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Snowplowing Austin-Westerns

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Tom Graham

01-12-2006 09:19:59




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Back in '51-52, a local contactor hooked 2 AW 4X4 graders together to buck the big drifts. Does anyone remember seeing anything like this, or have any info or pictures of a rig like this. I have a AW and a buddy has one just like it; we were talking about trying it.




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bruce ohnstad

01-20-2006 11:57:17




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 Re: Snowplowing Austin-Westerns in reply to Tom Graham, 01-12-2006 09:19:59  
I haven't heard of using two. I worry about breaking something.

My dad and others would take running dives into drifts. The key was cutting the throttle and pushing the clutch in before you hit. You'll take the clutch out otherwise.

The other key was not hitting a car or other stuff buried in the drift.

The local dealer in MN at the time, RMS, had a great overhead photo of an Austin Western as it dove into a drift.

These machines were the best in snow, lots of them in MN, Wisconsin and upper Michigan.

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Doc Larry

01-15-2006 06:03:54




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 Re: Snowplowing Austin-Westerns in reply to Tom Graham, 01-12-2006 09:19:59  
I worked as an operator and mechanic for a county in Colorado in the mid 1970s. All our plowing was done at about 8500" up to 11000". Lots of snow some years but normally not a lot of drifting problems in most areas. We had a fleet of 5 AW 99H and 99L models made in the early to mid 1950s as I recall, all had been repowered. We didn"t use V-blades, just 12" blades. Two machines had snow wings.

We also had a newer Pacer that was okay but a little too large for some areas.

The 99 series were extremely functional and fast machines for plowing on winding mountain roads. I"ve never heard of using a pair in tandem but plowing in the flatlands with wind drifts would have been a much different proposition.

Larry

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