1926 Snow Tractor

[Jon Cole]

1926 Snow Tractor

You're not gonna believe this... Talk about ingenuity!

This is a really neat 1926 silent film (on video) of a

tractor-snow-machine invented by Henry Ford, who is shown driving it.

Watch the whole thing (check out the Chevy near the end).

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

EDIT: WARNING- LINK WON'T WORK. I APOLOGIZE; I JUST CANNOT GET THIS VID TO PLAY

Here's 1926 technology that should be brought back - just in time for the

next Ice Age!

Edited January 12, 2010 by Spyder

[Harry P.]

Link doesn't work.

[Custom Hearse]

Link sent me to some website... It didn't show a video...

[Jon Cole]

######! Why won't this work?

Ummm... "WE ARE EXPERIENCING TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES" I'll try to fix it.

Sorry guys. The link won't work. It is from a vid site called LiveLink. I have posted links before, why won't the url work here? Bummer.

PLEASE DELETE ENTIRE THREAD

Edited January 12, 2010 by Spyder

[Harry P.]

Ummm. nope. Some "treasure hunting" website???

[Jon Cole]

Someone sent this to me via e-mail. The video clip was on that web site message board. I don't know what to make of it... I have never seen a deal like this when a copy & paste of a url fails.

[Jon Cole]

LETS TRY AGAIN... SOMEONE POSTED SAME THING ON YouTube

[post=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBjlSJf4274]

hope this works

[Harry P.]

Uh... now there's no link!

[Jon Cole]

OK, I posted the same link that Erik did... why won't it show up? Is it part of these "skins"?

[Harry P.]

Erik's link works.

That is too cool! I wonder why this idea never took off, it's pretty clever.

[Foxer]

I need to replace my snowmobile with one of those!

[Custom Hearse]

That is too cool! I wonder why this idea never took off, it's pretty clever.

[Eshaver]

I think it would have worked if Henry had built it ! Ed Shaver

[Smart-Resins]

Quick history, it was not invented by henry Ford!! it was originally designed by a switz. Later was reworked in the 20's by the armsteads, and was called the Fordson Snow Motor. Here is a link to the wikipedia info on it! I posted this about a year ago here. LOL. I do still enjoy watching it though! Thanks for the link. All I did was copy and paisted it into the google search bar and it came up just fine for me! Thanks. Jody

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screw-propelled_vehicle

[george 53]

WOW! THAT WAS COOL! regardless of WHO invented it, it sure looks feasable today! Looks like with the right materials to make the drums,it could navigate on WATER too! Some guys are just ahead of their times! Thanks for postin this!!!