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You motorheads, gearheads and snow machine freaks should love this;
Enjoy
http://www.flixxy.com/snow-vehicle-concept.htm
Enjoy
http://www.flixxy.com/snow-vehicle-concept.htm
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!"Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...it's about learning how to dance in the rain."
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It looks both amazing and simple at the same time. Its curious that it never caught on. -
And I live in Miami and don't even know what snow is!!! And hey, it has a prop and pontoons!!Comment
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Wow!!
John did you ever see anything like that? HEH HEH.
I did every winter just as i drove on the ice.
Kinda' like an airboat huh., oh well.
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Never Caught On!
Sam I Am said it never caught on , i guess he lived in a different place, oh well his bad....
RichardKCMoComment
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Wonder who holds the patton on this tractor?
Sure looks like it had potential?
Have spent may hous help'n buddie drag logs and trailer/firewood with a John Deere model 50.
Dis rig would'a sure made it easier/fun!...............
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100N STEVE FRENCH > Nobody can hang with my STUFF!! >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tna3B5zqHdk
SEEEEEE YAAAAAA!!............In my WAKE!!
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Patents expire in less than 20 years ... anyone is free to manufacture the rotating cylinder snowmobile and has been for decadesComment
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Cool.......info/link?Originally posted by sam View Post100N STEVE FRENCH > Nobody can hang with my STUFF!! >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tna3B5zqHdk
SEEEEEE YAAAAAA!!............In my WAKE!!.............100N>> Comment
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So what's da bottom ......er........ punch line........... here SAM?100N STEVE FRENCH > Nobody can hang with my STUFF!! >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tna3B5zqHdk
SEEEEEE YAAAAAA!!............In my WAKE!!.............100N>> Comment
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If anyone else wanted to make them like this, they could have been doing it since before 1950 ... apparently no one wants to make these or if they are, its such a small market we don't know about it.
I suspect what killed it is advances in reliability for tracks for tracked vehicles. In years past tracks of all types were not as good as they are now. It looks like rotating cylinders would be either dramatically taller or dramatically wider than a similarly able tracked vehicle. Tracks with studs would probably work better than the cylinders on slick ice.
One advantage I see of the rotating cylinder vehicle ... the cylinders could double as pontoons for safety on thin ice.
The depression and war ate up all kinds of good ideas and gave us other stuff we did not imagine to replace many of them.Comment
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