I drove Diesel VWs for 30 years. When I lived in Alaska, a block heater worked most of the time. When I could not plug in. A large Cookie sheet , a bit of charcoal and a banket did the trick in Yukon. It took 20 min. Since I was working as a bush pilot at the time, keeping warm was always an issue. We stop flying when the outside temps dropped lower than -30 F, the aircraft would just cold soak.
I remember driving a VW Golf Diesel during an unusually harsh winter in Sudbury Ontario. There are all sorts of plug ins for block heaters in Sudbury and I managed to start my VW…but as I was driving the fuel gelled in a feul line… I had to tow it to a garage for the day so it could warm up.
@@gondolacrescent5 Yeah you got a load of unwinterized diesel. Took very good care of my car; oh, I would throw some Jet-A in the tank since I had access to that fuel since I was flying Bell Helicopters and Cessna 208s at the time. I never had fuel-gelling problems. I did have glow plugs burn out and, of course, the glow plug fuse going out. I kept a dozen of those in the glove box
When I was much younger than now, I got lazy and did not drain the 20W50 oil from my car in time for winter. I tried to start the car.. it said "I don't wanna go". I told my dad, he compared me with something that wasn't a compliment and told me to get his blow torch to try (he called it a blow lamp, he was a Brit). Anyway, after I got that going and aimed at the oil sump, I had breakfast, dad had gone to work by then. After breakfast I tried to start the car again and she fired up with the first turn of the key, I drained the oil and replaced it with 5W30 that day.
When I was working at a horse breed farm here in Sweden 10 years ago I was driving a brand new Valtra Tractor. The owner was a millionaire but insisted I should do oil changes and such myself to save money. I said to him I need 10w for winter but he said the dealer only provided 15w. Well then we got the coldest winter in years. In -30c it started thanks to the large battery and heater but it took 30 minutes before the oil pressure warning lamp finally wasn't flashing... Poor tractor... I never use other than 10w-30 in my machines.
It's amazing the Soviets were as successful as they were at starting all the diesel engines of their tanks during WWII. The Kharkiv V2 diesels (38.8L) used in T-34 tanks took a lot of compression to get started. Batteries of course tend to fail in subzero temperatures. The Soviet solution to this was a manually pumped canister that was used to send forced air into the engine and make it roll. It often worked, but was a hell of a job for the driver who had to sit and pump enough air into the tank to attempt a start.
they had diesel powered coolant heaters on them. first you start the heater,then you build up the oil pressure with prelube pump and then start the engine.
@@Henzzman The Webasto heaters our logging equipment has heats the coolant, and the engine oil as well from the warm coolant in the oil cooler. Even 5W40 gets pretty thick at -20F or lower.
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My friend Tom Cooke came to work one morning to find his new truck /load/driver sitting due to a n early cold snap and failure to plug it in. Never a patient sort, Tom got a fire going underneath as shown. Unfortunately, the new truck had the first fiberglass oil pan. Bad day for Tom
I can't imagine living like this coming from southern Louisiana. I don't think I've ever experienced any negative Fahrenheit before. +30F is cold where I'm from, I can't imagine -76F! Their resilience is amazing
Around -5F one begins to notice the snot freezing in one's nose. Other than that, and the rapidity of frostbite setting in, anything below +20F feels about the same.
@@kmoecub +20F is a balmy winter day in NW Maine, I hike or snowshoe with just a silkweight baselayer top in those temps. Sometimes short sleeves if it’s sunny and not windy LOL
gets to -50c where i am in the winters. Still rocking an 80s Civic year round. Some mornings, my powersteering fluid is near slush. Quite literally everything turns to a molasses and the block heater becomes a very good friend of yours. It is very comfy weather for driving though i will say
@@IntroRC I drove an old vw fox in similar conditions once and got a bad stutter like the fuel was freezing in the lines. It cleared up after car got down the road some but thought I’d be walking. Ever have anything like that happen with the civic or know the cause? I didn’t know gas could freeze…
I've had to do that where I live in saskatchewan a few times. its the best way to go unless you live somewhere with no or limited fuel. Then its warming up the crank case with a fire. Thankfully Ive only ever seen that done once and it was my grandfather doing it. 😂😂
Yep. They still do that in Sault Ste. Marie Michigan. If the truck is shut off over night. They build a fire in a metal bucket and warm the engine up before starting it. Block warmers don't work in these types of conditions.
Idling a diesel in such conditions is very hard on the engine...they sludge up which destroys the engine...lived in Canada and that's where I learned that
I live in the UK and we don't get winters that cold, but in the early 80s I drove 4 wheel tippers for a demolition and plant hire company, one day we had a very cold snap and my job for the day was cancelled and the boss told me to take one of the Commer skip lorrys out, it started ok but when I moved off the front driver side wheel was frozen solid and it took 10 minutes with an acetylene torch to free it I eventually managed to leave the yard but about a mile down the road the engine ground to a halt because the desiel had frozen so I lost another hour waiting for the mechanic to come out with a van load of wood to build a fire under the fuel tank, happy days
I have a super simple solution for this. I added a auto gearbox cooler to my diesel car's fuel system. Coolant passes through one circuit, fuel comes into other circuit from the tank and then into the filter. If you get the thing started and running for 1 minute then you're good to go. Zero worries about crappy fuel freezing.
I worked on Sakhalin Island, north of the Arctic Circle. We'd keep our trucks running all winter long. Drive them to the fuel point every morning. And if you forgot...oh boy.
@@deathuponusalll There was a heated mechanics tent: one of those large structures like you see the military putting up overseas. If something did freeze (I may have forgotten to refuel my vehicle on time....) you called them and they brought over a "salamander" which looks like a jet engine and blows hot hair to show out the engine block.
@@TheResilient5689 Yeah, just layering. Also, I worked indoors, so I didn't go out much. The construction guys, in the worst weather, would work like 20 minutes, go inside to warm up, then go back out to work another 20 minutes. It's brutal.
I remember reading about what WW2 Germans had to do to get their tanks going in Russia. They'd start fires under them to get the running gear unfrozen For coolant, they drained it at night and kept it warm till morning. Start up a tank, cycle the coolant through , kill it, then drain and repeat on the rest. Probably only in depots, otherwise leave them running all night like we did most equipment on the Alaska Pipeline.
The flip side to all this is I had a friend from the USSR who was born in Azhabazhan, lived (I think) Crimea and worked at times in Soviet Central Asia. At the time I lived in San Diego and when I asked him what brought him to Southern California he said he liked the climate as it was what he was used to ba k in the USSR. He explained that along the coast of the Black Sea where he lived had a climate like Southern California. Moreover he said that he never even saw snow. Surprise.
Sergei thank you for starting your RUclips channel. Seems like were about the same age. One of the things I remember growing up were the testing of the warnings for nuclear strikes and the school tests when they would turn on the sirens and wed have to jump under our desks and hold the kiss your hiney good bye.. I always wondered if the kids in the Soviet Union had to go through the same things. Its nice to finally get to know what life was like for you during the same time. One of your 6%.
I've never seen reference to them doing it, and there's lots of stuff about life and things in Russia in the cold war era now on RUclips. They probably had more common sense. if the Soviets actually had lobbed a nuclear bomb on you, especially if it was one of their enormous hydrogen bombs, getting under a desk was not going to help you much. In other countries, there has long been a persistent rumor that the Cold War was something dreamed up by Truman and Stalin to motivate the workers in both countries to work harder, thinking they had to beat the other side, and not slacken off in reaction to World War 2 ending like the British did. If so, it certainly seems to have worked.
I could tell a story about this same method the way I heard it second hand from a RCMP policeman in Canada's old Northwest Territories, back in the 80s, but RUclips would probably consider it racist even though I expect the native people would find it funny. I didn't need to resort to this method anyway; we drove up the Dempster Highway in time for the summer solstice. There was still ice in the harbors in the Beaufort Sea, but our problem was mosquitoes more than frozen gas lines and radiators. I don't think it gets quite to -76F up there, anyway -- certainly not as often as in Yakutia. Once in those days I tried to apply external heat to a frozen starter when temperatures were in the -30s in Minnesota, with no success. Finally I removed the starter (harder in those temperatures than some might realize) took it inside the house where it had a chance to really warm up, re-installed it in the car and off it went. I'd have no idea how to go about such a thing in modern cars.
@@MichaelJohnson-tw7dqnow that's just wasting good cannabis😂. I worked in Fairbanks when I was younger for almost 6 months and southern Alaska for a while rehabbing and building super 8 motels, even southern Alaska seems like a temporate oasis comparably. Let alone the further north you get the crazier some of the people get. Like many places have been in the world the nice people were very very nice and would give you the shirt off their back. God bless you 🙏
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Those horses and those men are hard. Do what needs to be done. Unfortunately most of humanity now struggles with deciding between Temu hot deal scrolling and poodlewalking. When the humans are gone, the animals will survive because technology doesnt make them softer than lukewarm pre-chewed ethically-sourced rainforest-friendly eco-approved kale pudding. Stay gold.
Thank you for showing this great video. Years ago I came across a similar video of Black and White postwar trucks driving in extreme cold weather and they were heating the engines with fires even heating the tires with some gasoline tossed on them and Flames because otherwise the rubber would actually crack. They even had little wood stoves under the glove box on the passenger side. If you ever find that video please share it thanks!!!
Wow. We couldn't do that with today's vehicles, with all the plastic components. I'd imagine that we could use something like an old-fashioned bed warmer. It looks like a frying pan with a lid and long handle, and it could hold hot coals. I'm not sure what else would work.
It’s an electric pad that’s glued onto the oil sump. They make ones that go in the coolant to warm up the engine block but the oil stays cold. There’s also ones for the fuel filters to prevent gelling and even the batteries same idea.
I'm in Canada and we can get some pretty darned frosty weather here too by times though I don't recall it ever getting to -76. -56 is the lowest I've personally experienced though there may have been colder recordings. Spent a lot of time on everything from highways to work sites to oil and gas operations and in many cases, we'd just let the damned things run all night and turn up the idle a touch. kept everything charged, kept the fluids hot and most importantly, kept me warm as most of the times, I was in the bunk trying to sleep.
I wonder when the Soviet Union got multi viscosity oils like 10W-30. The USA started getting them in the 1950s on commercially available automotive oils. I've seen that flaming oily rag on a stick trick at 0:17 on stationary water pumping diesel engines in Pakistan and India.
In really cold conditions, multigrade oils aren't much better than traditional oils. If you plot viscosity versus temperature on a log-of-log chart, mineral oils are a straight line. A multigrade oil such as 10W-30 follows the 10 SAE line beyond a low temperature limit, and the 30 SAE line above a high temperature limit, and have a gradual transition between the two limits. So at really low temperatures, 10W30 just behaves as 30 SAE oil and gets thicker.
It would "start" without issues, though the range would probably be shitty without the battery being preconditioned for at least 20min (assuming it were non-early models with heat pumps). Nevertheless, Teslas would've saved their arses if used properly.
In Alaska apparently they do the same. So here goes our new prototype on test in winter conditions. With a plastic oil pan. The driver put his burner under it and went for coffee. The oil pan melted and the million-dollar prototype truck burned to the ground. True story!
I remember back in the 70's when New England winters would get brutally cold, our cars often wouldn't start. You'd work a few hours to get her going again. Turn it over, charge the battery, turn it over repeat until it started. I'd never put a fire under the engine
I enjoyed the thrill of hauling Milk from Farms in 1995, at -30 in Minnesota. That was pretty intense for an entire Month. We do seem to experience weather events of unusual terms lately.
Yep, a few years back it hit -25 where I live and we had to start a fire under the crankcase of our '48 Ford 8N to get our driveway plowed and get to town.
They still have to use portable heaters to heat the engine blocks of cars in Siberia. People winterize cars with wool blanketing and such, also install engine block heaters that plug in over night to keep the engine warm. Engine block heaters are pretty common in Alaska and Canada but I think Siberia and Northern Russia have much colder conditions in the winter time and require extra accommodations in the colder regions
You'd think that they could just hire a night shift to start and shutdown the trucks hourly to keep them from freezing. and also a compression relief valve could come in handy for starting
First TY to your editor. In the military we left the engines running. Or 30 minute start ups run for 15 minutes. But the easiest way in cold climates is just plug in water pump heaters, that circulate hot water all night long. But I forget, the USSR nor russia have electricity. 😅
well after ww2 in cssr when the comunist party ordered electricity and roads to every village....our village had one diesel electric generator at the local farm. for a loooong time. first tarmac road was in like 60-65 ish ....my grandma was always horrified when we brought her a 100W bulb :D:D:D she was used to 25W limitation due to that diesel generator.
in milder winters like -10°C the drivers let the cars read some pravda newspaper...on fire. right into the intake. now when its all plastic on the trucks and cars its a challange not to melt something.
as i have a car up north... 200hp 300hp * 500lbft Ford 4.6... idling when it is -84F the motor at nearly 300 cubic inch, cools down then nearly falls into a stalling loop of to cold to run, and only stays at it's 180F operational range when it is essentially floored burning 2mpg to 8mpg. ... get one truck going and pull start the other one's. batteries over the idea that... the bearing clearances on a summer engine are 15 thousandths inch, a winter engine bearings are specified between 45 and 65 thousandths. as so lots of cars and trucks made in china and mexico are not made for the cold air with the 15thou bearing clearances... they are locked mechanically at -20F. transmission oil goes in the engine radiator to preheat the oil... tho the cab heater does not work in -84F, so the lump on the exhaust pipe is a heater core... cab heater that uses the exhaust manifold and part of down pipe as a heat exchanger for heating the cab of the truck. like one of those aluminum heatsinks on a micro chip but bigger and made of iron similar to a catalytic converter inside tho can run engine coolant or air thru it's outer case? 2 foot of exhaust heat added to holding in thermal dynamics. do not accept being stuck... under load that does become a 250kwhr heater core, so driving with the windows open just feels good when its -84f.
Damn 76 below zero is chilly!!!!!!! Were those gas or diesel trucks? Wouldn't it be easier to let the trucks idle overnight? My brother lives in northern Wisconsin and he drives a Semi. When the temperature was gonna drop to 20 or 30 below zero at night he'd let his Semi idle overnight. I asked him isn't that expensive. He said not as expensive as the Semi freezing up overnight and trying to start it for hours and missing your delivery. A lot of southern truckers drive up to the northern States in the winter. They have southern diesel fuel in their trucks that doesn't have anti gel additives in the diesel fuel. Their diesel fuel gels up and the truck quits running. I see them stuck and pulled on the shoulder all the time in the winter. My brothers friend made a living out of ungelling the diesel fuel in southern truckers trucks in the winter. He'd put a torpedo heater under the Semi and box in the Semi with cardboard. In a couple of hours the diesel fuel was warm enough to ungell. When the diesel was liquid he'd add an anti gelling additive to the fuel tanks. And the trucker went on way with his wallet $400 - $500 lighter. For two hours of work $400 - $500 wasn't bad pay. It was funny nobody liked the cold weather. But he used to pray for cold weather so he could make money.
They are gasoline engine trucks. A gasoline engine will start, if its electrics are good, no matter how cold it is - the only thing is, you have to turn it over. At really low temperatures, batteries become ineffective, and oil becomes so thick the starter-motor can't turn the engine over even if the battery can deliver enough current. That's why Caterpillar diesel tractors were made with a little rope-start gasoline engine instead of an electric starter motor. No matter how cold it is, you can always get the gasoline engine started (though I can personally vouch by experience that it can take all one's strength due to the oil). The gasoline engine shares its coolant with the diesel engine, so it warms up the diesel engine. When the diesel engine is warm enough, you can engage the pinion and start it.
You don't start a truck at those extreme low temperatures. Those trucks are left running 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Bad thing happens to those trucks If you run them and turn them off even the engine block heaters aren't going to help at 76 below zero.
I drove Diesel VWs for 30 years. When I lived in Alaska, a block heater worked most of the time. When I could not plug in. A large Cookie sheet , a bit of charcoal and a banket did the trick in Yukon. It took 20 min. Since I was working as a bush pilot at the time, keeping warm was always an issue. We stop flying when the outside temps dropped lower than -30 F, the aircraft would just cold soak.
I remember driving a VW Golf Diesel during an unusually harsh winter in Sudbury Ontario. There are all sorts of plug ins for block heaters in Sudbury and I managed to start my VW…but as I was driving the fuel gelled in a feul line… I had to tow it to a garage for the day so it could warm up.
@@gondolacrescent5 Yeah you got a load of unwinterized diesel. Took very good care of my car; oh, I would throw some Jet-A in the tank since I had access to that fuel since I was flying Bell Helicopters and Cessna 208s at the time. I never had fuel-gelling problems. I did have glow plugs burn out and, of course, the glow plug fuse going out. I kept a dozen of those in the glove box
Wow what is "cold soak" just unable to get to a warm enough temp?
What is cold soak? I'm a Canuck and I've never heard that term before.
Russians have these electric heaters only now. It was hell before them, now everyone there uses onw
When I was much younger than now, I got lazy and did not drain the 20W50 oil from my car in time for winter. I tried to start the car.. it said "I don't wanna go". I told my dad, he compared me with something that wasn't a compliment and told me to get his blow torch to try (he called it a blow lamp, he was a Brit). Anyway, after I got that going and aimed at the oil sump, I had breakfast, dad had gone to work by then. After breakfast I tried to start the car again and she fired up with the first turn of the key, I drained the oil and replaced it with 5W30 that day.
When I was working at a horse breed farm here in Sweden 10 years ago I was driving a brand new Valtra Tractor.
The owner was a millionaire but insisted I should do oil changes and such myself to save money.
I said to him I need 10w for winter but he said the dealer only provided 15w.
Well then we got the coldest winter in years. In -30c it started thanks to the large battery and heater but it took 30 minutes before the oil pressure warning lamp finally wasn't flashing...
Poor tractor... I never use other than 10w-30 in my machines.
It's amazing the Soviets were as successful as they were at starting all the diesel engines of their tanks during WWII. The Kharkiv V2 diesels (38.8L) used in T-34 tanks took a lot of compression to get started. Batteries of course tend to fail in subzero temperatures. The Soviet solution to this was a manually pumped canister that was used to send forced air into the engine and make it roll. It often worked, but was a hell of a job for the driver who had to sit and pump enough air into the tank to attempt a start.
they had diesel powered coolant heaters on them. first you start the heater,then you build up the oil pressure with prelube pump and then start the engine.
The driver probably didn’t mind the work as it warmed him up.
@@philsmith2444 the driver reached full operating temperature before his vehicle lol
@@Henzzman The Webasto heaters our logging equipment has heats the coolant, and the engine oil as well from the warm coolant in the oil cooler. Even 5W40 gets pretty thick at -20F or lower.
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Everyone has great memories of work hard or easy it was fun to be young and working.
What you do is get the first one started, then drive it to the airport
Upon arriving at airport, you find a group of guys standing around an airplane with small fires underneath it.
I hear that :D The fires seemed a bit cruel, the rubber bits heat up fast.
@@teamidris Rubber bits need to heat up too in such temps, else they can crack.
@@WymiataczPlays truth right there, it is such a narrow window between just right and melted :o
Good one
My friend Tom Cooke came to work one morning to find his new truck /load/driver sitting due to a n early cold snap and failure to plug it in. Never a patient sort, Tom got a fire going underneath as shown. Unfortunately, the new truck had the first fiberglass oil pan. Bad day for Tom
I can't imagine living like this coming from southern Louisiana. I don't think I've ever experienced any negative Fahrenheit before. +30F is cold where I'm from, I can't imagine -76F! Their resilience is amazing
Around -5F one begins to notice the snot freezing in one's nose. Other than that, and the rapidity of frostbite setting in, anything below +20F feels about the same.
@@kmoecub +20F is a balmy winter day in NW Maine, I hike or snowshoe with just a silkweight baselayer top in those temps. Sometimes short sleeves if it’s sunny and not windy LOL
gets to -50c where i am in the winters. Still rocking an 80s Civic year round. Some mornings, my powersteering fluid is near slush. Quite literally everything turns to a molasses and the block heater becomes a very good friend of yours. It is very comfy weather for driving though i will say
@@IntroRC I drove an old vw fox in similar conditions once and got a bad stutter like the fuel was freezing in the lines. It cleared up after car got down the road some but thought I’d be walking. Ever have anything like that happen with the civic or know the cause? I didn’t know gas could freeze…
It's cold enough to crack your teeth.
Imagine being a mechanic out there and slipping and banging your knuckles when working on these things
I remember hearing that in such conditions, they would leave the engines idling overnight so that they don't cool down.
@Cyberspine From what I've seen (on YT etc) of the contemporary Sakha republic (aka Yakutia) they still do.
I've had to do that where I live in saskatchewan a few times. its the best way to go unless you live somewhere with no or limited fuel. Then its warming up the crank case with a fire. Thankfully Ive only ever seen that done once and it was my grandfather doing it. 😂😂
Yep.
They still do that in Sault Ste. Marie Michigan.
If the truck is shut off over night. They build a fire in a metal bucket and warm the engine up before starting it. Block warmers don't work in these types of conditions.
Idling a diesel in such conditions is very hard on the engine...they sludge up which destroys the engine...lived in Canada and that's where I learned that
@@therovingrobin5938 Turn your idle up a bit. Solves that.
I'm watching this during a heatwave to help cool down .
I live in the UK and we don't get winters that cold, but in the early 80s I drove 4 wheel tippers for a demolition and plant hire company, one day we had a very cold snap and my job for the day was cancelled and the boss told me to take one of the Commer skip lorrys out, it started ok but when I moved off the front driver side wheel was frozen solid and it took 10 minutes with an acetylene torch to free it I eventually managed to leave the yard but about a mile down the road the engine ground to a halt because the desiel had frozen so I lost another hour waiting for the mechanic to come out with a van load of wood to build a fire under the fuel tank, happy days
I have a super simple solution for this. I added a auto gearbox cooler to my diesel car's fuel system. Coolant passes through one circuit, fuel comes into other circuit from the tank and then into the filter. If you get the thing started and running for 1 minute then you're good to go. Zero worries about crappy fuel freezing.
I worked on Sakhalin Island, north of the Arctic Circle. We'd keep our trucks running all winter long. Drive them to the fuel point every morning. And if you forgot...oh boy.
How would you do oil changes?😮
@@deathuponusalll There was a heated mechanics tent: one of those large structures like you see the military putting up overseas. If something did freeze (I may have forgotten to refuel my vehicle on time....) you called them and they brought over a "salamander" which looks like a jet engine and blows hot hair to show out the engine block.
@@jimdawdy6254How did you usually stay warm all the way up there beyond probably just wearing multiple layers?
@@TheResilient5689 Yeah, just layering. Also, I worked indoors, so I didn't go out much. The construction guys, in the worst weather, would work like 20 minutes, go inside to warm up, then go back out to work another 20 minutes. It's brutal.
@@jimdawdy6254 I can imagine as much. If you had them while over there, did the hot cocoa and/or coffee help too?
I remember reading about what WW2 Germans had to do to get their tanks going in Russia. They'd start fires under them to get the running gear unfrozen For coolant, they drained it at night and kept it warm till morning. Start up a tank, cycle the coolant through , kill it, then drain and repeat on the rest. Probably only in depots, otherwise leave them running all night like we did most equipment on the Alaska Pipeline.
Thank for the time and effort You spend on these videos Sergei.
Best Wishes to You and Your Family.
This smooth jazz almost makes fire starting a truck in the arcticle circle look like a hipster activity.
The flip side to all this is I had a friend from the USSR who was born in Azhabazhan, lived (I think) Crimea and worked at times in Soviet Central Asia.
At the time I lived in San Diego and when I asked him what brought him to Southern California he said he liked the climate as it was what he was used to ba k in the USSR. He explained that along the coast of the Black Sea where he lived had a climate like Southern California. Moreover he said that he never even saw snow. Surprise.
@@danrhinehart1134 Yep, it’s like the Russian Caribbean. On the same latitude as Bangor Maine LOL
Try doing this on a midern truck! You'd have a big blog of melted plastic on the ground in the morning, and it'd be towed straight to the wreckers!
Sergei thank you for starting your RUclips channel.
Seems like were about the same age. One of the things I remember growing up were the testing of the warnings for nuclear strikes and the school tests when they would turn on the sirens and wed have to jump under our desks and hold the kiss your hiney good bye..
I always wondered if the kids in the Soviet Union had to go through the same things.
Its nice to finally get to know what life was like for you during the same time.
One of your 6%.
I've never seen reference to them doing it, and there's lots of stuff about life and things in Russia in the cold war era now on RUclips. They probably had more common sense. if the Soviets actually had lobbed a nuclear bomb on you, especially if it was one of their enormous hydrogen bombs, getting under a desk was not going to help you much.
In other countries, there has long been a persistent rumor that the Cold War was something dreamed up by Truman and Stalin to motivate the workers in both countries to work harder, thinking they had to beat the other side, and not slacken off in reaction to World War 2 ending like the British did. If so, it certainly seems to have worked.
Reminds me of living in Fairbanks in the 1980s
I could tell a story about this same method the way I heard it second hand from a RCMP policeman in Canada's old Northwest Territories, back in the 80s, but RUclips would probably consider it racist even though I expect the native people would find it funny. I didn't need to resort to this method anyway; we drove up the Dempster Highway in time for the summer solstice. There was still ice in the harbors in the Beaufort Sea, but our problem was mosquitoes more than frozen gas lines and radiators. I don't think it gets quite to -76F up there, anyway -- certainly not as often as in Yakutia. Once in those days I tried to apply external heat to a frozen starter when temperatures were in the -30s in Minnesota, with no success. Finally I removed the starter (harder in those temperatures than some might realize) took it inside the house where it had a chance to really warm up, re-installed it in the car and off it went. I'd have no idea how to go about such a thing in modern cars.
@@johngorentz6409 we used to use weed burners and improvised stove pipe, duct work to put heat under the engine
@@MichaelJohnson-tw7dqnow that's just wasting good cannabis😂. I worked in Fairbanks when I was younger for almost 6 months and southern Alaska for a while rehabbing and building super 8 motels, even southern Alaska seems like a temporate oasis comparably. Let alone the further north you get the crazier some of the people get. Like many places have been in the world the nice people were very very nice and would give you the shirt off their back. God bless you 🙏
@@johngorentz6409modern cars are not made to work on. They are disposable adjustment to be replaced😢. Why I have a 25 year old Cummins and a 24-year-old 3.8 L V6 from GM. Both phenomenal engines, easy to work on. God bless you 🙏
@@bradpnw1897 I used to work at the Fairbanks super 8. What year were you there?
Thanks for your contributions to popular Soviet history :)
Notice the horses don't stop working in the cold.
They leave them running overnight. Just needs hay and sleep
Because them horses got internal heating lol
The horse looked like he was ready too go to work.
Those horses and those men are hard. Do what needs to be done. Unfortunately most of humanity now struggles with deciding between Temu hot deal scrolling and poodlewalking. When the humans are gone, the animals will survive because technology doesnt make them softer than lukewarm pre-chewed ethically-sourced rainforest-friendly eco-approved kale pudding.
Stay gold.
Thank you for showing this great video. Years ago I came across a similar video of Black and White postwar trucks driving in extreme cold weather and they were heating the engines with fires even heating the tires with some gasoline tossed on them and Flames because otherwise the rubber would actually crack. They even had little wood stoves under the glove box on the passenger side. If you ever find that video please share it thanks!!!
Wow. We couldn't do that with today's vehicles, with all the plastic components.
I'd imagine that we could use something like an old-fashioned bed warmer. It looks like a frying pan with a lid and long handle, and it could hold hot coals. I'm not sure what else would work.
A heated garage?
(I was sent to gulag for this bourgeois thought crime)
@@Welgeldiguniekalias 😂 It would work, though.
Today's vehicles have block heaters
It’s an electric pad that’s glued onto the oil sump. They make ones that go in the coolant to warm up the engine block but the oil stays cold. There’s also ones for the fuel filters to prevent gelling and even the batteries same idea.
@@JohnSmith-lf4beTemperatures below 30° can kill the battery.
I'm in Canada and we can get some pretty darned frosty weather here too by times though I don't recall it ever getting to -76. -56 is the lowest I've personally experienced though there may have been colder recordings.
Spent a lot of time on everything from highways to work sites to oil and gas operations and in many cases, we'd just let the damned things run all night and turn up the idle a touch. kept everything charged, kept the fluids hot and most importantly, kept me warm as most of the times, I was in the bunk trying to sleep.
The music makes this video so comfy for some reason
I wonder when the Soviet Union got multi viscosity oils like 10W-30. The USA started getting them in the 1950s on commercially available automotive oils. I've seen that flaming oily rag on a stick trick at 0:17 on stationary water pumping diesel engines in Pakistan and India.
In really cold temps they used sunflower seed oil.
In really cold conditions, multigrade oils aren't much better than traditional oils. If you plot viscosity versus temperature on a log-of-log chart, mineral oils are a straight line. A multigrade oil such as 10W-30 follows the 10 SAE line beyond a low temperature limit, and the 30 SAE line above a high temperature limit, and have a gradual transition between the two limits. So at really low temperatures, 10W30 just behaves as 30 SAE oil and gets thicker.
Now, let's see them try and start up a Tesla, in those conditions--haah!
Nah comparing these to Teslas is like comparing an athlete with a guy that does yoga 😂
Those deathtraps would never ever never start at -76*.
It would "start" without issues, though the range would probably be shitty without the battery being preconditioned for at least 20min (assuming it were non-early models with heat pumps). Nevertheless, Teslas would've saved their arses if used properly.
To be fair having to set your truck on fire every morning isn't really graceful also
Именно по этому Тесла - тупиковая ветка развития. Это городская игрушка для ситибоя.
In Alaska apparently they do the same. So here goes our new prototype on test in winter conditions. With a plastic oil pan. The driver put his burner under it and went for coffee. The oil pan melted and the million-dollar prototype truck burned to the ground. True story!
North of 60' Lat, we leave our diesels running in the winter, until a preventive maintenance.
I like the music 🎶
Lost Lounge by TrackTribe.
Agreed! For once, music made a video better.
What i found strange was that they had to set the truck on fire to get it started lol.
I remember back in the 70's when New England winters would get brutally cold, our cars often wouldn't start. You'd work a few hours to get her going again. Turn it over, charge the battery, turn it over repeat until it started. I'd never put a fire under the engine
I enjoyed the thrill of hauling Milk from Farms in 1995,
at -30 in Minnesota.
That was pretty intense for an entire Month.
We do seem to experience weather events of unusual terms lately.
I couldn't even imagine. I live in New England. Coldest I've seen is -20F for a few hours right before the sun came up one January morning.
Very true. In the oil patch in northern Alberta Canada this is still done.
I live in San Diego.
Non electric block heaters 🔥
Just like my grandpa used to use.
In Finland oil away, water away and accu away for the night. All these in warm.
Beautiful trucks ❤
The wind almost sounds like music, thats crazy
I like how they light a fire under the radiator hose lololol
I've warmed old 1920 or 30 tractors that way. Warm up the lube so she can actually move.....especially if condensation is frozen in the cases....
Yep, a few years back it hit -25 where I live and we had to start a fire under the crankcase of our '48 Ford 8N to get our driveway plowed and get to town.
They still have to use portable heaters to heat the engine blocks of cars in Siberia. People winterize cars with wool blanketing and such, also install engine block heaters that plug in over night to keep the engine warm. Engine block heaters are pretty common in Alaska and Canada but I think Siberia and Northern Russia have much colder conditions in the winter time and require extra accommodations in the colder regions
In Minnesota we came up with this great invention called a garage.
That's not even cold......that's a nice spring day in Winnipeg
Used to start skidders and harvesters like that only we Used a piece of stove pipe.
That must have done wonders to the wire harnesses.
Not much for wires on that generation of diesel engines
Wire? Harness? 😊
Unless it had electric start, it had zero wires.
@@ObamaoZedongcandles for headlights?
Seems reasonable and logical 🔥💥
😅
Talk about a cold start!
I take so for granted jumping in my car and pressing "start". 😅
You'd think that they could just hire a night shift to start and shutdown the trucks hourly to keep them from freezing. and also a compression relief valve could come in handy for starting
Thank you for another interesting video John Wayne Cheeseburger!! 🍔
What was that from again?
welcome to North Dakota in Jan- Feb . even if you use anti gel in your diesel it will still gel up .gotta keep it running
Remind me to start an up the bulldozers in the winter.
First TY to your editor. In the military we left the engines running. Or 30 minute start ups run for 15 minutes.
But the easiest way in cold climates is just plug in water pump heaters, that circulate hot water all night long. But I forget, the USSR nor russia have electricity. 😅
well after ww2 in cssr when the comunist party ordered electricity and roads to every village....our village had one diesel electric generator at the local farm. for a loooong time. first tarmac road was in like 60-65 ish ....my grandma was always horrified when we brought her a 100W bulb :D:D:D she was used to 25W limitation due to that diesel generator.
In Canada that's how I get my cassette player going.
"Sasha, did you remember to set truck on fire today? You must burn it down or it not go."
Just so you know, those other guy's started their horses the same way.
Fun fact, Yakutian horses live wild in those temperatures.
I know some people who would benefit from this method to get them going in the morning!
in milder winters like -10°C the drivers let the cars read some pravda newspaper...on fire. right into the intake. now when its all plastic on the trucks and cars its a challange not to melt something.
Ive done this with a propane heater and tarp in alberta canada
In modern times we have block heaters and press button ether injection.
Extreme conditions , extreme solutions 🥶
Early '70, warming diesel engine block with torches for 20-30 minutes than ether then "wish" 😉
as i have a car up north... 200hp 300hp * 500lbft Ford 4.6... idling when it is -84F the motor at nearly 300 cubic inch, cools down then nearly falls into a stalling loop of to cold to run, and only stays at it's 180F operational range when it is essentially floored burning 2mpg to 8mpg. ... get one truck going and pull start the other one's. batteries over the idea that... the bearing clearances on a summer engine are 15 thousandths inch, a winter engine bearings are specified between 45 and 65 thousandths. as so lots of cars and trucks made in china and mexico are not made for the cold air with the 15thou bearing clearances... they are locked mechanically at -20F. transmission oil goes in the engine radiator to preheat the oil... tho the cab heater does not work in -84F, so the lump on the exhaust pipe is a heater core... cab heater that uses the exhaust manifold and part of down pipe as a heat exchanger for heating the cab of the truck. like one of those aluminum heatsinks on a micro chip but bigger and made of iron similar to a catalytic converter inside tho can run engine coolant or air thru it's outer case? 2 foot of exhaust heat added to holding in thermal dynamics. do not accept being stuck... under load that does become a 250kwhr heater core, so driving with the windows open just feels good when its -84f.
Peg from zip ties would be proud with these cold starts.
What main video did this come from I have been trying to find it because I enjoy watching it but I can't find it again
Damn 76 below zero is chilly!!!!!!! Were those gas or diesel trucks? Wouldn't it be easier to let the trucks idle overnight? My brother lives in northern Wisconsin and he drives a Semi. When the temperature was gonna drop to 20 or 30 below zero at night he'd let his Semi idle overnight. I asked him isn't that expensive. He said not as expensive as the Semi freezing up overnight and trying to start it for hours and missing your delivery. A lot of southern truckers drive up to the northern States in the winter. They have southern diesel fuel in their trucks that doesn't have anti gel additives in the diesel fuel. Their diesel fuel gels up and the truck quits running. I see them stuck and pulled on the shoulder all the time in the winter. My brothers friend made a living out of ungelling the diesel fuel in southern truckers trucks in the winter. He'd put a torpedo heater under the Semi and box in the Semi with cardboard. In a couple of hours the diesel fuel was warm enough to ungell. When the diesel was liquid he'd add an anti gelling additive to the fuel tanks. And the trucker went on way with his wallet $400 - $500 lighter. For two hours of work $400 - $500 wasn't bad pay. It was funny nobody liked the cold weather. But he used to pray for cold weather so he could make money.
it's a ZIL-130, so it ran on gas
God in Heaven that looks fucking dangerous!
Apparently a blanket over the motor with charcoal underneath is too hard
Reminds me of driving Bedford TK's
I’d have thought that the flames 🔥 would melt wires & rubber brake hoses etc.
What year is this from?
1965
2024
2065, after WW3
That would explain what happened to the Moskva. But I didn't know it was so cold in the Black Sea
Cool, bit how did they warm up the horses to get those started? :p
Step One: Move to a warmer climate.
When you stop drain the oil. When you want to use the cat again heat up the oil and pour it into the engine and start the car.
tires at that temp are like glas...so slow first kilometers.
I think it crazy to live or work in a place like that. Move south
Next time you think you have it rough, watch this video again.
Literally burning the cars
These trucks are 1950s, primitive design but rugged. Wonder if modern truck could take that kind of beatings.
Thats how soviets strated their trucks at -40c
Look at that horse. I wonder how did they start the horse.
Never shit the engine off
Well, those engines were built like tanks, no wires got burned 🤔
Good old days when trucks were made of metal.
Bet these men where happy when Moscow issued new trucks with glow plugs
It has nothing to do with glow plugs, they warm up the block because the oil itself is so cold that the engine would not turn at all!
They are gasoline engine trucks. A gasoline engine will start, if its electrics are good, no matter how cold it is - the only thing is, you have to turn it over. At really low temperatures, batteries become ineffective, and oil becomes so thick the starter-motor can't turn the engine over even if the battery can deliver enough current.
That's why Caterpillar diesel tractors were made with a little rope-start gasoline engine instead of an electric starter motor. No matter how cold it is, you can always get the gasoline engine started (though I can personally vouch by experience that it can take all one's strength due to the oil). The gasoline engine shares its coolant with the diesel engine, so it warms up the diesel engine. When the diesel engine is warm enough, you can engage the pinion and start it.
not a summer guy but i think this might be overdoing it a bit 4 me
Kind of difficult to understand how the 1st nation in space couldn't invent an engine block heater which essentially is 2 wires and a coat hanger!!
Impressive carss and driverrs... ❤
Where were they going?
A barn would go a long way....
Just, Dont leave the house in December !!
It's January and February that are really bad!!
RUclips isn't updating me on your uploads.
What's that music?
i've never bbqed a truck engine before.
That's what I had to do. In Wyoming and Montana.
You don't start a truck at those extreme low temperatures. Those trucks are left running 24 hours a day 7 days a week.
Bad thing happens to those trucks If you run them and turn them off even the engine block heaters aren't going to help at 76 below zero.
I prefer external combustion
Hard Life.