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Enjoy! 
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Reply To This Topic #1 Posted Jan 28, 2009, 12:25:49 PM |
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Pretty neat Blacksheep, I've never seen anyrthing like that before. I wonder why it didn't catch on more especially for the logging. As I was watching it I thought,,,, I haven't seen it do any work yet until it hooked up & pulled that sliegh of logs! Thanks for posting it!
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Reply To This Topic #2 Posted Jan 28, 2009, 12:27:20 PM |
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Cool vid.  I've seen similar machines in pics but haven't seen this before. Thanks for posting. Felt bad for that poor horse. |
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Reply To This Topic #3 Posted Jan 28, 2009, 12:29:09 PM |
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damn...now there is something else i want and can never afford...
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Reply To This Topic #4 Posted Feb 14, 2009, 08:56:30 PM |
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Reply To This Topic #5 Posted Feb 14, 2009, 09:18:42 PM |
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Gotta get out to the farm now, I'll bet Uncle Johnny could whip one up in a heartbeat. Stick around winter, got some new whacky notions. Hmm... Panel truck maybe.
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Reply To This Topic #6 Posted Feb 15, 2009, 05:18:06 AM |
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Awesome find, thanks for sharing.
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Reply To This Topic #7 Posted Feb 17, 2009, 10:27:29 AM |
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over 51,000 views since Jan 28 2009. It all guests, it has to be a "bot" (computer program) doing it...  http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,213971.0.htmlLook at the "who" link below and look for your self, at any given time ther is like 50 guests viewing it. http://forum.treasurenet.com/who |
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Reply To This Topic #8 Posted Feb 17, 2009, 01:08:08 PM |
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296 Guests viewing...that is wierd...
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Reply To This Topic #9 Posted Feb 17, 2009, 01:47:43 PM |
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wow TreasureFiend...good eye, i would have never thought anything about it until you brought it to our attention. It is pretty weird. And what is the "Spider" thing they are talking about? What does that mean?
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Reply To This Topic #10 Posted Feb 17, 2009, 02:57:54 PM |
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Those guests are probably former members checking in.
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Reply To This Topic #11 Posted Feb 17, 2009, 03:04:17 PM |
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Could simply have the amount of "views" from the host site (liveleak) carried over to this site, it is weird.
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Reply To This Topic #12 Posted Feb 23, 2009, 08:38:42 AM |
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This forum thread has been posted in other places for people to see and I bet that's why you're getting tons of hits. I found this site because of a link on a farming site and I imagine lots of others are too. People are hitting treasurenet.com to be able to click on and watch the tractor vid. I tried to find the original video link by searching on LiveLeak but couldn't.
Would it be possible for the original finder of the Fordson Snow-Motor video to post the original URL or the search terms used to find that video on LiveLeak? That way cross-posters wouldn't have to use the treasurenet url.
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Reply To This Topic #13 Posted Mar 18, 2009, 10:15:26 AM |
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I'd like to see the snow motor pulling a load on an incline. Sure looks like fun. Neat `lil flick I found on Liveleak. (Fordson snow-motor)
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Reply To This Topic #14 Posted Mar 18, 2009, 12:31:05 PM |
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Pretty cool creature...I want one.  Says over 250,000 views now.....guess its catching on. Makes me think that the ice road truckers would like some modern version of that. Al |
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Reply To This Topic #15 Posted Mar 18, 2009, 02:17:17 PM |
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I have the sneaking suspicion that video is somehow linked to the TreasureNet server.  Yep, strange. When I posted this originally, it was a simple link that was converted by TNET, I did not use embed code. I went back to liveleak in search of that vid, cannot find it anywhere which is also rather strange since if it was removed, it should no longer work here. Still, it doesn't appear to be hurting TNET in any way and may in fact be helping some by pulling people in who may never have bothered otherwise.  (using google, "Fordson snow-motor" shows TNET third from top,not bad!) |
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Reply To This Topic #16 Posted Apr 12, 2009, 07:55:24 AM |
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I just joined to let you know this address is floating around as an E-Mail: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Thought you might like to see this. Hey check this out....Why didn't they continue? This is a really cool video of a tractor-snow mobile type machine invented by Henry Ford. Watch the whole thing. It's a video copy of an old film that doesn't have sound...but it's pretty neat. http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,213971.0/topicseen.html" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This may account for all the hits! |
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Reply To This Topic #17 Posted Aug 16, 2009, 03:51:59 PM |
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that is really interesting !!
great video !
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Reply To This Topic #18 Posted Jan 04, 2010, 07:07:35 PM |
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wow TreasureFiend...good eye, i would have never thought anything about it until you brought it to our attention. It is pretty weird. And what is the "Spider" thing they are talking about? What does that mean?
I just joined. Was send here by an email I rec'd from a friend about the tractor video as was mentioned earlier. That accounts for some of the hits, but to answer the question "what is a spider"? They are GOOD things to have crawling around your website and are sent out by search engines seeking keywords, etc. Nice place and you guys seem like nice folks. Can't wait to check out the "Political" section tho and add my two cents worth, lol. See you around....... |
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Reply To This Topic #19 Posted Jan 04, 2010, 07:39:16 PM |
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Blacksheep Thanks that is one of the coolest things I've seen , its amazing they still arent being made its a great idea. |
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Reply To This Topic #20 Posted Jan 04, 2010, 08:45:06 PM |
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Cool
Do you think that thing would float?
Would make a safe ice fishing veihicle.
Just another thing to build.
Looks like a fun snow machine anyway.
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Reply To This Topic #21 Posted Jan 08, 2010, 11:58:14 AM |
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I got here by way of an email my first thought was that Big Brother had been watching me , turns out that someone sent it to the Streets Superintendant and he liked it so well he forwarded it to all . |
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Reply To This Topic #22 Posted Jan 08, 2010, 12:19:23 PM |
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I'm a long time Tnet member, but yes, I got this link in an e-mail too.
Cool vid by the way.
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Reply To This Topic #23 Posted Jan 08, 2010, 12:26:47 PM |
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damn...now there is something else i want and can never afford...
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Reply To This Topic #24 Posted Jan 08, 2010, 05:56:34 PM |
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Wonder if this vid will generate a million hits before the next new year. |
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Reply To This Topic #25 Posted Jan 09, 2010, 08:10:19 AM |
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Wonder if this vid will generate a million hits before the next new year. I wouldn't bet against it. Man, this thing would be cool on the Outer Banks with a big set of rod holders mounted on the front  |
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Reply To This Topic #26 Posted Jan 09, 2010, 10:58:45 AM |
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Pretty neat Blacksheep, I've never seen anyrthing like that before. I wonder why it didn't catch on more especially for the logging. As I was watching it I thought,,,, I haven't seen it do any work yet until it hooked up & pulled that sliegh of logs! Thanks for posting it!
Chris
The military made similar but much larger units for experimentation during WWII. And they did again so during the late 1950s early 1960s. These things had large enough sponsons that they would float. And you could counter rotate as well as duplicate rotate. Gave you steering, forward motion, and rolling sideways motion. Work well on snow and ice, floats in water, but cant derive much forward speed in water as the speed of the sponsons would have to be close to propeller speeds to provide much effect. Also, not too good in dirt, sand, mud, or solid ground like grass. Friction with the grit wears down the sponsons too fast. Lots of friction that a rubber tire or steel track doesnt have. Bill in Alabama |
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Reply To This Topic #27 Posted Jan 09, 2010, 11:02:55 AM |
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Wonder if this vid will generate a million hits before the next new year. Last night there were less than 700,00 views. Right now, over 721,000. i'm sure it will hit one million well before the end of the year. |
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Reply To This Topic #28 Posted Jan 09, 2010, 11:43:10 AM |
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It's called a viral video. It was seen and sent out and then sent out and reposted and sent out some more. It spreads like a virus throughout the internet. Remember Chris Crocker loosing his mind over Britney Spears?(LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!!!) Someone saw it and sent it to some friends who forwarded it and they did the same and it spread. It's a good thing. Cool machine, I wonder if there are any left that work. Here's a modern version:
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Reply To This Topic #29 Posted Jan 10, 2010, 11:53:17 AM |
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25 hours since my last post here. 763,000+ hits now.  |
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Reply To This Topic #30 Posted Jan 10, 2010, 06:28:26 PM |
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Might be a matter of a couple of weeks at the rate its climbing. |
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Reply To This Topic #31 Posted Jan 10, 2010, 07:35:22 PM |
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EPA would finance their whole years budget with the fines off that thing. No guards or fenders. It probably would be amphibious as well.
With a starting point of a garden tractor and water heater tanks for floats ? ?
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Reply To This Topic #32 Posted Jan 11, 2010, 11:16:07 AM |
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Really great video except for the jerk beating his horse. Some things never change.  Very modern tractor for the day. Don't know why it never caught on. I'm sure parts of the invention were used in future snowplows. |
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Reply To This Topic #33 Posted Jan 12, 2010, 06:57:06 PM |
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916000 hits, I'll pull it when it hits one million. |
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Reply To This Topic #34 Posted Jan 12, 2010, 07:51:03 PM |
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It'll probably hit 1 million tomorrow. Gotta make sure it is still out on the net somewhere if you pull. That is a great vid!
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Reply To This Topic #35 Posted Jan 13, 2010, 05:23:28 PM |
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I don't recall how many were built, but they were used (unsuccessfully) for Richard Byrd's first Antarctic Expedition. One is on display in Pioneer Park in Fairbanks, Alaska.  |
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Reply To This Topic #36 Posted Jan 13, 2010, 09:15:58 PM |
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I don't recall how many were built, but they were used (unsuccessfully) for Richard Byrd's first Antarctic Expedition. One is on display in Pioneer Park in Fairbanks, Alaska. Chipshot - Welcome to T-Net. That is a fantastic pic. Thank you very much for posting it! Blacksheep - Don't kill this thread.  979,400+ hits  |
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Reply To This Topic #37 Posted Jan 13, 2010, 11:56:12 PM |
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Welcome to TNET chipshot, appreciate the pic/info. (I wont kill it, its kind of interesting.) |
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Reply To This Topic #38 Posted Jan 14, 2010, 04:37:48 AM |
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Chipshot - Welcome to T-Net. That is a fantastic pic. Thank you very much for posting it! Blacksheep - Don't kill this thread. 979,400+ hits Thanks. It would be fun to see how it looks about now. Anyone in or going to Fairbanks? (It's only -19F there at the moment.) Picture, please! |
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Reply To This Topic #39 Posted Jan 14, 2010, 09:30:53 AM |
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Reply To This Topic #40 Posted Jan 14, 2010, 12:21:43 PM |
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There is another Fordson "Snowmobile" restored and operational at the Heidrick Museum in Woodland, CA. After restoration Fred Heidrick and family took it to the snow for a FUN DAY. This one was used to deliver mail during the winter in the Quincy, CA area.
There are rumors of another in Michigan. Anyone know of it or others?
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Reply To This Topic #41 Posted Jan 14, 2010, 02:36:16 PM |
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Welcome to TNET Histcon, appreciate the info. I have not heard of any others besides the one`s posted here so far but I may do a little digging to see what can be found. ("(Read 1000001 times) " Amazing ) |
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Reply To This Topic #42 Posted Jan 14, 2010, 03:01:35 PM |
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There is another Fordson "Snowmobile" restored and operational at the Heidrick Museum in Woodland, CA. After restoration Fred Heidrick and family took it to the snow for a FUN DAY. This one was used to deliver mail during the winter in the Quincy, CA area.
There are rumors of another in Michigan. Anyone know of it or others?
Histcon
Welcome to T-Net. The only others I've seen are in a few books. I do know a couple people that are into tractors in a major way and will be bringing these machines up when I next see them. |
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Reply To This Topic #43 Posted Jan 14, 2010, 04:54:13 PM |
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More info at the sight below (apologies if someone else has already shared it), though perhaps not answers to the immediate questions. http://www.modeltfordsnowmobile.com/index.htm |
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Reply To This Topic #44 Posted Jan 15, 2010, 11:48:44 AM |
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that was the coolest snow tractor i ever had the pleasure to see in operation, i just did not like the idiot on the horse, he should have been another test of the snow tractor
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Reply To This Topic #45 Posted Jan 15, 2010, 09:01:43 PM |
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Chipshot - Welcome to T-Net. That is a fantastic pic. Thank you very much for posting it! Blacksheep - Don't kill this thread. 979,400+ hits Thanks. It would be fun to see how it looks about now. Anyone in or going to Fairbanks? (It's only -19F there at the moment.) Picture, please! If it is still there I'll get some pictures tomorrow! Last check it was -25F (Friday), It was -40F on Tuesday.......  |
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Reply To This Topic #46 Posted Jan 24, 2010, 04:17:51 PM |
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Its back, and still going strong!  |
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Reply To This Topic #47 Posted Jan 25, 2010, 09:50:27 AM |
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I clicked on a link at a global news website, and it brought me to T-Net. But I had to search "snow motor" here, to find the actual post. It's going viral!
Great video, thanks for posting. Had seen pictures and thought maybe it didn't work at all, looks like it can at least function.
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Reply To This Topic #48 Posted Jan 25, 2010, 10:44:38 AM |
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The title at Liveleak is Snow Vehicle Concept From 1924 .
1,300,972 hits here!
edit- But it only shows 1210 hits there.
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