it depends. I mean, this is a traditional throwback winter for what I remember as a kid where you have snow and cold from the end of November until Patty's day and then you're done.
01:29:59
The SnowJobs Podcast
Then you're good. ah But the last five to seven winters have been starting late. You know, we don't get first snowfall to the end of December or but beginning of January. And then we're going we're snowing into April.
01:30:11
Brandon Reilly
yeah Yeah, that's the same here.
01:30:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
So, you know, it's ah I think it's the same amount of time.
01:30:12
Mike
Yeah.
01:30:16
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's just when it starts and when it shuts off is different.
01:30:18
RICK JAMES
Thank you.
01:30:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
And this year it it started early. I think November 20.
01:30:21
Mike
It's not usually this warm.
01:30:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
No, not this early.
01:30:23
Mike
Like middle of March being in the the high mid 60s, almost 70s today. Like that's that's not normal.
01:30:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
No.
01:30:31
Brandon Reilly
it's
01:30:32
Steve Smythe
Yeah.
01:30:32
Brandon Reilly
I mean, we were on Friday right before the,
01:30:32
The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, it's where the that's where you're getting the crazy storm outbreaks.
01:30:35
Mike
Yeah.
01:30:38
Brandon Reilly
ah the switch from rain to snow. So it was, but that was crazy. And then all week was warm, right? You know, Steve or Steve, but they were at 60 degrees in storm.
01:30:43
Steve Smythe
Yeah.
01:30:45
Brandon Reilly
It was 60 week.
01:30:46
Steve Smythe
Yes.
01:30:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, it's nuts.
01:30:49
Mike
yeah
01:30:49
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's nuts. but All right, boys.
01:30:51
Steve Smythe
Are you guys all going to Storks? I know Steve and Jeremy are. Mikey, are you mike you going out there?
01:30:57
Mike
Yep, I already got my stuff lined up. I just got the hotel a few days ago, so ready to rock.
01:31:01
The SnowJobs Podcast
Nice.
01:31:02
Steve Smythe
Perfect. Brandon?
01:31:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
Nice.
01:31:04
Steve Smythe
Brandon, I'm going to drag you with.
01:31:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
He can't go to Starks. He goes to Storm Day. That's it.
01:31:08
Brandon Reilly
You're going drag me out there? Yeah.
01:31:10
Steve Smythe
I'll drag you with. Jeremy's going to pick you up on the private jet.
01:31:11
Mike
What are you guys all flying in?
01:31:14
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I don't know. When did I put you in ah Philly on Thursday?
01:31:17
RICK JAMES
there's there's an billy
01:31:19
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He's going in Thursday afternoon to Philly.
01:31:21
Mike
All right, man.
01:31:23
Steve Smythe
Thursday morning, I think, for me, I'll be out there.
01:31:23
Mike
think I'm leaving 6 a.m. Friday morning, so I'll be out there early.
01:31:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
Sounds good.
01:31:31
RICK JAMES
cool cool steve you gotta find the same fight i said arctic steve's gotta come on the same flight as me from the cities
01:31:32
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All right, boys. Well,
01:31:33
Steve Smythe
All
01:31:35
Mike
Private jet?
01:31:36
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you're what?
01:31:41
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You should.
01:31:41
RICK JAMES
going
01:31:43
Mike
Who lined up the jet?
01:31:44
Brandon Reilly
You coordinate.
01:31:44
Steve Smythe
right. We'll fly together.
01:31:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
I lined it up.
01:31:48
Steve Smythe
ah so I warmed your seat the last night.
01:31:49
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I book all celebrity travel for, for Rick James, all celebrity travel arrangements.
01:31:50
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:31:52
Mike
Nice.
01:31:53
RICK JAMES
yeah
01:31:56
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a handle form.
01:31:57
Steve Smythe
I did get to experience his seat, though, when I went to Ohio here a couple weeks ago. was pretty nice, that first class. was
01:32:05
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He, uh, yeah, he, I mean, he's, he's pretty bougie if you know him.
01:32:08
Steve Smythe
The mustard pretzels versus the sun chips were definitely worth the 800 bucks.
01:32:09
RICK JAMES
ah
01:32:14
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Dude, no he will not. Like, oh, my God. Don't even get me started. He will not. I have to do it for him just to make sure he is comfortable. Because otherwise, I'll be like, yo, put me in baggage. Is it cheaper?
01:32:25
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Put me down with the baggage.
01:32:28
Steve Smythe
Now there's
01:32:29
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I make sure the man's comfortable. He's, what, 6'5"? I'm tall of you. six five
01:32:35
RICK JAMES
It's just almost 6'3".
01:32:37
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6'5"? you're taller than that.
01:32:39
RICK JAMES
No, I'm not.
01:32:40
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You're taller than that. you ever play basketball when you were younger?
01:32:42
RICK JAMES
Yeah, yeah. Not.
01:32:45
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Tall, taller than six, three, but there's no leg room on these flights.
01:32:46
RICK JAMES
No.
01:32:51
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So you got to make sure you got to make sure he's comfortable.
01:32:52
Steve Smythe
other there
01:32:54
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Otherwise you're going to be grumpy. You don't want grumpy Rick James.
01:32:58
RICK JAMES
I'm never going to pee when I'm out of here.
01:32:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's no fun for anybody. um All right, boys. Well, if that's everything, we're going to wrap it here. And thanks all for coming. Appreciate you guys as always, man.
01:33:09
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Good to see Brandon back in the fold, snuggy and all.
01:33:11
Brandon Reilly
yeah thanks for having me yeah so it's pretty warm in here sorry
01:33:15
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He couldn't keep it on. ah Mikey, pleasure as always, brother.
01:33:20
Mike
Thank you guys. Thank you.
01:33:22
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no problem. Steve, we'll see you soon. Thank you very much. and and said yeah I'm going to get you an ID with ah with my name on it there so you can show people.
01:33:25
Steve Smythe
Thanks, guys.
01:33:32
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's great.
01:33:32
Brandon Reilly
custom shirt with a name on it...............................
01:33:32
Steve Smythe
A tattoo of the other Steve.
01:33:32
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it was
01:33:34
Steve Smythe
Sorry.
01:33:35
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Funniest phone call in the world, though. Yo, Steve's telling everybody he's you. Still the funniest thing ever. I was laughing my ass off. I'm like, he can have at it, bro. He can have at it.
01:33:47
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I'll start sending him my wife's credit card bills, too. He can have at those, too.
01:33:53
Mike
Send the prime card first.
01:33:53
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ah Oh, my good Lord. All right, boys. Well, thanks, man. Appreciate you guys. As always, Jay, you got anything else, brother?
01:34:01
RICK JAMES
I'm good, buddy.
01:34:02
The SnowJobs Podcast
All right. Going to wrap it there. That's going to do it, gang, for this episode. 111 Snow Jaws Podcast main show in the books. As always, thanks to these guys, man. It's a wealth of knowledge. We were able to answer those questions.
01:34:15
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Great for those three guys. Hope that helps. If not, like they said, just reach out at any point. You can reach out on our socials, reach out via email or the website. And if we don't know the answer, which most of the times we may not, but we know guys that will, we can put you in touch with them.
01:34:32
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All right, guys. So thank you all. Appreciate you. Keep liking, subscribing everywhere you're listening. We was wish you all the best for a, you know, maybe another hopefully event for Minnesota there.
01:34:44
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Get them a couple, one or more, one one or two more before the year is over.
01:34:45
Steve Smythe
Thank you.
01:34:49
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But for everybody else, winter's probably done.
01:34:50
Mike
you
01:34:52
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So that's it, guys. We'll see you all its Storks. Everybody be safe out there. Have a great week. Keep pushing.