Screwed Tractor.... Tell me this aint' cool

[KeithTurk]

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,213971.0/topicseen.html

It's like that picture we saw a while back.... but it's Henry Ford driving it..... ( so they say )

[Ron Ward]

Re: Screwed Tractor.... Tell me this aint' cool

That is a great machine! Too bad with global warming we won't need it anymore... :-\

Ron

[SuperBuickGuy]

Re: Screwed Tractor.... Tell me this aint' cool

I wonder what the farmer thought while he was repairing his fence in the spring ;)
also, I note that most of that was on table flat ground.....

[JRoberts]

Re: Screwed Tractor.... Tell me this aint' cool

Great video. I would love to operate a tractor like that sometime....oooppps I forgot I really don't like cold weather much.

[DanStokes]

Re: Screwed Tractor.... Tell me this aint' cool

Henry was an interesting guy. He always had an eye out for farming interests as he thought of himself as a farm kid and thought that farming was the backbone of the nation.

I've seen that old film before but it's great to see it again - everything old is new again. It appears that the steering was hooked up to the steering wheel - I wonder how that worked. I was expecting levers like a bulldozer.

Dan

[milner351]

Re: Screwed Tractor.... Tell me this aint' cool

Very cool - I wish they had that thing at the Henry Ford Museum.... I feel bad for the horse they made the example of in the deep snow!

[Monster]

Re: Screwed Tractor.... Tell me this aint' cool

That is totally awesome !!
I wonder why the concept never took off, must have been a reason ....
Thanks Keith, that was really cool vintage footage.
;D

[NITMARE]

Re: Screwed Tractor.... Tell me this aint' cool

Coolest thing I've seen in a while!

[Brian Lohnes]

Re: Screwed Tractor.... Tell me this aint' cool

Here's the Armstead Snow Motor hauling logs...

http://www.bangshift.com/blog/Screw-Propelled-Vehicle-Shocker-We-Tree-d-The-Ruskies-By-Decades.html

[Thackdaddy]

Re: Screwed Tractor.... Tell me this aint' cool

That is totally awesome !!
I wonder why the concept never took off, must have been a reason ....
Thanks Keith, that was really cool vintage footage.
;D

I'd say Buickguy nailed it, that thing is, even when standing still, a tip over in progress.

[squirrel]

Re: Screwed Tractor.... Tell me this aint' cool

I wonder why the concept never took off, must have been a reason ....

Not much use for it around here! Probably isn't much use for it in the snowbound areas either. Can't do much farming with your tractor when there's 4ft of snow on the ground, right? crops don't seem to like snow.

Look at what snow vehicles did succeed--the snowmobile, and 4wd trucks (and awd cars) combined with the use of snowplows.

[Brian Lohnes]

Re: Screwed Tractor.... Tell me this aint' cool

The Ruskies were futzing around with it through the 1960's

http://www.bangshift.com/blog/Motorized-Freak-of-the-Week-Russian-ZiL-Screw-Propelled-Truck-Thing.html

[kenworth jon]

Re: Screwed Tractor.... Tell me this aint' cool

It doesnt really matter if it would be useful.But it sure would be fun to play with in your backyard.You can use your imagination from there with what you could do.