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Offline Ned Ludd

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This should be of interest if you a little snow this winter.
« on: February 09, 2011, 06:24:09 PM »
Hi Guys,
A friend of mine, who is writing the second edition of his book on tractors, sent me a link to an amazing "tractor". It will be just the thing to have if we get another winter like this last one. Enjoy!
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=568_1233111054
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LiveLeak.com - Snowmobile of 1926 -- SO AWESOME
Ned
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Offline Sorekiwi

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Re: This should be of interest if you a little snow this winter.
« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2011, 08:30:43 PM »
Very cool video, thanks for posting that!
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Offline foozer

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Re: This should be of interest if you a little snow this winter.
« Reply #2 on: February 09, 2011, 08:42:45 PM »
That is just Slick, wonder if it floats?

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Offline Hobby-Machinist

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Re: This should be of interest if you a little snow this winter.
« Reply #3 on: February 11, 2011, 09:35:35 PM »
Very interesting...wonder why that never caught on.


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Re: This should be of interest if you a little snow this winter.
« Reply #4 on: February 12, 2011, 05:27:41 AM »
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Re: This should be of interest if you a little snow this winter.
« Reply #5 on: February 12, 2011, 06:50:38 AM »
The zil stuff is cool, I would love that 2906 recovery machine in those videos.
Today its also used for specialist drying operations :-
http://www.totaltailings.com/main/page_specialised_equipment.html
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Offline Bernd

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Re: This should be of interest if you a little snow this winter.
« Reply #6 on: February 12, 2011, 09:49:23 AM »
Probably never caught on because I'm sure those blades on the tubes are high maintence. Looks like they'd be easy to bend or break a chunck out of.

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Offline Ned Ludd

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Re: This should be of interest if you a little snow this winter.
« Reply #7 on: February 12, 2011, 02:07:00 PM »

Hi Guys,
I do remember a TV program on that Bering strait trip, and seem to recall that they had problems with the drive system, (back yard engineering/bodging?) and did they suffer a leak in one of the "floats" and nearly sink? It was a few years ago and memory fails with the passage of time and birthdays.
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Offline RichardShute

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Re: This should be of interest if you a little snow this winter.
« Reply #8 on: February 13, 2011, 06:50:34 AM »
I've not seen that before. It might well be 'the original', but I'm sure the idea was also used in Soviet Russia for a tundra crossing military transport vehicle, about the size of a 20 ton truck. The Soviets came up with all sorts of interesting stuff that we never heard about at the time and is only now coming out of the wood-work, Google 'Ekranoplan' for example.

Thanks for posting that.

Richard
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