If John Saeli sold Snow equipment..........vid

Our rural townships still use the V Plow on the front of road graders. I have seen them open a half mile stretch like that. Backing up and ramming forward time and time again. Not unusual to see the snow piled eight ft or more.. Rod.
 
I remember as a kid, back about 55 -6 that we had a lot of snow and wind during a storm. The town had a LYNN tractor with V blade and wings.They spent a day doing that with the LYNN, but it was slow, and would spin out on the frozen road. The second day they brought down the new at that time WALTERS plow set up the same. It took them 3 days of ramming like that with the Walters to clear about 2 miles of road so the farmers could get their milk out.
In 1957 we got a CASE 310 up on the farm. There were several times, that I cleared the road from my house to the farm with it, to get the milk tanker in and back out.
The town here still has the 54 Walters with a Herculese gas engine in it. They had it out a couple of weeks ago, basicllly to keep the cobwebs out of it and push back some drifts.
Loren
 
Don L.: Where'd you dig that up? It appears to be the "Tug Hill" region which is East of Lake Ontario where they get hammered w/ lake effect snow. I can't tell if the truck is an Oshkosh, or a Walters. The plow must be a Frink, as Mr. Frink was captioned in the film. Frink was a long time builder of snow plows up in that area. May still be in business.
 
Haven't seen a V-plow in use in years, heck I'm not even sure the road commission has any around other than the painted UP one then use as a sign in front of the building.
 
The V plows are still kept handy here in Wisconsin. They are mostly used when widening and winging out, to keep the nose of the grader out of the ditch on a hard push. The right side of the V rubs against the snow bank. Left side is empty. They are very rarely used as a wedge anymore.
 
Some of the county trucks have one-way blades up front here so that when they plow at 40+mph the snow ends up 75 feet off the edge of the road instead of in a huge snowbank right on the roads shoulder. Other trucks have underbelly blades and wing plows for clearing double widths swaths of lighter snow.

Graders have underbelly blades, one-way front blades, and wing plows to scrap, plow and widen roads out.

End loaders have huge snowblowers instead of buckets so they can motor right on through even the biggest drifts.
 
The local road commission also has Oshkosh trucks like this one to move snow, and boy can they move snow.

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Loren: What kind of truck is that in that film? Could it be a Lynn? They were manufactured up North. Remember the Blizzard of '66? We were kids then, & I remember standing on drifts, looking eye level @ the electric & telephone lines. The County was bucking open State Rt. 96A for the State w/ a Walters. A Brockway 10 wheeler stayed back cleaning up, and was ready to pull the Walters back if they got hung up. The Walters were weak in the outboard axles. I believe they were 4 wheel steer & would twist the U-Joints. They would get a running start, then dump the clutch & hit the drift that way. If they had too much speed up, the blade would lift & they'd get hung up.
 
John,
I don't think it was a Lynn tractor. It moved too fast. The Lynns could really push as long as they could get traction, but on frozen roads they would spinn out, and were too slow to buck sonow like that one was doing.
That was why they came back the second and third day here because the Walters could pack up and gear up a couple of cogs to hammer the deep snow.
Today that road sets high and windswept. It used to be tree lined and down in a hole. They took out all the huge maples with a gas powered shovel, and the Lynn tractor, one summer and then cut the banks back and raised the roadbed..
Loren
 
In the first vid, the maker of the Truck was WALTERS. I can't believe the plow stayed on the truck. Don L.
 
Wish I had pictures. Here in central Indiana during the Blizzard of 1978 Radford Dunning had 2 big Case 4X4 tractors they mounted one of the extra County Highway Large V Plows on one and would ram those big snow drifts like that. They would follow the Plow Tractor with the other 4X4 and when the drifts would fall in and half bury the plow tractor the other one would move in and hook up and together they would get it pulled out and hit it again. There was one drift they couldn't get thru but the Old county Road Grader with a Big V Plow finally was able to ram through it.
 
Don,
There was no problem with the plow mtgs. The issues came with the dump box on the rear which was filled with gravel or in the one that the town here had several home made cast concrete blocks that fit into the box on the rear.
Loren
 

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