Talkin’ Winter with Swinter

Ken, Zack & Brent discuss tips and tricks for keeping your laborers and operators warm during super cold events.

Ken, Zack & Brent talk about treated salt and diesel treatments to use during super cold events.

Ken, Zack & Brent discuss what you need to consider when using deicing chemicals during snow events with super cold temperatures.

Ken, Zack and Brent discuss the pitfalls of less than honest snow bids and how to handle them with your customers.

After about 10 minutes of chit chat, Ken, Brent, and Zack take a look through the Facebook group called Snow Plow Mafia and have some fun talking about the different types of posts they see. Conversations include the benefits of the zig zag track over the bar, how much different people charge per hour and per square foot, and the relationship between the quality of the question in the post and the...

Ken, Zack and Brent talk about the newest, coolest, most awesome plow to hit the market...the SnowEx-Power F Series plow.

Ken, Zack and Brent debate which style of plow is the best.

Ken, Zack, and Brent discuss what to do after a customer asks for a bid. They talk about questions to ask, why to ask them, and red flags to look out for. After a getting a bit off topic, they also bring up ideas on how to approach customers after it seems you may have lost a bid.

Ken, Zack and Brent have story time. They share the interesting people and situations they've witnessed in the snow industry. The good, the bad, and the almost unbelievable!

Ken and Nicole talk about their VIP tour of a working salt mine. They went 1,000 feet down and 3.5 miles into the mine to see how salt starts as a vein in the ground and ends up in chunks above ground. Part of the experience was watching an underground explosion. Standing 1,000 feet away in pitch blackness, they felt the impact and saw an amazing site. Ken and Nicole describe the entire experience...

Tim Greenwood, sales guru with Fabick Caterpillar joins Ken, Zack and Brent to talk about Cat iron.

Ken, Zack and Brent discuss why it's important to start getting ready for snow at least 3-4 months before the first snow might fall. They talk about: equipment: what to check and how to check it deicing equipment: get pricing early so you know your costs customers: why and how to create a rapport with your customers as well as how to set yourself apart from your competitors. finding sub work: why...

Ken, Zack and Brent talk about the SIMA symposium, robots in the snow industry and the challenges associated with installing snow plows and salt spreaders.

This episode is all about the trade show at the 25th anniversary of SIMA's snow and ice symposium. The crew discusses the products and experiences that they found the most interesting, including the Vortex backpack blower, Ironhawk Industrial vibration /sound dampeners for plows, Winter Equipment's Cutting Edges, the Raven bumper plow, Hilltip, spring loaded wear shoes, a dragon wing, and spiral m...

Day 2 of the 25th anniversary of the SIMA Snow & Ice Symposium included snack and chats on social media, software, and recruitment as well as session about Leading from the Middle and Automation in Snow and Ice Management. Topics the Ken, Brent, Mollie, and Nicole discuss include: Ways to use Facebook Google Ads (formerly Google Adwords) Incentive ideas for recruiting and keeping employees The...

Ken, Nicole, Brent, and Mollie talk about the first day at the 25th Annual SIMA Snow & Ice Symposium - Part 2 of 2 They discuss a wide range of topics! From their escapes around Milwaukee to a recap of the classes called "Creating Team Efficiency to improve the bottom line", where they discuss leading your leaders and the Kolbe Index and "Planning for Snow 52 weeks a year", where they talked a...

Ken, Brent, Nicole, and Mollie attended the 25th Annual Snow & Ice Symposium in Milwaukee. They each visited different educational sessions and discuss what they learned in the next few podcasts. Of course the trades how and exciting new products (robots?!) is a topic as well.

Ken and the guys embark on our first nearly completely unscripted show. The only things on the discussion table are tips and tricks for keeping warm and what to do and what not to do online.

Ken & Brent travel to Holland, Michigan to meet with Wade Madsen for a site visit, tour and interview. Wade then joined the team for recording the following day.

The fellers discuss tips & tricks on recruiting employees for winter operations and some thoughts on how to train them.

The Swinter team talks about the pros and cons of snow removal with a 1/2 ton pickup truck.

The guys discuss some questionable snow removal related social media posts as well as some bizarre stories from the news.

Discussions about the very general topic of subcontracting. Not the funniest episode, but packed with information and hopefully a little perspective!

Today we talk about how rising costs impact your snow customers and what we can do to offset those costs.

Tips, tricks and suggestions on wrapping up a winter season. We talk about how to maintain and improve your equipment, materials, customers and staffing in the off season.