Excavating Snow Buried Houses | Battling Mammoth’s Blizzards

We were supposed to visit a massive tunneling project in Los Angeles, but torrential rain in So Cal had other ideas.
Since there was a lot of precipitation, we planned an impromptu trip to check out snow plowing in Mammoth Lakes, California with the Plow Brothers.
Checking out snow plowing in Mammoth sounds fun, but it was a 5 hour drive from LA (1 way) so it made for a 10 hour day in the car together.
We saw plenty of snow plowing, Eric complained a lot, and “snow mode” on the rental car wasn’t exactly up to par for this kind of precipitation.
And just clarifying for the haters... I swear I’m 5'6. Stay dirty, my friends! #snowplowing #heavyequipment #snow
Equipment: John Deere 724J Wheel Loaders | 721E Wheel Loaders | 262D3 Skid Steer Loaders
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[@ericjenjohnson]

Plow brothers is such a great channel! What they have dealt with this winter is insane!

[@emiljrgensen4860]

Should get up here to Tromsø, norway during snowfall, crazy how much different equipment they have for snow clearing. L110 loaders with snowblowers and blades, scrapers, trucks. Not too mention its totally dark for 2 months

[@tommyp4728]

dude full circle lol just started watching mammoth mountain life like 4 weeks ago and now hes here hahaha

[@tolandmike]

I've been watching the Plow Brothers battle the snow in Mammoth since MLK Day and have been impressed. Very cool to see them on your channel, Aaron!

[@TheEarthHistorysConfusing]

As a Aussie I find this Amazing!. Ive seen snow but not like this.. Cool Share!.. Thanks

[@RONJAE212003]

I love when people meet challenges with jokes and don’t start yelling or being mean to staff. That takes an amazing person.

[@donweden7199]

Very cool. Good job showcasing the Plow Bros!

[@brandonnelson7814]

That’s so cool Aaron. Mammoth has the most amazing snow removal ever.

[@tracylokstadt4294]

Glad to see you in California again. Amazing place, Mammoth. Great coverage.

[@FECosta-ei6pv]

That was one of your best adventures, Mr. Aaron. Keep on sharing cool content 👍🏻

[@ericknowles6588]

Will, you would have loved to see the snow blowers the town operates. Cat 966ms with an additional diesel motor on the back just to power the blower! We also use the 966ms just to push it around. The first week the snow let up for us, we brought in crews of dump trucks/haul trucks, filled them up and took the snow out of town! Would love to see/meet you back up here! Long time fan, so happy you got to taste what I got to grow up with!

[@ericknowles6588]

Witt*

[@DeDreamer]

They need to use a Larue D60 kzbin.info/www/bejne/qn29lH6iateEqJI Engine blower on the back of a loader is outdated and in the way when in tight areas.

[@martymorse2]

No worries about being 5'6" tall Aaron. Perfect height for a marathoner. All the best this season on the roads.

[@johannessamuelsson6578]

If you think thise drifts are tall, you should see the Wilderness Road through the Scandinavian Mountains in northern Sweden. This road is closed all winter. They clear it with big loaders with blowers attached, just like 11:46 but way bigger.. This road is closed all winter. Clearing is done by April and the road is only open for like five months until the snow comes back. The snow blowing creates drifts 18 feet tall.

[@blueman5924]

Yup. Playground for the rich, but it does look pretty as heck with all that snow. 👍

[@litz13]

Just want you to notice ... Aaron/Eric ... bundled up for the Artic, and shivering in the cold. Tyson Carr standing there only in a sweatshirt. The boys are way way way out of their natural habitat on this one.

[@AndyFromBeaverton]

Mammoth Mountain already had 441 inches at its summit by mid-January. At a certain point, even the snow blowers can't eject the snow over the bank. The animals will definitely have a long hibernation this spring.

[@ericknowles6588]

We have over 520" now

[@JackTruitt]

I'm in Tahoe and we are in similar shape. We use snowcats to bring the walls down so we can keep blowing over them. Towns and neighborhoods without places to put snow truck the snow to a place it can be blown into giant piles

[@AndyFromBeaverton]

@@ericknowles6588 What? I’m ecstatic there’s so much snow. I just hope everyone is safe and warm, including the animals. The melt is going to push a lot of rivers to the limit.

[@AndyFromBeaverton]

@@JackTruitt Just wow! I remember seeing some roads in Japan where the snow is so high at the sides it doesn’t seem real. Stay safe!

[@aldoogie824]

Best channel out there!

[@_multiverse_]

It's going to be funny when California mandates all this equipment be electric

[@klausthedog9670]

And running on gender fluid…

[@nickcollins1528]

​@@klausthedog9670 and non binary ignitions

[@marksellinger3736]

I spent many a winter skiing in Mammoth and do remember the years where snow was 20 feet high. Of course, Mammoth was a small town then. Oh how its changed.

[@phts2279]

That's the way nature works the snow melts slowly through out the summer filling rivers. Dams that generate power and water farmers crops to grow food

[@gabegjl3265]

Eric = grumpy and no jokes!

[@babconstruction]

Itchy and Scratchy’s snowmagedon🤣

[@ClaytonHartin]

There’s a KZbinr up there that does snow removal “Mammoth Mountain Life” uses a John Deere loader and some skid steers with snow blower.

[@Betonrg]

I follow him. Love all these guys.

[@fishingwith_luke7010]

You should hook up with Ken white and go visit them

[@shivermetimber]

👆🏻

[@dreib778]

Eric's rant at the end made the video for me.

[@ericknowles6588]

Aaairroom you were here!!!! Whatttt

[@tomhogan264]

I enjoy you gent !

[@knowltek]

Catch the mammoth mountain life..plow bros…haha…yee yee…

[@FishFind3000]

Who pays for all this work. Is the city covering it or the state? The fees gotta be crazy.

[@rp1645]

This looks like private contact for the housing development. My brother in law has a home next to ski area in Washington State. The State plows the Freeway and off ramps, the county crews do the side street into my in-laws housing just like this video. Then a guy in the area uses a CAT (416) Backhoe to clear the cul-de-sac. my in-laws he just got a (Honda) powered snow blower. Small unit with tracks for his driveway. I just went up there with my 2021 Silverado 3500 Z-71 Duramax Allison. The snow was up to the frame of pickup going into the housing development. Had NOT been plowed yet, in 4 × 4 Low I was able to crawl through it to his house. Had to deliver a load of Fire wood. Plus most "important" his MOTHER. My nagging mother-in-law could not stop telling me how to drive through the snow. Then when we got to her son's home. She said how well I drove through it. Meaning how well she back seat drove.

[@ericknowles6588]

It's the town and private companies.

[@RitzmanPerformanceMotorworks]

I work for another high elevation ski town in Utah. Currently we have received 327" of snowfall and it takes millions of dollars to keep salt down, roads 2 lanes wide, and trucks/loaders running. It's no joke!

[@cullenaukee5899]

H.O.A’s and second home owners, the taxes pay for the public roads I’ve worked for both

[@josephvargas187]

Snow creek is the condo project with all those private roads, but the town has a fleet of 966s 950 and blowers that do all the main roads

[@RONJAE212003]

I’d like to see a place in Mammoth that’s hadn’t been touched. Meaning NO plows no shoveling nothing and see how naturally tall the snow ended up being on flat ground though

[@TheGaggenau]

Winter tires is a good thing……..

[@ScottWarder]

"It's gonna be a good day".. Sounded a bit like Larry Enticer?..

[@lowermichigan4437]

How long until the state says they have to do this with electric equipment?

[@tlgx884]

Nice

[@juliecohen9041]

I live in chicago and we have not gottne much snow this year I am okay with that

[@anthonydalesandro145]

Back in the day.... Hate that saying when talking about snow fall rates

[@RMosher11]

It is very true here in CNY. It just doesn't snow here anymore. When it does it is gone in less than a week.

[@jimbeam2705]

Those days will be back. People think that the weather should run like a fine tuned watch ,year in year out. People don't realize that giant ball of fire that we call the sun could kill us all in seconds .

[@rp1645]

@@jimbeam2705 YES, if the SUN ever burns "OUT" The EARTH are round ball of hard Rock in its CORE, in my Humble opinion that would just blow apart, a huge ICE cube in space in are galaxy.

[@CGT80]

I hate the "back in the day" phrase all together. It sounds so unprofessional and it is vague. He could have said when he was a kid, or a decade ago, or even just years ago. To say "in the past" would sound better. I do agree with the sentiment that weather tends to cycle. I live an hour East of LA and 5 hours below Mammoth and have vacationed at the lakes in the Sierras quite a few times. It was interesting to see that amount of snow since I always go between the end of May and October for the better weather and fishing.

[@JackTruitt]

to correct Eric, California does use salt. mostly brine, also lots of sand.

[@nickcollins1528]

Im really surprised they dont use snow melters pile the snow and start feed the macine and melt it off

[@DeDreamer]

Why don't they have Loader mount snowblower? Way more productive and can clear more snow than the mini skid steer units. Just wondering.

[@TheTomkat13]

They do. At least in town they do. They have loader mounted blowers with separate diesel motors to run the blower. The skid steer blowers are usually used for tight neighborhoods and driveways.

[@stakman78]

What on earth in a 2wd Aaron... really dude.

[@brentbasto]

Rookie at driving in the snow I see

[@tugboat2739]

Howdy y’all

[@ludvigborg2826]

when is the colorado videos coming

[@jeffjansen582]

Noseason tires on two wheel drive, best you stick to hot dirt.

[@JEM133]

If you're driving around in those conditions without your chains,you deserve what you get.Its not just your own safety you're playing with.

[@michaelsedway9703]

Plow brothers

[@freewillmonk9283]

Got stuck on nothing 😂

[@Nick-nw6zg]

Why the hell would you bring a 2 Wheel Dr. car into that?

[@brianlofton2489]

Check out his KZbin channel.

[@ryandelaney4657]

Next time call me, I'm canadian ,I'll drive you up there, garunteed I'll get you there

[@Ethantice04]

Why don’t you just rent trucks in these kind of conditions?seems like your always getting stuck

[@danielsill4120]

Snow almost all the way up to the bottom of the treads on the tires????...wow!.. yup looks very bad you could get a job reporting the weather on CNN.

[@Luui2x]

they should make a snow melter and direct it to river or lake or so

[@Nick-nw6zg]

Man, they sure do get a lot of global warming in California

[@tylerkinley268]

'snow is a form of precipitation that falls from the sky'; bullshit sir! Next you'll tell me the earth is round.

[@realistic.optimist]

Boo Hoo - come to Alaska. It is not -40F there and the snow. No salt, no problem use gravel.

[@aliikane]

No EV snowplows and electric snow blowers are going to cut it in any severe snow conditions.

[@StubbyPhillips]

Nope.

[@joopvanharte2640]

Is this Germany?

[@ericjenjohnson]

Northern California!

[@Betonrg]

Eastern sierra. Mammoth is not part of the northern California, Lake tahoe does

[@joopvanharte2640]

@@Betonrg oké, i never been there

[@Betonrg]

Where are you from brother?

[@jimsvideos7201]

If you can afford a house like that, there, you can afford to stock a pantry to hold you for a month or two.

[@michaelmiller7208]

If they were supposed to work in Tunnels means they are Govt. Workers or contracted by government

[@ropo772]

What fool would go to Mammoth in such a historic snowfall in a rental vehicle that doesn't have four wheel drive? That speaks volumes for the common sense of you all.

[@psychonet380]

"And just clarifying for the haters... I swear I’m 5'6." Lmfao didn't know haters would care about heights but, hey, I believe it

[@jimbeam2705]

But ,but, but ....the democrats said that we would be so hot and dry that the oceans would rise and cover the state that I live in ... Florida. Strange, the oceans haven't risen in the over 30 years that I've lived here. This reminds me of the winters in Upstate NY in the 60,70,80s when I grew up on a dairy farm.

[@matt45540]

Global warmings a snapback effect, hotter and colder. I live on the coast too a lot of our parking lots are starting to flood and roads get covered at high tide.

[@taylorhickman84]

4 inches isn't nothing

[@FishFind3000]

Don’t forgot that democrats also bought beach front property after spewing that nonsense… guess they can’t take there own advise. Unless they know it’s total bs like it is.

[@bludowski]

@@taylorhickman84 4 inches is a lot, I'd say it's plenty 😢

[@FishFind3000]

@@matt45540 I’m sure the urbanization might be having an effect on that. More more buildings and hard scape that doesn’t allow the water to move like it used to so it’s pushed to new areas.