Oshkosh trucks are heavy duty pieces that have been serving in municipal, military, and other hardcore roles for decades. They aren’t built for style and they aren’t built for tricky innovations, they are built to do whatever they were designed to do and to do it well. In this case we have a heavy duty Oshkosh dump truck that has a big V-plow and some wing plows opening open a road that appears to be atop Mt Kilimanjaro or some other such exotic location. When the video stars you can see the truck making a run at a snow bank that looks to have stopped it before. Once the big orange Oshkosh busts through that, the driver stands on the throttle and the big inliner diesel engines makes that awesome noise that only its can when it is really working as hard as it can. The truck does not belch smoke but there’s enough soot coming out of the pipe along with the sound to let you know that this is no easy task.
Hey, I know that I have been fixated on snow plowing videos this winter but what the heck else can I think about with snow banks at my driveway that are 8-10′ tall and a hometown that looks like something in a snow globe. You cannot drive 15 feet around here without seeing a loader, road grader, or other piece of similarly heavy equipment moving the white stuff up, back, or away before the next storm hits. My kids are living in a heavy equipment fantasy land this winter and the rest of us are just living in a land of fantasy and pretending that we live somewhere else!
Back to the truck. If you are into this type of stuff, you’ll appreciate the video because if you dig big trucks and equipment, the real fun is watching them do what the engineers intended them to do. In the case of this Oshkosh it was to slowly and methodically plod through snow that would swallow lesser trucks whole.
What a beast! I could watch this all day.
The only thing that could of made that video better is the truck having a 2 stroke Detroit screaming at full tilt
My dad ran an Oshkosh snow plow in the 70s that was similar . His was 6 wheel drive with a 10 ft v blade and the same wing blase set up. Instead of a box full of snow , his had an inclosed box full of parking lot curbs. I remember going on rides with him and that truck could easily push through snow that was over the v blade and the big Cummins would just roar- pretty exiting stuff for an eight year old!