What was this D.O.T. officer up to ?....

wow look at this all right guys that's andy from ultas and he's the one that's making this happen i freaking love them 873s [Music] all right guys we have a new adventure in store and this one has been four years in the making let me back this up four years ago i saw my first altau's mower and i wanted to test them out i saw those tracks and it just intrigued me and i went up to the altars booth at the gie and i tried to align up a demo and i got turned down flat right then and there then i made a phone call could i line up a demo nobody would return my phone calls and for four years i've continued to go to the altau's booth at the minnesota farm show at the gie at the northern green expo at everywhere that i seen these guys and asked them if i could arrange for a demo so we could see how these mowers perform and i was turned down flat until the g.i.e and that's when things changed and the story gets interesting so at this year's gie 2021 i went to the altars booth on the inside then the outside then the inside again and then back to the outside trying to find down somebody that would let me do a demo and i'd gotten turned down three of the four times but that fourth time that was the charmer what had happened was i was able to align the demo because of you you guys you guys out there i was at the outdoor booth at the gie trying to talk to somebody to to make arrangements and just getting in the same spot i'd been gotten for four years when you guys started to come up to me dirt monkey are you gonna test an altars dirt monkey you gotta run one of these dirt monkey we gotta see a video on how these things perform and the altaus team was all there listening and their ears finally started to perk up enough to make them realize that you guys are hungry to actually see these things in action and one of the guys he's the head for the the midwest is my understanding said i'll make it happen for you and that's where we're going today we're actually going to his parents house yep and i'll take it man absolutely i guess they got a pond with a steep hill that goes right down into the water and thick heavy brush that we can tackle i'm pumped dude four years in the making and it's finally gonna happen in a few moments this is gonna be a good day but before that does we gotta get the trencher of doom out of the back of my truck it's a giant trencher that goes on the front of a mini excavator and it looks like a monstrous chainsaw cool looking worked pretty good so if you guys want to see a really cool video on that go hit that up and hey while i'm thinking about it if you guys enjoy these videos if you could do me a favor and hit that like button man that does seriously go a long way you guys have a lot of power a lot of influence that like button goes a long way and then uh commenting goes a long way too so thank you for doing both of those things i see you guys doing it and it's much appreciated but let's keep this journey going so this isn't something you get to see very often well this isn't something that you that gets shown enough as i'm driving by i see i want you to see that is a state trooper and he is under the car helping that lady change a tire so i'm gonna help him do you need a hand yeah i see that yeah what can what do we got going on we got a flat tire no never met him before but i seen you working on her and i had to come and help you sir i appreciate it [Music] oh you got a jab yeah okay [Applause] so the officer used the jack out of his own patrol vehicle but it got maxed out before we got clearance with the car partially in the ditch like that the jack that we were using just wasn't giving us enough clears to put the fresh tire back in place [Music] is your jack max out yep we just put the other jack in and lift her up [Music] you want to put this one on and lift it back up okay [Music] [Music] what what what the police officer and i found out together she didn't just lose the tire she lost all of the lug nuts on the side of her car as well the whole tire got jacked up when she lost that tire that's probably why she lost the tire in the first place so the two of us worked on that thing for about another 20 minutes before we got her safely enough that she could go down the road without either of us worrying for her waiting to be tight yeah just blind i mean i've seen officers helping people on the side of the road before but i'd never knew that they went so far as to help people change their own tires like this this is a new one to me all right well while i help get this tire change we'll let you guys continue on your journey in the next stop we'll go get that trencher knocked out i think he got it what's that that worked for you not at first you gotta figure it out a little bit i got once i got it dialed in harry i could stand outside of the loader and it would just the motor the trencher everything was just perfect speed perfect depth i'm just like this is weird because the trencher was pulling the loader pulling the loader just enough that nothing would bind up and it would just keep going so if you guys want to see that video oh yeah absolutely go check out uh go check out the trenching video on the cast mini loader we had a pretty fun day so it's good to not have that bouncing around back here anymore though [Applause] let's go check out the snap-on man [Applause] this is the coolest playground ever you guys this is the ice cream truck for mechanics right wow look at this just parked this in my backyard let's get a cash register there and everything bet you guys spend a lot of your money here don't you yeah it's not christmas yet it feels like it though have a good one you guys all right here's something interesting i learned while i was talking to harry i always like to try to learn something new every day and i found out that european warranties on equipment are nothing like american warranties on equipment let me tell you what i mean a european warranty left on my 990 40s no okay i will a european warranty starts the minute the machine rolls off two miles a european warranty starts the moment that the machine rolls off from the production line so if a skid loader or a telehandler is built over in europe okay third time's a charm the warranty in europe begins the moment the machine rolls off from the production line so if it has a 12 month warranty but the machine doesn't sell for 13 months they may be buying a brand new machine with zero warranty furthermore the warranty over in europe does not cover both labor and materials it only covers one or the other geez i am kind of funny in the beginning of this video i told you i've worked four years trying to line up this altau's video i've worked about two and a half trying to line up having a dot officer come out and show us how to properly hook up a truck to a trailer and properly chain down equipment that allows us to completely be legal he told me they do go out and they do safety meetings at companies and i'm going to try to line up a safety meeting and record it for you guys and what i'd like to do is do it with an active d.o.t lice officer so that we know that everything is snuff up the snuff according to the current rules and regulations you have arrived at your destination on the right yes all right i already like a setup like this ah it looks like andy beat us here hey how are you good so we'll head right out back i got some ground out there that we can let me just follow you you can head rail back with me in your truck or just follow you i'll be right back okay cool all right guys that's andy from ultas and he's the one that's making this happen [Music] oh bobcat 873. i freaking love them 873s i used to run so many 873s just a good machine except the boom arms rattled a bit much but everything else about them 873s was and the 753s were nice 743s were good little small but the 873s that was the sweet spot perfect balance of power and size what the heck is that kind of field oh they got a whole screening operation going on back there look at that we're not that what private lake look at that oh that's what we got to be more i bet we're going to be right there oh yeah oh yeah oh i was supposed to be here at 10 o'clock and look at that right on the dot even with the random breakdown on the side of the road kind of cool this your folks operation andy all of this dang he's got a little ground out here good to see you dude 140 acres 140 acres yeah why is he farming ah he's not we lease the ground out to a farm or a local guy he does the ground here we do a lot of black dirt oh i think you guys could sell this and do a development and just be retired for the next three generations yeah we could but it's nice to have land though too that's true this is your private lake huh yes we dug this lake about uh 20 years ago we finished it seriously so dug it yourself yep we dug all the dirt out of this this was actually all timber like it was over here holy moly we started back in 1996 we started digging and then we finished it right around 2002 and then harvested the material sold that off all the black dirt we mined out it was uh there's natural springs though throughout pond and lake here as well and we've got uh did that make it challenging while you're digging for that many years we got to pump it down we got to run pumps continuous yep we had pumps running 365 24 7. holy bucket as we continued to mine the dirt out of here so you must had a pretty big operation going for a while here yeah we ran we had one time probably two crane two unit cranes running with 50 foot booms and then we had three excavators running and then a full crew of dump trucks pulling and mining dirt every day wow so in mind year round and any fish in there did you stock it there was some fish there were some fish that got in there some northerns that are in there there was some crappies and some sunnies and like mud sunnies that would come in and stuff like that there's a drainage ditch on the back side oh okay stuff like that what is a mud sunny they're like um kind of like a breed between a sunfish and a bass almost they're just a big mouth i'm very invasive and they eat everything so just a neat little fish but they just eat everything minnows and worms all of it so oh yeah nice little place out here it's name it's veterans lake there's a monument down here on the peninsula that's got all the fallen veterans from and you guys set that up too afghanistan more yeah wow that's all the minnesota veterans that have their lives taken on behalf of our freedom yeah right here on a monument forum there so much respect to every one of them past and present absolutely a lot for us absolutely absolutely man all woods before how big how deep did you dig it we only mined it down about six feet okay permits really allow us to go down six feet so you ever have it freeze all the way over then no it won't freeze all the way over because of the springs yep perfect on this end here as well so okay but at any rate yeah i'll show you what these mowers can do on some slope we've got some more property on the back side over there on the back side of the pond that we can go out there there's an occasional brush through there to go through and perfect show you what we can do with them perfect andy i was telling the guys that uh i worked on trying to line this video up for four years sure and if it wasn't for you we wouldn't be here today so sure give them a shout out say thanks andy thanks for making this one happen you bet you bet we'll get mowers off of here then all right and i'm gonna get a coat on [Applause] so yeah so sam thanks for coming out here today appreciate you having you out and doing some demos and whatnot and showing some of the product that we have here for for all those and attract zero turn mowers so what we have in front of us is our altos trx 766 with the all-terrain deck we've got two different deck options for this but as you see here today we've got the all-terrain deck with the chain front breakaway style blade underneath this is going to handle your very tall grass your occasional brush up to an inch diameter but a very good option for a lot of different grounds that you're trying to maintain that are more of an obstacle for a normal traditional mid-mount zero turn mower some of the features that we have on here of course of this rigid deck up here in the front the chains you're having a taller blade of grass getting sooner contact with our blades giving a better first cut pass with your with your blade breakaway assembly underneath here we've got tracks obviously that you see here on the side we've got a patented track system that's going to bridge over a lot of the rough terrain giving us a very smooth ride as we're going to and from or where we're mowing in our application that we're putting the mowers to we've got deck heights our deck height we've got a release pedal over here on our left hand side we've got a raise and lower on our left hand side up here on the side we've got a console adjust so we can turn our cut height to whatever desired cut height that we're looking for we range all the way down to a three inch cut height all the way up to a seven inch cut position with transport at seven and a half that's a little different than what we're used to with regular mowers yes sure so we're able to maintain a little higher cut and there's a lot of applications out there whether it's a prairie grass that we're trying to maintain that we don't want to cut too low right burn out a bladed grass but also just keeping things maintained versus a beautiful cut keeping the underbrush and growth from taking place that way yep fuel tanks we've got seven gallons of fuel we've got a beautiful sight gauge up here that we can see where we're at from a fuel standpoint while we're out there operating powered and back with the vanguard 37 horse efi engine the engine has been performing very well for us we're very pleased with how this engine's been working from a power standpoint reliability and everything in between moving further on we've got a hydrostatic 5400 series commercial grade transmission it's a shuttle drive so we've got a high and low range transmission stand with this unit so as we're sitting here on a seat on our left hand side we can pull our lever back we're into a high range that lever can be moved while we're transportating or not it doesn't matter that transmission just basically goes from low range to a high range for us so ah we've got a nice beautiful seat on here we've got a suspension seat it's a weight dial calibration so you've got a weight to adjust you've got a tilt adjust here as well so you've got your back support that can go forward or back we've got the armrest here so we can set your armrest down and then of course sliding back here so we've got operator pleasure so we can get into a very comfortable position while we're out here mowing with this product a little bit more in detail something that's really neat with this product that we've brought out is a push button start it is our smart track pro this push button start allows you to have electronic ignition so we're no dealing with keys or lost keys anymore or security production this is all conjunction with the efi engine but also has a built-in soft start to our pto so when our pto is engaged we don't have a very violent startup when this mower is being put into gear so most mowers you gotta engage the pto at about three-quarter idol is the kind of the general rule of thumb is that still the rule of thumb yeah anytime you're dealing with electric pto clutch you're going to want to deal with a three-quarter start-up and you want to bring them back to an idle that's stopped more when you're turning your pto off okay got a rotating mast on there with a lot of weight in that blade so as you bring this back to an idle that's a lot less energy that you're trying to stop back here but as you're engaging with this soft start what you're going to find on that is that's a very smooth startup you don't have a static shock load on your belt you're going to save on your clutch okay a lot of your components throughout your deck okay so been a very good system for us we've been running this for three years now we've been very happy with the performance that we're seeing with it what is the price point on this one andy the price point on this unit here as it sits the all-terrain deck is 23.99 all right and we're gonna go out he says the worst part of the biz lake we're gonna head back to the southwest corner of the lake i'm wearing some cutting out there okay so we're gonna head over there we're gonna give this one a test rod and then we're gonna bring this beast and this this one is actually an early release unit these units aren't scheduled till 2022 but this is an early release unit and uh we're gonna be putting this one to the test and then if whatever if you guys like them well they'll be out next year well actually they'll be out in a few months god next year's a month yes yes yes yes we brought we've written actually a little early release with this just a teaser we've got a few of these out there this year yeah this unit has been performing fantastic okay uh so what's gonna happen here now as of just very recently we're gonna also offer the stand up model with a turf deck your finished cut deck is also gonna be an offering for this unit can you switch between them yes sir great question glad you brought that up stan so today here with this mower as you see we've got all setups here with an all terrain but here in the next couple weeks we're going to have uh offerings here available for us with uh with a finish cut deck so the decks to switch a deck out very simple system here what we're dealing with we've got a couple deck hanger bolts down here we've got your pto belt underneath you got a really nice easy access breaker bar to put in here to take the tension off your belt belt comes off you got a bracket back here decks come off slide your finish cut back underneath there so you've got a deck that you can choose from for the different applications that you're working with then i also brought out some turf tracks i've got two different style tracks that are available for these units okay not every application is going to require this heavier lug for this for the slope that we're looking to stick to so if we've got the softer ground which we'll see out here today and you're only looking at flat ground we've got a turf track also here that we brought out that also incorporates a little bit less aggression so you're going to give away some traction on the steeper slope yep but also give you the floatation that you're expecting from a track unit so without tearing up the soft ground exactly exactly so i'm really excited to see that you know what having a turf track having a finished cut deck offering on this stand-up as you'll see out here in a couple of minutes this is a very fun smooth relaxing piece of equipment to work with your visibility is extreme you've got ease of operation hand controls where i feel in the right spot for an operator to feel comfortable when he's out there mowing from a track unit standpoint you're going to find that it's a very comfortable easy machine to fall in love with huh as you see the same pto switch here as we got softly soft star pto we've got electronic throttle over here so we've got a rheostat over here for the throttle control fuel capacity nice sight gauge as well same dial indication eight and a half gallon fuel capacity holy crap so we're putting some fuel to the tank so we can keep these machines working well one tank two tanks single tank on the standoff i wonder why they oh there's dual tanks on the sit down i wonder why they do a single tank on the stand up i mean the tracks probably compensate enough that you don't need the dual tanks to disperse the weight so you get a better you won't you'll never have that thought come up when you're mall with this you won't think that you're going to need the weight if you felt that you needed the way you probably shouldn't have been mowing there [Laughter] you need a rope at that point he says all right well let's head over to the test grounds and let's go see what's going on [Music] all right you guys on the very next video coming out we are going to take these mowers through hell and back and we're going to have a lot of fun doing it and if you enjoy videos like this the thumbs up and a comment goes a long way and that's it for today god bless and go get them and we'll see you on the next one and it looks like guys i may have a snowplowing video coming out sooner than i expected because that's where i'm heading right now so we'll catch you guys on the next one see you later man

Channel: Stanley "Dirt Monkey" Genadek

Views: 296,053

Keywords: truck driver, dot officer, life of trucker, big rigs

Id: h8TC0-pOmXo

Length: 28min 47sec (1727 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 11 2021