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Sep 20, 2023

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The SANY booth was the place to be at CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2023. Check out the video for a giant beer pong match and a discussion between Jeremy Brothers of SANY and IRONPROS' Wayne Grayson about equipment

The SANY booth was the place to be at CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2023. Check out the video for a giant beer pong match and a discussion between Jeremy Brothers of SANY and IRONPROS' Wayne Grayson about equipment management in extreme conditions.

The SANY booth was the place to be at CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2023. Check out the video for a giant beer pong match and a discussion between Jeremy Brothers, a parts and services representative with SANY and IRONPROS' Wayne Grayson about equipment management in extreme conditions.

[00:00:00.090] - Wayne Grayson

Hey, guys. Welcome to CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2023. We're here in the SANY booth and I'm here with my buddy Jeremy Brothers. Jeremy, tell us what you do here.

[00:00:12.240] - Jeremy Brothers

I’m a parts and service rep for SANY America.

[00:00:14.990] - Wayne Grayson

Awesome, man. So, Jeremy, we are going to play some -- I don't know if I wouldn call it life size because that really doesn't make any sense, but it's a larger size, extra large, beer pong, I think today, right? There is no beer in these. Just to be clear. The only beer that we've got is in our cup. But we've got a couple of these tiny little volleyballs here that are probably going to bounce all over the place and embarrass us a little bit, but we're going to give it a shot and play. So you want to do the honors for us to kick us off?

[00:00:44.930] - Jeremy Brothers

Make the first row here.

[00:00:45.950] - Wayne Grayson

All right. You got to be kidding. Oh, wait, does that count? If it counts. All right. Now, again, we don't have any bearded down, but I'll go ahead and I'll have a little bit.

[00:01:02.610] - Jeremy Brothers

All right.

[00:01:03.110] - Wayne Grayson

Here we go. Here goes nothing.

[00:01:04.310] - Jeremy Brothers

All right, let's see it.

[00:01:07.590] - Wayne Grayson

Oh, my God.

[00:01:08.780] - Jeremy Brothers

Oh, my God. You got to put a little backspin on backspin I got.

[00:01:14.310] - Wayne Grayson

Here we go. So, Jeremy, we were talking a little bit about I'm going to distract you with conversation so that I can actually catch up here.

[00:01:20.670] - Jeremy Brothers

There you go.

[00:01:21.130] - Wayne Grayson

But we were talking earlier and your background, I told you, is awesome. It's fascinating. Now, you grew up in Oklahoma, but tell everybody a little bit about your background growing up.

[00:01:32.640] - Jeremy Brothers

So I grew up on a farm.

[00:01:35.550] - Wayne Grayson

He's not kidding about the backspin, that one.

[00:01:37.940] - Jeremy Brothers

It works, man. It works.

[00:01:38.980] - Wayne Grayson

Sure does. All right, I'm going to copy it. All right. Tell us about you.

[00:01:41.650] - Jeremy Brothers

Grew up on a farm working on John Deere equipment, Cat equipment and just as a kid and with my dad and fell in love with it.

[00:01:50.530] - Speaker 3

I hear you.

[00:01:51.650] - Jeremy Brothers

Thank you.

[00:01:52.340] - Wayne Grayson

Yes, sir. So fell in love with the equipment and started now, how did you get into the career of actually working on equipment for a living after? Did you do a little bit of that as an adult on the ranch and everything?

[00:02:05.530] - Jeremy Brothers

I did. Yes, I did. And then I went to a technical school. All right. Took diesel technology.

[00:02:10.750] - Speaker 3

Okay.

[00:02:11.450] - Jeremy Brothers

And then got in with caterpillar.

[00:02:14.050] - Speaker 3

Okay.

[00:02:16.410] - Wayne Grayson

I've got a couple of friends who are actually going through some diesel tech programs right now, and honestly, it's something that, honestly, more kids should be taking a look at in their career. You had that background. It just made perfect sense.

[00:02:32.260] - Jeremy Brothers

Right.

[00:02:32.580] - Wayne Grayson

You could learn the rest of the trade. But what about the diesel tech program did you like the most?

[00:02:38.480] - Jeremy Brothers

I just like using my hands. I like taking something that's broke, fixing it, make it run. Nothing better.

[00:02:44.920] - Wayne Grayson

All right, go ahead and take your next. All right. He's giving me some room here.

[00:02:52.440] - Jeremy Brothers

All right, you got a chance.

[00:02:56.310] - Wayne Grayson

You're right. It feels like a softball throw, almost. Oh, hey, we can't bounce them, can we?

[00:03:02.330] - Jeremy Brothers

Yeah, you can bounce.

[00:03:03.280] - Wayne Grayson

Oh, you can.

[00:03:03.900] - Jeremy Brothers

Let's see it. All right.

[00:03:08.090] - Wayne Grayson

Now look at that.

[00:03:08.910] - Jeremy Brothers

Now.

[00:03:09.070] - Wayne Grayson

I think that might be the ticket. All right, so I know that from there you actually got into some government contract and did a lot of traveling.

[00:03:17.060] - Jeremy Brothers

Yes.

[00:03:17.310] - Wayne Grayson

What was that like?

[00:03:18.100] - Jeremy Brothers

Always a blast. I got to see Australia. Spent some time working on machines there. New Zealand. And then the best part was going to Antarctica.

[00:03:29.910] - Wayne Grayson

Okay. So, yeah, we got to talk about Antarctica a little bit in the run. You know what? Maybe we should stop talking, because I don't think that that strategy is working here. All right, so you went to Antarctica to work on equipment.

[00:03:47.350] - Jeremy Brothers

Now.

[00:03:47.610] - Wayne Grayson

Antarctica and Machinery. What's going on there? And there's a bunch of machinery down there.

[00:03:55.450] - Jeremy Brothers

There are 300 pieces down there. Very cold. They don't like it. Heat, blankets on everything. Yeah.

[00:04:02.240] - Speaker 3

Okay.

[00:04:03.090] - Jeremy Brothers

I got to keep a lot of them inside, obviously. Yeah.

[00:04:06.130] - Wayne Grayson

It's a big facility to make facility. Now, how cold was it down there?

[00:04:10.430] - Jeremy Brothers

The coldest? I've seen it. It was negative 64 with 128 miles an hour wind.

[00:04:16.240] - Wayne Grayson

So not your typical fleet maintenance job.

[00:04:19.490] - Jeremy Brothers

No, that counts if it bounces out.

[00:04:23.190] - Wayne Grayson

Oh, my gosh, guys, I told you. Well, at least one of us is doing well, so yeah, you're doing some doing some maintenance. Now, how long were you down there?

[00:04:35.130] - Jeremy Brothers

Six months. But you did I did several stints.

[00:04:39.120] - Wayne Grayson

Several trips down there.

[00:04:40.350] - Jeremy Brothers

I'd stay for six months. I'd come home for a few months and then go back.

[00:04:44.730] - Wayne Grayson

What was it like? What were six straight months of?

[00:04:48.810] - Jeremy Brothers

The worst part is the wintertime down there. It's total darkness. I didn't care for that.

[00:04:54.030] - Wayne Grayson

You start going a little circle.

[00:04:55.220] - Jeremy Brothers

Yeah, you do. And when it's really cold and really windy and the storms are blowing in, you can't go outside. So it's dark, it's cold, and you're stuck indoors.

[00:05:06.130] - Wayne Grayson

This is bad. This is real bad. If I'm in the house for more than a couple of days, I started going a little stir crazy, let alone no light outside and everything else.

[00:05:16.520] - Jeremy Brothers

Right.

[00:05:18.310] - Wayne Grayson

So going from Antarctica, where did you head next?

[00:05:22.870] - Jeremy Brothers

After that, I spent some time in Hawaii.

[00:05:25.570] - Speaker 3

Okay.

[00:05:26.420] - Jeremy Brothers

Working for a dealership out there. I got tired of the cold. Wanting some? Actually, I was looking for some.

[00:05:32.890] - Wayne Grayson

I'll move to the actual opposite of Antarctica. Exactly. One of the most beautiful places in the world.

[00:05:38.330] - Jeremy Brothers

That's it.

[00:05:38.810] - Wayne Grayson

You were there for about a year, right?

[00:05:39.790] - Jeremy Brothers

Yes, sir.

[00:05:40.300] - Speaker 3

Okay.

[00:05:40.970] - Wayne Grayson

And so then Mama called, so to speak, was Sanny SANY gave you a call, and you've been here for about a year?

[00:05:48.260] - Jeremy Brothers

A little over a year, yes, sir.

[00:05:49.150] - Wayne Grayson

Okay, so what are some of your favorite things about SANY?

[00:05:52.760] - Jeremy Brothers

The people.

[00:05:53.440] - Speaker 3

Okay.

[00:05:53.860] - Jeremy Brothers

The environment. It's a blast to work with these guys.

[00:05:58.320] - Wayne Grayson

Yeah, absolutely. Well, I mean, any place that's got extra large beer pond guys, I think.

[00:06:04.240] - Jeremy Brothers

They'Re a little better at beer pong, too. Does that help?

[00:06:07.190] - Wayne Grayson

Look, now, I haven't hit any, but if there was a strike zone right there, we had a set place. I've hit the exact same place every single time, buddy. Go ahead. I haven't made a single one. He's cleared the board. I didn't have high expectations coming into this, but I thought I'd do a little bit better than this. All right. That's okay, though. And if the cups were about three and a half feet backward, I think I'd do a lot better, too, going back to Antarctica, because I definitely don't want you to make this one. What were some of the things that you kind of had to do as part of that job and take us through kind of some of the differences of a normal, I guess, cold climate. You grew up in Oklahoma, so it could have been more different working on some of that stuff. But what was some of the crazy stuff that you saw going on with some of the machines?

[00:06:57.660] - Jeremy Brothers

So, the first day out, actually, we had a tractor lose a fan belt, and I've never been in a negative 60 environment before. Right. So we go out, we tear the tractor down. I lay the fan belt on the engine while we're working on it, put the fan belt on, fire, the tractor up, and the fan belt just shatters like glass. I honestly didn't think about it.

[00:07:26.190] - Wayne Grayson

That is not a typical situation.

[00:07:27.680] - Jeremy Brothers

Right. We had to redo it. I left the fan belt on the defrostor of the truck this time, let it get you hurried up, put it on, and got it running.

[00:07:39.670] - Wayne Grayson

Absolutely. Oh, my God. Does that count? Oh, wait. So I guess I have made one.

[00:07:45.090] - Jeremy Brothers

Oh, yeah.

[00:07:45.570] - Speaker 3

Okay.

[00:07:45.810] - Wayne Grayson

So I got two.

[00:07:46.450] - Jeremy Brothers

You got two. All right.

[00:07:47.210] - Wayne Grayson

That's respectable, I feel like. All right, so we did end on a good note, and we actually figured out I actually hit two of those because apparently if they rim out, it's still good. So we are out of bucket. So I guess we're going to wrap this one up. We'll call it a tie. We'll call it a tie. It'll be good. All right, Jeremy, man, thank you so much, buddy. It's awesome to talk to you.

[00:08:10.640] - Jeremy Brothers

Yes, sir.

[00:08:11.580] - Wayne Grayson

Hey, and guys, stay tuned because we got way more games and awesome conversations coming up from the SANY booth this week. So come hang out with us.