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Look at this contraption at the 1:41 mark. I've never seen anything like it. What the hell is it? A tractor? <img src="images/smilies/shrug.gif" border="0" alt="" title="Shrug" smilieid="18" class="inlineimg"><br>
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWSoSlHunOI
Ok, I found more!
Take a look at 1:00 - getting a stuck tractor out of the mud. Followed by an ancient rock crusher at 2:20.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec9nr9QlhjA
A steam tricycle...Cugnot's was the most noteworthy...:thinker:...BenQuote:
Originally Posted by Mike
I don't think your average toddler could operate it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Truckman
Ai 6:24, Joe will be delighted to incorporate this into his roller grill restaurant...:yum:...BenQuote:
Originally Posted by Mike
Oh, pshaw!...I had one when I was three, just before Uncle Rudy invented a better engine...:drive:...BenQuote:
Originally Posted by Mike
I'd have never thought of such a machine, but I guess they are necessary for carnivals, fairs and such places where you have to cook a lot of meat fast.Quote:
Originally Posted by Truckman
Big Foot is finally revealed! See it at 3:52.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvTl17M6G8E
I'm guessing that thing has the right of way at any intersection...:omfg:...BenQuote:
Originally Posted by Mike
That tricycle concept continued with the first "car" in 1886. Karl Benz introduced his internal combustion engine vehicle in that configuration.
The car in that video is not the original, it is a replica which is at the MB museum in Stuttgart.
The video was shot at the museum. I am not sure if the original No. 1 even exists any longer. If you ever find yourself in Stuttgart, you have to make time to visit the museum, located at the MB headquarters. It is the largest and finest auto museum I have ever seen.
If you have a little extra time when done at MB run over to the Porsche museum, much smaller but very interesting.
Regarding the stuck tractor, I remember my father doing essentially the same thing with a little crawler. We had built a new pond and in the process of trying to seed the banks we got our Cletrac stuck. The mud was up to the seat in the back. We chained logs to the tracks in the front and then removed them as they came up in the rear. The only remaining problem was that it was on such an angle (front to back) that gravity no longer supplied gasoline. The remedy for that was that my brother blew into the tank to create enough pressure to transfer the gasoline.Quote:
Ok, I found more!
Take a look at 1:00 - getting a stuck tractor out of the mud. Followed by an ancient rock crusher at 2:20.
The one below is one of mine and the same model.
Back to Mike's original question. Appears to be able to pick a root vegetable up and have it go through the chute. Thinking potato maybe.
I think you are looking at the pumpkin seed harvester. The round wheel on the side has long spikes that pick up the pumpkins and send them into the machine which in turn chops them up, separates the seed and returns the flesh to the soil for fertilizer.Quote:
Originally Posted by FredK
Not an easy trick---in conventional small grain combines they are always separating dry components, which have no inherent connection to one an other. That isn't the case with pumpkins and their seeds.
Here is a closer look.
BTW---I can only imagine the deer in one of those fields after the harvest :clap: