Found On Local(ish) Craigslist: Two Engines, No Waiting!

"JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t" (jawzx2) 05/05/2020 at 10:16 • Filed to: Found on Craigslist, Flathead, 4x4, Snowpocalypse

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This is oddly attractive... My question is this: can it be registered as street legal for highway use? Because if so it’s a hell of a tool for a driveway snow removal business. (yeah yeah yeah, I know top speed is probably ~ 40MPH. W ho wants to go faster than that with a giant bunch of heavy machinery hanging off the front and back of a Canadian thing with PowerWagon axles and two engines that run on different fuels ? )

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PS. It’s snowing today. May 5th.

Tripper > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 05/05/2020 at 10:29

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Keep the snowblower, give ya boi the truck!

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > Tripper 05/05/2020 at 10:34

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The truck IS the snowblower. It’s purpose built for the job. The driveshaft for the snowblower runs from the rear (diesel) engine under the cab and front (petrol) engine, between the front axle (yes it is 4WD) to the hitch point. I don’t know how much lift gear is in the way of service on the front engine, but I think it’s all perched above the ‘blower hardware. I bet oil changes are fun.

Tripper > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 05/05/2020 at 10:36

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Out... lol. Still a super neat blowertruckmobile.

jimz > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 05/05/2020 at 10:42

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This is oddly attractive... My question is this: can it be registered as street legal for highway use?

I don’t think those things have a very high top speed.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 05/05/2020 at 10:45

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Monarch Pass, 2007

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > jimz 05/05/2020 at 10:46

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If it’ll go 40 that’ s plenty to get between job sites...

WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 05/05/2020 at 10:48

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My mind immediately went to someone who lives in the suburbs, and has no need for this but has it anyway, and pulls it out every time it snows 2 inches, just to clear his 30 foot driveway.

Also, growing up in northern MN, we could have used this. The first 12 years of my life were spent living at the end of a 1/4 mile dirt road.

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI 05/05/2020 at 10:55

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As a Vermonter I remember the year the town voted to spend the money to purchase John Deere’s largest road grader and Vee-plow. Even the 10 foot drifts we had on my road were no match. I don’ t think we had a snow day after that point, except for ice or power-outage related. 12 year old me hated and loved that thing simultaneously . Watching it barrel through drifts almost as high as the cab was amazing... but then the plow drift was epic and of course I got to shovel it out of the way before the school bus came. A t least we had a short driveway

jimz > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 05/05/2020 at 10:59

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I can’t find anything on it, but I’m imagining it’d be like when you get stuck behind a wheel dozer or end-loader doing 15 mph ;)

Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 05/05/2020 at 11:00

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I worked in operations at a small regional airport in CT years ago, and was trained on all the snow removal equipment. We had an Oshkosh blower similar to the photo; the small diesel was for propulsion and the large diesel powered the auger. That thing was a monster. 

WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 05/05/2020 at 11:02

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Yeah, plow drift is not to be fucked with.

One of my favorite pas times as a teenager was driving around in snow storms in my buddy’s Silverado to  pull people out of the ditch.

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > jimz 05/05/2020 at 11:02

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Oh c’mon man! It’s got TWO Engines! (sure, one is a tractor engine that isn’t connected to the wheels and the other is a gutless -but reliable- heap that was outdated when it was new, 60 years ago...) It’s GOT to manage at least 30 MPH.

edit: I can’t find any ref erence to top speed, but I found a forum post where it was mentioned that “they pogo front to back with the blower lifted and are somewhat of a handful over 20MPH”

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI 05/05/2020 at 11:09

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I used to do that wit my Mom’s ‘89 Audi 100 Quattro. People were always confused.

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom 05/05/2020 at 11:13

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This model has an 85hp Chrysler Industrial flathead I6 for the wheels, and a 185hp All is-Chalmers turbo-diesel I6 for the blower.

user314 > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/05/2020 at 11:22

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SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 05/05/2020 at 11:38

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I’m kinda thinking I need this for the coming Zombie Pockylypse.

facw > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 05/05/2020 at 11:39

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When I lived in Ithaca, they used a big Volvo road grader for snow removal down in the flat downtown area and surrounding neighborhoods. Seemed a bit funny, but it got the job done.

Nom De Plume > WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI 05/05/2020 at 11:39

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2" is being very kind indeed. On the other end, that is how thick they let the stomped down snow on their sidewalk get before ineffectually running over it.

I can assure you living in a high population density area and owning a Bobcat with multiple attachments is the current iteration of that Sicard Jr. Of course you need a p ro quality ride on mower with just as many hard working attachments to maintain 3.5 swaths of lawn front and rear during the rest of the year.

Not so long ago I had 1/20 mile paved drive that got (full or partially) hand shoveled at least once a day. Mailbox too so either party could drive up to it.

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 05/05/2020 at 11:43

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Growing up in the midwest, those huge rotary plows were a thing of shock-and-awe after a blizzard left 12' drifts across the landscape.

In the old days, these were the big dawgs on the railroads too ...

Nom De Plume > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 05/05/2020 at 11:45

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My question is this: can it be registered as street legal for highway use? Because if so it’s a hell of a tool for a driveway snow removal business.

They use similar machines on highway overpasses here. This is the most common use when we run out of room to stuff the white stuff.

Shaky camera warning.  

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 05/05/2020 at 11:48

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The price seems very reasonable. Just cut some saw-teeth on the edges of the augers and put some expanded steel grate over the windows... 

WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI > Nom De Plume 05/05/2020 at 11:50

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There are a lot of downsides to living in an apartment, shoveling snow is not one of them.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > user314 05/05/2020 at 12:48

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 Is that a mad Max thing?

user314 > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/05/2020 at 12:59

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Yeah, Fury Road.

zipfuel > WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI 05/05/2020 at 21:34

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I miss the days of lying cosy in bed early in the morning listening to a pickup truck full of Russian (maybe) dudes plow a path to my covered parking spot.

AdverseMartyr > WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI 05/06/2020 at 08:17

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Imagine the HOA violation write-ups.