This is a video of a tractor-snow mobile type machine that I got through email ... email said it was invented by Henry Ford. Kind of ironic since it has a...
Thanks for posting the video link. The video was showing two implementations of a system called an Armstead Snow Motor. Which was a kit. I don't think the...
There are several of the Snow Motor in existence. If you ever get the chance to go to the tractor and tractor museum in Woodland, CA, they have a restored...
Does anyone else remember back in the sixties when Bob Hope Presented The Chrysler Theater and they showed a similar device made as a troop carrier? At one...
Are you sure about that? I understand that there actually was the Fordson Snow Devil that was a factory packaged setup using the Snow Motor on a Fordson...
Dealers bundled all sorts of things with the Fordson. The most common bundle was a Fordson tractor with an Oliver plow. I have seen rail mover and road...
I was aware that Fordson was not Ford Motor Company. I have a Ford 8N on my Farm in Maysville KY. My father-in-law, bought it in the seventies. What a great...
That is just too cool! I could have used that a few weeks ago. My 2 year old 45 hp 4X4 tractor was struggling in snow a lot shallower than that! Unreal! ...
Don, you just sent me on a trip down memory lane. The sin is I have been by that place hundreds of times, always looking, but never actually went in. i am...
The 8N was introduced in 1948 to replace the 2N introduced in 1942. The 2N was a 9N with steel wheels and no electrics because of wartime shortages. By the...
I guess I should tell a little about myself after all those posting on tractor history. I was born in California but grew up on a northern Missouri dirt farm...
I know this is way off topic but you have also sent me remembering things. It is much easier than getting off my behind and doing yard work. The museum is the...
It was Hayes Truck Musium in Woodland, when I went to visit Mrs C last night in the hospital, she told me so , corrected my forgetful ways. Ahh, a good woman...
Yesterday while at our local lumber and hardware store. I noticed a nice piece of oak, 3 inches thick, about 9 inch wide and 6 feet long on the cart they roll...
bill, a lot of talk about a piece of 9 x 3 about 6 ft long, if anyone wanted oak in australia, that would fetch about $40. but you could never buy it from a...
Harley, it was not for sale, as it would be had to find something of that nature, without going to an indivual, my take it was from a ralitives mill from days...
Howdy group, A while back someone sent me some pics of a pro cut he built. I lost them when my hard drive crashed. I would like to get them again. My email...
Hi Guys, I've been a longtime member though I rarely post. I thought I'd let you know about the plans for my Wombat Sawmill which is a bit different from most...
Heres the site. Yahoo added spaces in the link when emailed. www.sawmill.ausmade.com.au ... From: Ronald Myers <rodtires1@...> Subject: Re: [milling] New...
Bob, For some reason your links aren't working for me either. I put your link in Google and found the site. I've tried to paste the URL below. Maybe it'll...
just small talk from australia: a wombat is a little furry animal that lives on the east coast. many drunken louts enjoy the same nick-name wombat = eats roots...
Hey Gang - My neighbor had her woods timbered, but threw the crew off before they hauled away all the timber for breach of contract. So, they are selling the...
Hi guys, For the record I occasionally have success in my mechanical endeavors but they don't make funny stories so I'm going to tell you about another of my...
Harold, you are a genius. Now your pickaroon can also find nail, fence staples and the like in the logs you saw. Gene GeRue www.ruralize.com ... [Non-text...
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