Allis Chalmers film with Paul Harvey

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=uvaYWArTTU0


View this old footage, the blizzard of 48/49 with Paul Harvey as the narrator.

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Incredible, lot of hard work in cold weather to avert a much bigger disaster, funny how today, when a foot of snow is predicted or on the horizon, the news treats it like doomsday.

When I was a young child, we had some heavy snows and or blizzards. One of these events and I am trying to place the years, late 60's, or '70, '71 we had 3 feet or better, it was a memorable event, that many should recall. My father was called upon by the town to open the state road with the D7 caterpillar, we used to have a 30'+ rock cut, shear walls on each side, it was plugged with snow, drifted in, and it was several hundred feet long, he had to punch a hole through it, the road was closed and all state and town equipment was scuttled, there was nothing available to open the road, it was either stuck, too far away or overwhelmed by the amount of snow. Bitter cold but with a gasoline starting engine, give er enough time and that diesel will run, he must have had some winter blend, we used to have our own tanks. I found a receipt and or bill for this, one of which I cannot find now, and he was paid $60.00 for doing this, from what he told me he went 2 miles to where the state or town could connect it was that deep.

That was some interesting film, when I heard balers mentioned, then it made sense, lot of old roto balers, helped save the day for sure !

Interesting video.

Very cool video, thanks for posting it. It don't get much better than tractors and Paul Harvey!

Interesting to say the least. I don't have particular memory of that winter as I just turned three years old in November of '48.

Thanks wile E.

We need 1,000 more films touting the greatness of our country - the greatest country in the history of mankind.

Tom in TN

Does anyone have a clue as to why they Paul
said that one of items they sent to Help with
the snow removal Was Hay Balers??

i remember walking home from school when i was around 12, so around 1972 and i went past a pile that been plowed, i picked up a piece and it had layers in it, you could see ice, sleet, snow, ice, sleet, snow, etc... i remember counting them and thinking yep, looks about right. every winter was pretty much like that in the midwest, we dealt with it and life went on. today however the news channels sensationalize everything to death, and then some with so called experts and such. sheeeeeesh

I will find them on U tube and post them on here.

the hay balers were brought in to bale up the hay stacks so they could be moved easier and quicker.

I know it was 60+ years old but it sure was good to see a film about us helping ourselves instead of helping some ungrateful nation halfway around the world that forgets what we've done the next month. Just my rant!

No one, but NO ONE, could narrate something like Paul Harvey!

Sadly I can't view the film because my video player in the computer is shot. But I have several VCRs of old newsreel type film from Ac, Cat, etc. showing the response to storms, etc. Good stuff.

I miss Paul Harvey. The man was an institution.