I can remember when I was a kid in Sherbrooke, Quebec, the city did not remove the snow, after plowing, then came the massive snowblower, who sucked it all up and deposited it on everyone's front lawn. Great piles that we used to tunnel through.
Yes! The Bombardier/Prinoth SW4S with tracks is so much better than the new ones they use with tires. The new ones are too wide, they damage telephone poles and other stuff and struggle with the smallest obstacle
@@youarenotspecialanyone that’s been in an air ride seat knows if you hit a good bump that shits worse than having no air 💀 it’s just a trampoline for you to compress your spine on the roof
So imagine..its 10 pm, you just start falling asleep only to be rustled out of bed by thqt tow truck. As you start to fight the noise and try to get back to a good REM sleep, you know its useless because the final boss 12V71 is only minutes away lolol
This seems like something out of a Monty Python sketch. 12 different machines to just move snow halfway across the street before it is picked up. Then when they DO come pick it up, they use the loudest set of engines possible.
And if we used smaller machines that were ' quieter ' they become less efficient because it takes longer. So you go faster to get the job done on time. Then people start complaining. About everything. They're leaving snow on the sidewalks and roadways. They drive up and down the road too much. They shouldn't have those lights flashing when we're trying to sleep. GFC
i am thorougly impressed by Montreal's winter street culture. Everyone moves their cars on cue, a big well-orchestrated team of of equipment is deployed and efficiently removes the snow from street and sidewalk and everyone moves their cars back.
In Toronto on some roads they just show up with tow trucks and move everyone to one side and plow it, then move everyone to the other side and do the same.
They apply great forces on the blade on a small spot, easy to break stuff if you hit something harder than the blade. So in this case, no weight is better in order to reduce the stress on the blade edge and the front ball coupler that holds the whole blade rack. I saw a Caterpillar grader some 40 years ago that shred the ball out of the front cup in front of our house. The house shook and the grader stopped there for hours until they fixed it. The blade had hit a manhole that was protruding above the asphalt and it had a huge gouge on it from the impact.
I presume that's by design to distinguish itself from the traditional "Somebody's going to Emergency, somebody's going to jail" siren. Although what's going on in the video is nowhere nearly as fun, it reminds me of ice cream trucks in the summertime 😊
That's not a 6.5, it's much better! Solely powering the snow blower is a 14L Detroit 12v71. It's a twin engined and an International DT466 and an Allison automatic transmission are moving the machine.
City of Montreal budgets 180 million dollars on snow removal for its 19 suburbs at 9.4 million dollars each per year for winter , accounting 4 to 6 annual snowstorms dumping 45 cm+ of snow (17 inches) per one
They take forever just to get going on mains in IF. Cul-de-sacs barely get any attention. Practically have to have a 4x4 vehicle just to get out of the neighborhood😂
When I was a kid, I loved watching them remove the snow so I’d go to the window and watch the truck parade. And you get used to the siren, personally I really like it lol
Wow !! Very impressed. When a plow comes down a side street in Buffalo,ny they just push the snow onto the parked cars . And take off mirrors and scrape cars . And that’s if they even come down the street .
It helps when cars aren't lining both sides of the street, but snow is removed in this way in parts of many American cities. Oh, I'm sorry, this is social media, I should stay on script: "Snow is removed the most backward and inferior way in America because everything about America is backward and inferior."
I've lived my entire life in the Boston area and I've always felt that MA does a decent job with snow "removal" but after watching this I realize we're just amateurs pushing stuff around like kids in a sandbox. This is actual snow REMOVAL.
What are you High? @8:55 the guy can't even put the snow in the trailer, its just spraying everywhere. NY and Boston do 10x better job than these morons ever did
The 644 was pretty impressive with the straight blade. That was some serious snow in front of it and she walked right through it. Volvo grader operator gets high marks for technical skills. It seems strange to see the blade set to lay but that helps protect them without a trip edge. But the glorious two stroke waking up the neighbors is just wonderful!
yep loaders are the best for almost every kind of snow plowing. In an ideal world, would be to use only those loaders insteal of trucks for plowing ( inside a city, not highway )
@@greenbudkelly2820 if he were to roll the blade back just a little bit it would cut better and you wouldn’t need to have the tires off the ground like a total clown, and I understand he was doing that as to not catch a main hole or iron in the road, but when you keep them rolled back you don’t need to have very much pressure hitting the road and the boards will typically skip over them, there’s absolutely no reason to have tires in the air on any piece of equipment. That’s not how they are designed
That's freaking incredible!! With every piece of equipment they used I said to myself every single time again and again, "well that will do the job, that will be about it right?" And then machine after machine after machine to the point they LITERALLY picked up the snow and took it away. What an engineering🔥
Love the sound of that snowblower, reminds me as a kid I used to be obsessed with watching this process from my bedroom window when they did our street. Here they use regular size dump trucks, those semi dump trailers Montreal uses are pretty cool.
In Bob Ross " Now then, we want to cover our street canvas in a nice, thin coat of liquid snow white. Very thin now, that's very important. Now apply a little of the Black Ice Black and just tap that in, then pull it straight across to get a nice slick ice effect.When we come back we'll paint in all the happy little motorists and maybe we'll go crazy, what the heck, let's add in a few slippery pedestrians while we're at it
WOW! I gotta say, I came over here because TH-cam knows I'm a sucker for the old 2-stroke Detroits (I reckon y'all haven't told Trudeau about them...)! But I gotta say, that Volvo grader impressed me! The only time we see graders around here (I live on a county hwy) is when the standard wing plow can't push the snow far enough off of the roadway - and they NEVER get the road that clean!
My last job had a couple of large air compressors. One had a 10v71 in it, and the other one had a 16v71. Also used to drive a wrecker that had a 8v71t in it. Not fast but it would pull about anything.
@jrt2924 the 12v71 was on a skid mounted 950cfm Atlas Copco compressor and the other was a IR 1300cfm mounted on a semi trailer. Also ran two IR 1170cfm compressors and a home made 1300ish cfm compressor with a 16 cylinder Cat motor. Our fuel bill was over $2k and day. Industrial sandblasting and painting.
@@shadymaint1 damn, thats not far away from My montly wage after taxes😂 But i bet those Bad boys sure did Make Jobs "easier" no need to worry about lack of air. Also If they had been electric compressors the demand would be no joke.
The end reminds me of a Gary Oldman movie quote from 5th element." Take this empty street. Here it is, peaceful, serene and boring. But if it is snowed upon... Look at all these little things. So busy now. Notice how each one is useful. What a lovely ballet ensues, so full of form and color.
eh, you get used to it it's not the snow that's the worst, it's the cold. i wouldn't complain much if it was mostly around -10/-15°C, but it often gets to -25°C/-30°C and it's just not enjoyable in any way -35°C with windchill becoming a -42°C is just an invitation for you to stay inside.
It's like going to the grocery store and having an employee put your items on the Conveyor, another employee scanning them, another employee opening a bag, another employee putting it the bad and another employee using the register.
you prefer maybe that only one guy takes the first machine to the job site, then walk back to the garage, jump in another machine that he will need, drive it next to the other, and go back and forth like that to get all he needs on the site before starting plowing with one machine then jumping out jump in the other one , keep going a little, go back and forth like that.......not very realistic, you need people and machines!@@Bryanbobber
@socomquicksniper Jesus your just one end of the spectrum to the next. It's like talking to a Democrat. There are other ways than the extremes. But from a country that bleeds money from their citizens I suppose this makes sense. Pay many to do the work of a few.
@socomquicksniper I think the point is that you really don't need that many machines and that many passes. I live in a country where three+ feet of snow falling in a few days is not unusual during winter. One pass with the frontloader used at 11:07 in the video in the street, then one pass on the sidewalk, then end with a blower if needed. You don't need all the other steps here.
c'est une industrie entière le déneigement au québec, par chez moi les contracteurs utilisent surtout des tracteurs agricoles normaux mais avec une gratte à l'avant et une souffleuse à neige à l'arrière. en dehors des camions gouvernementaux équipés spécifiquement pour déblayer les routes, il n'y a pas vraiment d'équipement dédié spécialement pour le déneigement hivernal (hors les petits déneigeurs de trottoir comme le bombardier jaune à chenilles), c'est de l'équipement universel avec des accessoires qui peuvent se coupler, donc ça baisse les coûts. ceci dit, aussitôt que l'on va dans les secteurs un peu plus ruraux, la majorité des gens vont posséder leur propre souffleuse à neige, donc même pour les individus il y a un budget à prévoir.
It's an amazing amount of work for snow removal that I would not have imagined. It's 65° here in Central Texas Feb 5, but I'm not trying to rub it in..... it was over 110° most of last summer.... and it's beautiful in Canada all year. I feel for your troubles in winter, but I'm envious of the beauty. And water.
Use to run a massive front end blower on a dozed with tracks up near Oswego to clear the 6 to 10 feet worth off snow, didn't have trucks available so we would through it 50 to 100 feet into the woods or behind peoples house when possible so much fun
The part that starts at 8:19 is the one requiring all those preparations. It's mesmerizing the first time you see it in person. Also there were couple extra steps that they usually don't do on my street. I guess it depends if it's a big or small street.
I'm in awe at the thin focused blade of snow coming out of that blower. In Fredericton they use a similar technique, but the blowers shoot a huge plume that looks like a mini blizzard traveling down the street, you don't want to be anywhere near it
Near Montreal Nord, below the Rte 125 Boul Pie XI, is an unmarked spot in Google maps. This is a Ravine, where the snow goes. Van Houte used to pack coffee nearby, too.
i noticed there aren't many replies about the snow removal trucks. as a tractor trailer driver myself i am really impressed with those drivers getting those long ass multi axled trailers around the tight city corners. good job my fellow truckers
Haha no body is sleeping with that Scream’n Detroit running. Lo The coal mine i worked at had a whole fleet of the 12V149’s as well as the 16V149’s in their haul trucks. By the time I started working there, they had been retired to water trucks, so I spent a lot of time running them and the engine Sounds like it’s going to grenade at any time. Ha ha but they were actually quite reliable.
Yes ! Montreal's winter anthem ! They existed for my whole life. I've checked the archive and the first mention I've seen about it is in Le devoir, Samedi le 1 mars 1952: Avertissement du déneigement au moyen de sirènes Le conseiller Rodrigue Moore inscrit deux motions à l'ordre du jour de la séance municipale de lundl, concernant le déneigement. L'une de ces propositions suggères que lors du déblaiement de la neige dans les rues, les automobilistes qui sont stationnés soient avertis de laisser l'espace libre au moins une demi-heure à l'avance,au moven de sirènes dont le son serait différent de celui des voitures de la radio-police.
imagine if that snow thrower was literally 1 inch taller... or the semi trailers were 1 inch shorter..... how much less snow would hit the side and fall back on the street...
Nice to see a proper snowblower and not the blower attachment on front end loader as they used in my area. I still live in the city and love watching the clean up.
I do this for a living, I admit theres is always place for improvement, but overall this is how it has to be done, by the way if you could make a constructive comment at first that would really help @@Bryanbobber
At least they're getting the job done ! And they're getting it done right ! In my area, Southern NY , they've screwed up hard past 4 or 5 years . On top of that . We don't get that much snow .
Seems crazy 2 passes by the big plow to put it in the middle of the road then big plow puts it back by the curb for the blower to pick up why the hell move it so much before blowing it they should of ran the plow down the middle of the road then blew it in to the truck lol
They are scraping to bare road. So they scrape the sides, then do a run or 2 down the middle scraping that and then blow it into the trucks. Not sure about Montreal but in places like Edmonton, through the winter they usually just scrape to a base of like 2 inches or even more until they get ruts that are too much and then do a scrape job like this. If you only scrapped the sides and then into the truck, you would leave compacted ice/snow in the middle where most people drive as its parking on either side. Not really desirable imho. This gets it all scraped, and only requires one pass of the blower, which there are fewer compared to graders ect.
Sadly where I live in the states they will never put this kind of money into snow removal. As the late longtime mayor of my native city in Massachusetts said “I’m not spending much on something that will melt eventually. If people can’t deal with the snow there a place called Florida they can move to.” I guess he knew his constituents because they re-elected his ass for 30+ years until cancer got him.
They have removed the front blade from the Volvo grader and so it is missing needed weight from front axle and continously struggles to keep straights. Front blade is for removing snow in front of the tractor and that midblade under frame is for high definity removal in height and surface finnish purposes. They should at least bolt on some weights at the nose. All the sound alarm elements seems more like north korean show and punishment to car owners than having working city and flexibility in snow removal. I am sure this looks awesome to foreigners. In Finland it is not this organized, but neither are nobody woke up, they just do their work without fanfares every day and night for 6 months of a year. Think about this happening everytime there is snowfall. :D Using long nose sleeper cab trucks on tight streets seems also like the brightest idea ever.
Man I wish they did this in Minneapolis. When I visit my sister during the winter it blows my mid seeing the city streets like half full of snow and two lane roads reduced to single lanes you have to PRAY nobody is coming down when you are. Though I'm sure it sucks hearing this at like midnight for what looks to be a good hour or so. You would think someone would have made an attachment for a semi by now that's effectively a snow blower that dumps it into the trailer behind it to speed this up.
That sidewalk jobby is god damn adorable.
Ikr!! I really want one 😊
It reminds me of the the pit crew machine off cars..aww
@@JoelKrumbachGuido 😂😂
Peeet stop!!
1 million dollar later à street
Clean roads after a simple 30 step process!
No shit
Seriously. This is one block. I can't even imagine how expensive this must be
If you move it more than 3 times you’re playing with it. Push it to one side and be done. It snows 500” where I live and we don’t truck it out.
I can remember when I was a kid in Sherbrooke, Quebec, the city did not remove the snow, after plowing, then came the massive snowblower, who sucked it all up and deposited it on everyone's front lawn. Great piles that we used to tunnel through.
I know ridiculous. That has to cost a fortune
That small one cleaning the sidewalks seems like the most fun to drive.
Yes! The Bombardier/Prinoth SW4S with tracks is so much better than the new ones they use with tires. The new ones are too wide, they damage telephone poles and other stuff and struggle with the smallest obstacle
Seems to be a little bumpy though
@@elliotg.b.676 it usually has a air ride seat if its not broken
@@youarenotspecialanyone that’s been in an air ride seat knows if you hit a good bump that shits worse than having no air 💀 it’s just a trampoline for you to compress your spine on the roof
Especially with a case of beer !!!!!!
So imagine..its 10 pm, you just start falling asleep only to be rustled out of bed by thqt tow truck. As you start to fight the noise and try to get back to a good REM sleep, you know its useless because the final boss 12V71 is only minutes away lolol
And thats when you go: "alright!! That does it!!! I'm moving to Florida!!!!"
@@coletrickle-km7cl lolol exactly
I would sleep right through it, music 🎶 to my ears.❤ just loved tuning them when I was younger
@@coletrickle-km7clsnow is better than tornados though!
Sleep right through it.
As a Montrealer, this is music to my ears.
Also you learn to sleep through this all without even realizing. Sometimes.
But still happy at the end with a clear street!
so many people dont get what its like to live with this much snow lol. its not i little its a dumping.
a 12v71 is quite relaxing to listen too
Just like living by a rail road track witch runs trains about every 15 minutes.
Nothing like a screaming Jimmy at 2am on a Sunday night!
Why are they doing the alarm? To wake people up to move their cars or what?
They're all told a week prior about the removal and are not suppose to park there.
@@henrik1743It's a final warning that you're about to get towed. Even though they were notified well in advance
If I’m up you’re up cucksuckaaaa
@@DomTaylor. They dont wait a week before clearing the snow....
This seems like something out of a Monty Python sketch. 12 different machines to just move snow halfway across the street before it is picked up. Then when they DO come pick it up, they use the loudest set of engines possible.
Socialist utopia.
Can you please find a better way to do it then
Lmao they do a better job then how it's done in the states lol
And if we used smaller machines that were ' quieter ' they become less efficient because it takes longer. So you go faster to get the job done on time. Then people start complaining. About everything. They're leaving snow on the sidewalks and roadways. They drive up and down the road too much. They shouldn't have those lights flashing when we're trying to sleep. GFC
Ridiculous process for that tiny bit of snow. Come to the UP of MI if you want to see efficient snow removal (300-odd inches a year).
i am thorougly impressed by Montreal's winter street culture. Everyone moves their cars on cue, a big well-orchestrated team of of equipment is deployed and efficiently removes the snow from street and sidewalk and everyone moves their cars back.
Well most everyone they tow the ones that arent moved and give you a ticket lol
In Toronto on some roads they just show up with tow trucks and move everyone to one side and plow it, then move everyone to the other side and do the same.
You better move your car or it cost you 150$!!!
You Canadians must love clean streets. They must have moved that snow a half dozen times before they got it outta there 👍😄
@@guyontwos They wouldn't have enough towing trucks where I live. 😉
Wonder how long that Grader operator has been pleading his case for his terminal manager to add a counter weight to the front of his machine?
They apply great forces on the blade on a small spot, easy to break stuff if you hit something harder than the blade. So in this case, no weight is better in order to reduce the stress on the blade edge and the front ball coupler that holds the whole blade rack. I saw a Caterpillar grader some 40 years ago that shred the ball out of the front cup in front of our house. The house shook and the grader stopped there for hours until they fixed it. The blade had hit a manhole that was protruding above the asphalt and it had a huge gouge on it from the impact.
It seems like the wrong tool for the job. Lol 😊
That siren sounds like a 1980's video game.
I presume that's by design to distinguish itself from the traditional "Somebody's going to Emergency, somebody's going to jail" siren. Although what's going on in the video is nowhere nearly as fun, it reminds me of ice cream trucks in the summertime 😊
Wow! A 6.5 diesel engine that still runs! The snow blower is awesome!
That's not a 6.5, it's much better! Solely powering the snow blower is a 14L Detroit 12v71. It's a twin engined and an International DT466 and an Allison automatic transmission are moving the machine.
@@fullraph The GM pickup had the 6.5.
@@markdanielczyk944Ah yeah true! I didn't even notice it, good catch.
I still have my 6.5 Detroit with 232k on it. Still runs like a champ with no blowby.
Lots of 6.5's still around. my son has a nice one.
That's quite an operation. And that looks like just a side street. Nice. We don't get that down in Idaho. Go Habs!!
City of Montreal budgets 180 million dollars on snow removal for its 19 suburbs at 9.4 million dollars each per year for winter , accounting 4 to 6 annual snowstorms dumping 45 cm+ of snow (17 inches) per one
Yeah Snow plowing in c o e u r d a l e n e is a joke Most of the time
They take forever just to get going on mains in IF. Cul-de-sacs barely get any attention. Practically have to have a 4x4 vehicle just to get out of the neighborhood😂
Having operated the JD 444, 544, 644, and 772, 872 motor graders... You make those look like little toys. What a joy they are!
12V71... the best way to convert diesel into noise.
When I was a kid, I loved watching them remove the snow so I’d go to the window and watch the truck parade. And you get used to the siren, personally I really like it lol
I remember in the late 1980's, Fredericton used little Bombardiers to clear the sidewalks.
What’s the siren for?
12v71! the good ol' "Buzzin' Dozen!"
Now that place has more different snow equipment than I knew existed. Amazing!
Detroit Diesel; the sweetest music this side of heaven.
Right on!
Wow !! Very impressed. When a plow comes down a side street in Buffalo,ny they just push the snow onto the parked cars . And take off mirrors and scrape cars . And that’s if they even come down the street .
I was in Montreal and I could not believe how fast the snow was removed from the streets, if only Boston, NYC etc could do this.
Starting the next day or two after the storm!
It helps when cars aren't lining both sides of the street, but snow is removed in this way in parts of many American cities. Oh, I'm sorry, this is social media, I should stay on script: "Snow is removed the most backward and inferior way in America because everything about America is backward and inferior."
somebody would sue, claiming the noise and bright lights traumatized their cat.
I've lived my entire life in the Boston area and I've always felt that MA does a decent job with snow "removal" but after watching this I realize we're just amateurs pushing stuff around like kids in a sandbox. This is actual snow REMOVAL.
What are you High? @8:55 the guy can't even put the snow in the trailer, its just spraying everywhere. NY and Boston do 10x better job than these morons ever did
With all of those machines they are just making sure that the snow doesn't come back in the future! Absolutely brilliant
Yes, the snowplows will make it not snow anymore. That’s brilliant!
Nah it's the cow farts that are going to turn the earth into the sun in 10 years unless we all start eating beyond meat immediately.
The spin down while he waited for the empty truck to pull up 🤌
The 644 was pretty impressive with the straight blade. That was some serious snow in front of it and she walked right through it.
Volvo grader operator gets high marks for technical skills. It seems strange to see the blade set to lay but that helps protect them without a trip edge.
But the glorious two stroke waking up the neighbors is just wonderful!
It’s too bad he couldn’t learn to lean the front tires over, and not have the front wheels off the ground
@@blacksheep9734 tires were off the ground for max down pressure on the blade
yep loaders are the best for almost every kind of snow plowing. In an ideal world, would be to use only those loaders insteal of trucks for plowing ( inside a city, not highway )
@@socomquicksniper loaders are great when you have operators that know how to use them.
@@greenbudkelly2820 if he were to roll the blade back just a little bit it would cut better and you wouldn’t need to have the tires off the ground like a total clown, and I understand he was doing that as to not catch a main hole or iron in the road, but when you keep them rolled back you don’t need to have very much pressure hitting the road and the boards will typically skip over them, there’s absolutely no reason to have tires in the air on any piece of equipment. That’s not how they are designed
That last machine with the Screamin Detroit Diesel has got to be pure hell on your ears at night when you're trying to sleep
I sure wouldnt mind hearing 12v71 singing outside :)
That's freaking incredible!! With every piece of equipment they used I said to myself every single time again and again, "well that will do the job, that will be about it right?"
And then machine after machine after machine to the point they LITERALLY picked up the snow and took it away. What an engineering🔥
In France the whole country is on hold after 5 cms of snow. I'm truly amazed of this level of organization.
NO ONE cares about France!! OUI!!
Love the sound of that snowblower, reminds me as a kid I used to be obsessed with watching this process from my bedroom window when they did our street. Here they use regular size dump trucks, those semi dump trailers Montreal uses are pretty cool.
In Bob Ross " Now then, we want to cover our street canvas in a nice, thin coat of liquid snow white. Very thin now, that's very important. Now apply a little of the Black Ice Black and just tap that in, then pull it straight across to get a nice slick ice effect.When we come back we'll paint in all the happy little motorists and maybe we'll go crazy, what the heck, let's add in a few slippery pedestrians while we're at it
Love the grader , the workhorse of snow removal scraping-off thick layers of frozen ice away from streets and sidewalks
Is it not overkill tho? Why not use a normal dozer/plow?
@@TylerRaber graders have the special wheels up front where the driver can make them tilt outwards for traction control on the slippery of streets .
They call them road bears here. Tiekarhu.
I think I was more impressed that you found a running GM 6.5 diesel than I was with the snow removal 😁😁
WOW! I gotta say, I came over here because TH-cam knows I'm a sucker for the old 2-stroke Detroits (I reckon y'all haven't told Trudeau about them...)!
But I gotta say, that Volvo grader impressed me! The only time we see graders around here (I live on a county hwy) is when the standard wing plow can't push the snow far enough off of the roadway - and they NEVER get the road that clean!
That's because these guy's take pride in their work
Owner of towed car next morning- Sweet, streets look great! Where's my car?
My last job had a couple of large air compressors. One had a 10v71 in it, and the other one had a 16v71. Also used to drive a wrecker that had a 8v71t in it. Not fast but it would pull about anything.
10v71? Just like the 10v72 and 10v73 right?
Detroit made no 10 cylinder 2 stroke engines
@pootispiker2866 12v71 my bad. Was a old skid mounted Atlas Copco 950 cfm compressor.
Those are some big ass Air compressors with 12v71 and 16v71😁
@jrt2924 the 12v71 was on a skid mounted 950cfm Atlas Copco compressor and the other was a IR 1300cfm mounted on a semi trailer. Also ran two IR 1170cfm compressors and a home made 1300ish cfm compressor with a 16 cylinder Cat motor. Our fuel bill was over $2k and day. Industrial sandblasting and painting.
@@shadymaint1 damn, thats not far away from My montly wage after taxes😂
But i bet those Bad boys sure did Make Jobs "easier" no need to worry about lack of air. Also If they had been electric compressors the demand would be no joke.
Detroit in to wake up the neighborhood!! No better sound.
The end reminds me of a Gary Oldman movie quote from 5th element." Take this empty street. Here it is, peaceful, serene and boring. But if it is snowed upon... Look at all these little things. So busy now. Notice how each one is useful. What a lovely ballet ensues, so full of form and color.
Those Larue blowers are awesome to operate! Been using one for 8 years on an airfield. They can really chuck snow.
That's quite the operation
Thanks for filming.
I have the opportunity to actually be one of the semi truck drivers doing this job, might try it, looks really fun :)
I have the biggest respect for you guys that live up North. I'm from Texas........ I would die................
eh, you get used to it
it's not the snow that's the worst, it's the cold. i wouldn't complain much if it was mostly around -10/-15°C, but it often gets to -25°C/-30°C and it's just not enjoyable in any way
-35°C with windchill becoming a -42°C is just an invitation for you to stay inside.
@@oliviersavard8676 i dont know what your talking about lol i much prefer cold over +30c any day
Detroit power 💪
Iv lost count how many pieces of Machinery, diesel and man power this took, absolutely insane, you guys must pay, BIG TAXES😊😊😅😅😅
What a complicated operation! Count the number of different vehicles required to clear the snow
yep. thats how it is, cant really be different..
It's like going to the grocery store and having an employee put your items on the Conveyor, another employee scanning them, another employee opening a bag, another employee putting it the bad and another employee using the register.
you prefer maybe that only one guy takes the first machine to the job site, then walk back to the garage, jump in another machine that he will need, drive it next to the other, and go back and forth like that to get all he needs on the site before starting plowing with one machine then jumping out jump in the other one , keep going a little, go back and forth like that.......not very realistic, you need people and machines!@@Bryanbobber
@socomquicksniper Jesus your just one end of the spectrum to the next. It's like talking to a Democrat. There are other ways than the extremes. But from a country that bleeds money from their citizens I suppose this makes sense. Pay many to do the work of a few.
@socomquicksniper I think the point is that you really don't need that many machines and that many passes. I live in a country where three+ feet of snow falling in a few days is not unusual during winter. One pass with the frontloader used at 11:07 in the video in the street, then one pass on the sidewalk, then end with a blower if needed. You don't need all the other steps here.
this was so cool thank you for recording this
Le budget déneigement doit être colossale ! C'est impressionnant !
200M$
c'est une industrie entière le déneigement au québec, par chez moi les contracteurs utilisent surtout des tracteurs agricoles normaux mais avec une gratte à l'avant et une souffleuse à neige à l'arrière.
en dehors des camions gouvernementaux équipés spécifiquement pour déblayer les routes, il n'y a pas vraiment d'équipement dédié spécialement pour le déneigement hivernal (hors les petits déneigeurs de trottoir comme le bombardier jaune à chenilles), c'est de l'équipement universel avec des accessoires qui peuvent se coupler, donc ça baisse les coûts.
ceci dit, aussitôt que l'on va dans les secteurs un peu plus ruraux, la majorité des gens vont posséder leur propre souffleuse à neige, donc même pour les individus il y a un budget à prévoir.
When I was younger I used to place watching the snowplow guys do there thing. Just another thing taken for granted.
so the horns or alarms at the beginning act as a head up to the residents who parked cars on side of the street, so they can move their cars?
yes otherwise, the cars that dont move get towed and fined
Yes, that is the "warning" siren. Move your car from the road or you'll be towed. There are signs posted not to park on certain dates/times.
Good thing there’s not lots of snow if you need to move your car…
no, thats canada being assholes
What a stupid useless comment @@ChristisLord31
It's an amazing amount of work for snow removal that I would not have imagined. It's 65° here in Central Texas Feb 5, but I'm not trying to rub it in..... it was over 110° most of last summer.... and it's beautiful in Canada all year.
I feel for your troubles in winter, but I'm envious of the beauty. And water.
Hell yeah, brother!
Thanks For The Great Video... Thanks Montreal Truck Spotting Channel 😊😊😊
Молодцы,ребята работают.
i absolutely love the little machines ...
Use to run a massive front end blower on a dozed with tracks up near Oswego to clear the 6 to 10 feet worth off snow, didn't have trucks available so we would through it 50 to 100 feet into the woods or behind peoples house when possible so much fun
If you were ever long hauling with a reefer van, you know that noise can and will cease to exist.
I worked in Sudbury over a hard winter and I can attest that Canadian snow removal is first class.
Shout out to Sudbury man, I've called it home for 35 years...
Hard working city that's for sure
@bradwilson6601
No choice or you are buried 😉
Honestly, I’ve never seen anything like it. I was in awe the first time I saw live.
The part that starts at 8:19 is the one requiring all those preparations. It's mesmerizing the first time you see it in person. Also there were couple extra steps that they usually don't do on my street. I guess it depends if it's a big or small street.
I'm in awe at the thin focused blade of snow coming out of that blower. In Fredericton they use a similar technique, but the blowers shoot a huge plume that looks like a mini blizzard traveling down the street, you don't want to be anywhere near it
They got it down to a science!
Near Montreal Nord, below the Rte 125 Boul Pie XI, is an unmarked spot in Google maps. This is a Ravine, where the snow goes. Van Houte used to pack coffee nearby, too.
Well One of the best organized operations! Impressed!
0:45 Detroit diesel in the GMT400. I hear ya.
Yup. I’ve got one too. Runs like a champ still.
Anyone else getting Mighty Machines nostalgia from this?
i noticed there aren't many replies about the snow removal trucks. as a tractor trailer driver myself i am really impressed with those drivers getting those long ass multi axled trailers around the tight city corners. good job my fellow truckers
@@novagasser so true, they are the heart of the operation... Wont be possible without them!!
Seems like this process can be made a whole lot more efficient. Some of the snow is moved around 3-4 times, before it gets put in the trailer.
By the time it ends up in the box, it’s density has increased by a factor of 10xs
Detroit,or destroy what a sound of power. ❤❤❤❤
That first little sidewalk monster is the shit
Now That's Impressive. 💯
Awesome Video!
I cant belive how much work goes into snow removal for just 1 street!!!!
Haha no body is sleeping with that Scream’n Detroit running. Lo
The coal mine i worked at had a whole fleet of the 12V149’s as well as the 16V149’s in their haul trucks.
By the time I started working there, they had been retired to water trucks, so I spent a lot of time running them and the engine Sounds like it’s going to grenade at any time. Ha ha but they were actually quite reliable.
I love these videos. Reminds me of watching Official SWL Channel. He would always tell about these during the winter and how they used 27 MHz radios.
I never knew about the siren vehicles until this season. Have they always been used?
Yes ! Montreal's winter anthem ! They existed for my whole life.
I've checked the archive and the first mention I've seen about it is in Le devoir, Samedi le 1 mars 1952:
Avertissement du déneigement au moyen de sirènes
Le conseiller Rodrigue Moore inscrit deux motions à l'ordre du jour de la séance municipale de lundl, concernant le déneigement.
L'une de ces propositions suggères que lors du déblaiement de la neige dans les rues, les automobilistes qui sont stationnés soient avertis de laisser l'espace libre au moins une demi-heure à l'avance,au moven de sirènes dont le son serait différent de celui des voitures de la radio-police.
They have always been used
О , хорошая работа ! Снег возить . И главное , не закончится никогда .
12 V 71 Detroit.
A howling retort toward Greta Tunberg.
Cool channel ive subbbed youtube put it in my face sometimes they get it right watching trucks at work happy days 👍👍👍
imagine if that snow thrower was literally 1 inch taller... or the semi trailers were 1 inch shorter..... how much less snow would hit the side and fall back on the street...
The buzzin dozen. Sad to see a single exhaust on it though.
Man that 2 cycle sounds nice!
That 7.3 was sounding nice also!
I drove a truck with a Detroit in it. Love the sound, but they are damned loud (probably why I can't hear squat now 🙂
Wow. Neat. Thanks
C'est pas mal la seule chose qui marche encore comme du monde au Québec le déneigement xD... Soyons fier...
Detroit diesel baby yeah.
Nice to see a proper snowblower and not the blower attachment on front end loader as they used in my area. I still live in the city and love watching the clean up.
where i work we have a case 621 with a larue blower pinned on it. you would be surprised how much it can keep up with other machines
Montreal winter silage chopping in action LOL!!! These guys would make one hell of a silage chopping crew!
Blower needs a taller chute
Chute is standard size due to government guidelines and specifications
@@p.j.lajoie😂😂😂
Just a little too short….story of my life.😂
Great teamwork!
The sound of screaming eagles coming down your street 😅
V-12 Detroit, the buzzin dozen
That blower chute could be about a foot talker.
@@bee_ron …yup
Haha premier char towé! Une communauto!! 😂😂
1:45 Look at me, I'm helping daddy digger
😂😂
A well oiled machine.
The inefficiency here is mind blowing.
you plow for a living ? i guess so , you must know what you are talking about for commenting this. Any ideas to get it to your standart ?
@@socomquicksniper the fact you don't see how ridiculous this is speaks volumes.
I do this for a living, I admit theres is always place for improvement, but overall this is how it has to be done, by the way if you could make a constructive comment at first that would really help @@Bryanbobber
@@socomquicksniper I don't plow for a living but I have shoveled my driveway a couple of times and I can tell you this is inefficient
@@BryanbobberI did plow for decades. You have no clue what you’re talking about
At least they're getting the job done ! And they're getting it done right ! In my area, Southern NY , they've screwed up hard past 4 or 5 years . On top of that . We don't get that much snow .
Seems crazy 2 passes by the big plow to put it in the middle of the road then big plow puts it back by the curb for the blower to pick up why the hell move it so much before blowing it they should of ran the plow down the middle of the road then blew it in to the truck lol
12v71 screamin damn it man
They are scraping to bare road. So they scrape the sides, then do a run or 2 down the middle scraping that and then blow it into the trucks. Not sure about Montreal but in places like Edmonton, through the winter they usually just scrape to a base of like 2 inches or even more until they get ruts that are too much and then do a scrape job like this. If you only scrapped the sides and then into the truck, you would leave compacted ice/snow in the middle where most people drive as its parking on either side. Not really desirable imho. This gets it all scraped, and only requires one pass of the blower, which there are fewer compared to graders ect.
If it wasn't for all the equalization payments they get, they'd probably just leave the snow till sprng.
Sure seems like they moved it around a lot before finally putting it into the trucks for removal. Maybe I missed something
That was fun times
Sadly where I live in the states they will never put this kind of money into snow removal. As the late longtime mayor of my native city in Massachusetts said “I’m not spending much on something that will melt eventually. If people can’t deal with the snow there a place called Florida they can move to.”
I guess he knew his constituents because they re-elected his ass for 30+ years until cancer got him.
Yeah but let's be fair...you don't get the snow that we get up here in Montreal.
When those sirens start blasting:
You've been
THUNDERSTRUCK
They have removed the front blade from the Volvo grader and so it is missing needed weight from front axle and continously struggles to keep straights. Front blade is for removing snow in front of the tractor and that midblade under frame is for high definity removal in height and surface finnish purposes. They should at least bolt on some weights at the nose. All the sound alarm elements seems more like north korean show and punishment to car owners than having working city and flexibility in snow removal. I am sure this looks awesome to foreigners. In Finland it is not this organized, but neither are nobody woke up, they just do their work without fanfares every day and night for 6 months of a year. Think about this happening everytime there is snowfall. :D Using long nose sleeper cab trucks on tight streets seems also like the brightest idea ever.
Man I wish they did this in Minneapolis. When I visit my sister during the winter it blows my mid seeing the city streets like half full of snow and two lane roads reduced to single lanes you have to PRAY nobody is coming down when you are. Though I'm sure it sucks hearing this at like midnight for what looks to be a good hour or so. You would think someone would have made an attachment for a semi by now that's effectively a snow blower that dumps it into the trailer behind it to speed this up.