[TheForge] I gotta have one of these!

[Jerry Frost]

What a great thought Pete! I love it.
Jer
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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: Thursday, January 28, 2010 1:11 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] I gotta have one of these!


> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- 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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