Hi my name is Tim and I am the proud owner of a 1952 W712 Oshkosh Snow Plow. I plan on buying several more to add to my collection and I have my eyes set on a 1920's model that needs some TLC.
One of things that I am most proud of is that for several years now I have been a collector of Oshkosh Truck history and memorabilia with the dream of someday retiring to Oshkosh and opening up a museum for others to come and enjoy. My collection is valued at close to $10,000.00 with many rare items in it. I have many great friends who work for OTC and by far my best friend is Clarence who has helped me with my collection since day one. For now I am trying to spread the word to all that I meet about my collection and ask for everyones help and keep an eye out for Oshkosh items.
Thanks,
Tim

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Is anyone taking trucks/equipment to Owls Head for the show this weekend? I'm not making the trip as I am saving my weekend away for Hillsboro. My Dad is going to be up there though so I want to let him know who he should be looking for... Plowman's Linn would be an easy mark, but I'm not sure on others rigs. DavCut

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I'm not finding many of these restored except in military museums in places like Nebraska or Texas. I the summe rof 1920 the NY State Commissioner of Motor Vehicles and highway engineer offered these and other militray surplus trucks to municipalities just for the cost of shipping and license, the state fairground in Syracuse was used as a distribution center. One of these was cannibalized for parts and left on the farm of an old mechanic in Rome, NY and Portner ended up with at after the auction of the mechanic's farm out in Ava, Oneida County, NY so I'm guessing it was owned by a local municipality. Portner wants to sell it, and I don't need another project. I found video on youtube of a restored one down in Texas at a aereodrome but sorry didn't save th link. You can reach Portner at 315-336-4242 or flowerpower282@juno.com Yes it's rough, driveline is gone, wood all rotted away, but wheels and hard rubbe rin good shape, unfortunately the guy who moved it snapped the spring hangers so the one axle sets out on top, it should have been jacked up out of the ground first.

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Says he's going to send some of the collection, including a number of old Brockways, to the scrapyard soon, and this plow, whose only real defect is having too many coats of paint, is apt to go.

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I think they started using this c. 1933-1935 as often the plow would be a different age than the vehicle it was mounted on and someone would complain that they thought they had a "old" or "secondhand" plow instead of new.

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My dad used to tell me about the early snow plows. The first real plow around the Appleton WI. area was similiar to this. It was mounted on a Cat and had one wing. It was in the twenties and the wing was operated by a chain hoist! The wing operaor stood on the flat-topped fender. This example I would believe to be from the 1930's as it is, and appears to always have been, hydraulic in operation. But it is early hydralics as attested to by the size of the cylinders. Even allowing for the very heavy construction of the plow assembly, the piston sizes indicate a relatively low pressure system. It is located just west of Cedar Grove, WI. BTW< it is out-lined in them small Christmas lights. Apparently the owner lights it up around the holidays.

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Surplus machinery auction, in addition to Brockway trucks, P&H Crane and buckets,Frink & Walters V plows and misc plows, dump boxes etc. 9/29 in Wampsville, Madison County, NY (southeast of Syracuse).
www.mageesauction.com

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Any chance of adding a Sargent plow page? Keywords would be Maine Steel Products, Union Ironworks, Portland, ? the scrappers got teh one wing post with three pulleys on the end at Portners but the single slide escaped. As did the nose frame and slide for the big FWD. You have to be with scrappers every second, but then they left their gear overnight and someone stole the gauges, hoses, cutter torch and even the goggles off their truck, about a $800 loss.
Also Craig Morgan in Triangle, NY has the big Frink v-plow, (sounds like a 447+? , a 7 bolt straight pattern on the blades) which was on a big double wing 1963 International that just went to the Tackaberry Museum, he says it has many coats of paint so is in good shape.

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You are going to have to explain how to post photos, would suggest catagories by make unless others have a better idea. I don't know if a special catagory for sale/salvage equipment in danger of being chopped for scrap (seems like most of it already has been in the last few years).

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