Category Archive: BangShift XL, Videos, XL Videos
Rise, Lazarus: Waking Up A Detroit Diesel 8V71 For A Dodge D900 Project
I’ve become addicted to the Bus Grease Monkey channel on YouTube. We’ve shown you his handiwork before…this is the guy that wakes up old GM buses and gets them back on the road. The...
Just A Hop And A Skip: STOL Competition From Valdez, Alaska!
For those that don’t know, for a few months I attempted to get my pilot’s license back in 2011. Several days a week for six months, I was in a Cessna 172 Skyhawk trying to learn the...
GLORIOUS: We Found Video Of A 6V53 Detroit Diesel Powered T-Bucket! Burns Tires In ALL Gears!
Chad hates every T-bucket has has ever seen, but if he lays eyes on this one and doesn’t like it we’re going to cal him out as being un-American because this one is beyond reproach! This...
Classic YouTube: Tractor Pull Carnage from The Class Of 2015
Pitting a stout truck against the best the weight sled has to offer will result in mechanical carnage. It’s an inevitability…pulling the sled is the ultimate test of the durability of...
Then Vs. Now: Putting The Very First Cummins Ram Against The Latest
I’ll be the first in line to say that trucks of the last two decades are both leaps and bounds over their older forms, and yet somehow are worse in many, many regards. We certainly are not...
Video: Ride With And Watch Mike Ryan Attack The 2013 Pikes Peak Hill Climb In A Freightliner – Insanity!
Mike Ryan and his brutal Freightliner truck are no strangers to the electronic pages of BangShift. We have showed this thing in videos, Chad has written about riding in it, and we’ve...
Morning Symphony: This Gillig Is The Sound Of Elementary School Days Gone By
While I don’t really want to think about it, I’m creeping up on the 20th anniversary of graduating high school. It’s a strange thought…you don’t think it’s been...
Video: Extreme Rail Biking Looks Both Amazing and Terrifying At The Same Time – Check This Out!
(By Greg Rourke) – Here we have something that’s a but quieter and a lot less powerful than what is usually found on these hallowed pages…extreme rail biking. Bicycling on former...
Watch An Idiot Truck Driver Destroy A New Holland Tractor And Nearly Kill The Farmer Inside
Anyone who has ever lived or driven through a rural area dominated by farms has no doubt had to pass a farm tractor at some point in their travels. Yes, tractors are large and lumbering machines that...
Weird Science: Watch This Guy Fire Up A Small Engine Topped With A Wooden Cylinder Head!
Sometimes curiosity gets the best of people and drives them to do stuff that may not exactly advance the collective knowledge of humanity but it does make for interesting stuff. Case in point is the...
Time Travel Video: Enjoy This Fantastic Look At 1980s Monster Truck Action
If you were a kid in the 1980s and you are now a regular reader of BangShift.com, chances are you were into monster trucks. Those trucks were nothing like the race machines of today, nope, they were...
Video: Watch This Ancient Holt Crawler Tractor Plow A Field – The Real Story Is How A Guy Hand Built The Thing From Scratch In His Shop!
There are projects and builds that we have seem and had our breath taken away by but when you think about Don Hunter’s incredible construction of a turn of the century Holt crawler tractor from...
Watching A Locomotive Pull A Stuck Excavator Out Of The Muck Is Strangely Awesome
Sometimes the place you are working makes for strange bedfellows. In this case we see a railroad crew trying to free a decent sized excavator that is hopelessly buried in the mud beside a track....
Watch This John Deere Pro Stock Pulling Tractor Make A Pull On A Hub Dyno
Hub dynamometers are awesome machines that have gained lots of traction (no pun intended) in the USA recently. They have been seemingly more popular in other parts of the world but we know of at...