Neat Concepts from yesteryears

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http://www.flixxy.com/snow-vehicle-concept.htm

pretty neat, Who'll be the first to make a cub version?

 

[lbuttke]

Wonder why it never caught on?

 

[dfrisk]

I think they forgot to mention that "IT FLOATS". Those drums when constructed so they're air-tight would hold that little Fordson afloat and the screws on the OD would provide drive in water.

 

[thoffman]

Imaging going down a snowmobile part and you hear this odd sound, you look over your shoulder and you see that. WTF!

 

[bbrigham]

Now that's pretty cool. I've seen pictures of them before but this is the first video. Cool

 

[mhomrighausen]

I visted with a co-worker about that little critter. He said the military briefly considered a rig like that. The rear drive proved to be the weak spot on the outfit. Would be neat on a hydro Cub.

 

[thoffman]

That setup looks very interesting but I think the week link is/was the open chain drive on the rear. You can sett it pretty well when the operator is baking turns in the ditch. Looks like it could jump off quickly in trashy, brushy kind of areas.

 

[sstanton]

That thing is pretty cool! Got me thinking about how hard it would be to build.

 

[mhomrighausen]

I don't know how many of you guys remember this neat and at the time extremely pricey invention. I remember hearing the price was set at $100,000.00. BIG $$$ in 1971. If I recall correctly a farmer from Iowa invented the machine. It was deemed just too expensive to be practical back then.

The Bumblebee Self Propelled Disc.