Here’s some info I found: “The PPT, short for PassePartout, was a tracked skid-steer ATV made by Valquentin Industries LTD in Edmonton, Alberta Canada. It was a competitor to the Cushman Trackster.” Apparently they were made between the 1960s and 1970s Information is a bit vague on them, but I believe the version you have here is called the “Model 171”
Great revival. Pronounced "pass par too" means "master key" or "skeleton key" in French. I think they were built in Quebec, and later in Alberta Canada.
Our neighbor had an ice boat homemade made with a gigantic. 1930s radial engine he'd crank it up and roar the whole block out. Also a ham operator had numerous boats and stuff his employee number at GM PLANT WAS 94. OUT OF THOUSANDS
When we tore down the old barn on the property, we pulled all the nails we could. Anything potentially salvageable in terms of nails my dad made me straighten on a piece of old railroad rail he had. I spent hours straightening nails. Decades later, we are putting him in assisted living and I ran into the old coffee cans of nails I straightened in the shed. All rusted (more than they were) and never used. He never could throw things away.
@@thezfunk the local junkyard in town would sell a person a rusty coffee can full of bent nails. i didn't even know stores would sell you NEW ones. dad was that cheap. i spent many an afternoon straightening nails on a concrete block.
Grand father made me straighten nails as kid. For my derby cars and ramps. Purple finger nails are very rare for me over the years. Metals shop in high school i had the straightest chisel and no hammer marks. Of course we couldnt remember how hot before the dunk?? Glowing orange😂 straight an clean still didn't pass the test. Still have chisel tho, chipped hairline crak ans scales. 30years later. These vids remind of hanging in the shop with grandpa as kid
As someone who isn't exactly a handy andy, I love these videos and I agree, how does this channel only have 136k subscribers! The sarcasm is fantastic to😂
@@bigmacmach1185 Well, at the time of his last video before this one, he only had 134k subscribers. His numbers have gone from 118k to 136k in the short time I have known about his channel.
When you were testing in your yard, I was half expecting a wide shot showing every kid in town looking through your fence wanting a go! Man I wish I had a little tank for my backyard. Living the dream!
That was the first thing that popped in my head when I saw the name ,but I didn't know it meant "goes everywhere " thanks for the info on one of my favorite childhood reads.
'Little Tank' is alive..!!! I'm really glad that short-tracking issue doesn't interfere noticeably with track speed and therefore steering. Now you just need to do a beige and green paint job to match your halftrack winebago project and you've got a set!
I enjoyed the whole story, what a cool project! That's real recycling, not buying anything new whatsoever. And you picking up some rubbish in the end really made me smile :-) Thanks for your work!
Since watching this guy any time I see free or in a scrap bin if I can’t make it work I salvage the parts stop throwing stuff away there is some one who can fix it
You have to genuinely be one of the greatest people on youtube and in life you actually inspire me to do things with all the great crap I've saved for no reason and your smart but just explain it in a way that makes it fun and entertaining to watch and learn new ways to do things thank you
James, you are a lucky man and we are privileged to have someone like you sharing these videos with us as is already as usual. Thank you and greetings Rob.
Something I realized I love about these videos is that I can never have them as a "second monitor." Every bit of them is concise and direct, and interesting the whole way through, such that if you're not paying attention you'll miss a good part of what's happened. It's very rare to have videos that are so interesting that I make separate time just for them, but I do with these!
My Dad used to sell them back the early 70's at our family's motorcycle / snowmobile shop in Maine . They only sold a few, they were more of a work machine than a recreation ride . We had one kicking around for years that didn't sell so it ended up being used for pulling the trail grooming sled and stuff like that . Cool to see one again I alway's thought it would have been better with 4 stroke power head , the original engines in the ones we had were a CCW 340 ( I think it was a 340 ) . They were HIDEOUSLY loud in stock form and you had to pretty much pin it wide open to pull the trail drag, I eventually rerouted the exhaust through the stock muffler & Car muffler to make it a little quieter ...... I was assigned trail drag duty back then .... So Me and them things have history together . Thanks for the Vid & dredging up some fun old memories . It seems you like projects ... Check out our Hydro Dam project fresh episode just dropped last night !
It always amazes me the projects you come up with!!! I’m like you in that I save things for projects. My wife says “get rid of that s-t”! When I tell her it’s for a project, she says “what project”, I say don’t have one yet!! GREAT VIDEO!!!!
This is a man after my own heart. Very practical, logical thought process, paired with easy to understand explaination of everything done. Backyard engineering at it's finest. Well done sir, well done.
When I was a boy, my Dad had an Allis Chalmers Terra Tiger. It was a 6 x 6 wheel drive that had skid steering like the machine in this video. The only suspension was the tires, which only had about 5 or 6 psi in them. It was powered by a 2 cycle, single cylinder JLO engine that made a whopping 18 HP. Because there was no suspension, the drive axels were sealed from the hull making it amphibious. It was incredibly slow in the water as the only propulsion was the tread on the wheels. It was a pretty capable off road vehicle, but I do remember going into swamps and having to get out and push it out on the other side, as the front wheels wouldn't have enough traction in the mud and the middle and back ones where still floating in the water.
I'm so grateful to have found your channel randomly one night a few months back, and have been an avid fan from the get go. I work in IT, the cutting edge of technology and it really brings me so much joy to watch a guy use rust as locktite. All the while doing it scientifically, measuring it with a torque wrench. You sir, are a genious. Please keep making videos forever. Much love from Sweden!
That thing is totally badass! This is what TH-cam is still good for...Watching people design/build/repair really awesome stuff like this! You just won my subscription!
Man the rubber in those tracks is beyond impressive! Just threw on some work boots that are about 2 years old didnt make it 20 steps before the right track blew out
"Some day I'll get around to cleaning.........but it's not very much fun." DAMN RIGHT! Cleaning and organizing cuts way too much into my tinkering time and I barely have enough time for that. I love this channel.
The back-yard scientist brother of Ian Roussel. Watching relaxed people far beyond my expertise and patience is like an anti-depresssant. I am a bit jealous, too.
Needs a windshield,headlights and a howitzer and your good.Rust is always a good thread locker,especialy when your trying to get the bolt or nut loose.
My wife and I look forward to your weekly video. My wife thinks you are hilarious, and tells me we could be twins, my by boss has stopped questioning y hairball ideas. I keep things on the Farm running and on a budget. Keep on making these awesome videos
😂. . Man I wish I could find some of these old treasures.... I wanted one of these so bad when I was a kid.... Almost everything you have in that yard I wanted at some point in my childhood ..
So happy to see this running… well done, your Dad is in New England somewhere, I’m in New Hampshire and see these pop up on listings once in awhile for way more than I wanna pay…
Must be amazing to work on a piece that your father worked with as well. Hope there were some good memories flowing in while doing it.Magnificent channel.
Awesome machine Really impressed that the tracks hold up. Only thing remaining, paint in olive drab green and make it a mini tank. Don’t forget to match the air filter housing. Edit: grease the hidden bearings!
What an awesome video! It seems that between James and his dad, they've had pretty much every weird vehicle imaginable about 30 to 50 years back. And it seems they can all still be found in either a desert junkyard, or a forest junkyard. Seriously, there were a whole lot of different types of motorized things for getting around outdoors. Thanks for the adventure!
Love your video ! Close is good enough ! Love it.. My Neighbor Inn Churchill Ont ca. Had one like this called a PlayCat all aluminum it was the most capable snow machine I ever rode in. Not fast but go anywhere. I am 69 yrs old now and was in about grade 5 back then. In the winter he took me for a drive and we went up hill on he frozen road and turned directly to the vertical snowplowed snow bank then climbed straight up the snow bank about 4 feet tall then over and directly DOWN into the deep snow filled ditch almost touching the top of the farmers fiels fence. I was thinking we were stuck so I was ready to climb out and start pushing snow out of the way when Burt Bellbec put his hand on my shoulder to keep me in the machine as he maneuvered completely 180 degrees in the same spot in the snow we sat landed in then climbed directly back up the steep ditch about 8 feet back onto the frozen road again ! I was so impressed ! When we climbed up it felt like we were going to flip over but we did not. For the summer he mounted a outboard motor onto the back because this machine would float like a boat ! Burt was a dedicated hunter fisherman...
I used to love fishing. Trout fishing in a stream was my favorite. After I got hurt my trips stopped. I couldn’t walk the stream or get the only available option for a powerchair the VA issued me. I’ve been dreaming up ideas to make my own all terrain tracked vehicle. I sure as heck can’t afford those expensive tank chairs!! I guess this is very much a good start of a build at the very least!! If I could afford to buy one that is.
Hey Buck thanks for the memory jog, don't quite know how I ended up here but in the early 70's I was working in a shop in Calgary where we fabricated and installed a winter enclosure on several of these PPT's for use by seismic crews in the high arctic. They were indeed originally built in Quebec to compete with the snowmobile market.
Totally agree... the fancier the food, the worse it tastes. Not because of what it is but because it costs more than it's worth... to me. Just wrecks it somehow. And yeah, that feeling when you get a project to the end with nothing but stuff you've already got.... literally priceless :) Almost makes up for the other days... you know, when you know you've got something, spend WAY too long looking for it, give up, buy 2 so you never have to go through that again, and then put the spare away in that perfect spot for it... and right there is the one you remember having. Yeah... The ying/yang of being cheap...
You have more fun than I did as a kid. I think I'll just keep watching your videos. I don't have the inclination of a child any longer but I do enjoy sitting down to watch some good video. This'll do just fine!
I just recently bought a PPT. The engine that was on it came off an old auger, left uncovered for 10-15 years. My trans and clutches were seized solid. My solution was to repower it with a ztr mower power pack. It runs good. It’s faster than most can run. It’ll spin on a dime.
I love your channel and your sense of humour! Keep on keepin' on! Thanks for sharing all of this with us and it feels like you'd be doing this wether you had a TH-cam channel or not! 👍👍
You are a mad scientist for sure. I would call that thing the no snow mobile! Looked like a lot of fun. Pretty amazing that the undercarriage held up so well after sitting for around 30 years.
Great job I love projects like this ones that are fun because you know money just be careful. You keep riding that old girl she will cost you something eventually. I wish you the best It’s awesome to see videos like this please keep them coming Stay safe May your God keep you healthy Be good !
The reason I know that is because I did that...More sincere words were never spoken...Such beautiful skies and weather out there in the Desert...I would;d love to live there sometime...-John
in Quebec french, as far as I know, it means something like all purpose or all weather? been a looooong time.. Passe-Partout I mean... the PPT model ATV is from a long time ago! you can see something like it from Passepartout Model 400 as a search thanks for the fun video!
@@Cnhaddockbrother I appreciate your input but this was made in Edmonton I don’t think they had books there in the early 70s XD (you could be fully right tho, I just have an obligation as I am from BC to make fun of Albertans. :D)
Great video! Just stumbled upon it by chance. Very cool video and awesome that you got it going from stuff you had laying around. Thanks for sharing. Greetings from the Netherlands, Mark
I cannot believe how well those old rubber tracks performed. Amazing that they even stayed together. I hope that behind the scenes you put some grease on those tortured track wheel bearings.
If you ever blow the top end you can take a 440 Rotax cylinders,pistons and heads and put them on ur 300 bottom end just make sure that ur porting lines up, you say impossible well been there done that ! Man now wanna talk about more power and speed lol, and thanks for the walk down memory lane on the fix of the machine, have not seen one of these in over 50 yrs, my grandpa had something similar and that machine could out pull out go anywhere everything but an argo lol well that one is water proof this isn't lol, but anyhow love the video and love the memory walk keep them coming
Back in the 70's we use to pack hundreds of pounds of Dynomite down the subgrade with these things. We used the "stumping powder" to spring large stumps that the D8 wasn't quite strong enough to push. Needless to say these little track machines made being a powder monkey a whole lot more fun.
What a crazy little vehicle, glad it runs again. Would be fun to test this on some other terrain like mud or snow etc. It would also be cool to drive snowmobile trails (with or without snow).
brother and some friends built a big square 4 man for fun with a 3bang2cyk and they used both independent clutch+brakes on the sides AND a three pulley CVT (one source, two slaves in a single loop) and by the time it got to the tracks full throttle on that engine ended up being about 2mph max but it was fun as hell. Ate belts faster than they could pump gas for farmers tho. They got about halfway through sourcing hydrostats to change over when they stopped bothering with it. tbdh, hydraulic drives are the way to go on these little things... set up right the drives last forever and you can then pivot turn etc.
When you are feeling down, the best medicine is watching 1 or 5 of this guys videos
1 or 5, there is no in between 😂
I like the Christmas Waggon family tour and the pressure. Washer that went on fire.. 😎😏
That's going to be FUN in the snow.
Even if you aren't feeling down, I think Mr Low-Buck's videos are a preventative measure. 😊👍
When you are feeling down, get your hand off the goose.
I had so much fun with this video that I showed my wife and she rolled her eyes - that's how good it is.
Best comment award.
My wife loved the snake part. ;)
I got pretty much the same response. I showed her your comment and got an eye roll and a nod. That's a good video.
I just read this whole thread to my wife.. I can't tell you how bad she rolled her frigging eyeballs.
She probably doesn't care for the Three Stooges either. Ha ha ha
"The slippery slope of doing things properly" is my new favorite saying.🤣
I just ignore it😊😊😊
Nah. LS swap.
Doing thing quick and dirty is how you end up paying twice as much and working twice as hard to fix it later.
Its always a trade off and a gamble.
Here’s some info I found:
“The PPT, short for PassePartout, was a tracked skid-steer ATV made by Valquentin Industries LTD in Edmonton, Alberta Canada. It was a competitor to the Cushman Trackster.”
Apparently they were made between the 1960s and 1970s
Information is a bit vague on them, but I believe the version you have here is called the “Model 171”
I appreciate the cool information and the effort you went through to share it!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Passepartout
Search Mudd-ox
i had one it was made by valcartier in quebec the tag on it said
Great revival. Pronounced "pass par too" means "master key" or "skeleton key" in French. I think they were built in Quebec, and later in Alberta Canada.
This dude is like the cool neighbor we all wish we had. Great stuff. 👍
This guy is the cool neighbor I wish I was!!
A father every son needs!
Our neighbor had an ice boat homemade made with a gigantic. 1930s radial engine he'd crank it up and roar the whole block out. Also a ham operator had numerous boats and stuff his employee number at GM PLANT WAS 94. OUT OF THOUSANDS
My god... straightening the stainless screw... my dad would be so proud!!!
When we tore down the old barn on the property, we pulled all the nails we could. Anything potentially salvageable in terms of nails my dad made me straighten on a piece of old railroad rail he had. I spent hours straightening nails. Decades later, we are putting him in assisted living and I ran into the old coffee cans of nails I straightened in the shed. All rusted (more than they were) and never used. He never could throw things away.
@@thezfunk the local junkyard in town would sell a person a rusty coffee can full of bent nails. i didn't even know stores would sell you NEW ones. dad was that cheap. i spent many an afternoon straightening nails on a concrete block.
No joke, I found a birds nest in an elevator shaft, we had built for a new hotel in TN. Made entirely from bent nails from disassemble concrete forms.
@@thezfunkbut you are richer for the experience, and he clearly thought you added value to the nails, since he kept them
Grand father made me straighten nails as kid. For my derby cars and ramps. Purple finger nails are very rare for me over the years. Metals shop in high school i had the straightest chisel and no hammer marks. Of course we couldnt remember how hot before the dunk?? Glowing orange😂 straight an clean still didn't pass the test. Still have chisel tho, chipped hairline crak ans scales. 30years later. These vids remind of hanging in the shop with grandpa as kid
I am more surprised that after sitting for 20+ years, those rubber tracks never broke! What a fun project, love it.
"Dammit Bobby" just watched from my recommended, and I'm in love with this Hank Hill cosplayer 😂
Really enjoy your videos!!! Can't believe you are below a million subs, nevermind below 200k!!! UNDER-RATED!
I've been saying that for YEARS!! He is finally getting the attention he deserves. 😃
I totally agree. His numbers are slowly climbing, but there is no justification for their being so low.
As someone who isn't exactly a handy andy, I love these videos and I agree, how does this channel only have 136k subscribers! The sarcasm is fantastic to😂
@@bigmacmach1185 Well, at the time of his last video before this one, he only had 134k subscribers. His numbers have gone from 118k to 136k in the short time I have known about his channel.
"The slippery slope of doing things properly" 😎👍
Loved that you picked up trash at the end. Everytime I go outdoors I always carry a trash bag for all the trash left around especially when fishing.
The guys who leave the trash will be the first to complain that the ares is a mess. Idiots.
When you were testing in your yard, I was half expecting a wide shot showing every kid in town looking through your fence wanting a go!
Man I wish I had a little tank for my backyard. Living the dream!
imagining the kids clutching at the fence gave me a good laugh. haha.
Passe Par Tout: "goes everywhere". As in the name of Phileas Fogg's travelling assistant in "Around The World in 80 Days" by Jules Verne.
That was the first thing that popped in my head when I saw the name ,but I didn't know it meant "goes everywhere " thanks for the info on one of my favorite childhood reads.
It was also the name of a French-language kid's TV show from Quebec, back in the day...
You are a gem to TH-cam, I hope you get the recognition you deserve. Thanks!!!
'Little Tank' is alive..!!! I'm really glad that short-tracking issue doesn't interfere noticeably with track speed and therefore steering. Now you just need to do a beige and green paint job to match your halftrack winebago project and you've got a set!
Can’t believe someone doesn’t make something like this anymore, great rig.
Before watching this video I just wanted to say thanks. Your videos give me much entertainment and joy.😊
It always a great day here in Thailand when I get to watch a new episode of LBG.
Love how you clean up while your out there, doing good while haveing fun is the best way
Wow that thing took a real beating and just kept giving out the fun. Love your videos, you really are a blast to watch, keep doing what you do.
I enjoyed the whole story, what a cool project! That's real recycling, not buying anything new whatsoever. And you picking up some rubbish in the end really made me smile :-)
Thanks for your work!
Holy smokes! My grandfather had one of these back in the 70's. I've actually ridden in it. Coolest video ever!
How KOOL was that??? That thing was rompin' and stompin', and all for the low low cost of.......ZERO!! You're my kind of hero sir, kudos and carry on!
Since watching this guy any time I see free or in a scrap bin if I can’t make it work I salvage the parts stop throwing stuff away there is some one who can fix it
You have to genuinely be one of the greatest people on youtube and in life you actually inspire me to do things with all the great crap I've saved for no reason and your smart but just explain it in a way that makes it fun and entertaining to watch and learn new ways to do things thank you
James, you are a lucky man and we are privileged to have someone like you sharing these videos with us as is already as usual. Thank you and greetings Rob.
Something I realized I love about these videos is that I can never have them as a "second monitor." Every bit of them is concise and direct, and interesting the whole way through, such that if you're not paying attention you'll miss a good part of what's happened. It's very rare to have videos that are so interesting that I make separate time just for them, but I do with these!
Amazing vehicle and totally surprised treads didn’t fail apart given the apparent age
Brings back memories, I owned one about 40 years ago.. Thanks for posting this.
Always love watching you on all these wacky older machines and how we come along for the ride to figure out how to fix them ....
My Dad used to sell them back the early 70's at our family's motorcycle / snowmobile shop in Maine . They only sold a few, they were more of a work machine than a recreation ride . We had one kicking around for years that didn't sell so it ended up being used for pulling the trail grooming sled and stuff like that . Cool to see one again I alway's thought it would have been better with 4 stroke power head , the original engines in the ones we had were a CCW 340 ( I think it was a 340 ) . They were HIDEOUSLY loud in stock form and you had to pretty much pin it wide open to pull the trail drag, I eventually rerouted the exhaust through the stock muffler & Car muffler to make it a little quieter ...... I was assigned trail drag duty back then .... So Me and them things have history together . Thanks for the Vid & dredging up some fun old memories . It seems you like projects ... Check out our Hydro Dam project fresh episode just dropped last night !
It always amazes me the projects you come up with!!!
I’m like you in that I save things for projects. My wife says “get rid of that s-t”! When I tell her it’s for a project, she says “what project”, I say don’t have one yet!!
GREAT VIDEO!!!!
This is a man after my own heart. Very practical, logical thought process, paired with easy to understand explaination of everything done. Backyard engineering at it's finest. Well done sir, well done.
I really dig your Videos and the way you work on things. You are a truly Inspiration. Thank you🎉
You are the personification of the Ingenuity of man. Your videos never cease to inspire me to try new things and new ideas.
When I was a boy, my Dad had an Allis Chalmers Terra Tiger. It was a 6 x 6 wheel drive that had skid steering like the machine in this video. The only suspension was the tires, which only had about 5 or 6 psi in them. It was powered by a 2 cycle, single cylinder JLO engine that made a whopping 18 HP. Because there was no suspension, the drive axels were sealed from the hull making it amphibious. It was incredibly slow in the water as the only propulsion was the tread on the wheels. It was a pretty capable off road vehicle, but I do remember going into swamps and having to get out and push it out on the other side, as the front wheels wouldn't have enough traction in the mud and the middle and back ones where still floating in the water.
I'm so grateful to have found your channel randomly one night a few months back, and have been an avid fan from the get go. I work in IT, the cutting edge of technology and it really brings me so much joy to watch a guy use rust as locktite. All the while doing it scientifically, measuring it with a torque wrench. You sir, are a genious. Please keep making videos forever. Much love from Sweden!
That thing is totally badass! This is what TH-cam is still good for...Watching people design/build/repair really awesome stuff like this! You just won my subscription!
Man the rubber in those tracks is beyond impressive! Just threw on some work boots that are about 2 years old didnt make it 20 steps before the right track blew out
Nothing like cheap fun, puts a smile on your dial and a bounce in your step and a good laugh when you telling the story. 😁
Dude. The things you do. Amazing and so satisfying to watch. Gives a guy inspiration to go out in the shop and do stuff. I need more stuff haha
That's more of the magic of scrap. This channel keeps on giving!
Imagine that thing had a mower deck underneath.. 😍😍
Awesome that you revitalized it.
"Some day I'll get around to cleaning.........but it's not very much fun." DAMN RIGHT! Cleaning and organizing cuts way too much into my tinkering time and I barely have enough time for that. I love this channel.
Your talent for bringing back older vehicles never fails to put a smile on my face :D keep up the good work!
The back-yard scientist brother of Ian Roussel. Watching relaxed people far beyond my expertise and patience is like an anti-depresssant. I am a bit jealous, too.
Your ingenuity is so damn admirable!
You made me think of an old cushman i was working on 30 yr ago. It's still out there buried in the shed. I think I'm inspired enough to go dig it out.
I love your videos Low-Buck Garage! The $1 jeep series got me hooked on you!
It's $2! No discounts!
@ ope sorry!
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@@morzemus1805uhh 2. Bucks plus 1k. In parts and another 700. Bucks in rusted out jeep for drivetrain axles wheels etc.but worth it
Sweet tank. Thanks for sharing 👍
Low-buck has got to be the most relaxed presenter on TH-cam, keep it up brother.
Needs a windshield,headlights and a howitzer and your good.Rust is always a good thread locker,especialy when your trying to get the bolt or nut loose.
Low Buck just became my go to subscription. It's just too fun to watch.
That would make a good SAR vehicle out here in the Mohave desert, Thanks for the demo!
My wife and I look forward to your weekly video.
My wife thinks you are hilarious, and tells me we could be twins, my by boss has stopped questioning y hairball ideas. I keep things on the Farm running and on a budget. Keep on making these awesome videos
😂. . Man I wish I could find some of these old treasures.... I wanted one of these so bad when I was a kid.... Almost everything you have in that yard I wanted at some point in my childhood ..
I love your creativity and ingenuity. Thanks for the excellent video!
Absolutely superb. Really enjoyed that thanks. Wish we had diners and burgers like that in the UK too!!
I love your channel because you're just a better equipped and experienced version of me.
So happy to see this running… well done, your Dad is in New England somewhere, I’m in New Hampshire and see these pop up on listings once in awhile for way more than I wanna pay…
Cleaning is fun! Because of all the cool stuff you find that you didn't even remember you had! Look at it like a treasure hunt 😅
Must be amazing to work on a piece that your father worked with as well. Hope there were some good memories flowing in while doing it.Magnificent channel.
Awesome machine
Really impressed that the tracks hold up. Only thing remaining, paint in olive drab green and make it a mini tank. Don’t forget to match the air filter housing.
Edit: grease the hidden bearings!
What an awesome video! It seems that between James and his dad, they've had pretty much every weird vehicle imaginable about 30 to 50 years back. And it seems they can all still be found in either a desert junkyard, or a forest junkyard. Seriously, there were a whole lot of different types of motorized things for getting around outdoors. Thanks for the adventure!
Love your video ! Close is good enough ! Love it.. My Neighbor Inn Churchill Ont ca. Had one like this called a PlayCat all aluminum it was the most capable snow machine I ever rode in. Not fast but go anywhere. I am 69 yrs old now and was in about grade 5 back then. In the winter he took me for a drive and we went up hill on he frozen road and turned directly to the vertical snowplowed snow bank then climbed straight up the snow bank about 4 feet tall then over and directly DOWN into the deep snow filled ditch almost touching the top of the farmers fiels fence. I was thinking we were stuck so I was ready to climb out and start pushing snow out of the way when Burt Bellbec put his hand on my shoulder to keep me in the machine as he maneuvered completely 180 degrees in the same spot in the snow we sat landed in then climbed directly back up the steep ditch about 8 feet back onto the frozen road again ! I was so impressed ! When we climbed up it felt like we were going to flip over but we did not. For the summer he mounted a outboard motor onto the back because this machine would float like a boat ! Burt was a dedicated hunter fisherman...
I used to love fishing. Trout fishing in a stream was my favorite. After I got hurt my trips stopped. I couldn’t walk the stream or get the only available option for a powerchair the VA issued me. I’ve been dreaming up ideas to make my own all terrain tracked vehicle. I sure as heck can’t afford those expensive tank chairs!! I guess this is very much a good start of a build at the very least!! If I could afford to buy one that is.
Hey Buck thanks for the memory jog, don't quite know how I ended up here but in the early 70's I was working in a shop in Calgary where we fabricated and installed a winter enclosure on several of these PPT's for use by seismic crews in the high arctic. They were indeed originally built in Quebec to compete with the snowmobile market.
Totally agree... the fancier the food, the worse it tastes. Not because of what it is but because it costs more than it's worth... to me. Just wrecks it somehow. And yeah, that feeling when you get a project to the end with nothing but stuff you've already got.... literally priceless :)
Almost makes up for the other days... you know, when you know you've got something, spend WAY too long looking for it, give up, buy 2 so you never have to go through that again, and then put the spare away in that perfect spot for it... and right there is the one you remember having. Yeah...
The ying/yang of being cheap...
Good job James. The mention of a green chili cheeseburger made my mouth water!! Yum! Last year at this time, I had a great one in Alamogordo..
Wow! I had no idea Starrett made bench vices too! Awesome.
Stumbled upon your channel and have binged every video in a matter of days.
It looked like your back was smoking lol while you rode the worlds biggest vacuum!!! Hahaha so much Joy! Amazing build
Always fun to knock the rust of something from your past. Pops would be proud
You have more fun than I did as a kid. I think I'll just keep watching your videos. I don't have the inclination of a child any longer but I do enjoy sitting down to watch some good video. This'll do just fine!
Great tip on the angled tubing cut. Thanks.😎👍
you re the best of making these things runninng again .
I just recently bought a PPT. The engine that was on it came off an old auger, left uncovered for 10-15 years. My trans and clutches were seized solid. My solution was to repower it with a ztr mower power pack. It runs good. It’s faster than most can run. It’ll spin on a dime.
The smoke trapped in the low pressure pocket behind your back makes it look so badass!
I love your channel and your sense of humour! Keep on keepin' on! Thanks for sharing all of this with us and it feels like you'd be doing this wether you had a TH-cam channel or not!
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Looks like something from a 70s low budget sci fi! So cool.
You are a mad scientist for sure. I would call that thing the no snow mobile! Looked like a lot of fun. Pretty amazing that the undercarriage held up so well after sitting for around 30 years.
Great job I love projects like this ones that are fun because you know money just be careful. You keep riding that old girl she will cost you something eventually.
I wish you the best
It’s awesome to see videos like this please keep them coming
Stay safe
May your God keep you healthy
Be good !
Low Buck = More Fun!! Loved this crazy tracked machine!!
The reason I know that is because I did that...More sincere words were never spoken...Such beautiful skies and weather out there in the Desert...I would;d love to live there sometime...-John
in Quebec french, as far as I know, it means something like all purpose or all weather? been a looooong time.. Passe-Partout I mean...
the PPT model ATV is from a long time ago! you can see something like it from Passepartout Model 400 as a search thanks for the fun video!
It's possibly a reference to the Jules Verne character of the same name, too
@@Cnhaddockbrother I appreciate your input but this was made in Edmonton I don’t think they had books there in the early 70s XD
(you could be fully right tho, I just have an obligation as I am from BC to make fun of Albertans. :D)
Great video! Just stumbled upon it by chance. Very cool video and awesome that you got it going from stuff you had laying around. Thanks for sharing. Greetings from the Netherlands, Mark
Wow that tank is awesome and fast … great work on that…
More information about why the snowmobile is parted :) thanks for taking us along:)
Awesome and outstanding content as always.Thanks for sharing and taking us along.
I cannot believe how well those old rubber tracks performed.
Amazing that they even stayed together.
I hope that behind the scenes you put some grease on those tortured track wheel bearings.
If you ever blow the top end you can take a 440 Rotax cylinders,pistons and heads and put them on ur 300 bottom end just make sure that ur porting lines up, you say impossible well been there done that ! Man now wanna talk about more power and speed lol, and thanks for the walk down memory lane on the fix of the machine, have not seen one of these in over 50 yrs, my grandpa had something similar and that machine could out pull out go anywhere everything but an argo lol well that one is water proof this isn't lol, but anyhow love the video and love the memory walk keep them coming
I can feel the fun through the screen, what a neat little machine!
That thing is awesome; had no idea tracked vehicles like this existed!
Those Canadians sure do know how to have winter fun
Back in the 70's we use to pack hundreds of pounds of Dynomite down the subgrade with these things. We used the "stumping powder" to spring large stumps that the D8 wasn't quite strong enough to push. Needless to say these little track machines made being a powder monkey a whole lot more fun.
Argggg, you’re having so much fun….I’m big time jealous!! Grest videography and restoration!
What a crazy little vehicle, glad it runs again. Would be fun to test this on some other terrain like mud or snow etc. It would also be cool to drive snowmobile trails (with or without snow).
brother and some friends built a big square 4 man for fun with a 3bang2cyk and they used both independent clutch+brakes on the sides AND a three pulley CVT (one source, two slaves in a single loop) and by the time it got to the tracks full throttle on that engine ended up being about 2mph max but it was fun as hell. Ate belts faster than they could pump gas for farmers tho. They got about halfway through sourcing hydrostats to change over when they stopped bothering with it.
tbdh, hydraulic drives are the way to go on these little things... set up right the drives last forever and you can then pivot turn etc.
that mini-track is amazing! i would enjoy that for a very long time if i had that!
This is my favorite channel! You have all the best toys, I wish I could come over to your house and try them all out.