A Snow-Plowing Beauty 1942 Ford SnoGo

[@mtnmike84078]

I used to repair the SnoGo's for the highway department that ran over some of the high passes in Colorado, awesome machines.

[@tomrogers9467]

OK, You Tube is getting creepy now. After three days of continuous snow, thanks to this “storm of the decade” which it truly was, I get recommended to a vid on a snowblower I would have loved to have this weekend! Just finished 5 hours behind a 22” blower, clearing 2 feet of “Lake Effect” snow from my way too long laneway!

[@jayswarrow1196]

It's called "personalised data promotion", and it doesn't hurt you, unless you speak about rebels, explosives or vaccination.

[@carollgeldner6923]

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[@danodamano2581]

It's always great to see old machinery resurrected! In the air force, large snow blowers were used to clear acres of runways and taxi ways. We had a plan of filling a garbage bag with a dozen quarts of hydraulic fluid(red) and wrapping it in an old coat then bury it in the snow for a blower to eat. Then we would wait for the first person to discover it.

[@jayswarrow1196]

That is humor. I recognize that. What does three up and three down mean to you, airman?

[@rudolphguarnacci197]

@@jayswarrow1196 End of an inning?

[@randymarsh-Tegridy420]

I know where another one is sitting. It’s in Ririe, ID. Pretty sure it came from Kelly’s Canyon. There was one sitting up in Island Park.

[@brandonnelson7814]

We have two that we still use to this day for Inyo county road department

[@markk3652]

Cool truck, god loves a flathead Ford.

[@alanrogs3990]

I have a feeling that guy is naturally fit. He eats whatever he wants and however much he wants and stays the same. Seems like a real cool guy. The type that would stop, help a stranger change his tire, go home and not say a word about it to anyone.

[@KurtClark]

What a beautiful beast!!

[@user-oq3lh1js2e]

beautiful and a classic and its runs/works

[@rawbacon]

Great Truck, hope it's still around in another 80 years.

[@JDCarnin]

We had similar Vehicles. But ours were driven by the engine from a T34 Tank. They were called D-470. They did Hell of a Job clearing the Road to the Island Rügen in the catastrophic Winter of 78/79. But now we don’t get snow anymore, thanks to climate change. We’ve got like 2 inches for a week and now it rains all day… At least more than the last 10 Years…

[@rolux4853]

Hey a fellow German! I’m from the Harz Mountains and we were lucky and got amazing snow at the end of last year! It did only hold for 2 weeks unfortunately, but it was more than in the last ten years.. We never had specifically purpose built vehicles here, always different generations of Unimogs that did everything for the municipality. They have enough power and the off-road capability to go up the narrow mountain roads with a blower attached to the mechanical power outlet in the front.

[@willrector9716]

Nice to see that thing up and running! Didn't realize you were turning it into a juicer..........

[@WinslowBent]

gotta keep up with the cool vegans

[@cujoedaman]

A "few" years ago, my dad bought a sailboat up in Houghton, Michigan, waaaay up in the UP. While he and the owner were going over things, I went out to explore the nearby town of Houghton and I came across a nearly identical SnoGo machine. I don't know the year, but instead of a Ford it was an Oshkosh truck, but the auger on the front and the layout of the truck are nearly exactly the same as this Ford. It has the same 'house' on the back for the second engine and makes the rear tires look out of place because it doesn't cover them. Same color and everything. The auger on the front is slightly different in design, but I imagine that's just down to difference in years, because it has a huge discharge chute like you see on a snowblower. Really interesting to see :D

[@kensakamoto258]

About 10 years ago I encountered a similar unit along SR 80 in the Sierras of Calif. They had been using it on a small resort along the highway. I think the base chassis was by Coleman.

[@davidgarris2513]

LoL,. I'm from Chicago but now live north of Houghton! 🐾🐕🐶

[@ILiketoBreakStuff]

I used to live in Houghton. I used to love watching it go down my street.

[@jimcurtis569]

We live in beautiful Ahmeek, Keweenaw County, Michigan. The towns around here have SnoGo type integrated machines like yours (a bit newer). When the Keweenaw County Road Commission cuts our banks back they use auger units mounted on front end loaders.

[@jimcurtis569]

We live in Keweenaw County, a ways north of waaaaay up there.

[@rockinrobinrockinrobin5613]

My dad ran one the same as yours at the village streets dept. Only difference was it had the tall shute for loading snow into trucks for cleaning main street. I worked at the Co. Highway Dept. which had Oshkosh sno-go's which were great machines also.

[@unclemarksdiyauto]

Very cool plow especially now with all the snow. (Jan 2, 2023) hi from Manitoba Canada!

[@sawsurgeon]

Oooh, this is inspirational! I have two of the Ford/Marmon Herrington traction units and one Sno-Go blower head, all as future projects. It is very nice to see a complete and functioning unit. I had assumed the mule engine would have been a flat head. Mine is missing the rear engine, however the bell housing, pto and driveline are still in place. Thanks for posting! Bless'ns to ya, Tedd

[@MustangsTrainsMowers]

I wonder if a Ford 300-6 could power the snowblower?

[@sawsurgeon]

@@MustangsTrainsMowers Indeed, that would likely work very well. If and when I attempt the project, I will likely try to locate an International Harvester inline six, as mine was originally equipped with one. But I’ll definitely leave my options open! Thanks for the suggestion😎

[@haroldwilkes598]

@@MustangsTrainsMowers Reliable, yes; power, yes, groundbreaking torque. Could be a nice fit.

[@chadvanryn1327]

I wish I had a old broke down f600, fix it up into a town truck and work that old truck

[@chuckfischer7202]

@@MustangsTrainsMowers The 300 might work to power the truck, but not the blower. I've been around several of these machines, the rear engine is always much bigger. This vehicle looks like the Ford has a flathead V8, the blower is a 501. The truck engine merely moves the thing around,

[@mattdonna9677]

That truck is beautiful. I must confess I'm partial to Ford trucks.

[@richardpalleschi4807]

My dad drove one for the Town of Swampscott Mass. In the blizzard of 1978. They used it for snow removal a lot. It had a truck load Shute i think it was on an Oshkosh truck. Would load a 10-wheeler in around 15 seconds. They would push the wind rows back in the street with Oliver Oc 4 crawler tractors. Then blow into the trucks.

[@cujoedaman]

I was just commenting about an OshKosh truck too, I saw one way up in Houghton, Michigan in the UP when dad went to pick up his sailboat. I didn't realize the the chute was for loading another truck, I figured it was only for directing snow like a snowblower :D

[@michaelmcclure8673]

I remember as a kid, we where in Loring AFB . The Air Force had big units on some Oshkosh rigs for the runway. We had a massive storm blow in. One of the blowers was doing the streets for cars to move on base, he hit a broke down VW and put it through the blower. 😳

[@literallyshaking8019]

I have fond memories of Loring AFB, but not because of the military, mine are from Phish festivals that were held there in the late 90s/early 2000s

[@TheMuskokaman]

I know some good old boys up here in Canada that hand made a couple like that with 70's style F350's & F450's that had a 300 6cyl farmer 4 speed in front & another 300 in the back on a C6 automatic driving a front-mounted 8' tractor blower. Tough as nails & real handy after a huge storm.

[@toddamtmann3528]

I love Marmon trucks. I wish they were still in business.

[@brucejames7573]

Vintage snow blower...Nice

[@lorenmeyer5290]

How COOL is that!

[@imdeplorable2241]

My dad and I worked in central Maine in 1990 and would go to a shopping center on Sunday to do our laundry. They had a huge snowblower like that on a 60's truck parked near the end of the building where the laundomat was. It still is the biggest snowblower I have ever touched. Huge! I have yet to see another one like it. Congratulations on a great pick up. And, thanks for saving the old girl.👍

[@noaht5191]

As a South Carolinian, this is so amazing to see such a rugged piece of equipment still running strong from working in such cold hard conditions, I could never imagine seeing that kind of snow that requires a special purpose truck to remove it. Wyoming looks so beautiful, and I hope to visit it soon....in the spring/summer of course.

[@tpbforlife3323]

Yeah thank god for winter. makes a person work to live and we don’t get half the nonsense warm place have

[@realemonful]

@@tpbforlife3323 Pfft That sounds desperate🤣🤣🤣I'd waaayy rather live in a warm climate than in a cold one and I live in Canada lol

[@don66hotrod94]

Our antique tractor club has a 1926 SnoGo, much different design than this Ford based truck. It is more like a grader design. Some of the old video footage you included looks like our machine. Thanks for posting this.

[@enclaveoutcasts]

Reminds me of the FWD SnoGo my dad and uncle used to run in the Sierra Nevada. Thing was a beast with the Climax gasoline engine until it blew up, then they stuck a 400 Cummins on the back then it turn into a monster! Miss that old truck.

[@mitchellhilden3519]

We currently run a FWD 1981 with a SnoGo TU3 blower. Things a monster. It has a Detroit diesel in the back 8v71

[@Brando49524]

2 grand and this beast still runs what a steal

[@jimkirk1971]

That would look right at home at The Henry Ford Museum!

[@buelowexcavating]

I worked on a night crew that used those blowers to load snow into dump trucks in a large downtown city. The truck drivers would get tired at night and not want to work. They would have a tire iron in their trucks. They would throw one in the snow a little ahead of the Snow Go. This could break the shear pin, which would take about 1/2 hour to replace. Sometimes the tire iron would wedge between the fan and the housing, which would take about two hours to remove. One night the crew of 15 did not remove any snow! When they got going they would just throw another tire iron in the snow.

[@tylergladys6626]

Sounds like somebody needs fired

[@r.j.sworkshop7883]

Nice to see this truck up and running. I drove by it just up the street from my house for a year or so. When I saw that it left, I hoped that someone got it that would do something good with it. What a unit.

[@glennoliphint8691]

It would be cool if you could do a video with the the smow-go actually blowing some snow just to show that the 1942 Ford can still do the job like it did back in the day. Thank You For Sharing This Video With Us! It was pretty good having the man who used to run one of those machines there to tell how it was when he ran the ones that he did!

[@darrellepickering8433]

As a young child I remember seeing 1 of these in Mt Carmel, IL in the '50s-'60s but with a V-blade. Always wondered what happened to it. Since it had a blade the rear hosted a generator set. Painted olive drab it had to be Army surplus.

[@XXx-ev8in]

Loveit when something like this is rescued so our new generations knows how in the past was hard work especially bringing the operator to revive the old world.

[@johnalexander8589]

Never seen one before thank u

[@61pwcc]

Great truck as well as a great video! Dodge's first 4x4 was about 800 1934 1½ tons made for the U.S. Army.

[@scryouyou]

I used to work at ORILLIA AIR SERVICE in Ontario, CANADA. The owner, Harry Stirk, had one of these units for clearing the runway. It was an impressive site to see it throwing snow with both motors winding out.

[@tenthdimension9836]

This is AWESOME 👍👍👍😎

[@colin5296]

Brilliant, I have one of these trucks here in England masquerading as a dump truck .Thanks for Vid.

[@jayswarrow1196]

The way guy stepped in for an instinctive bro-hug, shows his appreciation for a fellow truck-lover. I've seen some beefed-up two-stagers for mowers, and hydrostatic rigs for trucks of today, but this thing is a doomsday vehicle :O I think it would chew bricks, sitting at the idle, just as well.

[@duron700r]

Nice truck. You remind me of Dennis Gage. That red diamond isn't that thirsty. Good IH engine for the blower.

[@Billyboy4209]

“This thing was beer bonging fuel” hahaha spit my coffee on that one..🤘🏻

[@mykelbaurle5758]

I would like to see the 42 blow some snow! 😉

[@geneticdisorder1900]

That one bent screw must be where the bad guy that was chasing James Bond, got screwed, chewed and blewed 😂😂😂

[@jeffcongdon4469]

Wow very cool I want one

[@markdanielczyk944]

Nice find! If remember correctly FWD actually built the first 4x4 car back in the '20s, which is in a museum.

[@wheels-n-tires1846]

What a super cool old.piece of machinery!!!👍

[@fredmartin3117]

Just ran across this & had to watch. In the early 1960s I operated a snogo over Sonora Pass in the Sierra Nevadas in NoCal. It was a bit larger unit (full 8 foot wide) on a OshGosh truck that had a K series International cab so would be a late 40s model. It had a large V8 (7 in. bore & 7 in. stroke) Climax engine to power the front unit. It may still be still working there, I left in 1964. Very durable machines. At that time I was in my early 20s and am now 83.

[@timeless6964]

Great Old piece of Maschine!!!

[@yogi6917]

Looks like a rig I looked at/thought about buying up in Snoqualmie Pass in WA many years ago. Definitely a rare MH piece but they are out there!

[@MoparGuy1625]

I would have loved to grow up on this trucks prime!

[@jimconnor8274]

Back in the early 60s the village of upper Lake,NY. Acquired a SnoGo blower like this one from the Plattsburgh Air Force Base. They called that chassis a Warford 4x4 Ford. It worked perfectly to clean up banks on the village streets so the plows would have room to plow. Local dump truckers would plywood up the sides of their trucks and work 24/7 to clean the streets.

[@darrellepickering8433]

Mt Carmel, IL had 1 of these in the '50s - '60s, olive drab, Army surplus for sure. No idea what happened to it.

[@bc30cal99]

Greetings from north of the medicine line. Thanks for the video, that's a fine old rig and no doubt useful. I recall as a kid in Saskatchewan not being able to see over the snow banks from the school bus some winters. A little later on we used a Versatile 160 to blow out some of the roads when the municipal plow couldn't make it through. Thanks again.

[@WinslowBent]

My Pleasure!!! Thanks for watching!!

[@MustangsTrainsMowers]

Medicine line?

[@gabelanger]

I live in Northern NH, I remember the town having SnoGo Snow blowers. Now they are probably sitting in some bone yard and the town has gone with loader style snow blowers. I loved seeing them work when I was a kid.

[@jbnrusnya_should_be_punished]

Good to see such things. BUt it would be even better to see it in action again at least a few minutes.

[@rearspeaker6364]

looks like the plow hydraulics are disabled, loose line in cab, pass. side.

[@LetArtsLive]

I bet the straight 6 cylinder will last forever like the Ford 8N flat top 4 cylinder. We could have used one of these up by Buffalo New York last weekend LOL does it even snow there?

[@crazyoilfieldmechanic3195]

Thanks for making a video on such an interesting piece of history. The governor on the engine has nothing to do with controlling how much fuel goes in the engine. It controls how much AIR that is allowed to go in. The carburetor controls the fuel based on how much air is entering.

[@patrickshaw8595]

Yeah the way he said it would be correct for a diesel. But you nailed how it works on a gas burner.

[@shonuffisthemaster]

that's not actually a very big snowblower by highway standards, but its a cool old piece of equiptment. i wouldnt mind one for my driveway!

[@michaelguerin56]

Thank you. Good video. Marmon Herrington appears to have been the first serious four wheel drive conversion specialist. As I understand it, one of the key figures in FWD (the first 4WD vehicle maker) left that company after WWI and became a cofounder of the Oshkosh truck company.

[@thisoldtruck4719]

You are correct about FWD, but I did not know about the transition to Oshkosh, thanks!

[@davidgarris2513]

Check out an old company called WABCO.

[@wes11bravo]

@@davidgarris2513 - Westinghouse Air Brake Company?

[@davidgarris2513]

@@wes11bravo yes but they made 4wd utility truck conversions thru sometime in the 80's I believe. But also off highway mining dump trucks. Similar to the General Motors era of TEREX. Look up WABCO Haulpak 3200.

[@motominded5275]

Awesome content! Dream job to drive one of those

[@RADIOACTIVEMASCULINITY]

These are so cool!

[@Gunbudder]

i have a snow blower designed for moving drifts, and its something you don't need until you need it, then you REALLY need it. this winter is the first that ate up both pins and both belts lol

[@bobwhelk2117]

Don’t let it run yourself over- it seems to be the new trend.

[@Doc_Rainbow]

what an Madmax machine

[@MIKES0029]

That dollar tree beacon light needs to be ripped off and the antique beacon put back on (can see the shiny round mount for it on the roof)

[@dirty364]

Not only is it a snowblower it also is a melon seeder. You are going to have some beautiful melons come spring.

[@treylem3]

Very nice!

[@dougjenks6954]

Nice Truck.

[@scooterbum46]

Saw one at a national truck show in Auburn Indiana, I think June of 2001. Got pics someplace..

[@mattlesko4535]

Our local airport here in PA still uses one

[@danielpullum1907]

Well, excuse me. I tuned back in after I made the previous comment. Still good show....

[@donbraden8533]

Never seen one cool truck 👍👍😎

[@kevinrice7635]

Wow nice 👏 man of Genius!!!

[@honorb4glory606]

Looks like that thing came out of the video game Crossout.

[@rcclassiccrawlers4368]

Wow! Haven’t seen one of those in years. I used to plow snow with a guy that had one of those. I’d windrow the parking lots and he would come back behind us and send that snow 40+ yards off into the toolies. Awesome machine! I haven’t seen or talked to the guy in probably 10 to 15 years so I don’t know if he still has it but I kind of hope he does for a history stand point. Very cool video, brings me back to when we would get some real snow amounts.

[@haroldwilkes598]

"Into the toolies", familiar phrase. Tule is another name for cattails which line the ditches alongside roads around the country. We called the snow depth poles/road markers "tullies" in Alaska and Idaho. Wisconsin doesn't have many such markers but we still blow snow "into the toolies".

[@rcclassiccrawlers4368]

@@haroldwilkes598 yeah I wasn’t sure if I spelled it correctly. My spelling isn’t the greatest.

[@haroldwilkes598]

@@rcclassiccrawlers4368 No prob, I've seen it spelled several ways and have no idea which is right.

[@TheFastestSrbin]

Great epizode!

[@jeffdeppe5504]

I have a 1944 one that I'm building into a pickup now.

[@jorgeserranolopez825]

Hola mister Winslow, me gustan los camiones antiguos, me apasiona la tecnología de antaño, son cosas muy ingeniosas, mecánicas sin electrónica, cuando veo estos camiones, mi imaginación vuela y me vuelvo a sentir como un niño curioso, gracias por hacer este canal, saludo cariñoso desde San José de Costa Rica.

[@WinslowBent]

Con Mucho Gusto!

[@clarkstir55]

I used one at an airport in truckee,ca years ago...made cleaner cuts than the idaho-norland also used.. But...slower than molasses on a cold winter day.. Put her in low gear and you could shuffle beside it just reaching in to adjust the steering wheel about every two minutes. But a noisy,fun,useful tool

[@carlfasnacht9777]

North Mankato MN. Still uses one

[@jeffbledsoe4131]

I have some cool photos of one in SE wyoming on a mtn. Ranch!

[@Jmanhag]

You have an interesting show, and this is a very interesting truck. But, as many of these kind of program hosts, you have not done much research. Marmon-Herrington started in business in 1931. By then four wheel drive trucks were quite commonplace starting with FWD, the first successful company in 1910 or so. Walther started about the same time. Then there was Oshkosh and Jeffery (Nash) Quad in the teens. Marmon-Herrington was early in the $WD conversion business, working close with Ford in the 30’s. Also in the Dodge started doing limited production of 4WD trucks and, like MH were a big producer in WW2. I recall watching a Ford SnoGo like this in the early 60’s that was used by Milwaukee Country’s Park Commission. Like I said, interesting show that I did enjoy.

[@danielpullum1907]

I'm sure you guys have seen the Marmon-Harrington another Idaho gentleman is touting on KZbin. "80 year old snow blowing technology". Was it the first company? It was made in my home state of Indiana in Indianapolis. Good show.

[@tcmtech7515]

I've worked with those and similar big displacement International engines for years. As bad a rep as they get teased for regarding fuel consumption they are, based on HP/hrs per gallon when tuned properly, still more fuel efficient than most of today's emissions-compliant engines of similar HP output, plus, unlike today's engines, could be run flat out at 100% load indefinitely without damage.

[@alanmccalla6737]

Our FWD has a Wakesha 145GKZ runs smooth as a Swiss watch. It's ok on fuel consumption and 4th gear is direct drive and 5th is Overdrive at 1to1.1 Runs on as low as 76 octane reg unleaded

[@EldredTGlass]

Our red diamond engine was a Real Beast 50 year IH employee

[@milehighkit4725]

I'm going to sign up for more of this cool stuff!

[@adamziolkowski2549]

Haha, I caught a snippet from Fon Du Lac county, an area near my hometown 😅

[@derekwells4201]

You need to take this up to Buffalo New York😂

[@51-FS]

9:30 I have a rc of that suburban. Same color and even have the white wagon wheels for it

[@joeatunderground8714]

Pretty sure my uncle built that one. 12 volt electric motor to blow left. Reverse polarity, blower rotates to the right. Simple. Snow would pound on the roof switching left to right and back. Awsome

[@duanebolen543]

When I grew up on the farm the township had one and I think that's about to hear that one was too but I never ever seen it work

[@gman77gas]

42!!! WW 2 built.

[@DymondzTrucking1962]

When I was working in Wyoming back in the '80s the department of transportation in Wyoming still had some of them running around I don't know if they still use them or not.

[@timmosley3331]

I was wondering how long some states kept their machines since the guy in the video didn’t look like he was anywhere close to 100 years old

[@AndyFromm]

Awesome truck!

[@jeffrykopis5468]

Factual error: Marmon-Harrington was far from the first 4x4 or AWD vehicle. The Zachow brothers on Clintonville, WI founded the FWD Corp, circa 1910. And they used to demonstrate the traction of 4WD by driving an FWD truck up courthouse steps, a unique ability at the time. They 2nd successful 4WD truck was probably the Nash Quad, circa 1920. FWD trucks were essential on the muddy roads of WWI Europe. A freighter ship loaded with FWD military trucks was actually sunk by the Germans.

[@aliassmithandjones9453]

2k is less than the price of a good walk-behind snowblower!

[@Nickjustdabs]

Boom lost the gun

[@haroldwilkes598]

We called that "Armstrong Steering", used a Brodie or Suicide ball on the wheel for help.

[@brunowskijr]

There's one that sits atop monarch pass in Colorado at the visitors center