[TheForge] I gotta have one of these!

[Jerry Frost]

That is cool Larry though I have NO idea why you'd want one so the trees can 
ride around.

While I've never seen this video I have seen the idea. Sometime in the mid 
60's films (yeah, I'm THAT old) of similar rides were making the rounds. The 
drive augers were smaller in diameter and the blades were larger but the 
idea was the same. The ones I saw though were being run on everything from 
dirt and rocks to pavement and swamps. The auger drums were hollow and 
sealed so the vehicles floated. There were no films of em on snow, maybe 
Henry had THAT idea patented? Anyway, it was a way cool all terrain vehicle 
especially if you weren't averse to literally plowing the landscape.

And yeah, I want one! Heck, it shouldn't take a rocket scientist to build 
one eh? Heck, I liked Henry's hat, I want one of those too. <grin>

Frosty the Lucky.
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If it ain't forged
It ain't real
wrought iron is
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Brown" <lp.brown at verizon.net>
To: <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 3:29 PM
Subject: [TheForge] I gotta have one of these!


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> Frosty, this made me think of you. Whip one up for the logs
> Larry Brown
> in non snowy NYC
>
> Subject: I gotta have one of these
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> This is a rare video of an invention that never went very far.
> Wait until you see the automobile version it is all on here.
> 1926 Snow Tractor. Talk about ingenuity!
> This is a 1926 silent film (on video) of a tractor-snow-machine invented 
> by
> Henry Ford, shown here driving it.
> Watch the whole thing. Note the "hat."
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> http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,213971.0/topicseen.html
>