1950s ALLIS-CHALMERS CRAWLER TRACTORS PROMOTIONAL FILM 43814

[@regsparkes6507]

It's too bad that we don't see presentations like this anymore. It's give's one, I believe, a feeling that our country is at work and is a good and wholesome place to live. I really enjoyed this 'film', thanks for showing it here on KZbin.

[@lewiemcneely9143]

Maybe we'll get some jobs back so we could make one.

[@regsparkes6507]

Now, that would be nice indeed.

[@lewiemcneely9143]

Reg Sparkes Like I said, Maybe.

[@byronfitch6444]

Environmental laws today wouldn't allow most of the work shown in this film. What was seen as progress and worthy then is "bad" today. That's sad.

[@ronaldstrayer580]

@@lewiemcneely9143 Lewie, you and I typed back and forth before about bee's ....Asian hornets I believe. What is the story with oddmans channel?

[@brianhayes7153]

Brings back a lot of memories. I spent a lot of hours running a cable-blade HD-16. AC made a dang good machine in their hay day.

[@TheBandit7613]

Tear down the "slums" for a new highway! I love it!

[@ami2evil]

In the Ghetto ...

[@Alex-uy7pc]

Those were mostly ethnic neighborhoods. When I-95 came through Baltimore City it went straight through the Polish community. Between that went the people moving it destroyed them.

[@Oliverdobbins]

That does it! The next time I need to move earth, rip up brush or construct a major highway - I’m using an Allis-Chalmers crawler tractor to do it!

[@glennso47]

Also if you need to build a military academy, be sure to use a crawler tractor to do it!

[@4gauge10]

Sad to say,no more orange 🚜 tractors.Allis-Chalmers(AC)was ahead of its time in many ways and with its commitment to outstanding engineering and state-of-the-art of design,nobody would ever believe that one day AC would just fade from the farm fields and construction sites,just to become a faded memory in history.🚜⬅AC D-21

[@catskinnermartl]

4 gauge some are still active like my tl14d loader...

[@4gauge10]

catskinnermartl I mean from the mainstream all together in general,as in no longer being manufactured period.

[@nonyadamnbusiness9887]

Actually, it grew into Allis Gleaner Corp, AGCO.

[@1978garfield]

@@nonyadamnbusiness9887 Yea but those idiots quit selling orange tractors. I would much rather own an Agco Allis than a Fent,Challenger or Valtra. Valtra and Fent mean nothing to me and Challenger means nothing now that Cat left. The only brands they have that mean anything in the US are Massey Ferguson and Agco Allis and they got rid of Agco Allis.

[@tdshaker]

Good AC promo film. A lot of engineers back then viewed these films, and were impressed. Their bosses bought AC crawlers on their advice, and the rest is history. Media can control everything.

[@lewiemcneely9143]

And still pitifully does.

[@xclusive654]

tdshaker

[@glennso47]

Allis Chalmers dealerships would sometimes have open houses where they would show off new models and show promotional movies like this. My dad was a mechanic for an Allis Chalmers dealership and his boss would show stuff like this

[@jerryhammack1318]

Had an hd- 11 clearing brush and building large lakes on private property on large cattle operations! Very strong and dependable machine outpushed the Cat D7s we ran! And I loved the 7s.

[@rp1645]

That backfill boom set up on a AC tractor for cover on pipelines was very interesting to watch.

[@ethanbible5264]

50's and 60's was the years the live on earth......

[@geraldlrstubbs]

Unless you got ill with common illnesses that today can be cured...

[@raymondmenz522]

@@geraldlrstubbs or you were Black, a women, killed in Korea or Vietnam.

[@specialopsdave]

Unless you had a crippling fear of nuclear war

[@tacomas9602]

Sure...

[@zackstewart4109]

I never realized how Allis-Chalmers machines enabled all those blind-faith cowboy construction projects from the 50's we are always cleaning up. I especially like the "we shoved a huge pile of boulders onto the beach at Tahoe because we didn't know what else to do with them" brag. Nice one, AC.

[@cbboggs6459]

Great video. Need more of them today to show the snowflakes what we do for them to sustain and enjoy life. Without farmers and contractors life would not be possible as we have come to know it today.

[@postal_the_clown]

"Open burning of trash in L.A. illegal." 13:05 ... Worth mentioning there because at that time, it was still an oddity. Many homes there built before WW2 had concrete incinerators as a standard appliance in the back yard.

[@mattberg6785]

Open burning of trash is forbidden but shitting in the streets is AOK.

[@williambozynski1176]

I grew up in Dearborn MI and up until the 80's, when they were banned, my family had a "Calcinator" in our basement which burned trash. My job was to dump the ashes in the alley behind our home. Weird Charlie 2 houses down used his to burn dogshit at night. Ahhh the memories.

[@rp1645]

That drag Root plow is very interesting to watch That is a great idea for cattle Range feed beef. That would have been an interesting job to be on, especially with the critters that lived in holes in the ground.

[@HiddenValleyHomestead]

Pretty hilarious to see the rocks raining down on the boss's truck and the guy running away from the blast radius at the Illinois highway blast footage

[@SquishyZoran]

I want to know more about all that equipment in the pipe laying part as it was impressive! I especially find the method of backfilling interesting!

[@jorgeleiva1635]

Squishy Zoran xx

[@OfficialMatt03]

DISGUSTING!

[@mikewhipkey6863]

it's absolutely amazing the size of the projects with primitive equipment

[@skeetersaurus6249]

Primitive? Most of these machines are still running! You will NEVER say that about bulldozers and excavators made today...they are truly 'electronically designed for obsolescence'...you won't be able to find parts for them in 20-years...where the 'old, primitive' machines...you can still HAVE PARTS MADE if you can't still buy them off the shelf! Anyone that thinks otherwise has bought into the foolishness of 'technology is better'.

[@semco72057]

I remember the Allis Chambers tractors when growing up and it was like they just went out of business.

[@patricelebrasseur5649]

they sold equipment manufacturing to agco and fiat and they only manufacture powerplant nowaday

[@nonyadamnbusiness9887]

AGCO is Allis Chalmers. It stands for Allis Gleaner Corporation.

[@429np]

And I'm still looking for Allis Chalmers engine parts...

[@glennso47]

They became the company known as AGCO and bought out several other old brands of farm equipment.

[@glennso47]

@@429np Check out a local AGCO dealership if you have one nearby.

[@shieldsjohnjr]

I watched a guy cut one of these up into little pieces for scrap back in the 70's. It took him a week.

[@simonrichard9873]

very sad

[@codyzellmer1998]

Yeah, once our HD16 had a bad engine, dad decided to scrap it. We still have the HD9, though.

[@mikewhipkey6863]

we have an old AC loader (not sure what year but it's ancient) it's not articulated the back wheels turn to steer and it's powered by a straight 6 cylinder Gas engine we bought it from a junk yard probably 20 years ago. It still runs and we use it

[@sheldonhchambliss1385]

Beautiful

[@k3nt1000]

And I bet it is still in use today and it's never had any problems

[@dunemetal67]

At 2:30 notice the guy running away from the explosion on RH side of screen. Jobsite safety

[@sheldonhchambliss1385]

That powerful bulldozer

[@GMTeam-kj4lz]

really very fascinating 🤩

[@simonrichard9873]

2:50 Bangshift!

[@robertjackson98]

great video

[@ChevyConQueso]

Oh... nice. Spreading blue panicum and buffelgrass to improve the range. Now we're busy trying to get rid of it. Lmao.

[@stevehomeier8368]

Oddly enough, when they mentioned the "supersonic" cadets they showed the subsonic P-80

[@Bret4207]

For anyone wondering, the St Lawrence Seaways power ended up only being supplied to Alcoa and Reynolds Aluminum and a GM plant. Reynolds is gone, the GM plant is gone entirely and other than the power Alcoa uses, none of the power is provided to the area. In fact, just a few years ago NYPA, the "Authority" running the power distribution cut off the reduced rate power to 650 farms and businesses in St Lawrence County NY. The Seaway killed the City of Ogdensburg and Reynolds and GM leaving Massena NY left it nothing more than a meth head haven. In fact, the power lines carrying power out of St Lawrence County and south to Utica/Rome was just rebuilt. But no power at cheap rates to St Lawrence County. Oh, and NYPA doesn't pay any land taxes for all the St Lawrence River frontage either as far as I know, Thanks NYPA!!!

[@TheManLab7]

There's nothing sanitary about that lol. But back then they didn't know any different. They said that city burning was a big part of the smog. When in fact it was the cars that made the smog.

[@mattberg6785]

Now they just shit in the streets. I think we were far better off 70 years ago

[@highlandrab19]

Funny how they are showing landfill as a good thing. so much has changed in the last 70 years

[@mattberg6785]

Do you have a better solution? Seems landfills are alive and well still. Recycling doesn't fit all waste. Certainly we've made improvements but I'm pretty sure we're going to bury garbage for many decades to come

[@gaugebrady5416]

The dam near me has AC engines in it running it

[@johnconner8974]

water pipe for an airforce academy in colorado sounds a little fishy i wonder if its a huge underground bunker

[@RRaucina]

It was and is, the mountain they hollowed out for nuclear op's. That was the rather lame cover.

[@mchagnon7]

Is this a tractor documentary or an Allis Chalmers commercial?

[@filianablanxart8305]

Allis- Chambers promotional film . Essentially a long format commercial .

[@moman19701]

The US debt/deficit were both hovering around zero during these years .. now .. not so much and certainly not this kind of work going on. What's changed?

[@pegbars]

This looks like it was made by Kling Film in Chicago. They did a lot of these kinds of industrial films for farm and construction equipment manufacturers. Also because the announcer on this film is Ed Roberts, who was the voice of countless drive-in commercials produced by Filmack (also in Chicago). His is the voice you hear on the classic "dancing hot dog" intermission film (titled, "Variety Show"). kzbin.info/www/bejne/aqbLfH-abtl1qpY

[@philsaunders8508]

Good old day's, we were all busy building a nation not a safety canopy or earmuffs in site

[@SteelyPaw]

These guys would be really jealous of what I have: a 36" cut Troy Bilt riding mower.....

[@rustydrake1089]

My 1st dozer was 1966 HD 8 it was a good one. &the iron mine in Minnesota rod mills made by A C m

[@juanasanelli6831]

exelentes maquinas Allis Chalmers y su gran fabrica pasaron a ser FIAT allis ,pero la calidad decayo .Hoy dia se ven tractores de oruga FIAT new holland conservan algo la heredad de Allis Chalmers

[@tubulli]

How many lungs were filled with dust, how many ears detoriated with noice, how many cases of lumonia etc. In none of these shots is any operator protection visible...

[@YPO6]

Everybody smoked and then coughed that slimy dust out.

[@postal_the_clown]

Even up until the 80's in those kinds of places, workplace safety was more a matter of common sense when it concerned more than falling into machinery. Until some places realized the cost of liability, issuing and mandatory use of ear protection, respirators etc was not the norm.

[@tacomas9602]

Sanitary land fill? No. :(