As a native Minnesotan who has witnessed this type of machine put to serious use, I can't wait to see what is done with it if you guys keep it. Will be a good way to get to the cabin with 0 issues!

@lambo_drives

10 ай бұрын

I made similar thought on the last introduction to this blower 😊

@lambo_drives

10 ай бұрын

(as a native Minnesotan that is)

@PAVEL--JAKL

10 ай бұрын

They will sell it for profit

@MichaelSmith-jv7zm

10 ай бұрын

A used VOHL like that is going for like 45,000 Canadian wouldn't the owners research that before selling it for five grand. And in Canada they are very common. They make brand new blowers for bucket loaders and such

@TheJttv

10 ай бұрын

It doesnt turn well enough to keep for the cabin

Birthday Blessings Alan! I love watching you and your genius mind at work! May your Ancestors smile down on you!

Happy Birthday Allan! The knowleagable wizard! I'm here for good guys, who know what they're doing, the equipment I've never seen before and the filming crew (love the views).

Happy Birthday Allan! Man it sure is a pleasure watching guys who know what they're doing.

Happy Birthday Alan! great work guys, being a gearhead myself love all the MacGyver fixes in the field, it's what you have to do. love it!

@niagra898

10 ай бұрын

Ya that dude needs a raise.

@richvanderwoude8667

10 ай бұрын

Happy Birthday Alan!!!!

@aneurysdelosangeles

10 ай бұрын

I'm 0:08 from Lawrence Massachusetts God bless all of us amen 🙏🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🙏🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🙏🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🙏🇩🇴🙏🇩🇴🙏🇩🇴🇩🇴🙏🙏🙏🙏🤝🤝🤝❤️🇩🇴🙏🇩🇴🙏🇩🇴🙏🙏🤝 0:10 0:11

Happy Birthday Alan. Your one of the reasons I watch this channel. Your upbeat personality is contagious.

Happy birthday Alan! “A real man could’ve done it backwards” is probably my favorite thing Dave has ever said😂

Happy birthday to the Wizard on the mountain! Still waiting on that episode to take us back up the mountain, Heavy D!

Happy 27th? 37th or whatever your Actual age is Birthday Allen You definitely are a great addition to the Sparks Motors/Sparks Aviation/ Sparks Heavy towing & Recovery

Happy birthday Alan. I am sure that every viewer sees what an amazing man you are and how valuable of a asset to their team. You're a true renaissance man. Hope you have plenty of happiness and great health!

This is the reward for hard work. Love the story of the beginning and the inspiration that it is out there! The amount of money it takes to be able to buy, and to crew up is incredible!

I’m sure Alan “The Wizard” could put many of those machines to use, not for snow but the little trucks could be a great little taxi ride to the top of the mountain.

@Kiki-Kauai

10 ай бұрын

I agree Alan needs a reliable little machine to get him up the hill and back.

Your best video yet. Not the most exciting content, but the editing, comedy, and Hans spraying starter fluid are at their peaks.

@CooLDEaFY4204Me

10 ай бұрын

:)

Thanks for the trip down memory lane. On many occasions I went with my FIL to pick up cars & equipment back in the 80's. He ran his salvage yard during the day, preferring to do pickups at night. Like your video shows, nothing ever goes as planned. Of course, all his rigs were ancient, and breakdowns were commonplace. His wrecker was a 1-ton Ford, also used to pull tractors out of the fields, as well as semis. He never used the drive train to move anything, always relying on the winch to do the work. Keep the videos coming.

Happy Birfday, Alan! Thanx for leaving the compound and providing so many many many hours of enjoyable entertainment to so many.

Happy birthday Alan 🎂 🥳 Good to see you got the best and biggest machine running. Would love to see what it can do in snow.

Happy birthday Alan, your actually my favorite person on here. So much knowledge, still fun, always willing to get in there. Just a guy you want around.

Happy Birthday Wizard! - Hans is seemingly more chillaxed these days 👍 whatever you've added to his feed is working.

@markbeeman9666

10 ай бұрын

I’m in northern Idaho and have a need for a great snow plow. I’d love to come down and see what you have on the lot and you’re willing to sell. Thanks in advance!

@willmeldrum4583

10 ай бұрын

Lol

I work at the factory that builds the trackless tractors. They old Cummins was rated for 110hp. We build them machines for sidewalk cleaning

OnX purchased! Thanks man for the deal on it. Already sent a letter to a landowner I discovered who I wanted to explore his property. 🎂 Happy Birthday! 🌞 to Allen! You guys rock!

Happy Birthday, Alan! Great job to HeavyD and his entire team!

Happy birthday Alan! Many of us wouldn’t be here watching if it weren’t for you!!

Happy Birthday Alan! You all work really well together. Dave you stumbled on to a good man when you hired Alan to work for you. Alan has a lot of abilities that you benefit from. Good employee!

Always an impressive shot when you run the semi through the alleyway between the buildings with like 2 inches clearance on either side!

Did Dave just agree with Allen and say he was right about the plow missing parts? WOW 🤣🤣🤣

From Australia. Happy Birthday Alan, you make the Show, keep up the good work having Heavy D's back.

HeavyD, Diesel Dave, Alan, Hans, Skeeter...you have a large winter cabin "in the family" that you use, you have friends with winter cabins/houses and you could use your Vohl monster snowblower to HELP and SAVE people in bad winters...KEEP IT and USE IT and MAKE VIDEOS WITH IT, that one IS a cool, rare, amazing, life-saving piece of machinery, no doubt.

It’s awesome watching you guys work. You’re my kind of people, keep it up.

Alan hard working man! Respect! He deserves raise!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALLEN! 🎈 Enjoys seeing you working at the fortress and working with all the guys at Sparks Motors.

The little blowers be handy in the country come winter. We are the last to get cleaned after a storm and hope the snow does come Friday night. Wait till Monday for roads to be open.

Love these videos , ive worked on equipment for the last 25years and its a great feeling when u get a machine up and running after its been sitting for years

Guys! This is awesome!!!! I feel Alan’s pain with that hydraulic leak. In the future use an air hammer with a chisel in those tight areas to knock free the hardline fitting. Tighten it back up with the air hammer as well. P.S. happy birthday Alan!

Happy Birthday, Alan! You are the ROCK of this channel!

You guys seemed to have much more fun with each other during this one.. Good to see.

Happy birthday Alan . This is the machine from growing up in Toronto, Ontario 🇨🇦 The small machines convert in lawn mowers in the summer, dual purpose machines

Love that the edits and added comedic effect are back in the vids. 10 golden stars editing crew!

An episode filled with fun, especially loved Dave's rant about turning into a Hoarder. Obviously some better editing going on these days....keep it up!

@josephprentice8354

10 ай бұрын

Same😂

Living he dream, i would just be happy to be doing something with my life rather than wasting away

Love how you make your videos educational and entertaining. Keep up the great work guys!

Thanks for the upload. It's fun watching you find forgotten or under utilized items and equipment, then flip them.

Happppy birthday Alan!!!! So happy to have watched you become apart of the family and see you bring joy to so many of us.

Hapoy birthday alan! So awesome to have seen when and how he joined the crew and channel and to see hes still around and just part of the everyday crewbis an awesone story!

We bearly got a breath of snow in NC this winter. Spring is ooonn!! Planted first seeds today!!

Never thought I'd see HeavyD driving/owning a County tractor considering how rare they are in the US. My Dads friend owns a County 1454 based Vohl snow blower which looks similar but is a couple years newer and has a 6 Cylinder Ford motor to drive the tractor (not sure about the blower motor). Judging by the body work and 4 Cylinder engine I would say this Vohl is based of a County 764 which is just a Ford 5000 that's been converted to 4 wheel drive using County's twin drive system. Super cool machine and definitely a keeper.

@MichaelSmith-jv7zm

10 ай бұрын

They still make new blowers, not sure they still make that same machine but. A used VOHL like that is going for like 45,000 Canadian wouldn't the owners research that before selling it for five grand

@265justy

10 ай бұрын

Ford 6600 or 6610 engine in it. Not the 5000.

@TractorTraction

10 ай бұрын

@@265justy yes you are totally correct. had originally thought it was 754 (which it could be who knows) and forgot to edit the engine type.

@265justy

10 ай бұрын

@@TractorTraction Yeah. The 5000 /754 would have been pre 1975. This snow blower conversion is early 1980s era I would be thinking. So probably a 764 on the 6600 skid unit.

@moparman1962

10 ай бұрын

That Vohl snowblower is a SNOW MOVING BEAST...it definitely COULD and WOULD save a lot of people during a hard winter anywhere in the northwestern USA...HeavyD and his crew really SHOULD keep it and keep it in good working condition so they can HELP and SAVE people in the winter...those were some of the BEST videos ever on this channel when they helped all those people stranded in the mountains in California! People LIKE seeing those kinds of videos!

Alan is a brave man for standing between those two trailers when loading lol

Blower looks like a Vohl DV904-400R Snow Blower, built on the ford 764 County Tractor frame. As for the New Holland TV150's, I like their predecescors, the Versatile 276. Slap a blower on the engine end and the loader on cab end and you got a work horse. Flip the seat and go.

These guys just don't make a bad video, everyone single one is great. Love em

You guys are a great team love it man!

Great content guys love it keep it going.Dave always keeping thing’s positive

happy bday to Alan, a man who knows how high he wants to live, and how many cinderblocks that will take!

Keep one of them to use out at your cabin. Next time you get heavy snowfall, might be able to use it to clear out around the cabin, or clear a good bonfire/hot tub spot

@moparman1962

10 ай бұрын

That Vohl snowblower is the snow moving beast that definitely COULD and WOULD save a lot of people during a hard winter anywhere in the northwestern USA...HeavyD and his crew really SHOULD keep it and keep it in good working condition so they can HELP and SAVE people in the winter...those were some of the BEST videos ever on this channel when they helped all those people stranded in the mountains in California! People LIKE seeing those kinds of videos!

I would love to see a video where you guys actually sell stuff! Happy birthday Alan

@debbiesilva6251

10 ай бұрын

Me Also but Heavy D to busy Hoarding. I dont Blame him though🙂 Great Machinery

@ankeuttajaespanjassa

10 ай бұрын

@@debbiesilva6251 I totally feel the hoarding 😂 but let's hope some selling videos in the future 🤞

@coyoteden3773

10 ай бұрын

You're watching one everytime..it's all a long commercial..but I like it

Happy Birthday Alan! Hope you had a great day my guy! Also heavy d, loving the content.

Nice deal on the snow equipment not sure about the big blower but the trackless’s are fantastic especially if they are the Cummins powered versions with the manual valves instead of joy stick . They are built in Ontario Canada and just about every municipality has used them we even have one for a yard tractor the a tank

Happy birthday Allen solid Man. Your hard work doesn't go unnoticed. I admire your work ethic I can relate to you. God bless

Happy birthday, Alan Love the videos can't wait to see what comes next

id definitely keep the Vohl for at least this winter; and team it with the Snowcat for emergency snow clearing for up to the cabin or like when you guys went to NorCal when they got that massive amount of snow at the beginning of this year!

@moparman1962

10 ай бұрын

That Vohl snowblower is a SNOW MOVING BEAST that definitely COULD and WOULD save a lot of people during a hard winter anywhere in the northwestern USA...HeavyD and his crew really SHOULD keep it and keep it in good working condition so they can HELP and SAVE people in the winter...those were some of the BEST videos ever on this channel when they helped all those people stranded in the mountains in California! People LIKE seeing those kinds of videos!

I’ll have to agree this was a very good video. The editing and the comedy had me rolling. You guys keep it up!

Happy Birthday Alan! You bring so much joy to the channel!!

Definitely keep the auger snow tractor! Just remember you need to have a spotter when using it, because you won't see a thing when it's throwing snow

@moparman1962

10 ай бұрын

That Vohl snowblower is the snow moving beast that definitely COULD and WOULD save a lot of people during a hard winter anywhere in the northwestern USA...HeavyD and his crew really SHOULD keep it and keep it in good working condition so they can HELP and SAVE people in the winter...those were some of the BEST videos ever on this channel when they helped all those people stranded in the mountains in California! People LIKE seeing those kinds of videos!

Hi, I’m a Canadian watching cause we know what snow can look like. That machine is sweet! So useful for the next big snow rescue dig out video.

@moparman1962

10 ай бұрын

That Vohl snowblower is the snow moving beast that definitely COULD and WOULD save a lot of people during a hard winter anywhere in the northwestern USA...HeavyD and his crew really SHOULD keep it and keep it in good working condition so they can HELP and SAVE people in the winter...those were some of the BEST videos ever on this channel when they helped all those people stranded in the mountains in California! People LIKE seeing those kinds of videos!

Happy Birthday to Alan the man! He's the best addition to this group

Whoever does the editing deserves a raise, it's gotten so good lately.

@shawnmason5290

10 ай бұрын

Signed, “Editors Mother”.

@mountaindr9

10 ай бұрын

I disagree. I don't need to be entertained by quick cuts-zooms-pans-shaky cam. I can't watch 1

@TheDanielsanti

10 ай бұрын

I think the quality has gone down

This thing up and running is gonna be wild. If you keep it that’s long term services for years to come + renting + custom snow projects + ratio

@moparman1962

10 ай бұрын

That Vohl snowblower is a SNOW MOVING BEAST that definitely COULD and WOULD save a lot of people during a hard winter anywhere in the northwestern USA...HeavyD and his crew really SHOULD keep it and keep it in good working condition so they can HELP and SAVE people in the winter...those were some of the BEST videos ever on this channel when they helped all those people stranded in the mountains in California! People LIKE seeing those kinds of videos!

Happy birthday Alan! You are a great man! Keep working hard!🙌🏻

Hey folks, In place of ether or start fluid, yes there convenient, take a rag, put a little gasoline on it,drap it over the intake, yes on diesel too. The biggest advantage is you don’t have to crack all the lines on the fuel manifold thingy if it’s taking a long time to fire..,.

Happy birthday Alan! You contribute a lot to this channel!

Happy Birthday to the Wizard! Cheers to good health and many many more!

Throwing things into the snow blower was extremely dangerous. It takes a split second for something to get grabbed and then it’s lights out for someone.

@saigawesnovember

10 ай бұрын

That’s what I was thinking.

@brandong7201

10 ай бұрын

What are u a girl

Great job guy's. Alway's a blast to watch you guy's. Happy birthday Alan love your work. Thanks for the video stay safe and keep up the great work.

Dave, really enjoy all your videos. Love all the off road outdoor big machine shit. Keep it up.

Those blowers going to make getting to the mountain cabin a whole lot easier 👍

@moparman1962

10 ай бұрын

That Vohl snowblower is a SNOW MOVING BEAST that definitely COULD and WOULD save a lot of people during a hard winter anywhere in the northwestern USA...HeavyD and his crew really SHOULD keep it and keep it in good working condition so they can HELP and SAVE people in the winter...those were some of the BEST videos ever on this channel when they helped all those people stranded in the mountains in California! People LIKE seeing those kinds of videos!

I wandering if Alan is ever going to get his house on the mountain finished

happy HAPPY Birthday Alan !!!! and many happy returns for the year

Happy Birthday Alan! I'm sure you'll be able to replace that oil line asap! I know that it was funny throwing grass into that blower but....on misstep and it woul be like getting thrown though a Chipper shredder!

The editing on this video was amazing lol loving it

@Jan_rebq

10 ай бұрын

Every time the fly sound came when the dog are in frame made me cry laughing 😂

Hey HeavyDSparks your staff should wear some safety gear, at least ear and eye protection. I realize your working in front of the cameras, struggling hard and fast “under a time crunch”, but for your YT viewers please set a good example. Love the deals you are coming up with and the energy your crew works at definitely taking it to the next level every time!

If you wanna test the snow blowers the best way is to set them in water. We have a snow blower company that comes to our quarry to test the new equipment.

Happy Birthday Wizard! This was an awesome video. The editing was terrific! I was laughing the entire time! Extremely entertaining! Thank you for another job well done.

Please Please please, whomever shot the video......DON'T LET HIM DO IT AGAIN. Zoom out and keep the camera still. We were feeling sick.

@lachlansutherland359

3 ай бұрын

Speak for yourself

Happy Birthday, Alan! Great recovery work guys. Thanks for the video and we'll see you next time.

I love watching you and your guys solve problems and have fun doing it. 😊

Over here we use semi trailers for clearig roads since the snow gets over 8 feet at some of the main roads.

Happy birthday Alan! Great vids, love em. Keep them coming!

Somewhere in that epic blower is (I think) a Ford County 1164 (or a very similar model). Having driven one of those in forestry form (basically plain tractor), they're mad bits of kit. The easiest way to turn them is like a tank using the independent brakes. Also, fun as they are, as a tractor, they scrub the fronts super quick if driven on the road, and thanks to the drive shaft(s) layout, they end up porpoising like crazy! Thanks for the memory trigger!

@petermartin3206

10 ай бұрын

Exactly just what I was thinking Four big wheels that won't turn very sharp I couldn't think what else it could be

Happy birthday, Alan! You deserve cake! And to the guy holding the camera - steady is the key....

The Vohl is a County tractor, a British based company that used to take Ford tractors and convert them to 4 wheel drive.

Always interesting watching what you guys find. Great stuff.

Happy b-day Allan! Didn't see your names on Cleetus's list for the Bristol 1000! I know your busy af! But watching this video looks like you all need a little fun break guys! Who else wants too see them race in Bristol?

Happy Birthday Alan !!! GOD BLESS !! Great shor BTW !!! Watching for years here in Costa Rica !!!

happy bday Alan. so glad you joined this channel and love the content on your channel to.

You guys can make it happen. Thank you for sharing.

@HeavyDSparks TV140s are notorious for their hydraulic leaks. A tip for the future. Unbolt the cab mounts from the affected side and jack the cab up to better access the hydraulic lines.

Great video Heavy D Sparks thanks for sharing your video and adventure great map system on your tablet

Happy Birthday Allen, Like y’all’s videos from central Florida!

i love it when you start feeding it sticks like it's a wood chipper

I grew up with this blower clearing my street, it was absolutely huuuuuge when I was a little guy. Man oh man thank you for this, reliving my childhood!

Happy Birthday from England. Keep up the good work guys.

Happy Birthday!!! You rock!! It takes as long as it takes!