AP Mack Hoover Dam Construction Truck
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ย. 2024
- A magnificently restored 1932 Mack Model AP designed specifically at the behest of Six Companies of Boulder, Colorado for the construction of the Hoover Dam. Only twelve of these massive dump trucks where ever assembled, this one being number 7, only two examples still exist today. Lovingly and painstakingly restored by Ron Carey of Alberta, Canada over the course of three years, this truck was returned to it's original form as it looked off the factory floor. Pioneer Acres Museum, Irricana, Alberta.
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Very nice!
As a retired underground miner, I can't imagine what those brave, tough people went through with such hard work done in the extreme heat building a masterpiece!
Much respect.
TCT9MM Yes its incredible to imagine the work they did.
Wow that is cool. As a 5 or 6 year old kid I remember chain drive dumptrucks driving past our house. This would have been 1969-70 so they were old trucks still in use. I do not remember what brand they were but I could hear them coming and would put down my Tonka trucks to run out and watch them go by.
Shockedbywater Very cool.
Its amazing the talent of some individuals, that is fantastic and wonderful that it is preserved and running!
We are really lucky to have such good folks to keep this history alive.
That is a beautiful truck!
Its a magnificent restoration considering what it looked like when he found it.
So great to have a rare historic Bulldog so lovingly cared for. Outstanding!
Yes indeed, the gentleman who owns this collection has a real love for them.
Wow! Beautiful restored truck! Love old mack's.😎👍
Wow that’s a great truck you got there!! Chain driven, Mack trucks have built a good portion of the developed world.
Rancher 1963 Very true.
I think those old trucks are just SO. KOOL I love really old thing my tractor is old like that
Awesome!
when I was a kid in Chicago, I saw chain drive Mack coal trucks.
That's really cool.
Wow, what an amazing restoration, that is one awesome truck. Brilliant 👍
So very petty beautiful truck used to work on the Hoover Dam so very beautiful lovely 😊 I wish to see it back on the Hoover Dam on Display in the Hoover Dam give people a ride on it some day
Excellent restoration job. My dad hauled coal in a truck very similar to this. The rear wheels ran off and he had a really nasty ride to the bottom of a huge hill. He always drove a international after that
Oh boy, well good to hear he was okay.
beautiful
Wow, I never realized how close I was to this fascinating piece of history in my past. I grew up in the San Diego area and Campo was a regular destination, and I took my first real train ride at the railroad museum in Campo in 1986. Also, I visited the railroad museum at Perris, CA several times in the late 80's and early 90's. I now live in Arizona and have been to and crossed the Hoover Dam quite a few times. I too have seen the documentaries of the dam's construction and have seen possibly this very same truck in action more than 80 years ago. We're lucky to still have the 2 remaining trucks. I'd give you 5 thumbs up on this, if I could.
+eSPeeScotty Well thanks so much, we are really lucky that two examples remain, the other one is undergoing restoration as we speak.
+Rainhill1829 Oh good. It's nice to know the other one won't just wither into nothingness or just be neglected and forgotten.
After I completed truck driving school, I went to another state to apply as a truck drive, my first job driving a eighteen wheeler, and there were many others there, young and old. While there I got to talking to a old timer that started driving trucks that were chain driven! I had heard of such things but didn't know much about them, but his status went up quite a bit with me!
nightlightabcd Very cool, good old chain finals.
Imagine how brutal it was driving those trucks in swelteringly hot Nevada summer heat . No AC . Those early drivers had grande 🥜
Oh yeah, especially with the radiator right in front of the firewall, toasty.
Great truck, but you can bet that most of its working life, it didn't quite look like that! This looks like it just rolled out of the factory! Great restoration!
nightlightabcd Yeah it definitely looked rougher in service, and was modified a few times over the years. I think Mack would be proud of her now.
@@Rainhill1829 - Me to.
I watched an old documentary on the Boulder Dam, and it was cool to see one of these trucks hauling rock in the video. For all we know this could be the same truck that was in the video.
+Jonathan VanVerdegem Awesome, I have also seen footage of the Boulder's construction with these trucks in it, amazing machines.
Thank you for your video
+Old Farm Show Thanks again for watching.
OMG!!!!! MAGNIFICENT!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks, it is definitely beautiful.
I was so waiting for him to run the body all the way up...wanted to see how much angle the bed would get back in the day. Dump trucks I used to build for municipalities had to get at least a 50degree dump angle AND be able to lift the world! You know those trucks were always overloaded considering DOT isn't going to pull over a gov't vehicle.
Oh, yes I don't know the rating on these trucks but I know it's impressive even by todays standards, but they where also designed with a specific purpose in mind. I believe these units could manage something on the order of 40 or 45 degrees, but most of their cargo was coarse material from the dam blasting so sticking wasn't really a problem.
What a Beauty !👌🏻😎
now that is a piece of history! I wonder is Mack trucks has tried to acquire this truck for their museum. thanks for the video.
I would imagine they may have talked to the gentleman who did it, he has a massive collection of vintage Mack trucks, he probably worked quite closely with them for historical authenticity.
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Excellent
5 of these can move a lot of rock
Awesome!
How do people give this video a thumbs down ?
Ah, 1930's vintage. That explains the final-drive chain. British "Sentinel" brand steam trucks used a similar system for quite a while, before shaft-driven trucks were introduced.
I want to drive her lol!
+StarPuss www.ToxicRedNeck.Com I felt privileged just to touch the steering wheel.
Please someone tell the truck owners they have the sign on the dump bed wrong. Six companies built boulder city Nevada to house the workers who built Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam) Six companies had no relationship to Boulder Colorado. Boulder Dam was named after the Boulder Canyon that it was to be built in but they decided Black Canyon farther down river was a better site so they built it there and later named the dam Hoover Dam. Look up the Boulder canyon project for more info.
I bet those chain drives were a pain to work on and maintain!😥😞😖
Not too bad to be honest, pretty easy to access for tightening.
@@Rainhill1829 Even when changing out a rear wheel seal, for instance? Do you have to disconnect the master link?
Awesome truck. There’s no way they came from the factory with power steering though.
Yes I do believe that was retrofitted at some point during it's working life.
This is armstrong. No power steering
Who tf walks around touching someones show truck? Some ppl dont have any sense. The extra brake pedal was bc the driver sometimes had to stand and steer bc of tight turns
If you are talking about me, I work at the museum and its part of our collection.👌
They didn't think much of driver safety at that time did they ?
Nope😂
@@Rainhill1829
That design came from the wooden covers wagons but you'd think they would have made them different than that.
I drove trucks 31 years over the road and MACK is one of my all time favorite trucks as far as being the best work truck and so we'll built.
@@Rainhill1829
That design came from the wooden covered wagons but you'd think they would have made them different than that.
I drove trucks 31 years over the road and MACK is one of my all time favorite trucks as far as being the best work truck and so we'll built.
A major problem of geography here. Hoover Dam sits on the Nevada/Arizona, nowwhere near Boulder Colorado. Six Companies was in Boulder City, NV.
Frank Carroll That is an odd one. I think the Bureau of Reclamation sent these trucks off to other project in the US after the completion of the dam, maybe that explains the mix up.
@@Rainhill1829 Yes, I agree that the BofRec did send a lot of equipment to other places, mainly to work on the Grand Coulee Dam. And, a lot of people get Boulder, Co mixed up with Boulder City, NV. However, Six Companies was based in Boulder City, NV, and was the prime contractor. Doing further research, Six Companies was moved to build Grand Coulee, then worked in the Pacific ocean during WWII to build airfields. I am just pointing out that these trucks were built for use at Hoover Dam, under Six Companies, and were most likely moved to Washington for work there. I would also add, I live and work in Boulder City, working at the railroad museum there, have also worked at the hoover Dam museum, and have several books on the Hoover Dam, Six Companies, and BLM/Bof Reclamation; plus I moved from the Denver/Boulder area in the late 1990s and the two large dams in that area are the Strontia Springs dam (1983) and the other dam, near Boulder, CO is the Barker Dam, built-in 1910. My point being, add city after Boulder, and then correct CO to NV. Yes, I do have a degree in history, just a matter of having the information presented correctly.
all those old Mack 's sound alike !! did i hear air brakes? what year is it??
Most of them had similar engines, as well this one was equipped with air brakes. This particular truck was built in 1932 for the US government's Hoover Dam project.
What’s it got for a transmission?
I believe its an enormous four speed with a range selecting auxiliary.
Camión que estuvo en la represa hoover
How fast is it
YUKI JINJUJI 50 kph
Boulder Dam, It wasn't Hoover Dam until 1947. Nice Mack though..