1926 Fordson snow motor for the coming iceage...

[fustercluck]

I found this vid clip and thought it might interest the gear heads among us...


http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=568_1233111054

The whole time I watched it I thought, "why didn't I think of that?"


This is one in a museum somewhere...
http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/j/t/jtr16/ham_17.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3212/2909902484_d8ea16de2e.jpg?v=0


Kinda kool. I love this stuff.

[CJM]

Really cool, never seen anything quite like it.

It seems to drive like a tank but whatever the spinning drums/wheels are made out of it seems to mostly float over all but the deepest, loosest snow.

[4x4mike]

Crusing around Youtbe one night I stumpled upon something similar. It was a Russian or some eastern european military vehicle. It was a little more modern and much bigger. The video was it just crusing around the forest, going uphill and downhill between the trees.

If you can't go over the snow snow you should go through it.

[RunnerUp]

i want one

[slosurfer]

Here's the russian one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uynmApjhWI

[slosurfer]

I would imagine that it doesn't "sidehill" too well. :laugh:

[CJM]

The downfall with an idea like that is it cannot be driven on anything but soft land. Forget rocks, forget asphalt, heck even forget harder ground.

[Tankota]

Haha, thats really cool! I like those crazy old interesting contraptions.

Did any one else watch the end of the video and see the Chevrolet Automobile version. That one looks fun too!

[slosurfer]

The downfall with an idea like that is it cannot be driven on anything but soft land. Forget rocks, forget asphalt, heck even forget harder ground.




That's what I was thinking too. Check out this short vid of it on the ice, does better than I thought.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uftJ3JJQk4 It makes me :laugh: