DALTON HIGHWAY WINTER
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
- Dalton Highway Winter
History of the North Slope Haul Road to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska;
the largest oilfield in North America
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This video is the absolute epitome of Extreme Northern Trucking! Thanks so much for posting this.
Thank You for your support;
I appreciate it!
Can we normalize this...?
I sure do miss the old History Channel 😔
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Not a single mention of bigfoot or UFOs. This isn't the History Channel.
Lmao, you don't say?
@@ofHerWord about aliens? or about the curse islands with an hidden treasure?
All ancient aliens and swamp people now, literally nothing to do with the channel title…
As a truck mechanic I’m not taking anything away from these bad ass truck drivers. But they never recognize the poor mechanics keeping this shit running! Great video!
These truckers did a lot of mechanic work in the field apparently..
Improvised Wooden suspension, serious ingenuity
@@TaigaTurf The original guys that were there building the road are a much different breed than anything you'll find today, sadly. And he's referring to now days. He's not wrong either.
@@TaigaTurf not wooden leaf springs dingus its a 4x4 in place of the coil spring and strut tower. we did this when doing tought truck events and springs break from jumps throw a log in it.
couple more jumps in that fucker yet
@@icecreamdaycatlin8896 noted
Truly heroes truck drivers no many ppl is cut out to work under those harsh weather conditions. Real men only.
2 weeks ago came back from Alaska and had the honor to drive from Fairbanks into Arctic Circle round trip over the Dalton Highway, It was the best adventure ever.
My respect for all men who built this road and keep it safe.
Well said!
How long is the road trip?
My fiancé and I were talking about doing this!! My truck will make it
What did you drive?
@@jacobd373 RWD ford ranger
what an awesome soundtrack, so many docs come out nowadays and it's like they all use the same score
Brings back memories of watching the history channel with my grandfather
Great times
The techno in this documentary’s goes hard fr
Drove this road in winter with my Land Rover Defender. The most amazing drive I have ever done. Coming from South Africa it was like being on another planet. It is treacherous and full concentrated is required.
Another planet.. a very good description at times in the extreme cold environment
Worked Prudhoe bay for 5 years. My friend from Alaska would always refer to it as , like your on another planet !
@@johnmarshall4442 Very cool sounds like the North Pole. Probably nothing compared to my Minnesota winters.
If you drove a Toyota diesel i would think that is normal but you drove Land Rover ,very brave on your part!
@@levak8740 Ha Ha... must just say I did not see a single Toyota on the Dalton. Also the Dalton was only a very short part of the Land Rovers overall journey. We had driven all the way from the southern tip of South America to 70 degrees North where the Artic Ocean meets Alaska. It was also uninterrupted, nonstop from start to end.
This is better than any episode of ice road truckers. Unreal what them OG truckers were doing. I couldn't imagine driving through some of that stuff at that point in time... 3 miles an hour... 400 miles...😳
Over 500 miles from Fairbanks actually
@@TaigaTurf I know it's insane. That first path though was intense.
@@TaigaTurfwell, you’re both right actually. The actual haul road is just a smidge over 400 miles, BUT it doesn’t start until you take the Elliot up to Livengood (roughly 80 miles), so all in all the trip from Fairbanks to Deadhorse is roughly 500 miles.
And this was building a remote highway back in the 1970's. Imagine what it was like for Alaskans building the Alaska Railroad back in the late 1800's. I couldn't even imagine what that must have been like.
Old timers were tough and ingenious in many ways
-90 Lol... This is minimal temperature in Moscow in the winter and central in Siberia and far east of Russia
this is frashly like cold milk from freazer in summer
@@alanmalan3819 only two villages, Verkhoyansk and Oymyakon, have ever reached -90F(-68C). In far Northeast Siberia
@@TaigaTurf Lol, gotta love those turds who try sounding like Billy Bad Ass but still haven’t realized a quick Google search proves them wrong.
The history channel back in the day built me 😈
I spent 15 years working along there out on the road many days. I figured I drove about 200,000 miles on it and wore out a few four wheelers. Everyday it is different. One time was driving from Fairbanks to Prudhoe and it took me ten hours to get to Atigun because of snow and I only met co workers coming the other direction as everyone else was parked.. It was bad. Got over the pass, and road was like concrete,cranked up the stereo and hauled ass to Prudhoe.
That wind north of the Brooks Range really packs the snow down.. perfect for an igloo actually
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Man, what an experience! Do you miss it?
@@Bri-bn5kt No I sure don’t. I retired now and don’t have time for a day job.
Never too poor to tour
I took the Dalton all the way to Deadhorse on a motorcycle in July 2022. Loved it.
True freedom!
This story has the same appeal as the space race, rally racing, and nature documentaries. I love it
A mission accomplished
Only problem is that two of those things are real and one is a lie. 🤠
Man, I remember watching this in awe when I was a kid the morning before school
Someone needs to make a Mudrunner/Snowrunner type off-roading game with this story as the main campaign.
A MEN BROTHER
i just keep watching the video thinking the same thing, would play the shit out of the game.
I’ve always wanted an ice road truckers game
@@Gasolina420 check out snowrunner super fun game
I thought they had one?
Never was on the Dolton , But been on the Inuvik road on the Canadiean side many times. Extremally cold in the winter. Breath taking beautiful in the summers
The Dempster is incredibly remote and scenic; and extreme weather especially at the Yukon/ NWT border
Truely incredible... the drivers really had to be prepared for everything and anything to happen... very brave...
Especially hundreds of miles from anywhere in the Arctic
I have all these old AK videos on dvd & tape a recorded myself in the early 2000's this one is one of my favorites. Back the history channel was a lot better.
It was a great documentary.. along with modern marvels, Ice Road Truckers, etc
Back when they actually talked about history
Every couple weeks I find myself coming back to this video to fall asleep to
I had a 42 year career in the oil industry. I can't think of any other industry on the same scale, working from the artic to in thousands of feet of water.
Near impossible conditions
money
I spent 3 years in the army up there. It’s an amazing place
Alaska is Amazing
God was having a good day making alaska
Thought of heading north back in '74 to work on the pipeline. Lucky for me a wise woman talked me out of it.
Hah!
OG Ice Road Truckers! This was even more hectic then. Respect.
Pioneers
Drove the dalton in 2014. One of the best times of my life.
Adventure of a lifetime
About 12 months ago took a load in Sprinter from Houston TX to Dead horse AK. Sub zero temps. -30. Was not bad till I hit high pass just past AC. -30 temps for next 2 days till back to Fairbanks. Then got nice and toasty warm. About -15. Made good money. But loads like that are scarce. Do not drive that road if you don't have to in winter. Very Dangerous. I was very lucky. No chains no moose. Etc. Very awe inspiring drive in daylight. Much respect for 18 wheelers that do it every day , day after day! Keep Rollin!!
Winter of 2019-2020 was exceptionally cold too!..
I've driven the entire length in winter, and it's definitely not for the faint of heart.. Particularly FInger Mountain just south of Arctic Circle and Atigun Pass and the Slope.. Unreal windchills
I'v lived in Alaska 12 years now ( helicopter mechanic) use to work on the slope ( Deadhorse ) somewhere around 2010 or so , got to -72 Farenheit ambient temperature, unreal cold without wind chill.
I worked out of PS 5 for over six years and I remember one time ambient temperature was -67.
@@Chris_at_Home Jim River is one of the low spots on the road and gets those super cold inversions.. Not too far from Allakaket
@@johnmarshall4442 -72F ambient on the Slope? I would figure only Umiat and inland would see that low... just shows that vast and cold it is up there
this is the definition of badass
🤘
Wow, the sheer amount of determination is incredible. Just amazing. 💪
It really is!
I used to work on the pipeline. Couple years on living in pump station fly camps and then a few more years working up in pruhdoe bay. I love cold weather. It's exciting. If you like warm weather you won't like it up there
Cold weather is an understatement..
I've been out in -35F with 40-50 mph winds.. scary!
Oh wow... that was Dr. Terrence Cole. I took his World History class, he was a professor at UAF. In fact, I may have taken his last ever history class. He was diagnosed with cancer and died maybe a year after the class was over. RIP, what a great teacher.
Seemed like a great Historian
I remember watching Ice Road Truckers with my uncle back in the 2010 era. I had no idea that show went back this far!
The original ice road truckers documentary was from 2000
Whoa now.. are you calling us OLD 😅
@@FacesintheStone Does having your face in a stone hurt? Seems painful.
Just when the convoy is about to make it over the pass, DOT pulls them over, finds several ELD violations and hell breaks loose 😂
I'm surprised that they didn't learn from building the Alaska Highway during WWII. Sounds like they repeated some of the same mistakes made on that first attempt (such as needing to build corduroy roads over the permafrost). But then again, the old saying goes, "We do it nice because we do it twice!"
They rushed to get to the oil in 1968, foolishly.. then we're shut down by the EPA from 1970-73.
In 1974 they built it properly above the permafrost..
Good observation
Im glad to be able to have driven the whole Dalton to Prudhoe Bay!
Ultimate roadtrip
Best line: "these bullets that we are actually firing were manufactured in 1952 or 1953... and we haven't had a dud or misfire in years!"
Indeed.. dangerous work still
The real brave question and also the story I want too hear is about the maniacs that went too the north most part of Alaska without a road too look for oil without knowing if there was any!!!
It's called the Faustian spirit and it's something that's deeply embedded in the white mind. To go into the unknown and to conquer yourself and mother nature.
Now this is real content right here
Appreciated
AMAZING people who drive up and down the Dalton in extremely difficult conditions. I have the greatest respect and admiration for them.
Those that complain about fuel usage at night, stop comparing it to what you use in the lower 48. Alaska doesn’t burn that crap fuel in winter. Even straight #1 gels. Alaska uses Arctic blend to keep the trucks running. Trucks in lower 48 use #2 at about 1.2 gal per hr at 800 rpm, #1 at about 2.4 per hr at 800. But that is about all the rpm you need to keep warm. Now in Alaska with Arctic fuel being a lower btu and running about 1700 rpm (just to keep engine temp up)fuel usage will run you anywhere from 5 gallon per hour to 9 gallon per hour.
So stop comparing to things that you have no clue about, Alaska is not the lower 48.
Especially the Interior and North Slope, which are often unreal cold.. for Months
In siberia, their winter 'diesel' is 30% jet. I have a friend that worked at the Gazprom refinery in Omsk. But essentially yes, Jet is a lower density fuel (0.70 to 0.81) and it has less btu per unit of volume.
@@wazza33racer Jet A fuel is safer as well ( than gasoline) although people will sometime put a bit of gasoline in the diesel to prevent gelling
I’m a truck driver. I’ve been as far north as Edmonton, Al, Ca in January. That’s my north adventure. Hell No would I do this. Give me the desert.
Nine gallons a hour that's nuts but I also understand why after explaining it
Happy to see this! My grandpa is Charlie Barr. It's so wonderful seeing him interviewed, he was so dedicated to trucking.
Must have had many great stories of trucking out in the frigid hinterland
@@TaigaTurf indeed he did, he shared so many stories! He was writing a book but never finished it. He passed away in 2019. Im thinking of putting his unfinished book to video one day.
@@northpolealaska would enjoy watching that.. May he Rest in Peace
I didnt expect watching this as a break from studying would be so relaxing
sometimes i want to quit studying so i can be a trucker and just get drunk every night
@@brianlacroix822 you won't be much of a trucker if you're a drunk
@@TTVToxic-yu5ov you sure can after your max duty hours and a load to pick up in 18 hours.
@@brianlacroix822 LOL. OK buddy try it out. See how that works out for you
Drinking be the last thing on ya mind, the tiredness builds up by the time you wanna drink lol
Bring the old history channel back. This is a great documentary.
Agreed
@@TaigaTurf Thank you for uploading and publicising. You are doing the people's work. this is a classic work - it is work of art really
Thank you for posting this interesting informative video . Family first blue-collar working class people around the world deserve more respect for doing all the work.
Agreed
Correct. People don’t realize that for society to survive you need blue collar workers and doctors. All these singers, actors etc are where they are because of the little people, they don’t bring anything to society, they are glorified clowns
@@marcelcovaci9922 well said!
I work for the Trans alaska pipeline and the weather is a lot more mellow compared to when this documentary came out. The coldest temperature ive had to deal with there was -60 below zero.
The 60s and 70s in Alaska were known for legendary cold, true..
TAPS is 800 miles long though, what area are you near?
maybe climate change has warmed things up and calmed things down a bit there
@@pellabologna despite the warming on paper , especially in Arctic, it's still brutally cold and windy
@@pellabologna
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15:03 Sam Little, I hauled a load or two of groceries for him back in the late eighties or early nineties. Sam's probably driven four million miles or more. Hope you're well, Sam, salute!
WOW! They should create an entire series about these truckers!
Look up ice road truckers and watch the first few seasons its all about them driving on the haul road
Nah, they'ed F it up into some boring reality series with the same theme over and over and over.............
Unfortunately they did.. I stopped watching after Season 5..
And the later seasons have some interesting footage of Manitoba/ Ontario winter roads
For the love of God… don’t encourage them!
As a truck driver this is the knees bees of truckers. Ya gotta be a mechanic and a damn good driver....keep truckin' brothers :)
Most definitely
Dude, the Alaska DOT is just pure insanity and I love it
A three day bag won't do you shit if you break down up there! Immeasurable respect for all these men.
Ice Road Truckers made this highway famous, if it was not already famous. Really intimidating road, and Ice Road Truckers was an awesome show!
Ice Road Truckers did bring it to a new level of notoriety.. although it was well known before that..
This documentary is made long before the show began
Hats off to the folks that drove em and the guy's that kept em rolling
These men are truly alpha
Heavy work In the brutal weather
Thanks for uploading. Thought I'd never see this episode again. You can only appreciate it until you drive in whatever
A bucket list adventure no doubt
Back in the good ol days when there was good tv
the intro sequence during 1:40-4:21 is insane
This dude is on point with channel interaction. Made respect to that grind broski.
THese Guys Really Know how to Drive Truck.... ! Incredible ! Great Share ...
Yes
These are the real truck drivers. And I respect them.
Those pioneer truckers... Respect!
For certain!
these truckers had a huge set of balls everyone of them
Im watching this in Southern CA mid December. I feel like I am enduring these conditions now, and its +40°F 😅🥶
40F on a summer day in Alaska is freezing too
My dad and Grandpa's "walk to school in the winter, up and down hills both ways" apparently was still worse than this could have ever been.
Of course
idk why this is in everyone's recommanded including mine all of a sudden but im super glad it is
the heavy industry and snow aesthetic is so sexy
great history, I love watching stuff like this....
Very informative
I really like this video just to look at all the big trucks,thanks for uploading this.
Cool to see the old consolidated trailer
Wife and I made a winter mistake heading south and took the cassiar hwy. After 20 miles they stopped plowing and not wanting to back up for 20 miles with a 53' trailer, we sit there for 2 days waiting for a plow truck. Had a ball watching movies and caught up on some sleep. Would rather take cassiar in most conditions. The alcan is a great drive till you get to stone mountain or sheep mountain, either will breakdown experienced drivers. Flown small planes on the coast route , the alcan, the cassiar but my favorite was the trench, very remote and some great fishing in Williston lake. Took boats up the inside passage till you have to cross the gulf and on to prince Williams sound. Commercial crabbed in Wrangell, hunted the brooks range, Kodiak, the Arctic, worked in prudhoe bay 7 winters, built houses, smuggled weed out of Canada, and I could go on but sure your getting bored by now. Alaska was very good to us but they have ruined the hunting and fishing now and if you want to see it you better hurry.
The Cassiar is really narrow and twisty in spots . Love the Mt Edziza plateau there. The worst section of the Alcan is as you said, Stone Mt, to Muncho lake, almost slid off road into a frozen lake once. Near Destruction Bay, Yukon too/ Donjek River.
The Trench? Are you referring to Williams Lake/ Germansen Landing?
@@TaigaTurf It is a route north out of Prince George across lake Williston and threw a long pass then connect to alcan 20 miles east Watson lake. A pretty trip
@@Ivan-pl2it wow, never knew there was a thru connection to the Alcan.. will have to try it out
@@TaigaTurf There are no roads, it is an air route. Make sure you have a range of at least 500 miles and pray for a tail wind.
“The truckers couldn’t deliver pipe fast enough”
This road looks insane
It is no joke..
Those Bulldog Mack’s seemed to be there in greater numbers 👍🇺🇸
It’s amazing how the human body can adapt to extreme conditions.
*white people.
Most other races don't have it in them to explore the world and conquer mother nature. That's why European powers in the 1800s mapped the globe and settled in extreme environments like Australia and Canada. If you look at Asians and Africans, they are a petty and local people.
As someone who operates dozers, 400 miles of dozing in 8 weeks is absolutely f*cking insane.
Crazy speed
@My Name Funny enough it costs less to build (and maintain) pipelines than it does to truck oil from oil fields all over the world... then ship them overseas... less emissions too.
@@az678910 agreed!
shaking my head in diesbelief from start to finish of this video. just wow.
It's a great documentary
Awesome upload, thanks for it. I grew up in Alaska and it's always had a place in my heart.
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I worked on the drilling rigs on and off since I was 17. The last one was in williston with niebors . I hauled oil dbl tanker the last 4 yrs. I never took a drillers job I did not want to manage roughnecks on drugs. I was 50 and doing chainhand lol. I'm 62 and climbing large trees on my property and taking them down before hurricane season down here on ga. Fl. Line
Williston is like the North slope in winter at times
This is how I went to school.
Of course.. back in the day
@@TaigaTurf up hill both ways
@@billl605 ditto
So did my dad
@@billl605 physics wasn’t invented yet back in my day.
OMG, i remember when history channel was actually about history
For certain
Man there’s some cool rigs in this video!!
600 hp, 2200 lb/ft of torque, locking diffs; top of line rigs
Americans are Awesome!! 🇺🇸💪🏻
Being in an industrial area like that in dead winter makes it look apocalyptic
It's surreal
Damn I miss the history channel!!
This looks brutal!
Northern Alaska is so cold.
Oh my gosh. This is really something. Thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it
These men are heroes.
It's hard work but great job. Thanks for those workers. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
The Alaskan pipeline was an enormous and brutally difficult job but we're Americans and by God we did it. Like every other "impossible" job Americans have accomplished.
Let us never forget that we are one unique nation of United States, indivisible and under God and we exist but by the grace of God!
Amen
real men and woman doing real work up there.
Driver - I really fucking appreciate everything each one of you guys do.
In the early 1980's I was the auto glass glazier in Fairbanks that replaced most of the broken windshields as they came back from Prudoe.
Just 5 months to build this road across Alaska back then and today it takes years to repave the expressways in the lower 48 states in the United States.
They got sh** done back then!
This video is great
Excellent documentary 💯 !! I really enjoyed this presentation. Wishing you a safe and awesome weekend 🐤☀️.
History Channel circa 2005
I love the. Ice. Road. Truckers but then. The women had to get involved...
Man that must be awesome and cozy. Nice ole big rig with 18 speed, CAT power, big pipes, delicious hot coffee all morning, heat cranked up. Radio on a comfy setting some good highway rock. That’s the shit man
Trucker's paradise
@@TaigaTurf pretty much. I love rigging in winter up in the northeast here.
I love that gun. Mine was a 106 mm recoilless rifle. I went to school for anti-tank assault-man back in 1966. I was taught how to use the 106, a 3.5 rocket launcher (better known as a bazooka) and the flamethrower. I got to Camp Pendleton and was sent off to .50 caliber machine gun school. I got to Vietnam and they said, "Here asshole, carry these 400 rounds of M-60 ammo. You are in a machine gun team!" The ammo was really heavy and at first we could carry criss-cross "Mexican" style. Then orders came down from HQ to keep it boxed up. No wonder my neck hurts. I had all of that ammo, plus my own M-16 rifle, 2 grenades, 6 magazines plus any c-rations and 2 water canteens. I would still travel light, stealing c-rats from wounded or killed Marines who were med-i-vact back to the rear.
My father also talked of how heavy the ammunition was..
Thank you for your service.
Jeez. Would you say seeing your fellow dead soldiers affected your mental health in any way?
@@Matt-cw1mv the dudes who couldn’t compartmentalize these things suffer heavily. I’ll still have things that trigger my memory and bring things back but mostly I’ve compartmentalized my time in ranger batt as a second life
*OMFG!!! The history channel actually had CONTENT!? NO WAY!!!*
very good video. Great narrating and love a good alaskan documentary
👍💯
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i love how you still 2 years later read and like comments
It's great conversation about trucks , Arctic weather, people's stories etc
That is insane...
Ditto