[TheForge] I gotta have one of these!

[Jerry Frost]

WHAT?! You'd wish victory for the TREES, Pete! I participated in one of 
those and have the dents in my head to prove it was no fun. <Shudder>
Frosty the Lucky
-------------------------
If it ain't forged
It ain't real
wrought iron is
The Frostworks



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer" <artgawk at thegrid.net>
To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 9:49 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] I gotta have one of these!


> 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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