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Post by northernfarmer on Dec 22, 2020 13:26:43 GMT -6
I found this quite interesting, the equipment they used to load plowed snow into the trucks on the streets in a city and all the manual labour involved with loading sand by hand and then I assume that is salt being mixed in on top of each load, then workers shovelling ( spreading ) the sand on the streets.
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Post by Albertabuck on Dec 22, 2020 13:49:29 GMT -6
Interesting to watch some of them movies of how things were done. I got a chuckle out when they're trying to dump the boxes full of snow, nothing more frustrating than a hoist that don't lift high enough lol. There are a bunch of vids on youtube about the Canol Project and Alcan (Alaska) Hyway during WWII that are good too. I always found the best ones were the ones made by the US military, makes sense as they were the ones doing it. There is also a series of books by Stan Cohen on the same including the war efforts and the Japs attacks in the Alaska area, with some great pics and stories of how it all happened. www.thriftbooks.com/a/stan-cohen/280811/www.explorenorth.com/library/military/canol_project.html |
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Post by northernfarmer on Dec 23, 2020 11:29:24 GMT -6
This is one that happens to fit in with the Alaska highway theme, brutal winter conditions and although somewhat of a long Mack truck commercial in one aspect it is quite interesting for anyone not having seen this before and those old specialized trucks they used for that Dew Line radar installation project. Also an article that explains a bit about the trucks as in the engine that was used etc that is part way down the page of a Mack forum. www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/36965-mack-convoy-to-artic-circle/
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Post by northernfarmer on Dec 26, 2020 14:35:24 GMT -6
Plowing snow with Caterpillars in the 1920's
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Post by Albertabuck on Dec 26, 2020 20:03:44 GMT -6
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Post by Albertabuck on Dec 26, 2020 20:13:20 GMT -6
Was some other brands of oversize trucks in the day, Sicard, Reo, Autocar, KW and others, though they were more for the mining and logging industry. When it comes to the Arctic, one that is seldom seen or heard of much is the Rollagon, was the predecessor of what is commonly referred today in the oil patch as a Commander, which is simply the model of one brand, Foremost, but it caught, very much as New Holland's "Haybine" name got applied to every other brand as well.
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Post by northernfarmer on Dec 26, 2020 20:46:26 GMT -6
Albertabuck, I haven't watched those video's yet but the instant I saw that tire on the front of that truck it reminded me of an old Mechanics illustrated magazine of many we had kicking around where they had a female model in a bathing suit laying on a sandy beach with a tire just like that sitting on top of her which was mounted on some sort of vehicle and that same look of a suspension if it is so or a drive system that the front of that truck has. I had to think back then that it was somewhat staged as there would have been a lot of weight sitting there and they no doubt had her dug into the sand a bit but that vision stuck with me of that funky looking tire. You could tell it was running an extremely low pressure the way it flattened out.
I was wrong, she wasn't wearing a bathing suit but she was laying on the sand as I actually found that very photo doing a search and here it is.
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Post by northernfarmer on Dec 26, 2020 21:30:36 GMT -6
This is the Alaska film of that Rolligon machine AB had posted video's of when they went up to Prudhoe bay
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Post by bob123 on Dec 27, 2020 0:04:51 GMT -6
I wish I could find the video but I think its gone from YouTube. There was one that was from a farmer that bought an old wooden grain elevator and pretty much gave a full tutorial on how to run the entire place while he did it. Was about 45 minutes long. Once things like that are gone it's hard to get documentation like that again
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Post by northernfarmer on Dec 27, 2020 20:29:03 GMT -6
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Post by Albertabuck on Dec 28, 2020 13:57:52 GMT -6
I have this downloaded and got my brother to convert it and burn it so I can play it on the tv dvd player. I first saw this on Access Alberta back in the 90s. I recognized some of the names in it as ones I had heard my father and uncle mention of early days working in the patch late 50s era. Was funny because when I worked for Bill English at Raydan Transport, Bill was in his 70s and it really intrigued him I knew about events back in the day and who the people were, and we talked about some of them often. I remember one day asking him if he had heard of when the derrick collapsed on a rig up at Valleyview, can't remember now if it was a Cantex or Brinkerhoff rig, but Bill acknowledged he knew of it, we talked about how it happened, then he started to smile, again was surprised someone like me knew of it, and then revealed he was who hauled what was left of the derrick back to Edmonton lol. Many of those same names can be found mentioned at the Canadian Energy Museum which is situated at the Leduc #1 site just south of the town of Devon.
Anyway, back the vid, had looked high and low to get a copy back in the day for my uncle and father but never did find it before they was both gone, but then a few years ago it surfaced online.
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Post by northernfarmer on Jan 2, 2021 22:52:12 GMT -6
This is supposed to be footage of New York in the 1940's but as it states the colours are added as well as the sounds so its not really true to life but it does give some aspect of the vehicles and buildings and how people crossed the street which looks more like some third world country method !.
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Post by northernfarmer on Jan 2, 2021 23:02:32 GMT -6
Here is an older one yet, from the 1920's in New Jersey
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Post by kevlar on Jan 3, 2021 9:42:37 GMT -6
I wonder how many pedestrians were killed every day back them, looked like a free for all!!! I noticed early in the New Jersey clip were it looks like a father and small boy cross in front of a delivery truck, the boy only makes it by a few inches! I imagine the pollution was horrendous, I have been around a few of that era of car and the stink coming out of the tailpipe is awful, and they likely run cleaner and better now than they did new. There looked to be quite a few smokey vehicles in the clip.
Would love to be able to go back in time and just see all those beautiful cars in their glory, no cars today have the style that those in the 40's and 50's did, even up to the early 70's had some gems.
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Post by northernfarmer on Jan 3, 2021 12:04:13 GMT -6
I'll bet they cut out the parts where there were people run down, that did look extremely risky to be on the street and no wonder they frown upon jwalking and can get a ticket for it. Being that the film was enhanced its hard to know for sure what one is seeing but it almost looks like a haze in the distance and was thinking that myself about the pollution, what they would have heated all those buildings with as well as the vehicles that never ran very clean.
Today we have far more advance vehicles but they are in large part made by robots rather then skilled craftsman and the electronic complexity that even a dealership can't figure out, never mind the vehicles owner. There is something about the lines of some of those older vehicles though, for them at the time it was probably futuristic but to us its like looking at a work of art that took a lot to create back then.
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