Hutson Enterprises Bridgerland Life is largely about the activities of my company, Hutson Enterprises, Inc, and other aspects of my life now living full-time at Bridgerland Village overlooking Bear Lake Utah. It will have snow plowing and grading, as well as other interesting content as it presents itself. I, Tony Hutson, also have had a career in law enforcement, trucking, heavy equipment and truck mechanics, and construction and so there may be content in the future around these other disciplines.
No need to apologize for lack of content sir…, I figured when the snow left you wouldn’t be back till the snow started flying again in the fall. However, holy cow…, looks like you have been busy. I seem to recall somewhere in the mix, you mentioned being “retired”…, hahaha…! I know you types, retirement is not in your psyche… You might be surprised at your viewership numbers going “up” with any video footage of those metal fabrication projects you showed in still photos. They looked like some awesome pieces of equipment…, course there is some time involved with those types of videos. Great video here, Thank you sir. P.S., your camera angle/view is perfect.., let’s the viewer see your hand inputs and the blade responses…
I am sorry that you didn't like it. I understand that some don't like the music and would rather here the machine or more about what I am doing. Some people like some music. I believe this video, as I recall, likely was weighted more heavily with music. I think it was the 2/29 video, my most watched, that was the best balance of music, commentary, machine, and camera positions. I am trying to get better at the editing thing and will continue to try to improve. Thanks!
Very thoughtful of the homeowner at the end having homemade cookies hand delivered to you & your passing machine. Definitely hit the spot with the possible growlies. There making sure you have enough energy to carry on ,if you like peanut butter should carry a couple of jars stock of it in your cab just to hold off the growlies in the tummy until you get home where the wife has made either breakfast lunch and supper for a hard working husband.
24:19 looks like a definite big airliner contrale of too the top right of my Flagship phone screen, No conseat in my family just saying. 6.7 inch screen display Asus ROG phone 6 with 512gb storage & 16GB RAM.
I agree too with the commentor asking for a little more plow sounds a less background music, plus the real equipment fanantic like myself the equipment sounds equipment make is like equipment music anyway way so why drown one out for the other unless you're a upcoming energy drinking rock star right. More machine music than note 🎵 music is a good thing on a channel like you're & always invite your play by play of your skill at running heavy equipment. Just think of it as your at your Superbowl every time you go out with your grader and your the go to quarterback, Lineman,receiver,Punter and coach and don't forget the waterboy don't want to dehydrated yourself or your machine.
Some like the music sometimes, some like the machine, and others like commentary. I think this video had a good mix and a variety of camera positions. I am trying to appeal to as many as I can. Thanks
Just would like to commend you taking the effort to have different from our end motion picture camera locations on your well maintained Grader and again thank you from Alberta Canada, Would like very much to pay it forward as the new Internet term came about & would like to mail you a card & possible a fast food gift card for you and your wife, Can't forget her and you tell her that it's her that keeps you running like all good or better yet great wives, She's in the background and a pivotal kog in your operation So she should get recognition as well and I just did that. You can have the biggest transmission but if you or I blow a shift it's not a good thing So I think wives are like living transmissions making sure we try not to blow or miss a shift. Once a true geargammer always a real & dying breed of trucker, Strong and kind is the only way to be, seen that one liner on the back of a Kwhopper and will never forget it.
Thank you for making this confirmed constructive Snow plowing content. Beauty as always is in the eye of the beholder and your loved jd grader is the center piece of this very beautiful area, Do you cut grass in the summer time & someone could invent a Grader with the belly mower and quick attach to the circle Yes ? I just invented a new lawn mower the Mower grader or MG.
72 mile an hour wind gusts in the winter is no fun to be outside, Depending on the real temperature the wind-chill as we call it in Canada after a certain temperature it's basically instant frost bite for exposed flesh and hurt's more after the impacted skin is thawing out & l can't figure that out but I usually dress appropriately when I have to go out walk 2 miles round trip for groceries and cover up completely where only the eyeballs are showing & wearing a Authentic From your country the Overland sheepskin shearling B3 oversized Hood included Bomber jacket and worth every $600+CAD dollars. They even make a female version called the Jane but I wear the men's version just like socks and and most Gloves plus runners there unisex. But always was toasty warm in the upper torso in -45 temp's. With no wind thank God.
Holy cow there's a pack of the Santa's power units at 2:11, must be really good grazing grounds there, Getting all plump too make the cut to be on the business end of Santa's Present delivery machine.
You have Santa's Horses down there too at 1:26 running across your bow of your mountain climbing ramaroo in the triple threat pack and look very very healthy white tail deer. They always have to pass in front and can't wait a split second to pass in the back after the vehicle goes by. I guess where ever they going is really important so as to risk their fur with the near miss hit.
Articulating a grader sounds smart but could take some brain power to set in for me , is your machine a stand up cab ? And do you like to stand while you're grading to take a load off the butt. I've run for 3 winter's a 966 cat rubber tire loader Loading tree length Spruce & this loader pivoted in the middle & very tricky when boom & grapple is full and high to clear the Log trailer bunk stakes & the ground surface angle so as to not lose everything to gravity, But was usually loading on level ground in the cut blocks not a big operation l drove for a private mom and pop's logging company that harvested private trees and delivered to Chetweyed & Fort Saint John, British Columbia,6 axle ,pony up T/A pole trailer configuration with a powerhouse 1985 Mack Superliner with the mack V8 forgot the cubic inch of this engine, but pretty good grunt when grunt is needed,the best experience l have with diesel engine holding & pulling power is the 3406E accert, pulled it right down to 8/900rpm & she kept pulling on a pretty assent Grade, the Cummins N14 / & Plus & the rest would never do that at that predicament they always fall flat on their face , the Truck Caterpillar 3406 is actually the grader engine returned for truck duty & the only Heavy truck engine l ever want to know about, too bad cat stupidly halted production of this engine after 2006. Cat makes so much money in the global market they don't even see the lose of my favorite engine as you can tell by my handle on this website.
It is a stand up but I am 6'5" so actually standing in it doesn't work for me. I like Cat engines also but had pretty good results with Cummins and this John Deere.
Great video & thank you for doing this & the placement of the camera looking back at the meat and the potatoes, Almost looks like a gigantic cake with layering on the iceing.
Sometimes I wonder. I renewed for about 19% more annually on basically the same contract with the unusual rare circumstance clause still in it where I can negotiate for more if something really unpredictable happens. I am pretty sure in 3 years after this contract expires I am going to fully retire. :)
@@AnthonyHutson-ej5pk A very good actual Chief as in Captain & not a white puffy hat double breasted line cook. Veteran's in their field actually know theory better than the so-called college instructor and the student will only keep what there brain will allow them as in Students is simple a term, the real person who picks up your operating knowledge is the one you want to keep teaching because they may eventually figure out something a little more for Running the moldboard, Table / circle, Front lift group and mast or mastless snow wing , Sometimes I think I know what I'm talking about but typing at a phone keyboard is tricky to get right, Also I'm not that worldly educated meaning l abandoned School from grade 8 after all sorts of abuse at the home. But Heavy equipment is one of my favourite things about life , there's wannabes & then there's Real heavy equipment operator's that know what there doing like yourself & pass on this valuable experience to not just anyone but the one who is waiting in the wing's to keep on your grader style and tactics. Also love the area you live in East of park city, Utah and winter is my favourite time of the year always has been being born in July 1964 at Red River Hospital downtown Winnipeg to my mom who recently passed away & God bless her soul. Please keep making your grader videos, even a thorough in cab control lever video. All the best to you and your wife & tell her I say hi as a fan to your great equipment channel. God bless you.
The answer is sometimes. I try to maintain the ditches and slopes to drain the road and have it flow to the culverts and drainage areas. I have to clean culverts and sometimes replace them. Many of them were put in too flat without enough slope to self clean with the speed of the water taking the silt and fines with it. Those that are flat and fill up with sediment also have slow-moving water that puddles and those can freeze as the ground freezes in the winter. Until they thaw in the Spring the run-off will run over the road and wash it more severely. The snowbanks also fill the ditches and dam the downhill road edge causing some of the early run-off to wash down the road until that melts under the bank to then get to the edges and off the road even before the entire bank melts. This causes some minor washing but much of that gravel settles against the bank and I can bring it back onto the main part of the road with the spring maintenance grading. We have had unusually warm Springs that if they come with a rain storm have caused washing because the run-off and rain together can cause more washing before enough melting has happened. I have done enough culvert work that this year they are all working and the washing is at a minimum so far. Thank you!
Thank you very much for showing the videos. I have one understand what it’s like to be out there plowing snow since I have done it for around 25 years myself working for the state running a 10 wheeler with double wings on interstate 95 in Rhode Island so again, thank you very much for showing your videos. Be safe keep up the good work.
Excellent, excellent informational video. You hit all the questions I had, and some that I didn’t feel were any of my business. You sir are a busy man when the snow fly’s, and when it isn’t….., sheesh..! Loved seeing the “operator in training”. 25yrs County L.E., retiree (2013), myself., don’t miss any of that at all, except for the guys I worked with. Thank you sir.
Please correct me if I’m wrong. However, wouldn’t it be more beneficial to have a longer wing to push the snow up and over the road banks ? I am impressed. Certainly not being critical. You do a great job with the piece of equipment you have to work with.
It could, looking at it logically. This was a Falls brand set up of the era and based on the size and power of this configuration of grader. Falls is a quality, well-known manufacturer of snow equipment and it is what the grader was set up with when new, purchased originally by a county in a state in the Midwest. I would be a little concerned with the added power needed, the added rotational thrust on the grader at speed and hitting a solid area, and the added width given how narrow our roads are when trying to use it in conjunction with the moldboard but that could be resolved by side shifting the blade. The added height when in the upright position, could pose a problem if I had to transport with the wing on again. I have though of fabricating a minimal extension and trying it. The snow amounts in the last two years is creating higher, larger, banks that make it more evident so it may push me to try something. Thanks.
I have never seen a You Tube presenter answer every comment.( Even the jerk @jamespetrini comment.) That is as impressive as the wonderful snowplowing because it creates a dialogue between Hutson and his viewers. Absolutely marvelous. Cannot thank you enough. Viewers, please be aware that having operated a straight frame Champion with a Detroit Diesel means that Hutson has been working graders for decades. That alone is to be respected a lot.
I appreciate your comment. Thank you! I have owned and operated a grader since the early 2000's, however, only considered myself full-time for the last seven. My Champion was pretty old when I got it and was my starter machine for a grader. I have had some experience on G, H, and M-model Cats also. I know I am still learning and willing to try different things to improve results especially when situations evolve and change. Commenting on every comment is a little time-consuming but I think I owe it to those that take their own time to do it. Even those that are negative from those claiming to have knowledge as inspectors, who are inspectors, in some cases, because they lack marketable skills in the industry so they take a job that pays less than if they were really good at something. Having had a successful law enforcement career myself, I don't know how any enforcement official could get code compliance or help anyone improve when they lack the willingness to add any constructive specifics to their negative criticism. Thank you!
Thats an amazing sound track, really moves the soul, and the snow! :) No restrictions on Deere power The drivetrain whine almost adds a little Detroit music. I had the chance to study and rebuild a 6076T engine, goodness that was fun and big! Didn't want to pay for a reman as sometimes they're not too good for long. This was a reman with a lot of hours and the rebuilder never set the cam gear properly so it had a mile of backlash, out of time and grinding on the front cover.
It sometimes does sound like a Detroit in the videos. I am glad you like the machine sounds. I have those that like commentary to understand what I am doing and even some like a little music sometimes. I am trying to find the correct balance to satisfy the most viewers. I will keep working on it. I rebuilt a smaller Deere in an old log skidder years ago in my mechanic days and also have experience with 855 CID Cummins and C-15 Cat, fortunately not this one so far. Thanks
@@AnthonyHutson-ej5pk I don't mind music, I love mechanical cacaphony, also would love to see a cab shot of the operational side but getting good audio might need a special mic. Thank you for posting, my plows are all parked, we've been denied snow most of the year.
That's amazing how you mentioned the big heavy grader shifted to the side when the snow wing hits bigger harder frozen parts of a snow bank that's amazing Dynamics I think how snow can push around a heavy grader like that, just like lighting can & will split whole trees in half good thing there isn't too much lighting when you're out grading.
Holy cow the stop sign at saddleback road and the highway is just peaking out of the built-up snowbank. And a big thanks for not snow bank blocking in the one driveway you noticed tire tracks and I'm sure they would thank you too always good to be a gentleman on a grader because good things happen to good people God has said that many times in the Bible and glad you're out of law enforcement because that is one crazy job in today's madd world and now a heavy equipment operator.
Great video please put the sticky cam on your motorgrader when you're out plowing it's very enjoyable at my end, Plus winter has always been my favorite season of the year and winter heavy equipment is right up there.
Must say you did really well with panning around with the camera very slowly for your viewers, unlike other channels who basically pan like madd bouncing around like a manic bobblehead. All the best too you.
Can you please do a in-depth in cab motor grader control's tutorial and give us your seasoned operator trade secrets that make you a great man and grader operator. Thank you.
I will put that on the production list for the future. I have the same side blade lift versus the traditional Cat with the blade lifts, right on right, left on left. Or, the pilot type on the new ones. I can definitely talk about them and the differences. If we don't get another storm, I will be doing the spring maintenance grading and can do it then. Thanks
I'm most definitely subscribing to your great educational heavy equipment channel because you remind me of one of the best mom and pop's logging companies l ever worked for as a Tree length 6 axle pony up jeep pole logger configuration, pulled by a 1984 Mack Superliner V8 mack,Drove for Jack and his Chinese wife susie for 3 Winters and loaded myself with a 1980's cat 966 rubber tire loader and loved every minute of it.
Sounds like you're 1985 dodge truck is one heck of a reliable machine, too bad it has a elk magnet though but a very nice workhorse of a truck even though it's a 360 gas job it a nice truck , please do a detailed like this video walk around of it some time. Thanks
Great video & even better explanation of how you equipped your motor grader, I've always loved dreaming about running a motor grader & hopefully some day the dream will come true,l do see that your tire chains don't know the heavy truck cleat tabs on the links which would help greatly with traction and around the area of the peace country in northwestern Alberta graders are bad for flat tires because they leave shards of the cutting edge on the road & found a flat on my road with a 1989 cbr 600f first year non hurricane name on the tank & 1 of 3 middleweights of the same brand 1989/1994 & finally a 1999F4 last one brand new at $10K Canadian , All great bike's but my all time favourite is 1 of 2 new Yamaha 2 stroke sport bikes I purchased in red deer Alberta in 1985 & 1986 , the giant killer 1985 RZ350F the favourite of all bike's I've had the opportunity to purchase & One day if I win the lottery I'd buying a fleet of heavy equipment from a Motor grader & skid steer & T/A T800 or W900 short hood 2 piece windshield with either a mechanical Caterpillar or 3406B or C15 accert with heavy diffs & 18 spd & air ride. But again Thank you for showing us around your grader & please make more videos working in and around this machine. From Alberta Canada
My favorite truck. KW 900L. Have you seen my truck history video from my heavy haul days? KW tri-drive we built with 6NZ C15 and 18. I wish I was doing RU-vid then. It would have been interesting content.
Not on the snow blades as I have shoes on the moldboard and toe of the wing to leave a little on the road to preserve gravel and for snow machine travel, which takes away much of the abrasiveness. On the moldboard during spring grading due to the hardness from the mag-water and that I don't have a water truck so moisture is not always optimal, I end up with a frown in the center by the end since with the narrow roads and pulling gravel back to the center it washes under the center of the board regardless of which way I am angled. So yes, at least one a year. I have also started squaring them with a torch at that point to get everything out of them and be able to grade effectively.
This gets commented on a lot. I have one but try not to use it unless I have to. In the course of working a storm I have to plow parking lots, dumpster areas, and cul-de-sacs. A v-plow is not great for carrying snow across wider areas to get it off and pile it and even if a v might work in a particular section at times in that process I would have to go change and then change back and that would slow the process. I mitigate the scenario of needing a V, of allowing snow to drift to the depth that would necessitate a V, by not stopping during the entire wind event, which has been as long as 36 hours. If I keep working those areas by cycling between them and not stopping I can keep the roads at least open. As far as the banks go, my V is tall, but the banks are taller and the snow just slides back in behind the plow. The dirt banks, road edges, and other structures, don't allow me in many cases to lean into the bank and get close enough with a v to get the snow over the top at that point. The wing can move it at a higher level and further away from the grader with it's longer reach to work better for that here as well. Carrying a very tall v due to weight increases tire and front end wear and it is hard to see around for safety purposes. Thanks
This is a perfect example of having to do something 2-3 times to get it to the best you can. Many passes seems tedious but a blow and some snow will fill it all back in
Yes. Earlier in the season I can push it wider as I plow but since I have to get the roads open in a storm as the banks get higher and harder to move I can't take the time and it gets much more difficult and has to happen in between. It is starting to crust up so less risk of blow until we get more and we are getting closer to the end for this season but I have had to plow as late as April 15 here so not out of the woods yet. Thanks.
Nice video. subscribed! Does the association tell you when they want the banks benched back or do you do it when you figure its needed? What year is that John Deere? Nice sounding machine
I am required by contract to plow the roads beginning as four inches accumulates on the roads and plow them as wide as the road is. Basically, edge/ditch to edge/ditch. With that in mind, and knowing the potential for a lot of snow, I try to push as wide as I can even beyond the edge as other structures and hazards allow early in the season and as the banks build and the road naturally narrows. Then I have to go back and try to make as much room as I can for future snow at varying degrees of difficulty. So I guess it is both. I am contractually obligated to keep the traveled portion plowed, and I wrote the contract, however, I am also free to decide when and how to make that happen. Which is pretty regularly in these heavy snow years. Thanks!
I have a v-plow but rarely have used it for a few reasons. First when plowing a storm I have to clear lots and cul-de-sacs and I can square the front plow up to move and pile those much more readily than a V would be able to. While I am working a storm, it would take too much time to go home, get the V-plow, even if it would work better in a particular scenario, and then come back to get the front plow to clean up the larger areas so traffic can keep moving. When the wind is blowing and it's drifting, I don't stop so as not to let the drifts get high enough I have to get the V-plow. My longest continuous plow was 36 hours in a blow situation. Finally, the banks are higher than the v-plow can cast it now so the snow just slides back down into the road behind the plow. The wing can move it at a higher level and I have a better chance of getting it over the bank where the road structure allows me to. Where the wing falls short, I have to articulate and come at the bank on an angle with the front plow and I can push them farther off than either the v or wing. It is just time consuming and I only do that when I have to. Thanks
I am curious, why do you say that, because it is me and contrary to lots of input from lots of operators that I respect? If you have something constructive that I can apply I would sure like to hear it so I can get better. Thanks
I would like to know what you think makes me so terrible, constructively, however, is that why you are an inspector because you don't know the first thing about operating and couldn't if you had to. You probably just don't know all the circumstances that I am dealing with here that make you think there is a better way to operate in these conditions. Thanks anyway!
I noticed you use two different types of tire chains for your front sterring tires and rear drive tires. There must be a significant difference between the two types. Just saw this and subscribed. Thanks for taking the time to make this video and share it.
Yes, thank you. They are for different reasons so the difference. This is not an all-wheel-drive so the fronts are for lateral stability particularly on turns so the grader turns better rather than try to just go in more of a straight line. Therefore, the heavier links in the diamond pattern give those more lateral, side to side grip for turning. The rears, obviously are the traction for mainly forward and reverse, so the ladder style in the two-link spacing rather than the four works better for that. It also works well for braking as the wider space cross links always stop with a tire patch on the ground and a chain cross on the front and rear of that patch. With the more frequent cross links there is a chain over that patch and it doesn't happen. The heavy diamond chain on the front would be good for traction also but they are quite a bit more expensive so that plays into it as well. They are all good alloy material that do not where as much as the standard quality I was using. Thanks
I turn to these grader vids as a memorabilia, good vid , THANKS Looks like you have a plow that will push either direction . Love it, that way you can always push to the down hill side. Have you ever hung the mold board all the way to the left to act as a wing to cut the snow bank down & back ? Never tried that myself . I used to operate (worked for the township) a Champion grader in Canada , maintained the roads in the summer, & marked all the culvert, rocks, stumps, etc that would give a problem in the winter & if possible if we were working in the area used the JD 544-A or the JD 450 shovel to remove problems . operated the wing of the snowplow truck in the winter , & when the banks got high , used the grader to bench & wing back . Did not have a front plow , but a front Bull Blade 4’high - width of the grader to punch out turn around areas , sometimes with snow pack 6’ deep & backed up for 10-12’ , when I hit it snow would squirt 30’ in the air ! Wing was 12’ & I was most of the time at full throttle 3rd gear , when I got to a power pole , drop the heel if the wing down a foot , could not discharge the snow so the rear of the grader skated toward the middle of the road as I turned the front to compensate; immediately on lowering the heel of the wing , pull the hydraulics to raise it, which would not happen untill it was almost clear of the bank , which of course put me clear of the power pole , & immediately lowed it back to proper depth ! All this @ 12-14 mph .
I have never shifted the saddle to extend the blade far enough to act as a wing. I am a little afraid, even though I have not had problems, that I would have trouble with the pin and create issues for myself being able to continue to plow in the normal set up. After I wing, I do lean the front plow into the same bank with articulation and clean behind with the moldboard on the return to push the base of the bank over after the wing has cut it down. Thanks
Probably an hour to roll it over to the truck in the shop and line the pins up and hook up the connections. Half an hour to take it off and roll it to the side of the shop. I would also have to flip the neck on the trailer to accommodate it like a jeep although not as long as a jeep requires. Thanks. I wish I had the video cameras and inclination to have a channel when I was heavily involved in this because it would have been better content than I have seen on RU-vid for heavy haul currently. All I have is pics and where my wife went with me on the longer hauls it would have been interesting content how we lived in the truck.
Good job cut bench must be hell job after big storm due mountains side look same west calgary alberta on national park lake louise.thanks video nice work.😊
