The great annual 2 hour snowplow video of Montreal's $200M snow industry
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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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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 🤫🤫🤫🤫
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
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
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 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
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.
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
A lot of Thank You, for your time to take all this sequences! Greetings from Austria!
Thanks for watching from Austria!
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
What a wonderful demonstration of ingenuity and technology triumphing over "CLIMATE".
2 hour long video wasn't quite enough, could watch this all day!
I can watch this all day. And today is my birthday. Thanks
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday!!
Great job, and awesome footage! Will be watching for next winter's edition. Thanks!
Thanks for watching!
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
The sounds of the many trucks is a eargasm litterally very nice video !!!
Great another video:) Thanks for sharing.
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..
This is the greatest snow removal video ever made!! Absolutely awesome!!
Hehe thank you!
This is how it's done.
Amazing job!
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 my AMSR, thanks for this
Incredible footage, so professional,...kudos.
Brilliant operation.
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.
@@Gsquared_08 It would be more than 4 months
It never does all completely melt there's snow there all year round
Keep up the great work, Montréal! 💪
Got dam!!!!!!! The snow removal in Montreal's is absolutely insane wow great video
GO O’s!!
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
Отличная работа!
Really cool video!
Great video, enjoyed it, huge snow dump in comparison to ours in Port-Cartier QC.
Amazing.
I Love the fact that Quebec is all french talking, I hope I somehow just can learn it myself one day. Nice equipment also!
all this snow we would absolutely love in the west coast
Awesome need more like this.
More coming
Hell yeah that's awesome!
Спасибо за видео! Это потрясающе!
Awesome 😊😊
We need some of your expertise down here in the midwest US right now!
How many brands of front loaders (with snowblower attached) did you count? :)
Cool video. 😎
That is an awesome job
I reconize the Angrignon depot but where is the other with the airplane pass juste over? thanks , Great vidéo!
I live right around the corner from this location!
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.
Wow that is one huge pile of snow, I image skiers and snow boarders are drooling over wanting to test that mountain of snow.
Love the videos, do you have any idea as to how many tons of snow is removed and piled up ???
That blower machine is amazing
Does this ever fully melt? Or just shrink slightly over the summer ?
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
Impressionnant montagne de neige stocké.
Does the snow dump ever fully melt in the summer? The one in my city is still melting around in August..
Quebec is a province of winter. This is one thing we are efficient at.
Iv climbed one on my snowmobile end of season.. got some bad ass video and pics
Ship the snow to the desert and both teams win!!!😊
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
How effective is the use of this type of snow evacuation to reduce the cost of Refrigeration System for Cold & Frozen Storage?
incredible
This is a Cool setup I’d love to work there!!!! but what happens to the snow mountain once it’s stopped snowing?? Why not shape the other side for skiing 🎿 down??
Or sledding
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 😂
What will happen after winter ? Does it melt completely or some will be left ?
So how much total snow did montreal get this year? and how does it compare to the average and last number of years?
Does it all melt before the next winter season?
How long does it take the pile to melt? Does it even melt completely?
Does that pile ever fully melt?! Very cool video...
Does the snow completely melt durning the summer.
When it comes time to melt... is this area under feet of water? Where does it flow?
how many months does that snow mountain last?
nice vids! I'm located just near cote-vertu
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...
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
How long does it take to melt all this snow? May?
Which snow dump site is this, Ville St-Laurent?
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.
I'm old enough to remember when they dumped the snow in the St-Lawrence river.
Was it bad for the river?
I am hungry and thirsty for knowledge. I need to eat the words from the Bible more. I am only 18, so I assume you know a lot more than me. I can say that beliving in Jesus is the only way to heaven though
How tall is the pile?
crazy!!!!
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.
c'est pas le dépot de neige a anjou ca ?
Does the pile ever melt
This is a fantastic snow clearing video. How long does it take until the snow mountain has melted again?
The caption said until mid summer.
funny i thought i was looking at last years video, i remember giving it an up thumb
Nice, all new stuff
Damn that's a lot of snow
Nice
Where is that place located ? Has to be close of Dorval airport!
I think in la sale
You need the summer video went the sweepers come in to pick up the gravel for next winter.
That in deed a lot of snow wow😲
Wow!!! That is one heck of a snow dump!
If i may i ask, what camera did you use to film this video?
GH4 + FZ1000 + GoPro
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 want one for every major city in north America now
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.
When does it finally melt?
nice ! On veut plus de video de déneigement ! Sa coche
Oui on devrait en faire plus
Is this great mountain consist of snow and nothing else? I can't believe it! :)
It's all snow and it will melt until the summer months. But once it starts melting it just becomes black and discusting because all the pollution in the snow gets more and more concentrated the less snow there is left.
That's an amazing video!! What a great view of the massive mountain of snow! When it melts where does the water go? Or what use do you make?
I actually never knew where it goes, probably the sewer but one thing for sure is that these piles remain until mid summer!
Awesome! How long does it take to melt,? I wonder! ?🤔
Starting around April it takes a couple of months before it becomes a huge pile of dirt and salt and stops there. Never saw it totally disappear.
Mountain of snow .how high was it .
hello ... in 11:30 min --- where is this place? and how long does it take to melt this snow mountain? thanks
Ville St-Laurent
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
They should make a ski resort out of that pile of snow. Skiing in July would be awesome