- So Jim, what are the first things
you need to ask the customer
when you're trying to select
the right tractor and
the right attachment?
- Need to know the cover depth
and I need to know what
he's putting in the ground.
- So once that you have that cover depth,
if we want to focus on plows today,
just the plow attachment,
what things do you go to there?
- On the plow attachment,
the cover depth is going to tell me
which tractor I need to have,
as well as the product size.
That will, that will help us select
the correct tractor from there
we can select the correct type of blade.
- Okay, so if we look at
the different types of plow blades,
I believe you told me there's about
four main types of plow blades, right?
- There are.
- So can you walk me through those four
and then kind of a high level
what they would be used for.
- Okay, the rigid blade, the most common,
that's the one that has
no joint between the shoot
and the main shank in the blade.
Uh, that's used for almost
all of the telecom work
and, uh, quite a bit
of the conduit as well,
up to about an inch and a quarter in size.
The next one in line would be...
Let's talk about a combo blade.
If you're doing golf course work
where you need to pull a
large diameter water line
and the control cables for the sprinklers,
you're going to need a combo.
It can drop the wires down the shoot
and pull the large line behind it.
Single pivot blades do just what they say.
They bend left or right.
It allows you to make
a curve with that plow
with that large rudder behind you,
and still be able to steer it.
The fourth kind would
be a double pivot blade.
We've not made many of
those in the past few years.
They were originally designed
when we could not shake the
glass fiber for fiber optic.
So it keeps the shoot static
and the blade moves in front of it.
- Okay.
And so then you talked
about one more option
that you have to select when you order
your plowed blade, right?
And that'd be for your marker tape?
- Okay most, all of them require
a marker tape of some kind.
What we need on that,
you need to tell us what kind of tape
you're putting in the ground
and how far above the product you want it.
And we will place that onto
the gate of the shoot, uh,
to put it at the right depth for you.
- Also important to know that
that's not adjustable, right?
- It is not adjustable.
- Okay.
And so then the other piece
that you were telling me about
is the leading edge, right?
- Correct.
- And we have a couple options there,
can you tell me about those?
- We have actually three options.
You have two on the replaceable edges.
One is a smooth. Uh, you get
the best wear out of that one.
If you are in a lot of
roots or very hard clay,
you can put a serrated front edge on it.
That acts like a steak knife and
it just breaks the ground
up as it moves through.
Option three would be, say
you're on a golf course
and you need a razor-sharp blade.
We will mill a surface on
that blade and sharpen it
so that it has very
little ground disturbance
on the surface.
- So there you go.
There are some of the options
and why you would select the
different types of plow blades.
For more information
on any of these plow blades, please talk
with your local Vermeer dealer
or visit vermeer.com.
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