I was going through some photos I took when I was firefighting and found this one I took during a fire on a ranch near Devil's Tower. I think everyone needs to see this crazy thing. I've witnessed some insane moments of ranch ingenuity but this ones gotta be the best. I mean, its a logging truck . . .
heck thats common around here a guy i know whohad a spiral cone log splitter attached to one side of his trucks rear axle ....jacked up dropped in low gear 30mph brick on the gas pedal and you just push the logs on by hand . worked great until the oppisite side of the truck slipped a little from the split logs being tossed in the box . the tire rubbed against his wheel blocking and started the truck on fire .. you know tire first then wheel well bondo then gas tank missin it's cap with the rag stuffed in it lucky he was by the river so he could douse it with acooler of water put it out and reajusted things and finished the log pile he's a nut no it was not me
it was very common for model t's to end up like that, a little unusual seeing something so new converted like that
I went to check out a 51 Chevy car for sale.....the front half was driving a ski hill lift.No thanks I said...needs too much work!
common over here too , i once bought a nice '29 chev roadster , the owner had carefully removed the roadster back , complete with doors , upholstery etc , and fitted the saw blade frame , just drove around the properties and hooked the tailshaft to the saw also bought a '48 truck years later set up the same way.........Thats the way they did it in the day.......
wow, i had no idea it was that common, but then again i didn't grow up around a place with trees, just desert.
my brother bought a 46 dodge 4 door sedan that was on blocks with a rear tire removed and a large belt going around the rim. the belt was attatched to some sort of a mining impliment... something like a cement mixer for seperating rocks form mud or something like that.
Yup i think im gonna have to do that to my truck Heres a pic i took of an old international on my jasper trip this summer. I dont know what the hell that thing is on the back....
Was out picking up a flathead in waverly (outside lincoln) nebraska about a month back, the guy had a 29 Model A (no body) frame, 4-banger and tranny running a buzz saw... picked it up outside Estes Park Colorado. Had the whole front half of the frame, and the engine and tranny still ran, still had the original wheels. IT was pretty cool. Eric
Saw this too... it had a flathead running it, and multiple toploader flathead trannys and rearend flying everywhere... look like it had a pump on it or something similar.
Back in the fourties and early fifties, it was common to see air compressors built from flathead Ford V8 engines---I was told that the center 2 cylinders on each side were converted to air pumps by taking the valve lifters out and putting "poppet valves" in the sparkplug holes, and that the engines ran very smoothly with only the 2 outside cylinders on each bank actually running the engine.
Man I got to say - that's a first for me. That can't be OSHA safe... I have seen old Hemis running irrigation pumps out in the middle of a field. Never pissed with 'em though. I don't have the heart to muck with an old farmers ingenuity...or his budget.
That's neat... about a year ago I found a complete 31 model A roadster cowl in a barn, and they were using the gas tank to run a big sawmill saw. If I ever build the thing it'll be the sawmill special. Me-oh
Ford made an engine for industrial use...a 460 with four cylinders converted to an air compressor. There's a couple @ the local rental.
When I was a kid we had a doodle bug that we could pull the rear wheel off of, and attach a drum to. Around that went a about a foot and a half wide belt that ran to another drum in the top of the barn. We would park the bug outside the barn with the belt at about 30 degrees. but it in gear, bearly pull the ears down and putt-putt-putt, it was a hay bail lift. Dang I wish I had pictures of that now....
-That is, I believe, a lathe specially designed for turning and truing train car wheels. Be pretty handy if you need to turn anything four feet in diameter and about two tons. Stretch the bed and have it turn whole cars like a chicken rotisserie while you paint. Maybe try some carnival-style "spin art" instead of those boring old flames and scallops. Doc.
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