The great annual 2 hour snowplow video of Montreal's $200M snow industry
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
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Introducing our third famous two-hour 4K raw video footage compilation of the great Canadian snowplow operations of Montréal, Québec, Canada. In a city where winter would otherwise strand an entire population, workers instead transforms it into a seasonal battlefield where convoys of large heavy duty snow clearing vehicles roll down the streets and snow graders plow busy roadways. In Montréal, the largest city in Québec and second largest in Canada, women and men from numerous contracting companies join their effort in an impressive display of large scale operations. Snowfalls occur weekly during the winter months, occasionally leaving fresh accumulations of over a feet (30cm) of fresh new snow in one day. The need for usable streets is essential for a city this size to function properly, so right after large snowfalls all hands are on deck. This compilation shows industrial backhoes mounted with large snow blowing front-ends use powerful rotating blades to cut through snow like butter. Powerful engines propel snow chunks at high velocity upwards in a manoeuvrable chute. Transport trucks follow in a queue to collect and fill the bucket with snow before carrying it to large man made snow dump sites across the city. At these locations, dump trucks raise their bucket to let snow out before being plowed ahead of the next step. Then, even more powerful snowblowers use extreme and sheer mechanical force to shoot snow up at a staggering height, forming hills that stand until mid-summer. On most boulevards highways and streets, trucks carrying loads of salt in chunks or a mix of sand and rocks plow and spread the non polluting element that thaws ice and snow accumulations for a safer drive. In the city of Montréal alone, it now costs nearly 200 million dollars of labour, equipment rentals and dump site location fees to clear the snow from roadways and sidewalks for about half of the calendar's year, every year.
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I used to do this in Helsinki when I was 19. Very stressful especially when there was a snowstorm. On the other hand it paid pretty well
I live here in montreal. Always wondered how many wallets, money, random shit i can find when this massive thing melts.
That thing melts in between seasons??😂
@@grahammiller9834 mid june if I remember correctly
Lmao if that thing fully melts 💀😂
@@cameronandrist5101 should make it a ski slope recoup some of that 200 million
We need a time-lapse of it melting
Got dam!!!!!!! The snow removal in Montreal's is absolutely insane wow great video
GO O’s!!
This is the best thing ever... yet I can't tell anyone that I've watched it
no worries...u can tell us tho
Your secret is safe on the internet
@@njcaveexplorer 🤫🤫🤫🤫
Please made a timelapse video of melting.
Pretty much impossible, it will probably take from april to july-august to melt all
@Samuel Plante I know, we have smaller snow dump in my city and still the snow doesnt melt haha
@@LiiLNiiCk Brinno BCC100 time lapse cameras last 4 months on 4 AA batteries. They could take one photo per hour and last long enough to get through the whole meltdown.
@@GoferZeroSix It would be more than 4 months
It never does all completely melt there's snow there all year round
Amazing job!
This is my AMSR, thanks for this
We need some of your expertise down here in the midwest US right now!
How effective is the use of this type of snow evacuation to reduce the cost of Refrigeration System for Cold & Frozen Storage?
A lot of suspiscious brake adjusters in action here! hahahaha!
I reconize the Angrignon depot but where is the other with the airplane pass juste over? thanks , Great vidéo!
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Love the videos, do you have any idea as to how many tons of snow is removed and piled up ???
Looking at 10-12” snow in the NKY area Monday-Tuesday.......haven’t seen that much snow at one time here in the 18years I’ve lived here
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crazy!!!!
Wow so many people obviously haven't read the story and how long the pile takes to melt 😢
Does this ever fully melt? Or just shrink slightly over the summer ?
I always wondered how they refilled their lakes
You need the summer video went the sweepers come in to pick up the gravel for next winter.
is there any ideea to transform that amount of snow into fresh water in wormer periods? It could be beneficial to melt&treat that snow water to reduce the ground water usage.
The ninja blender meet the blend anything what a unit 👌mint
Just bought ninja blender actually
Now that is a alot of frozen rain :P
How long does it take to melt?
End of summer
That would be a crazy avalanche
From a distance I thought dang, that blower is running off hydraulics? Then the camera zoomed. Got its own engine.
That's blower has got some serious power to just throw that volume of snow 40-50 feet with no problems.
When does it finally melt?
How long does it take to melt all this snow? May?
Salut, est ce le dépôt Angrignon que l'on voit? MErci
Oui entre autre
When does all that snow melt? June,lol?
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I can guess the temperature was at -16C and snow fall was 12cm
Does it all melt before the next winter season?
How long does the Pile last for ? Is there actually some still left over some years when you start adding to it again ? (depending on weather that year)
Most of the snow melts in the hot Montreal summer, and what's left is a huge pile of dirt and salt.
So all this snow is contaminated with salt & road grime, what happens when it all melts ? Where does all the contaminated water go ?
where does all that go when it melts?
which part of Montréal is this in? the kid in me say I like to climb that snow mountain and just let go down hill . ........ mes oui mes oui
What do you think the street value would be if it were Columbian snow...$$$$
Anyone else wish we could make a fort??
Я так и не понял что делает эта машина что именно складирует. Объясните мне пожалуйста. Хотя спать под этот шум очень удобно
how long this snow mountain melting in summer ?! 🙃or not 🤣stays to next winter ?😂
Make a pipeline down to that lake in US, they wont run out of water when this melts :)
Wondering when that finally completely melts? 2nd or 3rd week in June maybe?
The snow dump in my own city often still have some left by the end of July and it's much smaller then that one. I'm willing to bet it takes all the way into September or even October to completly melt. During the cooler years, it might not even completly melt.
Why are so many of the tandem drive trucks twin steer? I’m a truck mechanic in Maine and we have a lot of tandem trucks with a pusher axle, but I can’t ever remember seeing a twin steer on anything that wasn’t try drive. It must be a regional difference, I just don’t understand it yet.
Lift axle not legal in Quebec
@@neilrobinson2285 I live right across the border and I didn’t know that. Thank you
There are also many narrow streets in Montreal. It makes it easier to navigate those streets.
How long will that pile last?
Am i missing something here... Is this really necessary? They don't do this in Boston. Why haul snow to a lot and make a mound.
What in the holy F*^%!!!!
where is that monster pile of snow located in montreal ? any one know
I'd say at the Airport. I hear planes overhead.
I wonder how much water by gallons the melt equates to?
I can't answer that, but The Old Farmer's Almanac says... This varies depending on the type of snow, but to make 1 inch of water (rain), you need 10 inches of average snow, 4 to 5 inches of wet snow, or 15 inches of powdery snow. Hope that helps.
@@kh3612 thats looking like some heavy wet snow.
I would like to know how the billions of liter of meltwater from those mountains of piled up snow is managed. To me, as a South Arican, the snow quantity is totlly mind boggling!
Thanks for watching from South Africa, we love to show the snow where people who can't see it! The water that creates snow when melting is most likely going down public city drains made of manholes placed at regular intervals in the roadways and sidewalks. 💧
Does anyone know if all that snow melts during the summer it seems impossible but I'm sure I'm wrong.
Sometimes there is some left in august
I live in MTL😊
I live in the south, I thought a snow blower was Frosty's girlfriend.
Igloo
Why can't they save a ton of money each year and time and space by just melting the snow after putting it on trucks? It can be melted down and then put through filters enough to send it out to a nearby river. They are not as smart as you think doing it this way. But the pile does look pretty cool being that tall.
Wow they should just MELT THE SNOW!!! I'm sure no one has ever thought of that! You need to get on the phone right away to let them know what they're doing wrong and exactly how they should change it.
What? No way.
they're trying to build a glacier
I just stumbled upon last years and finished watching the whole 2 hours now you've uploaded it for 2020/2021
Thanks for watching, just in case this is be confusing for others this is the third compilation and the links to the two first compilations are at the bottom of the description.
@@the4kguy that makes so much more sense thanks
this is like watching grass grow but i cant stop watching
I’m feeling the same way what a cool job to just to blow snow in the air
@@bladestoe6568 🙏 no
Imagine the massive snow fort us fans could make with that giant pile of snow!🤩
There is no chance of survival if it were to collapse, but it would be cool
@@sirrubberduck7823 oh wow😳
@@sirrubberduck7823 lord buzzkill
I worked on a Air Force base where we hauled snow and had two snow dumps that lasted into July before melting away.
This will definitely be there until late June/early July depending on rainfall
An.
Yup, not rare to see snow in snow dumps in June in Quebec
Cool story, Pete! Can we hear it again? Do you have time?
i was at Eielson AFB near Fairbanks in the early 90's....there were usually several snow mountains around the base that lasted well into summer
1:40:02 they stopped bc a boy was approaching. So nice of them
Pretty sure was more to do with safety lol
looks like a grown woman to me.
@@Timsticlestv because those blades are sharp af if you get caught in it the your pretty much meat chunks
They legally have to.
That’d be a pretty gnarled way to go jumping in that
Love these videos each year. That snow pile is absolutely massive!
Thanks for watching
The kid in me wants to go play on it
@@the4kguy What do they do with it as in an industry?? What’s all the snow used for in the end of piling it up?
@@the4kguy I think I just answered my own question so they truck it out of areas and pile it up here because they get so much snow.
A lot of Thank You, for your time to take all this sequences! Greetings from Austria!
Thanks for watching from Austria!
Here i am in the states we just got about a foot of snow over the last month thinking damn this crap will never melt........then I see this...
I have been waiting all year for this, you should do more snow removal videos, also maybe a timelapse of them filling the dump would be cool
This is the greatest snow removal video ever made!! Absolutely awesome!!
Hehe thank you!
This is how it's done.
Maybe just have a blower attached to the dump truck instead of needing two extra machines. Then it can just slowly drive by the pile and deposit more efficiently.
I actually find your video calm
I wondered why these do well but I found that the motion of the snow is kind of satisfying to watch
Here in sweden we have defunded and fucked up the snow plowing industry the last 40 years.. Newspaper last couple of days have been like : OMG THERE IS SO MUCH SNOW!? WHERE SHOULD WE PUT IT?? You guys have it all figured out ages ago.. I love canada
funny i thought i was looking at last years video, i remember giving it an up thumb
Nice, all new stuff
That's the biggest mountain of cocaine i've ever seen and i watched a lot of movies ...
You get into that, nevermind a numb face, you won't make it out.
I'm old enough to remember when they dumped the snow in the St-Lawrence river.
Was it bad for the river?
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Watching this there is so many questions because I live in a area that never has snow
Do the drivers who dump the snow get paid by load or daily rate?
Wouldn't the snow pile keep the area temperature down causing more snow to come to area?
When the snow melts is it close to a river or catchment area ?
They get so much snow in the city there, there's no where to put it in the city. They have to truck it away from the city.
In answer to the climate question. Moving snow from one place and piling it another won't alter the climate. It seems like that's a massive pile, and it is, but, it's not near enough to alter the climate on a scale you're thinking of.
I can watch this all day. And today is my birthday. Thanks
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday!!
How many years would that wall of snow last if left alone?
depends if there is lots of sand and dirt that makes a crust over it when it melts. Some sites are ok in july, some others last untill fall
Great job, and awesome footage! Will be watching for next winter's edition. Thanks!
Thanks for watching!
Damn that blower can throw some fucking snow!!
Wow! This is fascinating to me. I’m from Texas and didn’t see actual snow for the first time til I was in my early 30s. We’d see ice on the ground rarely that made little ice patches, but never real snow. Thanks for the video!
Nice, I love to share these with non snow native peoples. In Texas you get your fair share of other incredible storms which I'd love to chase too!
lucky ba##ard. born and raised in the upper peninsula of michigan. still live there. the older i get, the more i despise winters. granted, a lot of communities rely on snowmobiling, but i can do without. the other seasons are great.
When loading the trucks, how does the blower operator communicate with the truck driver??
probably CB
I wonder if that pile even melts all the way or do you just keep piling on last year's pile. At least you guys are not just dumping it into the rivers and lakes like some places do.
Hey man just subscribed... never new someone in the area was filming snow removal stuff in our city... a actually work in a snow dump, its the one on langelier... what dump do we see in the first clip ??
Thanks for subscribing. The first site is at the corner of Thimens and Garand in St-Laurent
9:47 something is wrong with the snowblower, you can hear it knocking, and see sparks flying. Great video, thanks for sharing
You mean the flashing yellow hazard lights? lol.... there's no "sparks". And the "knocking" is obviously just what the machine sounds like while working exactly as intended.
@@jdkgcp you need to get your prescription changed, their Sparks..
Play at 2x speed makes it look like an RCSparks Studio episode
Glad to see I’m not the only one that plays with the playback speed 😂
I've seen some agencies that haul the snow to a central location and then dump it into a giant cauldron that melts the snow into the storm drains to be carried out to sea.
There's actually a number of snow chutes in Montreal. They dump it directly into the giant 5 meter collector that collects all of the sewage. There's enough heat in the sewer to melt the snow and take it away. The thing is, Montreal gets enough snow that the snow chutes don't cut it on their own. On a bad day, they can't keep up between the snow chutes and the snow dumps.
The snow contains road salt. This should not be going into any body of water.
@@jonathanlanglois2742
Which ultimately ends up in the St-Lawrence seaway.
Fun fact: that snow is full of road salt.
@@cwalker3783 There's worse stuff in there then road salt. It's also a fact that we don't use anywhere near as much road salt as we once did. Lots of sand and rock is used nowadays as road abrasives. Road salt is use mainly on highways and large boulevards. It's also a fact that road salt is only really effective near zero. Our temperatures are well below that most of the winter.
Is there a timelapse video of this melting? I guess that takes a couple months.
Now that would be something i would spend 2 hours watching in background
there are nice things here, nice work, good work here, I'd like to work as an emperor here, if you have an emperor, I'd like to come from Turkey
meanwhile in Sweden: feminist snow plowing and prioritizing sidewalks over roads because mostly men use the roads and cars are bad for enviroment etc. also them: where is the bus?
So another video said it's a 160m dollar industry. Where are you guys pulling your numbers from?
Does anybody know, I remember a video showing some city and I don’t remember where on the planet where they have to haul the snow to a giant pit or something like that does anybody know what city that is
Yes we do, same city, same youtube channel, our video from two years ago: ua-cam.com/video/bQujcjTZEG8/v-deo.html
@@the4kguy Yep that’s the one, I watched it a while back I thought it might be your city I’d like to witness that crazy nonsense ha ha ha ha I’ll get up there someday I am not far away in Cleveland
I think they are missing an economic window of opportunity. Put in a ski lift. It's perfect for novice skiers.
How high is this and has anyone ever climbed up that I wonder!!! I guess 60 feet maybe higher!! I want to see this someday!!!
I Love the fact that Quebec is all french talking, I hope I somehow just can learn it myself one day.
Nice equipment also!
I wonder if the loader operators are ever worried about that pile becoming unstable and causing a small avalanche burying them
I doubt it
You should do a drone video of the snow piles as it melts in the spring into the summer leading up to the day it's finally all gone. I bet it takes a long time.
The snow never completely melts there’s always snow there… it sublimes and melts gradually but never completely
Can't do that, those light in the sky behind the snow mountain are planed, and the snow mountain is looks like a glide path for a runway. And to be honest with you, can't tell were near the airport this is
Why don't you all just switch to snowmobiles in winter? They are way more fun anyways.
Does the snow dump ever fully melt in the summer? The one in my city is still melting around in August..
How many brands of front loaders (with snowblower attached) did you count? :)
That avalanche coming back down is called "JOB SECURITY"?
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