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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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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The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible - Arthur C. Clarke
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 only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible - Arthur C. Clarke
A steam tricycle...Cugnot's was the most noteworthy......Ben
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible - Arthur C. Clarke
Big Foot is finally revealed! See it at 3:52.
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible - Arthur C. Clarke
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.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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.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.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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.
Fred
"Everyday I beat my own previous record for number of consecutive days I've
stayed alive."
'Take care of yourself, and each other.'
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.
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
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis