The Original All Terrain Tire
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2023
- A history of how WWII trucks and equipment made an impact on Alaska, and featuring one of the creative upgrades to make them more versatile. The use of Douglas DC-3 Aircraft tires on WWII trucks.
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My dad was stationed in Adak, Alaska, they had international trucks. He told me that even the same year make and model would not have interchangeable parts, which made it extremely hard to repair or replace anything, and in a place like that it means a lot to have a vehicle running it could mean life or death.
I remember him telling me about them getting a new truck, and when it was being delivered off of the ship, somebody dropped it the crane let go, and it fell completely destroying it… Well, that was your new truck. They never got another one.
As a retired trucker, I'll just credit the chains. It doesn't matter what tire is being used. When chained PROPERLY - and few do it properly - you can't get stuck in a semi unless you're already off the road before you chained up. I drove for 25 years on roads that get more winter precip than any other passes in the lower 48 states - and slushier, with alternating re-freezes with fresh snow on top: The Cascades.
In latter years, they got better at de-icing, but not all passes got the same love. The ONLY people i ever saw getting into trouble were semi jocks who didn't respect the conditions, or their felloe driver. Those, and the very common civilian driver who has a $40,000 AWD import that is smarter then the driver. Th result is that the driver feels secure because the computer is lying. Once he overdrives the system, it's a roadside comedy.
A properly chained tire will be TIGHT. If you hear sleighbells-in-the snow, they are not tight, and cross overs will break because of the whipping they endure especially whe the plowed surface is bare in places.
Yep that's pretty amazing that they used the DC3 plane tires. Those planes have been flying since 1936 and really are amazing so good idea using the tires. Now I see why you have so much military equipment around. Thanks for the look around.
Any truck/equipment you see in Alaska had a hell of a trip just getting there so you can believe they were used to the utmost. At the same time, you can’t afford to throw anything away up there either, you patch it up and keep going. I love that kind of thinking, it makes you sharp because your life depends on it 🐾✌️🇺🇸
Exactly right!
Necessity is the engine of ingenuity.
Most of these men would be former military and be trained in make do and mend.
A really informative video thank you 🇬🇧
Super cool to see, like you said, using whatever was available to get it done love it. 🐾✌️🇺🇸
I'm a truck driver and I adore trucking history. Thanks for keeping some of it alive.
Very ingenious way to re-purpose tires and trucks...
Thank you for the great video. I hunted for years with a friend that had a M37 with airplane tires. Thanks for the Memories
Necessity is the mother of invention!
Great video, very interesting info. You should do 1 a month on Alaskan history if possible!
Nice little history lesson bro. I enjoy watching you get these old survivor rigs going again. Things were really built well back in the day.👍🇺🇸🤘🔥
Loved the history lesson. Never knew those trucks were used in that way
The old military trucks are the best thanks for sharing the video
At 42 mile Steese in the early 80’s. We built one of the military trucks up to be a moose hunting rig. Split two rims and welded them together to accommodate the Hercules 42” ( thinking they might have been 56” ) tires. Used logging skidder chains for traction. We strip a lot of unnecessary weight from the WW2 era truck. One truck only had a PTO winch in the front, the other had a PTO winch up front and an electric winch and boom in the rear. Always had to carry spare front short axles, if you were going to break one, that’s the one that would break.
Loved this one, appreciate the history lesson and overview. Wouldn't mind more on Alaska and tire life besides old trucks.
There was also a little used fact about those old narrow bidirectional tires. For on hard road conditions about 60+ PSI was used so the tire would stand up and ride on the smooth center tread section. When slippery conditions were encountered, as in mud or snow/ice. The air pressure was suppost to be let down to below 20PSI. The tire would squat and the outside tread would contact the surface and give better grip.
You are a very knowable young man thanks for history lesson. love your vids lad.
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Thankyou man! I preciate learnin more bout the ingenuity of the people of this great state.
A cool bit of history! THanks
Yeah Brother! Thank you for the very cool history lesson about the ingenuity and resiliency of America back in the day! I wish we could get back to that. We can see how our country's history is VERY important to hang on to instead of being demonized like it is today. God Bless you Brother and Thank You!!
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See I'm nearer Seattle . A logging company I worked for a large high altitude logger that had helicopter sides.
They had a timber sale that was a tower show but there was a part that had a ledge that had to be protected. Yarding over the ridge would of destroyed the ridge so they yarded to the ridge they used a cat pulling a old arch to haul the logs past the ridge . It was a giant logging arch pulled behind a D8 cat it had b17 tires in the arch . The tire company got 2 new b17 landing gear tires but It seems like they had 5 or 6 inch thick sidewalls .
I’m on the kenai peninsula, a lot of this equipment ended up working on the beaches and most I run across is completely rusted out and destroyed. But that stuff ran for a long time before it wasn’t usable.
You gotta love the resourcesness of doing what needed to be done them old folks was smart as hell.
We chose to use an extra tube tire flap in between the rims. That provided protection from branch poke through. The duece n half from the 50s, (GMC with the 302 gas 6 cyl. ) had the intermediate rear axle removed, the end one scooted up, and airplane tire
2000-20 used. We had one with the stock Hydra-matic, as well one with a Clark 5-speed. Good times
What a story!!! Thanks for that, mister! It shows me how hard it was AND IS to survive in Alaska… You use what you have… No help, no shop… no nothing…
Back when stuff was built to last be simple and made with quality.
How did you make it through the whole video without saying "moose buggy", a uniquely Alaskan word! 😃 I remember so many old moose buggies that only got used for a few weeks a year in the fall and just sat most the rest of the time. I think most have by now ended up in scrap yards, nobody thought to save them even twenty years ago.
A big part was buying equipment for pennies on the dollar. Thanks.
That was really interesting. Just curious have you seen any examples of DC3 or other aircraft tires being retreaded with traction tread? Thanks.
Great presentation and history of earlier days in Alaska
Definitely an ingenious combination of rims and tires.
Aircraft tire source: Gensco, Wharton, Texas. I buy then for ag equipment. They were able get me some large tires for a dirt pan.
One thing alot of truck guys nowadays probably don't like to hear, a large bald tire with chains will beat $3k tires not just by a little but DRASTICALLY
Exactly!
I really appreciate your appreciation for the history behind all this and sharing it Alaska is an amazing place for sure, I’d like to see it some day, down here in the California desert, or anywhere out in the sticks of this used to be good state. You still see these old trucks and other ww2 equipment set up for oil field work sitting around, when you get the chance check out
“low buck garage” on you tube he has an old ratty g506 variant that was set up after the war I believe for oil field service it’s got fuel and oil tanks that are perfect for servicing “pump jacks” and there rod line engines. Or mabey just other equipment, but I think it’s for oil field work. the cool part is the whole bed and tanks are all cut and built with a oxy torch, and gas welded together whoever built the truck was a good torch man! he didn’t bother to grind the torch cuts he just did a good job cutting them an welded everything together fresh of the torch👍
Awesome! Thanks!
Things of beauty.
This was an excellent video. I like the way you gave the setup. Thank you for sharing. I have a question. Are you ever going to try and get one of those bulldozer?
I live in Fairbanks I knew they put those tires on my didn’t know how they did it. Thank you for showing that information.
That was a really interesting story. Thankyou
Back in the day there were stories about cat trains disappearing in the muskeg. Probably make another good history video if you have intel on any of them.
Interesting! Dick Cepek may have thought he pioneered modified wheels and flotation tires on 4x4’s in California in the late 60’s and the 70’s, but he was far from the first. I have seen WWII pictures of a Kubelwagen in the desert, running big smooth aircraft tires at low pressure. So Rommel’s guys thought of it - eat your hearts out, Rat Patrol.😂
In 2012 i used tod operate and drive an old international wrecker that was built by the military. I absolutkey loved that truck. It was slow having only a 345 ci international v8 and a 4 spd with dual speed axle. It was very well built but very much of a device of ingenutiy. It didnt have a shaft drive for the wrecker winch. Instead it had belts amd pulleys and chains that ran the winch. 3 handles at the back. One was the trucks clutch. Then you pulled a seperate handle to operate the winch up or down. It was very homemade but tuff as hell and super cool. I want to say it was an 80s model international s1700 or something very similar to that
Appreciate the knowledge and history lesson! Super cool. Alaskans are cut from a different cloth. 👏
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When I was a kid living in southern FLA, I remember my gramps had an old deuce with DC3 tires and chains on it that he use for hauling logs out of the swamp. I didn't know what it was at the time and this is the first I've seen anyone else with the same setup. Pretty wild how the same ingenuity happened in totally opposite parts of the world.
Thats awsome I've never heard about this that is super cool and interesting 🤔 thanks for this 👍👍
Super great historical content. Thanks.
NESSCESITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION
Awesome history thanks for sharing
Nice history lesson, thanks!
That’s a great history lesson there
Cool history lesson man ,,a lot I didn't know 👍 👍 👍 👍
I had to settle for supper swampers on my M37 stock rims .
Nothing beats an old PW.
could you use two 750 tubes side by side on those double rims? i see there is two valve stem holes.
That was a very informative history lesson thank you very much!!!
Interesting, great to see you saving those. 👍👏
Super cool stuff indeed
What an interesting video, I know some old fogies that run stuff like this but I’ve never heard of good breakdown of the how and why. Thanks for an informative video!!
My pops had those on a jeep up there in the 70s 80s
I thought it was the coolest truck ever.
Very interesting thanks for sharing
Totally didn't know that, thank you for the knowledge
Thanks, cool vid!
Great video!
Keep it up love it
Cool stuff!
Thanks for sharing Austin, it’s definitely cool information brother! Kirk from Louisiana, sending prayers and good vibes to you and your family! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👌🏻👌🏻👍🏼👍🏼🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Seeing that they still operate C-46s and C-47s all over the world, aren't they still making the tires new somewhere?
They don’t make them like they used to 😂. WW2 stuff is just awesome
That's Kool stuff 😎
Yo stumbled upon your channel n I got to admit, fantastic videos n content! Keep up the great work
Great content brother.
* Another good informative vid Austin. I was wondering what those tires were ... 👊😎👍
Very good
Cool !!
Dick Cepek and Mickey Thompson got tire manufacturers to make the 1st real all terrain tires.
I would’ve thought with the thickness the dc3 tyre wouldn’t need any air it’d be fine flat
I've been going you would do a video on how they mounted the airplane tires. Thanks
Great video, loved it. Things I didn’t know, did they ever weld spider gears for lockers? I’m assuming they may not have had lockers then? At least on the front. If they where only used off road that is.
I’m sure some people did. I haven’t run into any yet.
The only 2.5 ton 6x6 in WWII that had locking diffs (for the rear 2 axles) was the International M-5H-6 which was used exclusively by the Navy and Marine Corps.. Supposedly it far outperformed the Jimmy 6x6 off road.
@@wes11bravo ok cool , thanks for info!
My dad and I both had them
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Excellent video and thanks for showing a little history. where can I get those stickers? cheers from 🇨🇱
Where did you find the old videos? and is that old buggy still out there where that 6x6 was when they drug it out.
And the super single was born
Florida man built swamp buggies out of the older super single B-36 tires as well!
I have to know if that was a Hobart welding machine on that rig truck and by chance does it have the go devil 4 banger . Sweet rigs man thx
I got a bunch of old stuff down here in South Carolina. That might raise yeah eye brow. You're down this way holler at your boy. Keep on keepin on. Make something out of nothing
How much pressure is needed in the DC3 tires, on a truck?
Neat stuff. Imagine trying to balance one of those tires. What's the top speed for a deuce and half?
The M35 deuce I had in Germany in the late 80’s was governed about 55mph. I wouldn’t want to go much faster in it.
can anyone tell me what make and model the three trucks are in this video ty.
great vid todays tires are junk in 6 yrs
build yourself a tire changer, hydralic.
I couldn't count how many airplane tires we have. And I have the part number to order tubes through percell tire
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better call it a day