[TheForge] I gotta have one of these!

[Paul]

On 1/26/2010 8:37 PM, Jerry Frost wrote:
> 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.
> -------------------------
> If it ain't forged
> It ain't real
> wrought iron is
> The Frostworks
>
>    
Sure looks like fun, and it would drive the snowmobilers nuts trying to 
figger out what made the tracks in the snow. For me I would try 4 
smaller helixs' (heli helii?).  How about 8" S10 pipe with some 3/4" 
angle iron wrapped around it... Look out Howe brothers!

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Paul
WB9HCO
My Grandfather WAS a blacksmith...
and it didn't do me one damn bit of good.
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