Managing Ice Like a BOSS

BOSS Snowplow designed its new QuickCube System, a skid-steer-based salting system to improve contractor profitability, decrease operational costs and improve reaction times to customer service needs. According to the company, the system also offers:

• Six weather-proof, poly cubes (or hoppers) that can hold half of a cubic yard of deicing material, be filled with solid deicing materials and staged at job sites in advance of wintry weather, replacing the need for remote salt piles, tarps and temporary salt shelters. The cubes can be stacked and are neutrally colored to blend in with existing landscaping. Material is gravity-fed to the spinner disc and auger for reliability and ease of operation.
• A fork-shaped spreader assembly—which is used to pick up the filled cubes, move them and spread salt—attached to the skid steer via a universal attachment system. The spreader uses the skid steer’s auxiliary hydraulic couplers, with very few moving parts and no electric motors, making them easier to maintain and reducing the risk of breakdowns. The weldment can be easily removed and exchanged for snowplowing implements like a box plow, thus giving the QuickCube even more versatility at job sites.
• Improved customer response times—simply stage a skid steer, a QuickCube system and a box plow at the job site, and hire operators who live close to those job sites, so they can travel directly to the site and begin servicing the customer.
• Reduced truck and spreader rig travel during dangerous driving conditions, saving fuel costs, wear and tear on trucks, and the risk of accidents by staging QuickCubes on jobsites when the sun is shining.
• The flexibility to allow contractors to expand their service territory in a more cost-efficient manner than a traditional truck and salter combination.
• The capability to expand your potential labor pool by hiring skid-steer operators, not truck drivers.