That was built when stuff was meant to last. Beautiful old machine. Glad to see your still working it.

@ToreDL87

Жыл бұрын

Now that we have fewer resources again they're gonna be building stuff to last too.

80 years and no light ever came on on the dashboard and shut the entire machine down

@samuelmurphy8692

Жыл бұрын

I demand DPF for this unit, haha!

Older Vehicles were Built Heavier And Better than Anything Made Today!!!

Ghost riding the snow plow 😂🤣I’m a fan

That is the coolest snow blower I've ever seen 👍

Hard to believe they had self-driving snow-blowers 80 years ago! ;

That old boy just eats and eats. Really neat to see. Thank you.

That is an awesome truck. I love the unmanned driving shots.

Wonderful to see such a magnificent piece of machinery still in full working order. Only ever seen pics in military vehicle directories before. I believe they were used in the UK during the winter of '44 as well as more advanced allied airfields in Europe. Again in the winter of '47 after the liberation of Europe and the occupation of Germany.

Rich your snowblower is bad ass I mean wow that is so cool would love to see it in person. I'm a retired machinist and I love seeing old machinery that has been well cared for and that's still operational today. Rich my hats off to you, love the video and love that big snowblower.

What amazes me most is how little difference there is between this and a 2023 model. The new one has a fancier chute and fancier controls (And I'm sure the climate control in the cab is a lot better) but the works are virtually identical.

@johndowe7003

Жыл бұрын

You'd have to open the doors on these old trucks it blows so much hot air.

RICH THE ONLY THING YOU NEED TO DO IS GET THIS GREAT OLD GIRL A REALLY NICE PAINT JOB. SHE REALLY DESERVES IT AFTER 80 YEARS IN YELLOW. I BET YOU COULD EVEN FIND SOMEONE TO PAINT IT FOR JUST THE COST OF PAINT. THE LABOUR WOULD BE FREE IF THEY COULD SHOW IT IN PICS FOR ADVERTISING . THINK ABOUT IT.

Self drive snow blower….brilliant 👏🏻👏🏻

way to keep a historic snow removal piece alive.. its a beauty AND a beast ;) thanks for sharing

I worked snow removal in Germany. We had 25 Oshkosh machines with the same features. Cool.

@rkan2

Жыл бұрын

Not much snow to remove anymore I guess lol

I fast-forwarded to discover that even without an operator the machine works just fine. Good stuff.

Awesome! We had some of that white stuff fall down here in Louisiana one time, never could figger it out. When it snows here it shuts everything down for a few days. When these Cajuns see the snow they figger it must be a sign to go fishin' Thanks for doing such a good job showing us that fine machine.

Thanks for this! There was one of these local to me for a long time. Never saw it move, until it disappeared.

I drove Semi up into Twin Falls and Boise to pick up tatters, and yes I agree snow was deep with long drives to the warehouse. Nice machine.

HOLY SNOW BLOWERS BATMAN !!!!!!!! HAHAHA that baby is unreal i love it great video !

Ok. Now that is cool. Thanks for showing your pride n joy. 👍👍

That's some badassery, right there! I would absolutely love to have one of those! What a machine! I wish stuff was still built like that!

@ericl2969

4 ай бұрын

They still make snowblowers that are virtually the same as this. Go to almost any major airport in the northern USA and they probably have at least one or two.

I like the auto-pilot feature that allows the machine to run without an operator in the vehicle!

Your making me want to get my 43 oshkosh sno go running again!

Lovely old machine and a lovely video too !. No modern electronic rubbish on it , so it wont suddenly go into limp mode !!!.built to last. Regards from the UK.

Young man with his toy. And how much fun. Thanks for letting us play along.

That thing's cool and it make me think of a bunch of things that might be worth mentioning. I saw one of these machines parked up on a mountain pass in Colorado 25 years ago. It was in rough shape and it had been vandalized a little bit, but apparently it was still in working condition and ready to do the job when needed. I think the truck in that case was made by Ford (a VERY rare example of a heavy-duty truck from Ford having four-wheel drive). There's a county shop not far from me that has one of these parked out back. That truck is made by FWD, but the snowblower machinery is the same as yours. I've seen a couple other FWD trucks equipped the same way. In the 50 years I've known about the first of those trucks, I don't think it's ever been used, but the shop apparently is keeping it "just in case". I live in a medium-sized city at the south edge of the snow belt, and the city used to own a number of these snowblower trucks. At that time, they would have been either Oshkosh or FWD trucks, but I never found out which, since it was before my time. I've seen pictures of these trucks clearing paths through massive drifts back in the 1950s and early 1960s, but they were mostly used for removing the big "windrow" of snow along the edges of the crowded streets of downtown. In that latter case they were equipped with an extended chute with a bend at the top so they could shoot the snow downward into a dump truck that was traveling alongside. The city still has snowblowers that can be used this way, but they are much smaller, self-propelled units, and we hardly ever get enough snow for them to be needed anymore. I think that four-wheel steering is primarily to allow the option of steering via the rear wheels only. That's a handy feature when plowing (or blowing) while keeping the edge of the machine right at the edge of the pavement while rounding a curve. The Walter company of New York State used to equip some of their plow trucks with rear-wheel steering for that very reason (they were strictly rear-wheel steered and did not have all-wheel-steer capability). Oshkosh offers all-wheel steering on some of their plow trucks at the present time, and when plowing it apparently can be handy to "crab" the truck (which wouldn't be the case for snowblowing). I've only seen one truck like that, and that was a plow truck at the local airport. Speaking of airports, the local airport has a couple of modern snowblowers that are virtually the same as your machine but they are custom-built from the ground up as snowblowers, so the snow-blowing machinery isn't mounted on the back of an actual truck, but within a specialty vehicle. Oshkosh currently builds such a machine too, which is not truck-like in appearance even though Oshkosh is primarily a truck company. Years ago, Oshkosh made a bunch of snowblower trucks that were pretty much the same as the one you have. It looks like the manual throttle (that's what it's called) for the truck engine was an add-on feature. That surprises me, since most trucks of that vintage came equipped from the factory with one, and this would be especially handy on a machine that needs to be driven like a tractor when it's working. Apparently the previous owner recognized the problem and installed the thing! QUESTION: What's the explanation for that gear-shift pattern for the transmission indicating 3 speeds, but with lever positions for 4th and 5th added to the diagram by hand? Does that reflect an upgrade to a different transmission from the original, or is there something strange about how the transmission is set up? Also, the diagram to the right shows High, neutral and Low, just like a typical transfer case but it's labeled "auxiliary". If that's truly an auxiliary transmission which is meant to be shifted "on the fly" during normal operation, that would mean that the transfer case is single-speed. That's certainly possible, but it's not what I would have expected. Sorry to ask such questions but this is an area of interest for me.

A beautiful piece of machinery built by proud workers who wanted to support their country in a time of need.

A CLASSIC, this Ole Girl will out-live us, and you can probably work on it easily enough. TUFF OLE BIRD, they just don't makem like this anymore. These days everything is "HIGHTECH" with that HIGH PRICE and it has to be "PRETTY" so Counties can rectify why they spent 1/2 $MILLION + of tax dollars on it. New models probably have Internet connection. I LOVE THIS ONE, plain-simple-and works as hard as a 40 mule team would. Thanks for sharing.

Funny how things used to be built to last. Now stuff is built to fail. That truck is amazing

@ericl2969

4 ай бұрын

This topic cracks me up every time. There are millions of examples of old trucks which wore out, but usually they wore out a lot sooner than today's trucks. You just don't see those old trucks anymore, but they existed. The machine in this clip is the perfect example of something that SHOULD still be in good shape after all these years. It worked at an airport, not on highways, so it never was exposed to road salt. Even if it had seen some use on highways, it would not have been out driving long distances on salty roads, and probably not on salty roads at all, but instead it would have been only in fresh snow and then it would go back to the shop when done. And being used for snow removal and nothing else means that it spent 99 percent of its life sitting inside a heated shop, and since the shop crew likely had at least a few weeks each year where there was not much to do except take care of the equipment, it would have been well taken care of. Then, it spent even less of its time working during the years since the original owner sold it, and that was probably 40 or 50 years ago. So of course it never wore out. Consider that modern heavy-duty trucks commonly last to well past 1-million miles with no major repairs. City busses are expected to last far past 1-million miles, and that's with nothing but stop-and-go city driving. That's a record that NONE of the trucks from the old days could ever come close to reaching. When people say "They don't make 'em like they used to", the correct reply is: "They never did". It's true that modern trucks are a lot more complex and there are more things that CAN go wrong, and many of those things require more than the primitive abilities of a shade-tree mechanic to fix, and that's something that makes me sad, but in terms of capability and longevity, NOTHING that was built in around the same time as the machine in this clip even comes close to the trucks of today. Heck, that's even true of cars. When I was a kid, anyone who's car hadn't totally worn out and rusted out by the time it reached 100,000 to 120,000 miles had something to brag about. Junkyard cars almost never had more than 100,000 miles on them. Nowadays, any basic car with 100,000 miles on it is almost indistinguishable from one that's brand-new, and I know quite a few people with pickup trucks or SUVs that have 400,000 to 500,000 miles on them and they still run great, and most of these trucks have never even needed a major repair. My dad used to tell me that cars from the 1940s needed a "valve job" every 30,000 miles or so, and re-boring the cylinders was always something that was needed if the vehicle ever reached high mileage. Even into the 1950s, needing a "valve job" was still a very common thing that anybody who didn't regularly trade-in was familiar with. Again, there are modern vehicles which have gotten so complex that the durability hasn't kept up with with other "advancements", (GM's 5-cylinder inline engine that's put in small pickups and SUVs is a perfect example, and making this situation even worse is the fact that you need to mostly disassemble the whole front of the vehicle to do the repairs), but if you avoid vehicles with such obvious issues as that, there's no reason you can't put half-a-million miles on the thing before you even need to think about replacing it. If you don't want to run it that long but still take proper care of it, when it reaches 200,000 miles you can give it to one of your kids and be confident that it's a far better vehicle than anything you had when you were their age. NO car from "the old days" could compare to that.

Awesome machine! Built to last unlike anything made today. Nice work keeping it in good condition!

what an awesome piece of equipment from the past! thanks for sharing!!

Great old machine 👍👍🇺🇸

Real similarities to the ohgosh snow blowing twin engine,back is 450hp, one I ran didn’t have rear steering,awesome machines

What a magnificent beast! Does exactly what it was designed to do without a bunch of computer stuff to decrease its ability to run. Thanks for posting. Great to see it gets used not sitting in a museum

Great old truck. The town I grew up in had a really old plow truck. It originally had a plow that you had to pick up, and then you could spin it to discharge to the other side. In the late 70s, they put a regular highway blade on it. That truck with the wing plows could clear both lanes on the highway in front of my house house with 1 pass. It could do an entire side street with no problem. It was a 2-man job. One that drove and one that operated from the right side. There had to be 10 levers. It also had a sander permanently mounted to the bed. It didn't have headlights, just 2 spotlights mounted on the roof, with 2 gumball rotating lights and 2 smaller ones on the back of the hopper. I loved it when my neighbor used to pick me up as a kid and let me work the levers. I have never seen another truck like it, and it was obvious it was a custom job. Wish I could remember the name of the builder. I was sad when I got home from basic training. My neighbor told me the town had a closed auction and It went for only 2 k! I would have bought it. I Miss all the "old" vehicles. I'm sure they had it for 50 years. I would have restored it. Just like the 2 Cadillac ambulances the town got rid of for scrap and never told anyone. It had 2 big red and white gumball lights on the front and one in the back. It had the old school tube lights on the front and back. Would have loved to restore them for parades because it didn't have any rust and the letters looked like they were new.

@mercoldswfo

Жыл бұрын

Too much history got turned into scrap

@joebeach7759

Жыл бұрын

@Ben Timmers I know. I would love to have a pre-war pickup. But since they were made of steel, they're long gone. I would settle for an M34 1 1/4 ton military truck(the original Dodge power wagon.) From the 50s or a 50s era duce and a half.

@wijo6234

Жыл бұрын

Based on the fact that it was originally mounted with a roll over plow, it very well might have been an Air Force or other U.S. Military runway clearing truck which would make it most likely an Oshkosh WT-2206 based on the age

@joebeach7759

Жыл бұрын

@@wijo6234 give that man a cigar! That's the one the stare park had. They actually had 2. 1 had tge roll over plow and left and right wings and the other had either what they called a "Drift buster", V plow, or it had a 12ft, right discharge with both wings. This is the one I spent 1 winter on(1987 if you can believe that), and with either plow, we would put both wings down and we could plow both lanes going through the state park. Pretty sure it didn't come from the military because all of the NYS Transpirtation Barnes had at least 1., especially on the Thruway and parkways north of NYC. One of these and the 12ft wings woukd be one and done in each direction. Most of which got replaced in the mid 70s. The state park had theirs so long because they had drivers that took care of them. I think one of the park managers bought the last one at auction in 1990 and put it in a barn in back of his house. The roll over, I think was just too complicated and rarely did I ever see that one operate. It was fun as hell for a 19 year old, managing all those levers. Thanks for giving me the model number.

@ericl2969

4 ай бұрын

"Wish I could remember the name of the builder." It's almost a sure thing that it was built by either Oshkosh or FWD, with Oshkosh being the most likely. Here in Wisconsin, Oshkosh plow trucks were very popular, but that was before my time. With modern roads and more snow-removal equipment doing the job so that plowing would start before the snowstorm is over, drifting is less of an issue and these trucks with such massive capability are almost never needed anymore. That, plus the fact that those old rigs required two operators, is why it's no wonder that they are no longer used. Some shops still keep just one of these old trucks on hand, "just in case" there's really bad drifting somewhere in their district. Airports in the snow belt still use Oshkosh plow trucks. The new ones are every bit as tough as the old ones.

EUROPE is full of this type of tracks for snow!

What a Beauty! When quality went before quantity. I am truly in awe of the state she is in, absolute fantastic! I hope that she will be treated like she is now in the future to come.. You bet ya that this wasn't the only time I will watch this video, Thank you Sir, for sharing the video! (And I honestly am also in awe of your place in the Mountains! Especially when it has snowed, mountain tops are so stunning but to live there.. I see why this Beauty is needed! )

Wow it has autopilot, glad to see you jump out of the machine to get some great footage! You really trust & know your machine

That is a gem! Snow? We don't worry about no stinking snowstorms.......... play on a movie line.

I run a 60 year old SnowBan, it blows as good as any modern Larue.

The first shift driving truck. Love it

Thanks for sharing!!! Awesome machine!!!

Such a beautiful machine. You're a lucky man.

Rick, Thanks for keeping a good quality machine running. I’ve always loved snow throwing. It’s a god like act to do that. Carry on Sir.

Amazing machine 👏 Thank god for engineers.

@dukeallen432

Жыл бұрын

Oxymoron

If it works it works, if not fix it and work again :) nice machine...

Nice outfit, looks like it is much needed there. Thanks for sharing

What a beautiful neat truck, so cool with rear wheel stearing. Not a bunch of extra electronics that can fail, and built to last.

Marmon was known for building incredibly durable trucks.

Built when profit was not defined by greed and when obsolescence was not pre planned...

@ericl2969

4 ай бұрын

You need to look into the details regarding Oshkosh trucks. None of what you said here applies to that company. As just one aspect, learn about their assembly procedures, which are a bit less efficient than what's the industry standard but which keep the workers highly invested in their work. Oshkosh also still makes a snowblower that is functionally the same as the one in this clip, but with diesel instead of gas engines.

love the blower truck, really love your area.

We have one of those where I used to work

This truck according to the shift pattern data plate on the dash has a 3 speed transmission with a 2 speed transfer case high/low range.

@ericl2969

4 ай бұрын

If you look closely at 2:13, there are gearshift positions shown for 4th and 5th gears too, but the numbers are drawn in by hand within what otherwise would be blank circles. That shift pattern is really strange, and I would have expected a 3+2 transmission instead of what's indicated by those extra lever positions. Maybe the transmission isn't original, and the modified diagram reflects the change?

I love the utter lack of a deadman. Made for a time when paying attention and responsibility were normal and we intrinsically knew the consequences.

Great video

Good Morning Sir, this is an OUTSTANDING and Informative Video Sir and Very Well Kept In Good Working Order Sir 👌😇👍Cheers 🍻

Hi From Denmark...

I want one!!!!!!

Thanx for sharing!

The airport here still has 2 of them in there fleet but i don't think they use then anymore ! South Bend, Indiana aka SBN

That's Awesome 👌

Idk why youtube recommend this to me since i manage my driveway, plus a neighbors, with a 24in Ariens compact with just one 223cc 'engine'... This would be total overkill, but i do still kinda want one. It's amazing what went into this machine. Does anyone make a similar truck with 4wd *and* AWS commercially today?

@AutoCrete

Жыл бұрын

Raised in Central Alberta with a 200 yard drive way I would have traded my grain shovel for that snow blower in a heat beat!

@ericl2969

4 ай бұрын

Oshkosh still makes snowblower trucks. Many northern airports (if they are of any size) have at least one or two of them. There is at least one "non-truck" company that makes them also (a company that makes specialized equipment but not typical trucks) but I can't remember their name.

I really enjoyed your vid. I was born in Indiana and we visited Indianapolis to see family. I vaguely remember the Marmon-Harrington name. No idea what it relates to. There was a Marmon car that ran in the Indianapolis 500 Races. Great to see the old stuff still "strutten their stuff".

@ericl2969

4 ай бұрын

Marmon-Herrington still makes front axles and transfer cases for medium- and heavy-duty all-wheel drive trucks. If you see such a truck that has planetary reduction in the hubs of the front axle and constant-velocity joints at the steering knuckles (both of these features can be recognized at a glance from quite a long distance away), the axle is probably made by Marmon-Herrington. Look for the "M-H" embossed on the hubs and on the front of the differential case.

That thing is awesome!!!!!

Wow ! beautiful machine ! thank for sharing 😊

Someone up in northern NM has something very similar. Its Army green. I heard they tried to clear roads in residential neighborhoods once when they got a 4 foot storm, but were busting out windows where there were cabins on both sides. One year Bobcat Pass got dumped on and the state didn't have any equipment big enough to handle it other than big loaders, so the OFGs (ole fart gang) got her running and saved a weeks wait for a bunch of snowbound skiers whose kids were AWOL from school back in TX.

Hi Trent Ian from Cornwall UK here Have you thought of getting a shipping container to store all the truck bits in ? Love all your videos Keep them coming.....

Yep.T800Aust

Beautiful machine man, super cool

Neat! Well built. Thanks for sharing.

Very cool!

Looks like it has been, and is currently, being taken well care of. Keep it in a heated building and it will last another 80yrs !

Great! And best: Absolutely zero electronics ! 👍

We use to have one in our town. In upstate New York

I want one.

so its basicly a tractor, a very fancy and comfy tractor that blows snow, could use it here in norway very cool

Very cool machine, thanks for sharing!

We as humans can build unbelievable equipment with our technology we have today, its unfortunate its not built the way real men would build it

@ericl2969

4 ай бұрын

There are still companies making snowblower trucks and/or specialized blower-only machines like this today, and they are just as good or better than the old stuff. You just don't see them where you are. Any major airport in the northern USA would likely have them, and if you drive by during a big snowstorm you will see the huge arcs of snow being shot into the air.

very cool

mazing machine - thanks

Love your videos

@christopherrushing6603

Жыл бұрын

Sir that machine is a serious worker here in upper Minnesota not quite that much but could still do a lot of snowmobiling

Had one of those in Fredericton 🇨🇦. Willie O'Ree's father worked on it.

That is really cool! Would love to have seen the engines!! What kind are they?

Keep telling them how much snow we get!

And they're getting harder to find,and harder to find someone who can work on them,

It's amazing the whole outfit is not eat up with corrosion.

@RJ1999x

Жыл бұрын

Was probably never in salt

@ericl2969

4 ай бұрын

I think he said it was first operated at an airport, and airports do NOT use salt on the runways. That, plus the fact that it would have been kept inside and well cared for during all but 5 to 10 days of each year would have kept it pretty rust-free!

You using that to keep the road clear to your place on the Portnuef Range? My airstrip is just south of the ski area, so I know exactly where you're at! I think anyway.... I hope you're blowing it to the north!

Wow that is so cool. I need one of these. Where did you find this old girl?

So Tesla was NOT the first self-driving/auto-pilot vehicle! 👍👍😁

It's crazy how something so cool can still be one of the least impressive things to come out of WWII.

Forgot to mention that it's self driving too

It will probably last another 80 years

You look to be just north of malad

Alot like JT BEGINNING

I’m surprised you can still get parts for that old girl .

How's the cab heater work?

Great old machine. Thanks for sharing. Who made the engines? Gasoline or diesel? Where did you purchase this baby?

@iffykidmn8170

Жыл бұрын

which one uses a choke gas or diesel?😉

does the heater work well ? u hot heated seats?

What’s the horse power of that sweet machine?