Category Archive: BangShift XL, XL Videos
Classic YouTube: The B-52H That Flew For Five Hours After It’s Vertical Stabilizer Was Torn Off!
Nov 04, 2019Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Classic YouTube: The B-52H That Flew For Five Hours After It’s Vertical Stabilizer Was Torn Off!
The Boeing B-52 might be the most solid investment of any Air Force aircraft out there, with the design expected to remain in service far longer than even the most optimistic engineer might have...
LIVE Diesel Drags, Dirt Drags, Dyno Competition And Sled Pulls! Watch Right Here.
Nov 03, 2019Chad Reynolds1
The Smoke and Speed King of the Street Challenge 2019 is underway LIVE at Dragway 42 in Ohio and this event has got it all. If you are into diesel powered machines then you’ll find a lot to...
Crankin’ Away: Waking Up A Minneapolis Moline M602 From It’s Long Sleep!
Nov 02, 2019Bryan McTaggart4
If you have never, ever driven a tractor…no, not a lawn tractor, we’re talking the real-deal, hay-cutting, bush hogging, lump of iron and steel that will drag a plow, tow a trailer around...
Flames Up Video! This Look Back At Craziness During The 2019 Pulling Season is Truly Awesome
Oct 30, 2019Brian Lohnes1
This is not exactly what you’d call a “best of” video. Instead you’d call it a “bucks up” video because everyone featured in it had to lay down some seriously...
Random Vehicle Review: The Boeing 929 – When Passenger Jet and Passenger Ferry Collide
Oct 28, 2019Bryan McTaggart3
Say “Boeing” and the first image in your head is probably the 747 jumbo airliner, complete with it’s distinctive hump, or any of the other passenger planes that the company has...
Caspian Mud Monster: This UAZ Is Now A Swamp Beast!
Oct 28, 2019Bryan McTaggart2
It’s a real-world, full-size version of a Stompers toy. How else do you describe this thing? The tires are five and a half feet tall, the axles are from a GAZ 66 military truck, and the whole...
Heavy Duty Engine Swap: Shoving A Dodge’s Cummins Into A Komatsu Bulldozer!
Oct 27, 2019Bryan McTaggart3
When Dodge started jamming in six-cylinder Cummins diesel engines into Ram pickup trucks, they figured out the first step in revitalizing a lineup that hadn’t seen a freshening since 1981 and a...
Ripping It Up: Speed Plowing With A John Deere In Sweden!
Oct 25, 2019Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Ripping It Up: Speed Plowing With A John Deere In Sweden!
I’d like to say that the strong, powerful engine noise that has been prominent around BangShift Mid-West has been due to yours truly. But it’s not. It’s not even due to the...
Awesome Watch: Monument To A Dream – A 1960s Documentary About Building The Gateway Arch
Oct 24, 2019Brian LohnesComments Off on Awesome Watch: Monument To A Dream – A 1960s Documentary About Building The Gateway Arch
Today we revel in seeing things get conceived and built that no one dreamed possible in the past. Well, imagine the thrill for people more than 50 years ago when the 630-ft Gateway Arch was...
Jumping’ Stuff: This Compilation Of Truck Jumps Ranges From The Stupid To The Stupendous!
Oct 24, 2019Brian Lohnes1
Jumping a car or a truck is one of those borderline stupid activities that makes being a geared truly fun. We’ve all done it in some shape or fashion whether it be taking a hump in the road...
HALT: Panic-Stopping Heavy Wheeled Vehicles (Plus Gratuitous Tank Crushing Footage Inside!)
Oct 23, 2019Bryan McTaggartComments Off on HALT: Panic-Stopping Heavy Wheeled Vehicles (Plus Gratuitous Tank Crushing Footage Inside!)
Consider this video a three-in-one special, because that’s what you will get. Three different sections, all involving big machinery. We like our smaller, sporty machines just fine, but there is...
Morning Symphony: Saturn V Launch, Pure Audio Only
Oct 22, 2019Bryan McTaggart3
If you have never crossed into Alabama from Tennessee on Interstate 65, then you haven’t seen Alabama’s greeting to visitors. It’s a 224-foot-tall Saturn 1B rocket, the real thing....
KITT’s Hidden Mode: Watch This Firebird Mud Bogger Get Down!
Oct 20, 2019Bryan McTaggart1
The running joke about third-generation F-bodies is that they belong in the realm of the redneck and the mullet-wearing 1980s throwback. They don’t. They were GM’s power re-awakening,...
Watching The Restoration Of This 1940s Era Craftsmen Bench Top Metal Lathe Is Awesome!
Oct 16, 2019Brian Lohnes1
There are few things more satisfying to us than seeing cool restoration videos. We have showed you various tools, cars, components, and other stuff being remediated over the last few years but this...






