1: What's New at Metal Pless?

In Episode 1 of the BORN TO BE A SNOWFIGHTER podcast, you'll hear from Bob and Nick all about what's new at Metal Pless ahead of Equip Expo 2025 in Louisville, Kentucky. New plow sizes, multiple brand new plow series, new technology, and at the end of the episode a special guest - the newest member of the Metal Pless team!

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Transcript

Nick Arndt (00:13)
Hello everybody and welcome to the Born to be a Snowfighter podcast. This is episode one, the introductory episode.

I'm your host, Nick Art of Metal Plus, along with Bob Green of Metal Plus. Say hi, Bob. Very good, Bob. And ⁓ this is the podcast about the Metal Plus family, those who were born to be a Snowfighter. Bob and I have talked about doing this podcast for as long as we've known each other many, many, many, years. And now we're doing it. ⁓

Bob Green (00:26)
Bye.

Nick Arndt (00:42)
We're all set up, we've got great interviews. We're gonna talk about stuff that's new. Mostly what we're gonna do though is interview and talk to people, get to know members of the Metal Plus family. It's a special group of people and the more people we get to know out there from the Metal Plus family, the more excited Bob and I are about Metal Plus. So we'll, yeah.

Bob Green (01:01)
Yeah, we're going to we're going

to we're going to talk to people from, you know, a cross section of the snow removal industry, you know, metal plus owners, people that own other products as well, because they all have interesting stories, different backgrounds. No, don't think anybody except the second generation snow removal, you know, someone was born into it, actually born into a family. I don't think any anybody says when they're five years old, I want to be a snow fighter because they don't know what that is. So it's just like.

Nick Arndt (01:24)
haha

No, I definitely was kind

of grafted into the Snowfighter family too. Eventually you realize you were born to be a Snowfighter. ⁓ But yeah, we're gonna talk to people in the Metal Plus world and outside the Metal Plus world that are working with snow removal contractors in municipalities too. We're gonna talk to people who are in the, you know, ⁓ on the government side. ⁓

that are trying to reduce salt usage that works hand in hand with metal plus. We're to talk to a lot of those people, not just, not just contractors that plow. We're going to talk to people that are progressing the industry because that's what metal plus is all about. We're our, ⁓ we'd like to say innovation starts here. And that's what we're going to talk about in this brief introductory episode. We're going to talk about the innovations that are going on at metal plus. We plan to launch this at, launch the podcast episode one.

at the Equip Expo in Louisville, Kentucky, ⁓ where a lot of new product is talked about and revealed. So we're going to spend a little bit of time talking about new stuff today.

Bob Green (02:32)
One of the things I'm most proud about working in metal plus is the innovation and how Jimmy, Jimmy Vigno, the owner of metal plus is always, always thinking outside the box and how to make his products better. Um, and we see it every time we go to a trade show, other people just kind of ripping off Jimmy's technology and calling it their own or saying they improved it. But at end of the day, anybody that's ever plowed with a metal plus and then gotten down to someone else's product, always come back and say, yeah, metal plus plows better. Just works better.

Nick Arndt (02:50)
Yeah. Right now.

Bob Green (03:02)
So that's that's one of the things I enjoy about my job is hearing Wow, you guys always have the best technology on the market and it and it's true That's Jimmy dreams about it. He just wants to have the best most innovative product out there

Nick Arndt (03:17)
We've

been using for the last couple trade shows. The innovation starts here and it's true. I mean, there are people out there right now in factories on CAD programs, feverishly trying to duplicate metal plus product throughout the world. And ⁓ the sad thing is they're behind the times because we are, we are always innovating. We're working on the next, next, next thing. So we've got new stuff coming out. We like to say always copied, never duplicated. So

Folks might try, good luck. But we've got the mind of Jimmy Vino behind this. that's something no one else in the industry has. That is our not-so-secret weapon. So one day, one day, we might have him on the podcast. ⁓ But ⁓ for now, we're just going to talk about the cool stuff that he does. ⁓ and I cannot forget to mention this. At the second half of our episode, we're going to talk about someone new at Metal Plus. We're going to have a reveal. ⁓

of the newest team, Metal Plus family, internal family team members. So stay tuned for that. We're revealing a new Metal Plus employee and people are gonna be really excited and maybe even surprised. that's gonna be a great second half of this episode. But for now, we're gonna talk about the new stuff that's gonna be coming out, out there plowing this fall throughout North America and the world. So Bob, don't we get into it?

Bob Green (04:43)
Yeah, man. Let's go.

Nick Arndt (04:43)
What do we got new at

Metal Plus to talk about? We got some big ones, and then we got some little ones. So if we're going through a quick rundown of stuff we've got, we've got new sizes ⁓ of some things. We're always looking for the right size to fit the right application. So there are new wing, wing, and moldboard combinations. That's not super exciting because those things already exist. ⁓

Bob Green (05:07)
Yeah, those

were just plugging holes. In our price list, people came to us and said, well, why don't you put this wing on this moldboard? And we're making that happen. Yeah.

Nick Arndt (05:17)
Oh, we get this every day. We're like, it's

like, oh, make a 10 foot 42 inch moldboard with seven foot wings. Like we can't, we can't do it all people. We can't do it all. No, we've got 60 sizes. There's not, that's never the one someone is looking for. So we do have.

Bob Green (05:25)
Yeah.

We never have enough sizes even though we've got a lot of sizes.

Yeah, every day,

every day, every day somebody wants something we don't have. But we did, you know, we plugged the hole in the PLSS line with the 730-12. We only ever did that in standard and HD and now Jimmy's making it into a live edge version. it's a, the 712 is an interesting plow because of its weight and its moldboard width really works for, you know, certain skid steers and small compact loaders going through gates and driving down the road. ⁓

Nick Arndt (05:39)
We

Bob Green (06:04)
And people have always said, well, why don't you do that in Live Edge? Well, we do now.

Nick Arndt (06:07)
Yeah, that's

one that I am excited about. 73012 Live Edge, like the 72712 size is really popular on compact tractors, stuff like that. It just works really well, but now we can put it with Live Edge on a smaller skid steer. We have big, big stuff coming out for smaller skid steers that we'll talk about in a little bit, but 73012 Live Edge.

Bob Green (06:20)
Mm-hmm.

Nick Arndt (06:32)
830 13 live edge that's the big brother of this plow has been an industry standard for years and years and years now we have the 730 12 another interesting size we have is the plow max 42 inch like the 1220 we didn't offer that before now we're doing 12 foot moldboard with four foot wings so I think that one will get some get some interest among folks we do a lot of 1042 18s so this is sort of the the big brother of that

Bob Green (07:03)
Yep. I mean, speaking of the family of the PLSS, the 930 15, which we introduced, it's not new. It was new from last year, but not everybody knows about it. And we internally like to call it the Mike Savage plow. we do, we do talk to Mike, we will talk to Mike Savage about it. But it's, it's a very interesting plow for the, for the people who feel the 936 15 is too heavy, but still want the 15 foot footprint. It's, it's a, it's a nice compliment to the lineup.

Nick Arndt (07:16)
Mike Savage.

Yep. Yeah.

Yeah, as we as we cap off our brief discussion about new sizes, 930 15 is the biggest one for sure. That was designed for a John Deere 244 size machine. We'll we'll have Mike Savage on the podcast to explain the history, the awesome history of getting this plow built, pushing it through the factory and the design process. It was a great collaboration with Metal Plus and Mike Savage of Midwest Machinery, but it's designed

So typically on a 244 or cat 906, we're gonna do an eight 30 13 live edge. ⁓ Now we're offering a little bit wider 915 and it's for people that are doing lower tolerance accounts that want to do the maximum wind, windrow width and maybe maximum back drag on accounts that they're always cruising around at. it's a, we've taken weight out of it, made it about the site weight of a eight 30 13 and we're excited about it. And that's all we'll say for now because we're gonna talk to Mike Savage about it for.

for oodles of time. ⁓ New sizes at Metal Plus, always listening to what customers want. That's the thing I'd like to point out the most. We have a whole new line of plows. ⁓ Moving on to point two, the e-tramax. This isn't exactly new. It's been sold in Europe where snow removal is a bit different. They're doing mountain roads and they're doing a lot of V-blades, tons of V-blades, but there's a demand for that.

in North America in different ways. Bob, what do you think about our European Etromax?

Bob Green (09:01)
Well, we've

always had the question at trade shows when we, because I really like our SideMaxX. I think it's a very good solidly built.

Nick Arndt (09:11)
That's our small for those listening. That's our small V blade for sidewalks.

Bob Green (09:13)
V plow. Yeah, it's our smallest

sidewalk applications. And I always like to bring it to a trade show just to show it off because it's so well built and fits right in the price point of everybody else and offered in live edge with carbide. And people always come, how do you get a bigger one? And in the back of our heads are like, yeah, we do. It's in, you know, and we and people have seen the videos, you know, people have seen the videos in Europe on these kind of like weird Mercedes trucks and this like plowing through really deep snow.

Nick Arndt (09:32)
Yeah, it's in Switzerland right now. Yeah.

Bob Green (09:43)
And their challenge in Europe is the laneways or the roads are very narrow and there's houses like right up against the road. they had to punch through and protect the buildings at the same time. So Jimmy built the the ITERMAX, which is a full live edge plow with interacting live edge. So the live edge sections protect each other. ⁓ So we decided to bring one to Saima.

Nick Arndt (09:52)
yeah, with brick walls right here. ⁓

Bob Green (10:11)
Simon, or was it Pittsburgh? No, Grand Rapids, Grand Rapids. And yeah, I got a lot of attention and it, I'd never, I'd seen one in the yard that had come back from Europe, but I'd never seen like the latest one. And it is an impressive looking plow. It is beautiful. ⁓

Nick Arndt (10:14)
Nope, that was two years ago. We were in Grand Rapids. Yep.

Oh, it's beautiful. So for one

thing that I think stands out with Metal Plus to get us a little sidetracked here is the design of everything looks really good. Jimmy's designs aren't only functionally amazing, they're beautiful designs. Like part of owning a Metal Plus is looking at it and going, dang it, that just looks cool. That looks right.

Bob Green (10:45)
Mm-hmm.

Yeah, there

there's no there's no frankensteinism in in a metal plus plow which we which we've seen in some some other people's plows they come out to try to match the max pro and it just looks like They frankensteined it ⁓

Nick Arndt (11:03)
Yeah, it's

obvious that it's obvious when someone is duplicating our plow because they take different pieces and we know people have literally bought pieces of metal plus plows and said, do I make this thing or just use it on their plow for goodness sakes. It just looks, it looks like a copy. doesn't look like the original metal plus looks like a Ferrari, like the curves of the wings, the contours of all the design pieces, stuff that doesn't need to look awesome looks awesome.

And the Etra Max, I think, is the perfect example of that. Like that is definitely not for everybody. It's for special applications. But the the curvature of the moldboard, the arc, the lines of it, like car designers talk about the love, the lines like the lines of that plow are amazing. And ⁓ we're I in my territory, Midwest, U.S., Western U.S., I always got this request that that municipalities are looking for a way to open up roads, because most of the time, if you were using a V blade on

Bob Green (11:31)
Mm-hmm.

Yep. Yep.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Nick Arndt (12:01)
on a tractor or a wheel loader or whatever, you're 99 times out of 100 more efficient with a wing blade. That's why everyone's trying to make wing blades now. People aren't trying to make V blades. But the key in this situation is this is a large V blade for opening up roads. I'm getting that request in upper Midwest for opening up roads in small townships with our live edge. That's the clincher that a municipality has a Max Pro.

loves the way it scrapes and are running some fixed blade V blade to open up roads and are like, why can't I do this better? Why can't I have live edge on a V blade? So that's what we've done. We've taken this European mountain road plow and we're selling it now and it's getting a lot of interest. I've got a dealer in North Dakota now out on the road taking it out, general equipment. Thank you to those guys. They get all kinds of, all kinds of reaction to it because people know about the clean scraping of our live edge and talk a little bit about

how we're innovators here, Bob, this is interacting live edge. Tell us how that's different.

Bob Green (13:00)
Yeah.

Well, the interacting ⁓ live edge evolved because of putting it on the side wing of a truck plow. ⁓ So the live edge sections, you know, when, when, how do I get in here? When, when, when section one would go up because it hit something section two doesn't necessarily go up, but because of the side wing being at such an extreme angle to windrow the snow to the, to the curb.

if section one goes up, section two was staying down and exposed to getting hit at a bad angle. So Jimmy designed it so that if section one goes up, section two follows. It's like, you know, it's got a snaking action. So they protect each other.

Nick Arndt (13:45)
What's the French, yep,

that's the French translation. I first saw then I was like, what is this word? It was like, go, puzzle, puzzle piece? Yep, okay. Interacting puzzles.

Bob Green (13:50)
it's it's it's castate. It's a puzzle. Yeah, it's the interacting puzzle ⁓

So yeah, because of the V being at extreme angles, forward, backwards, whatever, they decided to put the interacting live edge on that. And they get back to the use of a big V plow. Most people's V plows are just punched through plows. They don't have wings. They don't move. ⁓ You see them on the front of road graders or the truck. And when they're finished with it, they put it aside. But with the hydraulics on our V plow, they can effectively plow after they've gone through with the V. They can just turn around and then put it

to a forward reverse configuration and plow like they normally would. ⁓

Nick Arndt (14:32)
Yeah, it's a specialty thing. ⁓ Contractors that are listening to this would have to have some special account to be doing this along bike path or road. And I am quoting them on people doing bike paths. This primarily built for a larger tractor ⁓ with a three point. But we can also put this on, ⁓ like the 8.6. So 8.6 in a V, 12 foot flat model that we have out there cruising around right now being demonstrated.

It can go on like a 15,000 pound wheel loader also. So you need a, you know, a little bit smaller than a Deere 344, but you need a.

You need a little weight and you need to have hooks. This isn't for a skid plate. This isn't for a smaller loader with a skid plate running skid steer style attachments. This is for hooks. This is a beefy unit. Yeah, so Eater Max is going to be a big one. It's a beautiful plow. It's cool. It's out there in the world. And you're going to see more of it. We're not going to have it at GIE Expo because it's a very niche thing. But you'll see it at Sima and at municipal.

Bob Green (15:26)
Yep. Yep.

Nick Arndt (15:42)
oriented show so

Bob Green (15:44)
Yeah, we'll get some video of it this winter. It's it's this and if it's on that GCB, it's going to be pretty wicked.

Nick Arndt (15:47)
for sure.

Yeah, think it's gonna,

like yeah, I think it's being sold onto a JCB, one of the first ones, and that is a beautiful combination. like that, that's what Metal Plus is all about. Like it is all style, it is all class, and ⁓ I'm excited for EterMax. EterMax is kind of a project that I've pushed for. Moving on to our next newish type of thing, we're gonna have, people know about our live boxes, we're gonna have a new version of that called the HD Box.

Bob, what is an HD box?

Bob Green (16:20)
Well, again, listening to what our customers say, ⁓ don't have, Metal Plus doesn't have what I'd call an economy line, ⁓ like some of the other plot manufacturers do. ⁓ Everything we build is robust and well-made. ⁓ And the live box, yep, yep.

Nick Arndt (16:36)
known for our carbide and durability, but that also comes with a price.

Bob Green (16:42)
So we had the request like, you know, spending what? $13,000 on a box doesn't make sense for this guy. He's only plowing his own yard, gravel, whatever. ⁓ So Jimmy went back to the drawing board with the drawing board with the live box and came out with the HD box, which has the same HD soft drive trip system as the live edge that live box does, except without the live edge sections. So you're cutting.

X number thousand dollars off per box, but you've got the same metal plus build, know, powder coat paint and the same protection for the plow and the machine with the soft drive chip system.

Nick Arndt (17:19)
Yeah, that gets overlooked. as far as innovations in metal plus world, the number one most overlooked thing is is soft drive trip. Now, what is soft drive trip? I like to explain it as most plows have a pivot point for the trip directly underneath the moldboard. So you run your imagine the most common, the most common example out there. The visual is a manhole cover. You're cruising along. You hit a manhole cover with a truck plow, any plow with a normal trip system.

the moldboard is going to pop up. HD Soft Trip Metal Plus Innovation has a pivot point up and behind the moldboard. So it allows each section to open individually, just flap back. You know, it's like we've been talking about a dog door for a long time here. It flaps back like a dog door so that you're going to have a little vibration, but you're not going to have pop-up. You're going to have less pop-up, to miss less snow. You're not going to miss much snow at all.

and you're gonna have less wear and tear on the plow, less wear and tear on the machine, and less wear and tear on the operator. So HD soft trip, often overlooked, but that is a key component to this new HD box that people talk about when they buy a live box. There's no rubber pucks, there's no coil springs, there's industrial steel ⁓ round torsion springs that don't break, there's carbide, but a soft trip is a big deal.

To me it's a huge thing. I try to talk about it every day, because I just...

Bob Green (18:49)
Yeah, I mean and the feedback you get from the operator like Nick was saying is he they don't the plot doesn't jump in the air the way a normal trip section will cause the plot of jump But very often the operator doesn't even know they they've tripped they hear it. They hear that shrink shrink or whatever sound, you know of the door ⁓ Tripping backwards, but they don't they don't feel it and the other interesting thing about HD ⁓ Is people in colder climates so northern Canada Alaska

Nick you see this out West as well in Montana and the mountainous areas They find the HD is more aggressive on hard pack than the live edge And that's that we sell a lot of HD up in Alaska north of Edmonton ⁓

and out in the hills in the western US and they just find it works better on hard pack. ⁓ It's possibly the angle of the HD ⁓ cutting edge is a little more aggressive than live edge but it's something else to factor in if you're dealing with a lot of hard pack ⁓ or gravel. If you've got gravel HD is the way to go because it's less aggressive on the gravel itself in the first couple of pushes.

Nick Arndt (19:41)
Yeah.

Yeah, you don't necessarily want to-

Yeah,

I have feedback I get is because I sell into Northern California Alpine Smith great dealer they'll sell mostly HD because they're dealing with and I see this in Colorado a bit too is they're dealing with snow that you mentioned Alberta to or places at Winnipeg. They're just a different style of snow removal. Everything gets driven over and there isn't as much there's more tolerance for snow on the ground. So there's more tolerance to say the least there's more tolerance for

Bob Green (20:26)
There is more tolerance, yes.

Nick Arndt (20:31)
for snow on the ground. So the contractors are always dealing with hard pack and they don't necessarily want the compression of the live edge. So the HD allows them to have that trip and scrape up a little bit better. So yeah, and it happens in the mountains too. So HD in Northern California, Lake Tahoe, all the ski resorts works really well because it's snowing hundreds of inches all the time, pretty regularly.

Bob Green (20:43)
Yeah, you can put a little more down pressure on it, for sure.

Nick Arndt (20:57)
Cars going around the parking lots are always compressing that down So the contractor or the the ski resort that owns the blade unless they're plowing literally Every second is gonna have compacted snow So the HD if you're looking to put your scrape up hard pack with your with your box pusher now we have an option for you because that is something that gets talked about people request it from us and we listen we listen to what people want and Even though metal plus is known for our wing blades, dude. Take a look at our live boxes it

Bob Green (21:07)
rate.

and

Nick Arndt (21:26)
It's no joke.

Bob Green (21:26)
Yep.

And that will be available in all the same sizes as the lightbox.

Nick Arndt (21:31)
Yeah, HD Box,

excited about that. ⁓ And we hope to see him out in the field very soon. Moving on, we have some new options or some options to highlight. always, you know, that's the thing. We get copied, but they miss the little details. Like we're always looking on the, working on the extra feature like live edge on wings. We've been talking about that for a few years, ⁓ but now we have it on some different sizes too. We've had Max Pros with live edge on wings. Now,

1042 18s, one of the staples of the industry on a CAT 920 or Deere 344, we're sending those out with live edge on the wings. So inquire to your dealer if you're looking for a particular size plow, we don't always have everything in stock at the factory because still this ⁓ is a one in 20 option people are taking now. But live edge on the wings.

Bob Green (22:09)
Yep.

Yeah, it's a gradual.

It's a gradual roll out in all the sizes. think we did, I'm pretty sure we did the 1036 16 last year. So it is, it is, you know, 16 feet of live edge. never, the feet, the feet and the, and the feedback on the full, the full live edge or live edge on the wings is it's a little more forgiving on the operator who can't figure out the heel toe, you know, cause that is an issue having, you know, people that we have operators and we have drivers. Operators can figure it out. People are just thrown in the cab struggle a little bit.

Nick Arndt (22:28)
nice.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Bob Green (22:53)
with the wing sometimes and our feedback especially from Western Lehigh who was our number one full live edge dealer let's put it that way and yeah and let and Dustin yeah yeah

Nick Arndt (23:01)
Yes, shout out to Jake and Eric and Leslie and the whole team, John, Dustin, all of them. They're full live edge all

the way.

Bob Green (23:10)
Yeah,

Jake, Jake, you know, he he from the minute he tried his first full live edge, he replaced all his own plows with full live edge and he's really spread. He's really spread the good word about it. He really, really believes in it.

Nick Arndt (23:23)
Yeah, check out, we'll link

to some videos, and I'm sure everyone's already seen them, but the scrape you get from the full live edge from tip to tip is amazing. like Bob said though, there isn't a terrible learning curve when you're operating a metal plus, but it is critical that you plow at 90 degrees ⁓ and centered in the slip hitch. Now the moldboard is very forgiving, but the hinge areas of where the wings rotate

You really got to be at 90 degrees on the moldboard, especially early in the season when the pavement is dry. Because if you're pitched forward, you're going to dig into the heel of the abrasion shoe. It's going to mark the concrete. But if your abrasion shoe is perfectly floating, it is a way easier ⁓ concept to learn. Because you could be at an angle five degrees forward, back, and you're just going to be scraping perfectly still. You might not be as efficient as you could be.

But man, ⁓ is a game changer for learning. It does add some cost, but I would say ask next time you're quoting a MaxPro or any Plow Max size. we don't, here's one thing we do at Metal Plus. All of these options are new designs. We're not taking, our live edge isn't bolted onto the bottom of a normal plow. it's, this is whole new concept. don't, we make things purpose built. So when we need to make a new live edge wing size, we need to redesign the wing. We're not just bolting live edge on the bottom of the wing.

We do have a lot of common sizes now and more will come out. But right now, the Max Pro size is 1042.18, 1036.16. That is an option. you're getting carbide from edge to edge just like always. yeah, check out Western Lehigh. Plug for Western Lehigh. They're out there doing lower tolerance accounts.

Bob Green (25:06)
Yep. Yep.

Yeah, I watched their videos. They're pretty impressive.

Nick Arndt (25:16)
and they're windrowing a lot and you're like a metal plus blade scrapes amazing anyways, the abrasion shoes do float. ⁓ But the live edge on the wings can be a game changer for some people, I know it. ⁓ Other options to highlight, we have a sidewalk wing. That doesn't get talked about a ton, but we do have a five foot wing for a Max Pro that can compress onto a sidewalk. ⁓ We got a lot of little things like that that we're just, so busy all the time talking about how our plows are just awesome that, man.

Bob Green (25:45)
Yeah, the sidewalk

wing is overlooked by a lot of people and it's, it's, it's...

we're going to start developing more of a municipal lineup of plows. We're going to talk about another municipal plow coming up at the end of this, but the sidewalk wing is great for municipalities who maybe don't have the budget to have a dedicated machine for sidewalks because the sidewalk wing will sit on the municipal sidewalk and pull the snow into the road at the same time you're plowing the road. it's a two in one setup and it's a big time saver and especially when they're

They're doing a quick pass rather than sending out two machines, two guys. It's again, you're reducing ⁓ fuel and labor costs with a very simple concept.

Nick Arndt (26:26)
So if

anybody's seen the picture of our van wing, so we have a special eight foot van wing that has a fold out cut out section. Most people just leave the fold out down at all times, but you can fold it back up. has eight foot to go underneath the kingpins of tractor trailers, which has now become a standard in the distribution business in North America. That is, we're doing great selling those plows. It's amazing. Think about it, it's kind of the opposite of that. So the sidewalk wing has a section that compresses up.

in a cutout way so that you're scraping over a sidewalk with your Max Pro Wing. So it's not for everybody, but it is out there. We got a lot of little things that people don't know about little options and features on the Plows that are really cool, but let's point out Sidewalk Wing. Okay, we've talked about different sizes of Plow Maxes out there. ⁓ Let's go back to V-Blades for just a second, ⁓

We have new sizes of SideMaxx. So Bob said earlier he really liked the robust build of our SideMaxx sidewalk V blade, the five footer. But the thing is, we've only ever had five feet. And in a V, it'd go down to 48. So this was a specialty built plow for dedicated sidewalk machines like Trackless, like ⁓ Print-Off, ⁓ you know, all these things that you see a lot of in Canada. We built...

Bob Green (27:34)
5 footer. ⁓

Nick Arndt (27:54)
or holder, we built them for 48. But in the US also, there are those machines, but more often people are plowing with like a John Deere 3 series or a similar Kubota, which is a bit wider than 48 inches. It's 53, 54 inches. So what have we done, Bob? Whoa. Hey, it took us a while, but ⁓ yeah, one of the things at Metal Plus is we're always working on so many projects.

Bob Green (28:14)
Well, we've come out with a six foot and a seven foot.

Nick Arndt (28:24)
that we have to just kind of choose which ones are top priorities and we're selling thousands of Plow Maxis and Max Pros and then we get requests for 20 six foot V-blades. like, we're gonna make those people happy but it might take a while. ⁓ So this year we have six foot and seven foot Side Maxis. We have them in standard trip, standard edge and also live edge. ⁓ But yeah.

I'm excited about this because it opens up a possibility of different styles of machine running our smaller V blades. Yeah, so that's one that's a... Boy, we do a lot of stuff at Metal Plus, but we want to do it well. We're not making cheap throwaway plows. ⁓ We're making good industrial stuff. Now, we're going to end by talking about two brand new plows altogether.

Bob Green (29:07)
Yeah. Yes.

Actually, there's three I want to talk about but yeah, we'll do the municipal bit at the end. So let's go with the the new Yeah

Nick Arndt (29:23)
⁓ three.

Okay, the new big deal, the new awesome

one. Okay, this is one that we've all pushed for ⁓ the reps. We hear the feedback from people. ⁓ The new series called the PLSM, remember that, PLSM. You're gonna start seeing them everywhere. I'll tell you a little story. What people have, this is what happens at dealers, is contractor has seen Metal Plus videos on Instagram, YouTube, whatever.

Want a metal plus and metal plus in their head is live edge. We want live edge So they come up to their dealer they go. Hey, I got a Bobcat s650. I've got a I know a deer 324 It's 8000 pounds 74 horsepower. Give me a metal plus live edge blade I don't care what it costs. Give it to me and the dealer goes. ⁓ You're not

I'm have to you standard edge 830 13, not the live edge 830 13, because those 8,000 pound skid steers and ones that are a little less just don't have the weight. Our 830 13 live edge, which is the industry all time great hall of fame plow, is 2200 pounds. It's a little bit too heavy, it's a little bit too much blade for those 8,000 pound wheeled skid steers. So Bob, what have we done?

Bob Green (30:44)
So again, just to speak about Jimmy and his willingness to develop a product, last January when we were at, so January, 2025, Nick, Steve Mifsud, Jimmy and I were sitting at, there were some key members missing, but their feedback was there. ⁓

Nick Arndt (30:55)
AKA, AKA the brain trust.

I'm kidding, I'm kidding, yep.

Bob Green (31:03)
We were sitting at a place drinking beverages and we started talking about these needs and how sometimes, like Nick was saying, there's two factors. There's the weight of the 83013, the PLSS 83013, and then the Live Edge sticker shock, because people...

Nick Arndt (31:07)
Mm-hmm.

Bob Green (31:25)
that's way too much. can but I can get a competitor's plow with their flex edge or liquid fluid, whatever edge for. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. For for for fifteen thousand dollars. Why would I pay seven thousand dollars more for metal plus? And then there's the weight factor. So Jimmy sat there and you could tell he was thinking and listening and then he gets back to the factory and he sits down with the R &D department. And lo and behold, a couple of weeks later, we've got the PLSM, which is

Nick Arndt (31:27)
Yeah, yeah.

Bouncey edge, whatever. Whatever live edge knockoff, just whatever you wanna say. Yeah.

Dude, we can

design stuff awesome. It's like we're amazing.

Bob Green (31:56)
So he took

the best parts of the PLSS and the best parts of our 27 inch high, which would have been the PLLT and kind of morphed them together to make a lighter basic plow. And then he took what he's developed. is what this was already developed a bunch of years ago. The LEL, which is light.

light live edge, live edge light. So instead of moving three inches, it's got an inch and a half of travel and it still moves this way an inch. So it's got all the movement of our standard live edge, but half the amount. And it, it fits, it slams right into that category for the 8,000 pound less machine that people wanted live edge on it. Like when you, when all these tractor guys with the compact tractors, the 60, 60, 40, 66, 47, 85 guys that really wanted live edge.

Nick Arndt (32:20)
Live edge light, yep.

Bob Green (32:49)
we were disappointing so many of them and they still bought the 72712 but now they can have an 83013 with the Live Edge light on the front of a tractor that's coming by the way

Nick Arndt (32:52)
Yeah.

That's different

sizes are coming. So right now let's be clear 830 13 LEL is literally shipping from metal plus right now There will be other size sizes of this new live edge light concept in 6 11 and 7 12 for those tractors But but not this season we're sending it out for those skids to your customers first But in the future like Bob said now we're making we're giving the people what they want We're giving them live edge on basically any down in the future any size

of metal plus will now have the ability to run a live edge light. So like Bob was saying, it's not the same system per se. That is a heavy duty system that's on an 830 13 live edge or any of the other sizes. We've engineered weight out of it. We've taken a little bit of float out of it, but it's the same thing.

maybe half down. So one of the advantages we have over competitors is we go up and down three inches on our normal live edge, up and down three inches side to side two inches. Other people just go up and down an inch and a half or their sections just go up and down and don't tilt sideways. We have that perfect contouring. We'll still have this on live edge light. It'll just be at half. But when the edges work together, you're still covering the crown of the concrete really, really, really, really, really well. So man.

Now, and Bob, what is the extra good news about this? So let's say an 83013 Live Edge, the number one standard in the industry is dealer US dollars, 24,000 bucks or 25 or whatever. What is the ballpark of what Live Edge Lite is gonna go for?

Bob Green (34:37)
Yeah.

The all-in price is what it is with cart so we have two options the standard standard LEL is CHT 400 ⁓ We can do a carbide insert so standard one is

I have it right here 14995 and the sorry yeah 1490 15495 for the 830 13 166 95 for the carbide infused one so then that includes your coupler your DVD and your controller for the cab that's an all-in price

Nick Arndt (35:05)
LEL. Yep.

this all-in price

so people are gonna love it and that's what we have literally going to dealers in the US right now is the LEL not the carbide version you can upgrade it later but we're just having that's just CHT 400 and it's essentially when those people came to dealers and said I've got a Bobcat S650 give me a live edge blade and they said oh man sorry here's a standard edge blade which is still all the functionality and amazingness of a metal plus

but without floating edges, this new LEL is basically the same price as those standard edge, standard edge 830 13s. So there is still gonna be a market for standard 830 13s. Don't get me wrong, those piles are going to be heavier. They're going to be built for more industrial use on even heavier machines. Point this out, LEL is meant for skid steers 6,000 to 9,000 pounds. We don't want you putting this on a

Deer 330G 11,000 pound skid steer. This is for a range six to 9,000 pounds. If you have a nine or 10,000 pound skid steer, you can still get a 83013 Live Edge, the original. And you can get a standard edge if you're worried about it being, you you don't need the Live Edge and you want the functionality. This is for a particular market, 6,000 to 9,000 pound skid steers. And like I mentioned before, they're on trucks. ⁓ You can find them at dealers.

Bob Green (36:42)
Nick you've got RDO bringing some in.

Nick Arndt (36:44)
We got RDO equipment in Dayton and Moorhead Fargo in Minnesota.

Bob Green (36:47)
⁓ Chap,

Chapel Tractor's bringing some in. Yeah, and Stewart's Equipment and the GTA brought some in. Shout out to those dealers who took a chance on a new product that are excited about it as we are.

Nick Arndt (36:50)
If you're on the East Coast, yep.

And we got, to reiterate, a lot of units are headed to RDO equipment, Fargo and Dayton, Minnesota. So you got the cities, you got Fargo. You've got Lano equipment, ordered a bunch of them. Shockopy is gonna have them, call your guys. Midwest Machinery, always on the cutting edge of what's new. Call Mike Savage, he's gonna have LELs for ya. But man, that's what we're really excited about this year, cause that's a game changer. Like, Metal Plus is selling tons of blades.

Bob Green (37:13)
Nice, nice.

Nick Arndt (37:27)
But that was the one thing that we had that were like, every contractor, at least in the US, or the skid steer is the king of landscaping operations mostly, has an 8,000 pound skid steer sitting around that they wanna use, that they could just run a box on. Now they've got Live Edge Lite and Bob and I are very pumped about it. So.

Bob Green (37:51)
So

two quick little blurbs about two new municipal plows we have coming out. One is the Truck Max. I'm sure everybody's seen the videos out there now. it's a 10 foot Truck Max that extends to 19 feet. Again, tried and tested in Europe on their highways on trucks. So the beauty of this plow is anybody that's plowed a road.

Nick Arndt (38:00)
⁓ boy, the videos.

Bob Green (38:16)
You're you know at night. It's fine. There's nobody out there It's beautiful thing during the day when everybody's pulled out their cars to get their driveways cleaned up

The typical ministol plow is a front 12 foot angle blade with a side wing on the truck or the loader. And every time you come up to something, you've got to lift your wing, drive around the car or whatever garbage cans, put it back down. You're driving down, there's a car coming towards you. They actually have to lift up their whole plow and get out of the way. So what Jimmy did with this is he's got the 10 foot moldboard that slides both left and right. So you start at 10, you can go up to 19 feet when you extend both sides. But as you're going down the street, you can just pull in your

the right side of your plow as you go around cars and back out again. It's a lot safer way to work. ⁓ A perfect example is last winter we heard a story about a guy with his side wing. He didn't bring it up all the way to the 90 degree position and as he was driving by a parked BMW, he peeled it open like a sardine can. That's expensive. That's expensive.

Nick Arndt (39:13)
⁓ that's just not a, it's not a, I'm,

know, in the municipal plow game, I'm not a huge fan of wings and actually the trend we're seeing, especially in the upper Midwest is a move away from wings so that our Max Pro is being used sort of as a wing where people are, it's a more versatile option. They're doing roads, particularly they're doing cul-de-sacs and they're raising up and making bigger piles at cul-de-sacs, saving time, they're back dragging in cul-de-sacs.

Bob Green (39:31)
Absolutely.

Nick Arndt (39:40)
where a wing setup can't do that. It's big and cumbersome and it's stuck on the machine. So you're bolting that side wing on the machine. That's what that loader's doing all winter long. It's there. You're not using that loader to load salt or scrape with the bucket. And that's the machine for the year. That's the resources of that municipality is tied to running a wing.

Bob Green (39:52)
Yep, Sweet.

Yeah,

to me, to me, the Max Pro is the ideal road clearing.

plow because you can do the intersections you can just fold your move your wing in going around park cars it's it's it's the cat's ass but for the municipalities to have that mindset that I need to have an angle plow this new extendable truck max is it and lastly and very quickly ⁓ we again Jimmy listening to clients needs so we had a we had a contractor in the GT area got a contract to clear the streets and had to remove the windrow at the same time

Nick Arndt (40:35)
This is, you

look at, look up this story folks. This is, this is interesting. People in the United States in areas where there's lots of snow removal and residential clamor for this type of thing.

Bob Green (40:44)
Yeah, and it's only gonna work in lower snowfall areas, which fits the GTA bill. So this plow, Jimmy developed a 12 foot plow, angle plow.

with an arm, the box on it. So the plow is plowing the street and as he passes the driveway, he puts his arm down with a three foot contained box with a rubber edge on it and he removes the windrow as he goes and he lifts his arm up and until he gets to the next driveway ⁓ from idea, from question to idea to conception. We got this out in a couple of months. They're being delivered this week to a very happy contractor in Mississauga. ⁓

And it's again, we'll get some pictures ⁓ out soon, but ⁓ it's the way Jimmy can make things happen. And the cleanness of the look of this plow is incredible. ⁓ Just that the whole from.

Nick Arndt (41:41)
It's awesome.

Bob Green (41:45)
Question conception on the ground. It just happened so fast And when I first came to Jimmy with the idea I was hesitant I was scared because it's a it's a it's a municipal contract and the guy didn't have his plows He'd be fine by the you know by the minute when the plot the equipment wasn't there and Jimmy went yeah, no problem We'll get it done and he did

Nick Arndt (42:00)
Yeah, not good.

The metal plus factory is amazing

like the new factory we have coming online too is even more amazing but what we can do in a short amount of time of Original design think about this. We're making original whole new plows in months where people are spending years trying to duplicate Duplicate max pros like we're we're on the cutting edge innovation truly starts here. We've got that the windrow max we're calling it ⁓ People people that do residential snow with inverted snowblowers ⁓

their jobs just became a lot easier in GTA if they're doing it there is the second pass you're doing to clean up the city dump, the snow bank that's been created, ⁓ the government is now doing that for you with a metal-blessed plow. It's pretty incredible, so we've got that. Look for those if you're in Toronto area, just cruising around absolutely everywhere this winter. Concept-wise, we pointed out the extendable truck max.

Bob Green (42:44)
snowbank yeah it's it's not there anymore yep

Nick Arndt (43:02)
I call it the slide max because it slides on a channel in and out. I think it's really cool. But we're always working on the next thing. Like I've been to the factory, we have next things. We've got next things and the next things and the next things were like Apple. We always got the next generations coming down the line. We're not, know, people are busy duplicating our current stuff. They're behind the innovation starts here. ⁓ And we're excited. Obviously Bob and I are excited and

Bob Green (43:13)
Mm-hmm.

Nick Arndt (43:29)
And to finish off episode one of Born to a Snowfighter, we're excited to bring on our latest, latest addition to the team, a familiar face. So without further ado, we would like to introduce you to...

Nick Arndt (43:46)
Mrs. Darcy Reimhelt. Yay! Welcome aboard Darcy.

Bob Green (43:49)
Yay. Welcome to the team.

Darcy (43:49)
Hey guys!

Bob Green (43:54)
Our beloved Darcy is beloved by everybody that we've ever talked to in the industry. So adding Darcy to the team was a no brainer for us. Welcome to the big leagues.

Darcy (43:54)
Thank you.

Nick Arndt (44:03)
An industry classic, welcome. Darcy,

Darcy (44:05)
Thank you.

Nick Arndt (44:06)
you are United States employee number three. ⁓ How does it feel to be a part of the Metal Plus team, Darcy?

Darcy (44:10)
Woo! Look at that! I'm so excited.

my gosh, indescribable. I'm so excited to get going. So excited. It's like a step up into the big leagues, right? You just, I'm excited. It's a great team. They're great person, personalities and people to work with. ⁓ I just, can't wait.

Bob Green (44:32)
Yeah.

Nick Arndt (44:33)
That's the

way I felt too when I went to work for Metal Plus. I felt like, man, I have arrived. I'm in the, this is my major league first at bat. Like this is it, this is cool. So ⁓ Darcy, you're coming on board at Metal Plus. We're gonna kind of reveal the Darcy ⁓ experience, whatever you wanna call it, at Louisville at the GIE Expo, now called Equip Expo. That's gonna be your kind of first formal introduction to ⁓

Darcy (44:38)
Yeah.

Yeah.

Bob Green (44:53)
reveal.

Nick Arndt (45:03)
our customers as a member of the Metal Plus team ⁓ in Louisville. yeah. Familiar with news. So Darcy is well known in the industry. I would say that most Metal Plus customers are gonna know who Darcy is. And ⁓ man, we're excited to have you aboard, Darcy. Let's talk about this. We have a few minutes here. What are you gonna be doing at Metal Plus? Bob, you talk about that. You're the one who brought...

Bob Green (45:08)
So it'll be familiar but new at the same time for you.

Darcy (45:25)
Yeah.

Bob Green (45:29)
You

Nick Arndt (45:30)
You had the great idea

to bring Darcy on board. What is she gonna be doing?

Bob Green (45:33)
Well, I've been looking or thinking about getting more US reps because we have three reps working in the US and we have four.

Nick Arndt (45:43)
One's not even in the US,

that's geographically makes sense.

Bob Green (45:45)
Right, right. Right. And then I

have four people crisscrossing the province of Quebec. And not to say that Quebec doesn't merit four, but I think, you know, territories like Ontario and Western Canada, we need more more boots on the ground. And I'm very much about hiring good people and people I know. mean, it's not that I'm not against hiring strangers because, know, that works well. But to have someone with industry experience and I

Darcy (46:05)
Yes. ⁓

Nick Arndt (46:14)
who's already part of the Metal Plus family.

This is the Metal Plus Family Podcast, so this is...

Bob Green (46:15)
Yeah, to me it was just

like, man, that this is gonna work no matter what happens. ⁓ So I gave Darcy a territory. ⁓ I forget, because I don't have the states written down. Do you know them off the top of your head? Okay, go ahead.

Darcy (46:29)
I South ⁓ Dakota,

Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin.

Bob Green (46:35)
There you go. So Darcy's probably going to go see the Green Bay Packers play. That'll be a story for another day because I really want to hear the Brett Favre story at some point.

Darcy (46:42)
I'm done.

Yeah.

Nick Arndt (46:47)
boy. Hey, we got pictures of speaking

to metal plus family. I could, could, I could post these pictures somewhere. There's pictures of metal plus plows and a user Brian Thurlow and his son in front metal plus on a green tractor sold by, sold by RDO right in front of Lambeau field, man. Metal plus is everywhere.

Bob Green (46:55)
Yep.

Right in front of Lambo.

Yeah, that's very cool. ⁓

Darcy (47:05)
That's awesome.

Bob Green (47:06)
Darcy is also gonna be working with the marketing department. Your official title is market development. So.

Nick Arndt (47:12)
Nice.

Darcy (47:13)
Yeah, I'm excited.

Nick Arndt (47:14)
Yeah, so I'm so.

Bob Green (47:14)
We're

really looking forward to Darcy's involvement, particularly with the end users customer satisfaction testimonials, going to see parts of those states that haven't really been touched by a Metal Plus rep. So it's unexplored territory. mean, people know, but not everybody knows that they can buy a Metal Plus plow from us.

Nick Arndt (47:35)
Yeah, so Darcy, where are you located now? Just to let people know.

Darcy (47:39)
So I'm located in Southern Minnesota, Janesville, and not to be confused with Janesville, Wisconsin, even though that's a great place too. Yeah, just our north of the Iowa border. So kind of almost Iowa.

Nick Arndt (47:52)
and you're approximately hour

15 south of Minneapolis. Is that about it? Okay. So southern Minnesota, I'm up in Fargo, Darcy and I are gonna work together. Like people ask me this all the time. So I cover Wisconsin West. from, it's a big territory. It's not snowing everywhere, but it makes it geographically challenging. And Metal Plus, we're always growing and we're always selling and our dealers are doing an amazing job that.

Darcy (47:55)
Yep. Yep.

Bob Green (48:11)
It's huge. It's just too...

Darcy (48:12)
Yeah.

Bob Green (48:16)
Yeah.

Nick Arndt (48:20)
Just keeping up with the day to day of those dealers selling plows, it's not a challenge, but it keeps me busy. It keeps all the reps busy. So Darcy is gonna be out there looking to provide a friendly face and information to dealers that may be not overlooked, but where there's end users that are buying plows out of state or whatever, Darcy is going to connect them with local dealers and help grow the family.

I'm gonna appreciate the help because even though my territory, I spend a lot of time in a little circle of Fargo, Minneapolis, et cetera, I don't have the resources and time to go out into other places in Wisconsin where there are great Metal Plus users. Now we're gonna provide them with better

Darcy (49:02)
Right.

Bob Green (49:05)
Mm-hmm.

Nick Arndt (49:07)
like Bob said, we we can't just hire anybody. Like if you were just selling paper clips or whatever, that ain't gonna work. You got this is a this is a unique thing we're doing. And we got to pull people that make sense to join the team. So I think Bob's done a great job of that. And ⁓

Bob Green (49:15)
You

Darcy (49:26)
And I think

the snow industry as a whole is a unique group of people. And if you have no background insight into those, the mindset, I guess, of the snow industry, it's not the same, but when you come in and you've been in the snow industry or you understand it at least to a point, it makes that hurdle just a little bit easier to get over.

Bob Green (49:37)
Yeah, no, it's a...

For sure, you're getting to know the snow removal crowd can be daunting for someone who doesn't. ⁓ One thing is talking to dealers, but actually talking to the end users. They're a special crew, good people, through and through good people. But they're very relaxed until it starts to snow and then they freak out. So you gotta just be able to deal with them.

Nick Arndt (50:07)
Yeah, dude, one of those things where that's

Darcy (50:08)
and it's go time.

Nick Arndt (50:12)
why it makes it so hard to come from out of the industry because you could probably start understanding the plows and how they fit and the mechanics of it pretty quickly. But to understand the nature of the work and the urgency of the work that's going on, that's what makes it not for everybody. So Darcy understands that world very well. She's been in it for a few years now. Just like me, we talked about the beginning of this episode.

There's not many people that were actually born to be a snow fighter. You realize you were born to be a snow fighter. And I think Darcy is a snow fighter through and through. So we're so happy to have her on board. Come meet her at Equip Expo in Louisville. I'm sure she's going to be going to other shows too, especially in the US. Me and Darcy with our limited one language speaking skills can only go so far.

Darcy (51:03)
the phone I can speak about 10 French words like I feel like I'm doing pretty good here.

Nick Arndt (51:08)
you've got eight more than I do.

Bob Green (51:08)
Wow. ⁓

Nick Arndt (51:11)
I've got nage, denage, denage mall. That's

snow, snow removal. That's all I got. Yeah, so.

Darcy (51:17)
See ya.

You're doing good.

Bob Green (51:21)
Yeah, but

so as far as trade shows, definitely every Sima, Northern Green. ⁓ Probably iLandscape, because I think that should be a three person show. ⁓ We'll look at ⁓ Landscape Ontario. We'll see how much international traveling Darcy wants to do. ⁓ Con Expo, you're going to Vegas.

Nick Arndt (51:27)
Northern Greek Minneapolis, awesome. Chicago, yep. That's a fun one.

Yeah. ⁓ that'll be exciting. Now, so this is a great

Darcy (51:45)
We're going to Vegas, baby.

Nick Arndt (51:49)
thing. like, there's a lot of this industry needs more characters and more personalities like Darcy because, you know, a lot of times you'll walk up to an equipment booth and it's, you know, there isn't a lot of excitement. There's people that have, you know, maybe are on this design or engineering, whatever. I feel like at Metal Plus, our team is really unique. We've got people of

all ages of all walks of life, different parts of the world, speaking different languages and having another

Bob Green (52:16)
Our

our sales teams got to be one of a kind and I love every single member of it They all bring some every single person on team brings a different skill set different background different personalities There's some really strong strong characters on this team But it's a non-compete team because we all work together. Man I can't wait to see Steve and Darcy working together. It's gonna be great

Darcy (52:18)
Thank

Nick Arndt (52:19)
yeah.

Darcy (52:30)
you

Nick Arndt (52:31)
We've got grizzled old veterans like Steve Sopanjak.

my gosh. I can

Darcy (52:42)
So.

Nick Arndt (52:43)
guarantee you this, like there's going to be more hugging at the, I'm not looking forward to this. There's going to be more hugging at the Metal Plus booth now, which I will, I will step aside from. That is not, it's not what we're all about. No, no. No, no. The energy, so that's, my point is the team is unique. I've never been a,

Darcy (52:47)
Yes!

Bob Green (52:51)
I have brought another hugger in. We're gonna have to group hug him. Group hug. Yeah.

Darcy (52:53)
Yes. Come on, Nick. Come on. I think we'll have to have a group hug every day this morning.

Nick Arndt (53:09)
I've never been a part of anything like it. It works and the energy is really good. We have fun when we're not selling plows, we have fun when we're selling plows, we have fun when things are going bad, we have fun when things are going good. So Darcy, I'm glad to have you on board. If you have anything else to add, feel free to add, but yeah, this is gonna be great.

Darcy (53:30)
I think it's going to be fantastic. ⁓ I'm looking forward to not only connecting with our equipment dealers, but our customers and end users and kind of even bringing some of the women I've met in the industry kind of back in, ⁓ giving them a little bit more information about Metal Plus maybe that they don't already have. Maybe they're new to the ⁓ Metal Plus and I can't wait to share that with them. Like that's huge for me.

Bob Green (53:57)
Absolutely.

Nick Arndt (53:58)
Darcy is actually our second

female rep. We have two female reps on the roster, Linda Gauguin. ⁓ She lives in Quebec but covers the Northeast, the North Northeast US. So we're a diverse team at Metal Plus. We got it all covered and ⁓ man I'm excited. So in summary.

Bob Green (54:04)
Yep.

You

Nick Arndt (54:19)
Come see us, this podcast is launching. We have lots of episodes in the tank also. We're gonna have great interviews with snow fighters, people adjacent to the snow industry that are all part of the fight. ⁓ Come see us at GIE Expo, that's when we're launching this podcast. Come see Darcy, come see myself, come see Bob, Kathleen will be there. Yannick, Yannick on the technical side, if you have any technical questions about Metal Plus, now is the time. Stop by and say hi. We might have something to give out, I'm not sure, but.

Darcy (54:35)
you

Bob Green (54:39)
Yeah, Nick will be there.

Nick Arndt (54:50)
We'll have a fun time with you all at Louisville in Louisville, Louisville, Louisville.

Bob Green (54:53)
Louisville, Louisville.

Darcy (54:54)
Love you.

Nick Arndt (54:57)
And we're just gonna have an awesome time. Darcy again, thrilled to have you on board. And for my co-host Bob, ⁓ signing off on the introductory episode of the Born to Be a Snowfighter podcast. Thanks everybody for listening and we'll see you in the next one.

Bob Green (55:11)
Thanks.

Darcy (55:12)
Have a good one.