Hank, the FWD trucks are made in Clintonville, WI. They are now under the name of Seagrave, and they are primarily making firetrucks. I grew up in Clintonville and the high school there is named Clintonville Truckers. This is cool seeing some history.
Good job, guys! Y’all boys are gettin good at this will it start lol. Keep up the good work boys. We’ll catch you on the next one! Thanks for sharing!!
I always admire from a far when I see father and son being able to be in the same vicinity let alone get along😂 wished me and my dad could get along and work on things.
Gotta love that sound! The sound of POWER! This is the first time I've ever seen an FWD. They kinda remind me of a Ford in some ways. Like an old 900 from that same era. Great job as always guys!! 😎👍
I live in Minnesota and a retired city employee. We had several cab over FWD's that were used when we bought them and we used them for snow plowing streets. Still have two i think they are about 1970,s. They were once plow trucks at the Minneapolis International Airport and were in the movie AIRPORT. The two left are used as large snow blowers and run great and have Cummins power plants and Allison auto trannys
I was employed by the old SCL railroad and was involved in clearing a train wreck when a couple of other employees from another shop location arrived to assist. They were in a FWD. I've looked on line but haven't been able to find anything like the truck they had. It was similar in size to let's say a Ford F-250. What power that truck had. They were able to use it along with it's winch to pull several railcar truck assemblies from the heavily damaged roadbed. Just a pure, tough and powerful work truck.
The Four Wheel Drive Auto Company, more often known as Four Wheel Drive (FWD), was a pioneering American company that developed and produced all-wheel drive vehicles. It was founded in 1909 in Clintonville, Wisconsin, as the Badger Four-Wheel Drive Auto Company by Otto Zachow and William Besserdich.[1] The first production facility was built in 1911 and was designed by architect Wallace W. DeLong of Appleton, Wisconsin.
Hank, it was an all wheel drive probably a cement truck. Rinker Materials had 100s of them thru out Florida back when I was a kid. those extra shifters were for the transfer case.
Nothing sounds better than a Detroit Diesel running in my opinion. They are fun to drive. I really liked the wolf joke 🤣🤣 great job as always good to see you guys out and about
They maybe rare in the south...but up north, those FWD's were trucks that cleared the roads of snow when regular trucks couldn't get out of the driveway. They were beasts and nothing stopped them!!!!
Haven't seen one of those old girls in a minute! I was a Detroit Tech for the Navy back in the day and I drove one of these around constantly at the CB Base. They had a couple of them, 6x6 with a stake body, 6-71 Screamer is one of my Detroit favorites.
This FWD maybe new to you but I first saw a FWD in 1947/8 when my dad had to do a rework on the tranmission to let it travrl at hiway speeds. It was a US Tank carrier, I was an apprenticed shortly afterward. Later I was able to purchase a 1914 X army FWD and I owned it for some 30 years until I had to move house I sold it to the Australian War Memorial in Canberra where it is now on display. A great solid vehicle manufacturay. More history I can send to you if you would like it. Thanks for the memories. Carl, Woy Woy Australia.
I saw a Miller Roughneck welder/generator at 12:59. The rack was free, but you didn't check the injectors. Use a hammer and punch to tap(lightly)the top of the injector. If it's free, you'll see the spring move and the sound is definitely different. Stuck injector will sound pretty much the same as placing the punch on the head and hitting it with a hammer.
I have a 1959 FWD 4-yard dump truck, it's equipped with a 5 speed transmission and a 2 speed transfer box. The engine is a straight six gas International Harvester. I load it with a skid steer but the bucket barely makes it over the side of the bed!
HO-LEY-COW GUYS, THAT WAS A GREAT SHOW. I HAVE-TA ADMIT I STOPPED THE VIDEO TO LOOK UP F W D FIRST TO SEE WHAT A WHOLE TRUCK LOOKED LIKE. WHAT A BEAUTIFUL VEHICLE! THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKIN' BOUT... YOU GOT-ER GOIN', THAT'S GREAT! WOW, THAT TRUCK WHOLE, WOULD MAKE ME A SUPERSTAR HERE IN CREEL CHIHUAHUA, MEXICO!!! IF I EVER FIND ONE IN GOOD SHAPE, I'M GONNA CALL IT, " DON'T BECOME WILEY HANK " OR SOMETHIN' LIKE THAT... WOW NOTHIN' BETTER THAN A F.W.D. ESPECIALLY HERE, IT'S ALL ABOUT F.W.D. STAY COOL, ALWAYS... PEACE...
Back years I worked in a wrecking company. The oldest wrecker was a FWD, former military wrecker. Had a Detroit, no turbo and winches front and rear. When the modern wreckers had to give in on a job the FWD was brought back to life and it never failed to do the job. Normaly it would take for ever to get to the accident 'cause the beast was far from fast on the road. But it never failed us!
I put a 2-53 Detroit on my 10 bandit chipper and it's a beast for being from the sixties and only 2 cylinders. Found the chipper in a field with a locked up motor so found the cheapest motor I could find and it's been kicking butt for 2yrs now.
My first time watching any of your videos. Love it. The first thing that I would have to do to any old engine or anything else would be to doctor the wasp stings.
Yes !!! I remember we had those FWD's when I hired into SCE. 1981. We also had a 1948 International which was our wire pulling truck for when I was building tower lines.
Man, that thing sounds sweet! Sitting for know how long and it lights up as if parked yesterday- I didn´t even see starter can and on one battery- I can see now why the guy hung on to this half of the truck. When the chassis is too far gone at least You get a decent engine. Merry Christmas, Guys!
FWD used to be the Badger FWD company. They made the first fwd car in 1908. Still around as it was at a Wisconsin car show a few years ago. They were a major supplier of WW1 trucks. Last I knew there was one of their early trucks at the Walcott I80 truck museum at the truck stop. Some of the original guys had a management dispute, they left and formed Oshkosh.
I grew up across the street from a cement block factory in central Florida...in the 60's and early 70's they used only FWDs to haul the finished blocks; they were equipped with air starts. every morning those air starters would wake me up. After my tour in the Navy I went to work in Oregon in the late 80s and in the Logging business and they had tons of FWDs...very strong and tough.
Im ole fla boy to saw lot of ole orange ready mix trks in ormond bch run ole fwd they got in and out in the sand cause Detroit's were lower power than trks with bigger engines we ran lot of dump truck with Detroit in them
When I was a teenager, I worked at a wrecking yard here in east Texas where i live. We had one of those trucks that had been rolled. They sold it to a company down at Houston. They cut the top off and drove it from the Texas Louisiana border to Houston.
i had to pick up my Timberland 6" Pitboss because those Georgia boots you have on are super close in design and construction. i may have to look into trying a pair out since the ones i have seem to be getting phased out. if they're anywhere near as comfortable as these then hell!
Reminds me of the old Oshkosh 6wd trucks.. I used to work for a company that had one they used for a concrete truck and the other was a boom truck used for delivering and setting septic tanks..
The 6V71 Detroit was very familiar to me, we had them in buses built by Bombardier of Canada, all that could be said about ours was they were noisy. One was sent as a demo to Baghdad, probably the only time their faults were a positive. You seem to get on great with the old 671 over there
I remember back in early seventies Graves Truck Lines had these an ran them as city pick up trucks. Brings back memories also that 671 was an easy start they are usually a bear to get primed after sitting. They don't make great sounding underpowered motors like the old 2 stroke Detroit Great will it start 👍👍
I was going to say the same, I drove a 78 White Road Boss with a 318 Detroit in it years ago. Everybody loves the sound of a Detroit but they were dogs for the most part. Loud and underpowered.
Love Detroits. That pull handle above the key could be the engine shut down. Many of the Detroits I operate have a physical pull for shutting of the fuel.
Good to check that rack I also when fooling with two stokers is a have a large CO2 fire extinguisher to just in case shoot into the air intake to kill it with out damage .
my first pair of fire boots were georgia boots, non steel toe cause ya cant have steel toe on the fire line, still got em to but cant fit em anymore but well used an many pairs of soles gone though
There's one of these near my mother's house that's a cement truck. I can hear it coming from a mile away. There's also a few around the marinas for moving the larger boats around. Tons of Detroits still around, in trucks, construction equipment, and in boats too.
Won't start that easy any more if this guy gets it. You never let air in the fuel system on purpose just to shut it down. Hard to watch that part and the waisted giant zip tie.
Make sure there's power to the coil from the battery.Then a wire coming out the other side going to the distributor. Put a new set of points and condenser in it. The condenser is pretty much a sure bet to be bad. Make sure the carb is clean, and set the mixture screw about 1 1/2 turns out from seat. That should get you close enough to light er up
My Uncle, up in Thunder Bay, Ontario (at the top of Lake Superior-known as "The Lakehead") Canada, owned and operated a FWD & an Oshkosh 4x4 Plow Trucks; under contract with the Ontario Provincial Minister of Transport (MTO). The FWD , I believe, had a International "Red Diamond" gas engine under the hood. It would have been an early 1960's model. The Oshkosh was a late 1960's model with a 290(?) Cummins diesel mated to a 5x2 Spd trans. The Oshkosh had single "grader" tires on each axle. The Oshkosh has been used for plowing gravel roads, up until a few years ago. the FWD hasn't been operated for over 20 years.
When I was a child the state road (DOH) in West Virginia had a FWD that was a snow plow. That was a really cool truck, it would go when the other snow plows couldn't.
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Hank, the FWD trucks are made in Clintonville, WI. They are now under the name of Seagrave, and they are primarily making firetrucks. I grew up in Clintonville and the high school there is named Clintonville Truckers. This is cool seeing some history.
I recognize the Sea Grave apparatus name
Yep, I grew up in Shawano, right next to Clintonville, had friends that worked there, these drivetrains were almost indestructible really good truck
I drove a 1974 fwd redi mix truck with a big 6 cylinder continental engine
Zshould be a air shutoff on the air intake
Good job, guys! Y’all boys are gettin good at this will it start lol. Keep up the good work boys. We’ll catch you on the next one! Thanks for sharing!!
I always admire from a far when I see father and son being able to be in the same vicinity let alone get along😂
wished me and my dad could get along and work on things.
Man if Hank saw this comment calling Wiley his daddy......
@@ripstephenhawking8787 they look alike lmao
Gotta love that sound! The sound of POWER! This is the first time I've ever seen an FWD. They kinda remind me of a Ford in some ways. Like an old 900 from that same era. Great job as always guys!! 😎👍
FWD (Four Wheel Drive) used cabs from other manufacturers. Most of the time the front clip was their own. IH was used as well as Dodge and Ford.
I live in Minnesota and a retired city employee. We had several cab over FWD's that were used when we bought them and we used them for snow plowing streets. Still have two i think they are about 1970,s. They were once plow trucks at the Minneapolis International Airport and were in the movie AIRPORT. The two left are used as large snow blowers and run great and have Cummins power plants and Allison auto trannys
I was employed by the old SCL railroad and was involved in clearing a train wreck when a couple of other employees from another shop location arrived to assist. They were in a FWD. I've looked on line but haven't been able to find anything like the truck they had. It was similar in size to let's say a Ford F-250. What power that truck had. They were able to use it along with it's winch to pull several railcar truck assemblies from the heavily damaged roadbed. Just a pure, tough and powerful work truck.
The Four Wheel Drive Auto Company, more often known as Four Wheel Drive (FWD), was a pioneering American company that developed and produced all-wheel drive vehicles. It was founded in 1909 in Clintonville, Wisconsin, as the Badger Four-Wheel Drive Auto Company by Otto Zachow and William Besserdich.[1] The first production facility was built in 1911 and was designed by architect Wallace W. DeLong of Appleton, Wisconsin.
Thanks!
You bet! Thank you sir
I Love Mechanic's Banter, It always follows the same patterns, no matter what you work on.
Boy what a sweet old rig! Sounded so good when she roared to life and that turbo started whining.. love to get this one back into action! 😁👍🇦🇺
Thank you wiley for checking that rack first! I have seen them Detroits run away and it's not fun!
Hank, it was an all wheel drive probably a cement truck. Rinker Materials had 100s of them thru out Florida back when I was a kid. those extra shifters were for the transfer case.
Rodger that brother rinker had a bunch theyd go anywhere
Nothing sounds better than a Detroit Diesel running in my opinion. They are fun to drive. I really liked the wolf joke 🤣🤣 great job as always good to see you guys out and about
Nice easy one cant beat an old Detroit ,and only one Dad joke Hank your slipping look on Wileys face is priceless
Kym
Adelaide
They maybe rare in the south...but up north, those FWD's were trucks that cleared the roads of snow when regular trucks couldn't get out of the driveway. They were beasts and nothing stopped them!!!!
Actually I think Wisconsin highway department still has some, they still have Flintstone mack DMs but I think I saw some FWDs in the distance plowing
Yup, did that in northern Canada.
Hank, keep up the hard work! really enjoy the videos! you should get ya a ice machine for the farm
Thanks for taking us along.Another great video.
Haven't seen one of those old girls in a minute! I was a Detroit Tech for the Navy back in the day and I drove one of these around constantly at the CB Base. They had a couple of them, 6x6 with a stake body, 6-71 Screamer is one of my Detroit favorites.
This FWD maybe new to you but I first saw a FWD in 1947/8 when my dad had to do a rework on the tranmission to let it travrl at hiway speeds. It was a US Tank carrier, I was an apprenticed shortly afterward. Later I was able to purchase a 1914 X army FWD and I owned it for some 30 years until I had to move house I sold it to the Australian War Memorial in Canberra where it is now on display. A great solid vehicle manufacturay.
More history I can send to you if you would like it. Thanks for the memories. Carl, Woy Woy Australia.
I saw a Miller Roughneck welder/generator at 12:59.
The rack was free, but you didn't check the injectors. Use a hammer and punch to tap(lightly)the top of the injector. If it's free, you'll see the spring move and the sound is definitely different. Stuck injector will sound pretty much the same as placing the punch on the head and hitting it with a hammer.
It's a blessing and a curse having a good amount of tools, speend so much frustrating time chasing tools you know you have.
I have a 1959 FWD 4-yard dump truck, it's equipped with a 5 speed transmission and a 2 speed transfer box. The engine is a straight six gas International Harvester. I load it with a skid steer but the bucket barely makes it over the side of the bed!
I bet that’s the best treatment you and Wiley have ever had, mowed grass, fan and great conversation with frank
I have that same ice chest, except it holds beer better than water. I use 4 beers to 1 water. Ice chest seems to be much happier that way !!
Too easy. Glad to see you and your Dad getting along better.
😂
Glad you and Wiley got it going that screaming demon shore did sound good thanks guys
Love your service truck.
Great will it start video thanks Hank and Wylie
HO-LEY-COW GUYS, THAT WAS A GREAT SHOW. I HAVE-TA ADMIT I STOPPED THE VIDEO TO LOOK UP F W D FIRST TO SEE WHAT A WHOLE TRUCK LOOKED LIKE. WHAT A BEAUTIFUL VEHICLE! THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKIN' BOUT... YOU GOT-ER GOIN', THAT'S GREAT! WOW, THAT TRUCK WHOLE, WOULD MAKE ME A SUPERSTAR HERE IN CREEL CHIHUAHUA, MEXICO!!! IF I EVER FIND ONE IN GOOD SHAPE, I'M GONNA CALL IT, " DON'T BECOME WILEY HANK " OR SOMETHIN' LIKE THAT... WOW NOTHIN' BETTER THAN A F.W.D. ESPECIALLY HERE, IT'S ALL ABOUT F.W.D. STAY COOL, ALWAYS... PEACE...
That ole girl started up real nice 😉. Thanks 👍 for sharing.
Back years I worked in a wrecking company. The oldest wrecker was a FWD, former military wrecker. Had a Detroit, no turbo and winches front and rear. When the modern wreckers had to give in on a job the FWD was brought back to life and it never failed to do the job. Normaly it would take for ever to get to the accident 'cause the beast was far from fast on the road. But it never failed us!
I put a 2-53 Detroit on my 10 bandit chipper and it's a beast for being from the sixties and only 2 cylinders. Found the chipper in a field with a locked up motor so found the cheapest motor I could find and it's been kicking butt for 2yrs now.
🎉 thanks for the video guys preciate it🎉...JJ.. Jonjon...😊
Very good job and God bless y'all
My first time watching any of your videos. Love it. The first thing that I would have to do to any old engine or anything else would be to doctor the wasp stings.
Yes !!! I remember we had those FWD's when I hired into SCE. 1981.
We also had a 1948 International which was our wire pulling truck for when I was building tower lines.
Man, that thing sounds sweet! Sitting for know how long and it lights up as if parked yesterday- I didn´t even see starter can and on one battery- I can see now why the guy hung on to this half of the truck.
When the chassis is too far gone at least You get a decent engine. Merry Christmas, Guys!
Another Great video guys, You rock Detroit City style.
Good Evening Gentlemen , it is 6:17 pm on 9/5/23 here in AZ, have a great day today and be safe !
FWD used to be the Badger FWD company. They made the first fwd car in 1908. Still around as it was at a Wisconsin car show a few years ago. They were a major supplier of WW1 trucks. Last I knew there was one of their early trucks at the Walcott I80 truck museum at the truck stop. Some of the original guys had a management dispute, they left and formed Oshkosh.
FWD pioneered the 4 wheel drive, Oshkosh stole there engineering & put FWD out.
I grew up across the street from a cement block factory in central Florida...in the 60's and early 70's they used only FWDs to haul the finished blocks; they were equipped with air starts. every morning those air starters would wake me up. After my tour in the Navy I went to work in Oregon in the late 80s and in the Logging business and they had tons of FWDs...very strong and tough.
Im ole fla boy to saw lot of ole orange ready mix trks in ormond bch run ole fwd they got in and out in the sand cause Detroit's were lower power than trks with bigger engines we ran lot of dump truck with Detroit in them
Great video, I did see something I'd like to have and that was the grasshopper lawnmower that y'all walked by. Keep up the great videos
My hometown here in Norway had several FWD trucks here from 1918 to the 60s, including a firetruck. There was also some with normal bed.
When I was a teenager, I worked at a wrecking yard here in east Texas where i live. We had one of those trucks that had been rolled. They sold it to a company down at Houston. They cut the top off and drove it from the Texas Louisiana border to Houston.
Hank, you and Wiley are makin these will start videos look to easy. Of course, that's what professionals do awesome video buddy 👍
Thanks 👍
i had to pick up my Timberland 6" Pitboss because those Georgia boots you have on are super close in design and construction. i may have to look into trying a pair out since the ones i have seem to be getting phased out. if they're anywhere near as comfortable as these then hell!
Reminds me of the old Oshkosh 6wd trucks.. I used to work for a company that had one they used for a concrete truck and the other was a boom truck used for delivering and setting septic tanks..
awesome Job guys take care and God bless 🙏🙏
The 6V71 Detroit was very familiar to me, we had them in buses built by Bombardier of Canada, all that could be said about ours was they were noisy. One was sent as a demo to Baghdad, probably the only time their faults were a positive. You seem to get on great with the old 671 over there
Great video you guys! Always fun watching you start those old engines.
*Keep on tractoring!*
Die schönen Bagerlader rosten vor sich hin, da blutet mein ❤
Great video guys!, thanks for posting! Another like!…👍🏼
I love seeing behind the scenes :-) can we watch you eat with Wiley LOL 🙂
I remember back in early seventies Graves Truck Lines had these an ran them as city pick up trucks. Brings back memories also that 671 was an easy start they are usually a bear to get primed after sitting. They don't make great sounding underpowered motors like the old 2 stroke Detroit Great will it start 👍👍
I was going to say the same, I drove a 78 White Road Boss with a 318 Detroit in it years ago. Everybody loves the sound of a Detroit but they were dogs for the most part. Loud and underpowered.
Love Detroits. That pull handle above the key could be the engine shut down. Many of the Detroits I operate have a physical pull for shutting of the fuel.
Good to check that rack I also when fooling with two stokers is a have a large CO2 fire extinguisher to just in case shoot into the air intake to kill it with out damage .
You need to be putting vice grips on all those racks on any Detroit you try and start!!!
Another great video! Never seen a turbocharged 6-71 before!
6-71T 300hp
Great job guys‼️ Love the channel. 💥💯
hi ! Wally y're the best inginer u Always do good job . i wish the best of the best
That sounded pretty good!
Aww man any nothing that burns fuel sounds like a Detroit Diesel! Like that contact truck you got there’s very nice and professional looking Ram!
You 2 are a mess!! God Bless y'all and stay safe!! Great job and video Hank!!
build a frame for this sucker it wants to live! dint want to stop running either such a happy machine i love the sound of two stroke detroit diesels!
Great job God bless
Hank and wiley that was an amazing video 😊
Love hearing them old engine's purr
god i love the sound of detroits makes me think back to my FD days most of our trucks at the time had 6v and 8v units
Worked on quit a few of those 671 GM generators, all of them in Telco offices, good old engines.
I have driven a transit mix truck that was a fwd.thanks 😊
You goofed, Hank. That’s an alternator, not a starter. LOL!
The town of Washington New Hampshire had one ,FWD, in the late fifties. Used it for road work and snow plowing.
my first pair of fire boots were georgia boots, non steel toe cause ya cant have steel toe on the fire line, still got em to but cant fit em anymore but well used an many pairs of soles gone though
There's one of these near my mother's house that's a cement truck. I can hear it coming from a mile away. There's also a few around the marinas for moving the larger boats around. Tons of Detroits still around, in trucks, construction equipment, and in boats too.
Does that old fella live back in there with that camper and all that other stuff? Wow!
I really love that fan. We have 3 in the family. Mine is blowing air conditioner towards me now.
Why pull the fuel, the governor has kill lever tight next to the throttle lever guys.
OMG wiley wow hit hard with the first one
Gm engineering still going strong!
Got one aross the street with winch truck flatbed still runs wich works 2 ton FWD
Back in the early 80s the city of Nashua NH used to still plow snow with fwd trucks
Runs like it just came off the line. These were great motors.
Nice engine surprised it started so easy on 1 battery. One of the easiest starts for a while.
Won't start that easy any more if this guy gets it. You never let air in the fuel system on purpose just to shut it down. Hard to watch that part and the waisted giant zip tie.
Great job
sounds strong and good
Fwd was popular in the north east for cement mixers,snow plow trucks and truck mounted cranes
Well done👌👌👌
Make sure there's power to the coil from the battery.Then a wire coming out the other side going to the distributor. Put a new set of points and condenser in it. The condenser is pretty much a sure bet to be bad. Make sure the carb is clean, and set the mixture screw about 1 1/2 turns out from seat. That should get you close enough to light er up
I owned a F W D road maintenance unit. It had a 6cyl gas eng. was all wheel drive dump truck with a road grader style blade mounted under the chassis.
I just retired last October 42 years trucking I never saw one of those or even herd of FWD but it would make sense that Oshkosh is the manufacturer!!
My Uncle, up in Thunder Bay, Ontario (at the top of Lake Superior-known as "The Lakehead") Canada, owned and operated a FWD & an Oshkosh 4x4 Plow Trucks; under contract with the Ontario Provincial Minister of Transport (MTO). The FWD , I believe, had a International "Red Diamond" gas engine under the hood. It would have been an early 1960's model. The Oshkosh was a late 1960's model with a 290(?) Cummins diesel mated to a 5x2 Spd trans. The Oshkosh had single "grader" tires on each axle. The Oshkosh has been used for plowing gravel roads, up until a few years ago. the FWD hasn't been operated for over 20 years.
What a sweet sound.
The other sticks were for the transfer case... 2x4/4x4 on one stick and HI and LOW on the other. One may have been a PTO drive.
Wow,haven’t tuned in to your channel for a hot minute,see you got a nice new(er) service truck.It’s a beauty!
Plenty of FWD and CCC trucks in Texas and New Mexico. Mostly used in the oilfield.
When I was a child the state road (DOH) in West Virginia had a FWD that was a snow plow. That was a really cool truck, it would go when the other snow plows couldn't.
Our county road commission (Delta county, Michigan) uses all FWD trucks for snow removal.
we had one at the county road dept with a snow plow, drove it a lot, ours was 1967 i believe .
Col.Hank and Dr.Wiley in the house!