[TheForge] I gotta have one of these!

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

Lemmie try this again...Jon is gonna build one..see

http://www.formandreform.com/wordpress/?tag=screw-machine

It's a victory ride for the tree Jerry~

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
> 
> 
> 
> ----- 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!
> 
> 
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> 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."
>>
>>
>> http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,213971.0/topicseen.html
>>
> 
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