Thank You Jeff.......the town doesnt use this much at all....they did some motor work to it and pulled it out to have fun with it....I was at the right place at the right time to get this in action.
They would use a 3 tier auger Oshkosh to clear side roads( county) in my area of eastern upper penninsula of Michigan when J was growing up back in the 1960's. After a " big blow" those roads would be packed as hard as concrete, with banks as tall as the truck. The winds blew that snow onto the road bed as high as the banks. I would watch them auger away for days to clear a mile or two of that compacted snow. That area is no stranger to snow,cold or winds either.
My buddy has one exactly like this one in video, and he has one from us military about same year. They have a big diesel on back that runs the blower and big diesel under the hood that runs truck itself. The motor for blower has turbo and when she hooks up on big snow pile she sounds awesome.Geared down real low. Was up north this past week, (MN), and we put about 50 miles on her, and mad hell of a lot of noise!
I wonder if they have parts for mine, unrestored running 1919. Very advanced for its time. Overhead valve engine, electric start and lights, pneumatic tires and full time 4 wheel drive with limited slip in transfer case for front to rear axles.
Old tried and true beast I have worked on one of these before! The one I worked on was a bit newer and had two blowers and two chutes it actually chewed up a stranded Honda that was stranded and buried in the blizzard in 1997.
I see all these comments about blowing snow to the wrong side of the road, based on that slight bit of wind blowing back the other way. Well, the banks seem to be a lot higher on the side he's working, which is a sure sign that he's sending the snow to the side where it's least likely to compound clearing efforts after the next storm since the wind during drifting conditions will usually be from a small range of directions, similar every time. I swear, the people making the harsh comments must not even live where it snows or they'd recognize what those higher banks on one side actually mean. If things are as they appear, it makes more sense to blow the snow to what will be the downwind side next time there's a storm, and do a quick cleanup with plow for the dusting that results right now. The video poster does point out, though, that they were just playing around with the thing, and they might have just aimed it straight for the side of the road having the taller snowbanks.
neat video, the county highway that I work for has a 1946 FWD snogo very similar to this. I've only seen ours run once, but it will really move the snow!
I ran one exactly like this one in western NY for over 20 seasons. Got so I could tell how it was cutting just by feel because much of the time you couldn't see anything out the windshield. Sometimes I would just get out and walk along side as it cut if the wind was right. She'd burn 100 gallons of gas on a good day.
Thought it might burn more than that, looks like truck and blower engine both burned gasoline. I remember in Iowa in 1959 we had a tremendous amount of snow, Highway dept had an outfit about like this one, but it had wood spoke wheels with rubber tires
@@jeanbrandt2624 The one we had used a six cylinder Continental gas motor in the front that just idled most of the time. The back motor was a six cylinder Climax Blue Streak engine with two carburetors. The pistons were the size of a two pound coffee cans, and it only ran at 1100 RPM max. It had tremendous low end torque that you could almost never over work, or stall.
WOW both engines are GASOLINE, My neighbor has one from the early 50s its got a small Cummins for the truck engine and the blower engine is a straight 8 CAT, I am guessing around 300 to 350 HP and when he is working it hard that blower will make 500 gallons of diesel go away in 10 hours! I cannot even guess how much gasoline would go away?
Our local airport had one of these with gas engine for truck and a massive Climax Blue Streak gas engine for the blower. Guy out there told me that working it hard used a gallon/minute.
I remember that winter. It seemed like it snowed every 2 days. I was on the snow crew for a small university in Springfield, MA . We were such zombies u
I had them build a new 1990 P1846 6 wheel drive with super singles ,18 speed , 855 Cummins , built for my logging around Lewiston Idaho , watched it get built , all black , their crew added lots of stainless & chrome , then a 27' self loader / crane , fun 1,769 mile trip , then worked it hard till 2002 ...right unit for hard country...
The truck of trucks, I can't help and stop at S.A. Mclean's place done in Sanford to check out the old oskosh he has, he had one simpler to this a few years ago when I was down there
This was bought by a local Oshkosh collector who lives close by....he has parked it in a mowed field along with at least 10 other Oshkosh trucks with v-plows. All been painted to the original colors.
Engineering ain't what it used to be. You'll see a lot of machines whose augers constantly throw snow out in front of the machine and they end up just pushing a big pile of snow. This blower has baffles which stop that. Someone knew what they were doing.
Wow very impressive I bet it would be a good $500 to fill both tanks and I bet the blower would use 3x as much gasoline as the travel engine! But really enjoyed that video!
Well probably never seen one batteries and cold don’t mix well, and the more strain u put on an electric motor the less range u get, plus an electric version would weigh so much I’d never be able to climb icy hills also the tires may not even be able to support the weight. Diesel and gas are the only reliable method for this type of work
I was being sarcastic .They cannot even run the heat while charging thier new 100 thousand dollar ev car. Total Bs, i see all the videos showing all the failed ev experiences from respectable tubers. Keep on truckin. Nothing like good ole fashioned steel and diesel
they took it out of storage to play around, it hadnt run in years....they were blowing it to the otherside of the road but wasn't making it all the way over...they took a plow and plowed it across
he is actually blowing snow to down wind side of the road so it doesn't drift in deeper. East-West roads to the south side, North-South roads to the East side
I enjoyed watching this. It's great to see this old machine still going. But I must ask why blowing it in the opposite direction? Maybe I'm missing something here. Is its discharge chute always in a fixed position? Is its rotating feature broken or something? Does it even have a rotation feature?
I don't know alot about the old truck...my father had worked for the town and I just happened to show up when they took it out of storage...they took it out for a test drive and was transferring snow from one side of the road to the other to test it out.... it has now been sold to a osh gosh collector in the near buy town where it rests next to about 10 osh gosh trucks with v plows
The snow was drifted on that side and had to be moved otherwise it would just get worse so get it out of there so it don’t drift as bad for a while, he was blowing it the way the storms do but he got it across the road so it don’t close the road.
Sounds like large displacement gas engine. Is it? I'd make a comment about how much it would cost to run, but with diesel running 50% more than gas here , it'd be even cost in early 2023.
Its gas, two gas engines, one for the truck and the one in the back for the blower. My father said the pistons were the size of my head. Can't remember how many cylinders
It was a winding day and thats the way the wind blows 90% of the time and they were transferring snow from one side to the other. And also this was just a trial run, was pulled out of many many years of storage. Was sold off to a local collector that has around a dozen Oshkosh trucks with v plows in a open field on display.
I'm unsure why the lights weren't on, I know they just took Out of storage and they were just doing a test run on a side road. It now owed buy a local Oshkosh collector, it now rest in a mowed field along with at least 10 other vplow Oshkosh trucks.
My dad had one of these with a Waukesha gas engine in front and I can't remember what the rear engine was. Both were big cube, low compression inline sixes that ran really smooth. The front one idled at a very low RPM so that you could almost see the individual fan blades rotating. The rear one had dual stacks and would shoot steady blue flames when under load (until he decided to put a y-pipe and a muffler on it) which was pretty cool. For the amount of snow they move, they're pretty fuel efficient. Took about 3 payloaders to keep up with ours when we were running it after a blizzard in Buffalo back in the late 90s.
Was taken out of storage for a test run...he was transferring it to the other side of the road...after they ended up cleaning it up with the plow truck. They normally put wind rows in the potato field using the loader with a v plow which helps trap the blowing snow...i have a video showing my father placing the rows on the fields....again the old truck was taken out for a trial run just to see how it ran.
I hope they had a can of "sterno" for a defroster... and enough shear bolts .. Long underware , OMG the agony just watching ... our highway dept had one,,, maybe your department bought it ..... looks the same ......
My father used to work for the town, this was in storage for over 20 years and was brought out to play around with it. Not sure when the town acquired it, I'm assuming way back in the day. This is now owned by a local Oshkosh collector and rest in a meadow with around 8 or 10 repainted Oshkosh trucks with v plows.
You would think the driver would blow with the wind as opposed to against it !! looks like 25 % is landing on the road !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!- Council operator !!lol
They just took out of many many years of storage, they were just trying it out, they were transferring one side to the other side. They went back with the plow truck and cleaned up what didn't make it to the other side. This was sold to a local collector.
Seems like all of these people throw the snow upwind.. That doesn't make a lot of sense to me. I suppose if you are trying to avoid houses or buildings it does.. But otherwise it seems almost counterproductive.
just called and asked my father and he couldn't remember the size of the gas engine in the back that runs the blower but he said it had 4 huge pistons and thought there was a spark plug on each side of it for 2 spark plugs per piston. I will find out more info from the town foreman about it and maybe get a close up video of the engine compartment
ChiefWiggim They used a gas engine in these things and the city didn't go bankrupt fueling a gas engine at wide open throttle and then rebuilding it when it wore out every season? I saw it said "GAS" on the side but I was hoping they were joking or something…
Oh, really? There could be twice as many cross links justified for plowing, but you don't need extreme traction to crawl along pushing a blower. And on tires like that there's no need for fancy diamond patterns (machines having tires with tractor lugs are another story, but that's not what we see here). Have you ever seen an Oskosh truck push snow? I'm guessing you never have or you wouldn't be worried about less-than-the-best tire chains. Oshkosh trucks at airports push with plows that are 20 feet wide, and even not using tire chains they are just about unstoppable.
Wasn't sent to junk, a collector bought it, town used the money to purchase other needed items. This hadn't been used in many many years and was taking up inside storage...the collect who bought it has a huge row of Oshkosh trucks on display.
They just pulled it out from many years of storage, they were just trying it out. It now sits in a field in a collection display of many osh gosh vplow trucks in crouseville maine
