[TheForge] I gotta have one of these!

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

Well then, ax that suggestion.
At least tree trunks come in their own coffin.

Jerry Frost wrote:
> 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
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> 
> 
> ----- 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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