Nice machine! The way that blower eats up those big frozen chunks is nothing short of amazing!
@ChiefWiggim12 жыл бұрын
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.
@nateswiger69607 жыл бұрын
Listen to that old girl bark! I betcha you could watch the gas level drop in the tank under load! Cool old truck!
@scottfoster24877 жыл бұрын
Great old iron! Just a bit of love every year and she will be around for many more.
@shirleybalinski45353 жыл бұрын
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.
@eugenewikstrom17974 жыл бұрын
Brings back memories of the winter of 1953/54 at NAS Kodiak. I was on the roads and runway crew.
@ChiefWiggim4 жыл бұрын
This is now owned by a Oshkosh collector and is resting in a mowed field along with 10 other Oshkosh trucks with v-plows.
@keepontruckinoutlawlife12483 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the update. Sounds like a bad thing though sitting in a field. Know of any cabover's sitting in any fields buddy?
@rogermealey36442 жыл бұрын
Operator one of these in 1964 Ki Sawyer Air Force Base in Michigan Upper Peninsula Marquette like to see one again at my age 75 years old thanks
@scottyirish32312 жыл бұрын
I'd be running it...shame
@turbo8454 Жыл бұрын
My 84 Oshkosh blower still works if the need arises.
@brandonnelson78143 жыл бұрын
We have two of them where I work and we still use them.
@bearbon29 жыл бұрын
Got their moneys worth there! That thing's a year older than I am - and in a lot better shape!
@silentdeath92378 жыл бұрын
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.
@justintime4419716 жыл бұрын
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!
@graemeharris11905 жыл бұрын
Now that blower can throw snow wow what a machine !!!
@paulschimel357211 жыл бұрын
Oshkosh will make parts for any of their trucks they have ever built.
@leonsumrall5245 жыл бұрын
Correct we do. Legacy parts come through my booth all the time
@oldamericaniron57674 жыл бұрын
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.
@rjheckert652 жыл бұрын
Love to see the old time Snow equipment
@jeffberget71912 жыл бұрын
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!
@ericl29693 жыл бұрын
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.
@GlacialErratic2 жыл бұрын
Would be a valuable asset in the hands of someone who knew how to operate it.
@karlk68606 жыл бұрын
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?
@ChiefWiggim6 жыл бұрын
Next time I see the foreman I'll ask him for ya.
@RedIron10662 жыл бұрын
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.
@artjinks29352 күн бұрын
Back when we built quality machines, with basic maintenance would last 40 years. Most of the time you could repair what ever on the side of the road.
@charleschamplin251311 жыл бұрын
This goes to show American built quality, machines that kick ass and don't take names.
@rearspeaker63649 жыл бұрын
it still does the job and has heat in the cab....wow!!!
@darrellepickering84332 жыл бұрын
It's a wee mite daunting to meet 1 of these comin' your way. Wisconsin does handle snow well.
@andrewlewis9559 жыл бұрын
Why is it blowing the snow back into the roadway?
@ChiefWiggim9 жыл бұрын
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
@jordanwicinski21419 жыл бұрын
to keep the ground frozen. Do you live in the frozen parts? I didn't think so, or maybe your daddy and mommy take care of it for you!
@deanmeyer18158 жыл бұрын
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
@brucekwak24206 жыл бұрын
Andrew Lewis cuzz he is a half a tard
@edpiner49606 жыл бұрын
sorry but it appears the wind what little there is is blowing back across the road.
@caroleroseburgh13443 жыл бұрын
WOW ‼️ you need a good set of headphones to operate this machine.😀 it's redistributing the Snow back onto the road.🤷🏽.
@PeterATomich2 жыл бұрын
I toured the Oshkosh factory in the 2000s and they still were making huge snowplows for airports.
@ChiefWiggim2 жыл бұрын
That must have been awesome to see!!
@tommenzel35912 жыл бұрын
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...
@charlesjedlicka27254 жыл бұрын
I wonder how many mail boxes and utility peds that one can take out?
@ChiefWiggim4 жыл бұрын
It's wouldn't never know it hit one 😂
@Thetruckhunter10 жыл бұрын
Too awesome!!! I love the old iron!!
@Old1Too2 жыл бұрын
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.
@jeanbrandt2624 Жыл бұрын
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
@Old1Too Жыл бұрын
@@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.
@2009deerejohn12 жыл бұрын
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
@michaelott1551 Жыл бұрын
I operated a little bit newer one had a 330cat motor in front and a big v12 for a blower motor, would always break sheer pins.
@williamdavidson900910 жыл бұрын
Back when men were men and the snow was scared!
@rcfundyer57395 жыл бұрын
Sweet old truck
@bobd1805 Жыл бұрын
What a great sound! You gets get some serious snow.
@ChiefWiggim Жыл бұрын
This was 2008 when we beat the snow record. And a lot had melted prior to this video. kzbin.info/www/bejne/g4K1d6erncudfrM
@bobd1805 Жыл бұрын
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
@johnnymitz6 жыл бұрын
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?
@ChiefWiggim6 жыл бұрын
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
@MRALBERT5712 жыл бұрын
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.
@ar-ks4vi2 жыл бұрын
Can't blow it through house windows
@dand39752 жыл бұрын
The drivers side needed to be close to the bank or curb to correctly judge where he was in relation to the edge of the roadway.
@bobd1805 Жыл бұрын
The power line will come down if you blow that much snow on them.
@DOSTALED5 жыл бұрын
steering vanes, rear steer, power steering,diesel power up and down and fully chained.. is there some cheese to go with my wine?
@l337pwnage5 жыл бұрын
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.
@franmcmullen211510 жыл бұрын
So this old beast is still in service ? Awesome ! :)
@jackpine35283 жыл бұрын
A FROZEN WILD TURKEY MAKES A GREAT CLOUD OF FEATHERS WHEN YOU RUN THROUGH ONE!
@NorthernMaineProductions12 жыл бұрын
WOW! thats a really cool old truck!
@lynheydt33044 жыл бұрын
Nice. I guess in the summer you could use it as a wood chipper. Just kidding.That's when the made stuff to last.
@ChiefWiggim4 жыл бұрын
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.
@Scribles7 жыл бұрын
is that a florida license plate?
@stephenmitchell43935 жыл бұрын
my bro vinny just picked up a 42 ford snogo.
@terryatpi Жыл бұрын
Talk about cool!….thanks for the vid
@ChiefWiggim Жыл бұрын
Thank you and your very welcome
@keithwarkentin2 жыл бұрын
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!
@tanukicyber6 жыл бұрын
I'd have liked to seen the engines especially the second engine for the rotary plow, but that's an impressive machine regardless.
@charlesbrown69252 жыл бұрын
Our town had one just like it. Although this one didn't have the "truck shute." I believe they sold it as it was getting too hard to find parts.
@j.r.x36099 жыл бұрын
That SnoGo kicks @$$!
@pnwRC.3 жыл бұрын
They just don't make equipment like this no more. We'll be lucky to get 10 years from a new piece of equipment they make now!
@1coppertop2 жыл бұрын
I'm trying to picture a electric version of this in a 16 hour snowstorm. Maybe in 2033
@c0ldyloxproductions324 Жыл бұрын
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
@1coppertop Жыл бұрын
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
@c0ldyloxproductions324 Жыл бұрын
@@1coppertop agreed
@honestspirit56 Жыл бұрын
Best snow mover ever made….imho
@marcfournier8234 жыл бұрын
No lights working? I almost bought one of these a couple of years ago . Sorry I didn't.
@ChiefWiggim4 жыл бұрын
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.
@floodedcar1237 жыл бұрын
What kind of engine dose it have?
@MichaelPowell-tc7tc Жыл бұрын
Beautiful
@mikegreeley85634 жыл бұрын
That's a real truck.
@MustangsTrainsMowers5 жыл бұрын
Can they adjust the angle of the discharge chute?
@ChiefWiggim5 жыл бұрын
I don't believe they were able to...it was pulled out of storage and tested...it is now owned by a collector
@daw162 Жыл бұрын
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.
@ChiefWiggim Жыл бұрын
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
@cidertom51408 жыл бұрын
she sounds so sweet
@ericmccoy21588 жыл бұрын
too cool!
@motorhead67637 жыл бұрын
Nice. A lot of gas burned. Probably a big Waukesha or Hercules etc.
@georgekelly53382 жыл бұрын
That thing is a rolling Stephen King horror novel.😁
@ChiefWiggim2 жыл бұрын
Funny you say that, he lives about 1.5 hours south of me.
@TheAnarchistPrince7 жыл бұрын
What powers it Wakeshau engines?
@pootubedoodle94677 жыл бұрын
Thus Spake Zarathustra Production This appears to be the same model I ran. Yes a big inline 6 waukesha gas motor. IIRC avg was about 25gal/hr
@TheBigdog12075 жыл бұрын
25 gal/hr.... gotta love it
@RADIOACTIVEMASCULINITY3 жыл бұрын
So cool!
@5020Chris10 жыл бұрын
Anyone know the type of engine running the snow blower ?
@ChiefWiggim10 жыл бұрын
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
@5020Chris10 жыл бұрын
ChiefWiggim that would be great !
@franmcmullen211510 жыл бұрын
Probably a big old Waukesha engine.
@dregenius10 жыл бұрын
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…
@SpaceMountainLarry10 жыл бұрын
dregenius They probably used gas instead of diesel because diesel can't reach high enough speeds to fling the snow
@540allison7 жыл бұрын
i have an osh kosh.i can snow blow my driveway in 30 seconds
@65bug5197 жыл бұрын
nice machine but I bet it makes gasoline go away as fast as the snow
@randr106 жыл бұрын
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.
@redpower14665 жыл бұрын
Phillip Holstein it says gas on both the truck and rear engine so I'm guessing this one is gas.
@toodjackson4438 Жыл бұрын
How come I feel the operator wishes he could blow that snow the other way
@ChiefWiggim Жыл бұрын
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.
@MrWayneJohn14 жыл бұрын
Turning radius? What turning radius?!
@ChiefWiggim4 жыл бұрын
I'm unsure, I do know it was not power steering and wore you out. From what my father's boss told me.
@teejay56883 жыл бұрын
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 ......
@ChiefWiggim3 жыл бұрын
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.
@Ssssssnake18 жыл бұрын
kind of trying to spit up wind
@raymondcote66696 жыл бұрын
40’s Oshkosh what is wring with the driver. He is blowing all the snow up wind.
@ChiefWiggim6 жыл бұрын
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.
@TheMajictech2 жыл бұрын
They just don’t make ‘em like they used to, that thing would probably eat tree stumps.
@martymarsh39377 жыл бұрын
Blowing in to the wind, common.
@keepontruckinoutlawlife12483 жыл бұрын
Way kool
@waiting4aliens5 жыл бұрын
To be used in the next zombie or sharknado flick
@magnum82645 жыл бұрын
Put some power steering on the old girl!
@levak87402 жыл бұрын
That is not the 1940 truck period!
@ChiefWiggim2 жыл бұрын
Why isn't it? It was a military truck, built between 1943-45 time frame. Google it
Looks like hes pissing into the wind! Work with the wind not against
@ChiefWiggim2 жыл бұрын
It was just a trial run, just came out of many years of storage and was being sold.
@samgarofalo24616 жыл бұрын
LET HER EAT !!!
@npsit18 жыл бұрын
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.
@thedocisin32042 жыл бұрын
I think it just spit out a cow!
@ChiefWiggim2 жыл бұрын
And it wouldn't even phase it!! 😆
@sunside793346 жыл бұрын
those sad excuses for snow chains tho.
@ericl29693 жыл бұрын
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.
@jameslindley9243 жыл бұрын
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
@ChiefWiggim3 жыл бұрын
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.
@christophergaff69922 жыл бұрын
Why send it to the junk yard all city wants NEW truck it runs doesn't it
@ChiefWiggim2 жыл бұрын
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.
@albertkenley30325 жыл бұрын
Ml
@markaraujo065 жыл бұрын
not good what a mess
@ChiefWiggim5 жыл бұрын
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