Snow Tractor

[Tom Petroff]

Cool old 16 mm film of someone's creation in the 1920's
To conquer snow travel.
Wonder if would really work?


http://vimeo.com/2638558


Not for dial-up
TGP

[Jeff in N.Tx.]

Wow, that is really neat. I wonder how many of those actually got built?
Jeff

[Gordon Maney]

I want one....

[greg rider]

I wonder if it would float? Looks like it has the potential to go on water.

[Tom Petroff]

After reviewing the video again I guess it does work.
Liked the Chevy car version best.
You would think something as "nimble" as that would have caught on. Much less wear than tracked vehicles and no chance of throwing a track. The drive chains are questionable though.
I can not find much info on "Armstead" except the testing film and that it was built in Mi.
I too wondered if it would float.

Yes, I too want One LOL!
TGP

[Cheyenne Dave]

After reviewing the video again I guess it does work.
Liked the Chevy car version best.
You would think something as "nimble" as that would have caught on. Much less wear than tracked vehicles and no chance of throwing a track. The drive chains are questionable though.
I can not find much info on "Armstead" except the testing film and that it was built in Mi.
I too wondered if it would float.

Yes, I too want One LOL!
TGP

Those are just big pontoons...I think it would float and work very well in water!

C.D.

[Chris Olson]

It looks like it would float... whether it actually would float upright on the other hand?

[pieter]

The Russians also had something similar, but on a much larger chassis. It seems that the website is no longer being sponsored. It was a picture blog of various things from/about Russia. I believe it was from the same time frame. I don't believe their's worked. There were no videos of the machine in action, only of the actual machine...

I sure wish I could find it now...

Pieter

[pieter]

Internet is a wonderful thing, with a little looking.

Guess youtube has some video on the Russian variation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uftJ3JJQk4



Not sure where the static pictures are besides this one...

Pieter

[BobbyMike]

The Russian vehicles did work. I have seen videos of them.

I'll find the link if I can. EnglishRussia is the site I saw them at originally.

[BobbyMike]

some Russian vehicles (including their "screw" vehicle

http://englishrussia.com/?p=1265



Bunch more, including the Сross-country vehicle ZIL-29061 (the screw vehicle);



http://englishrussia.com/?p=1160#more-1160

[truck4myboys]

I wonder how they rigged steering on those Armsteads. It's obviously changing speeds of the screws independently, but from the steering wheel. And it looks like both treads have bands coming from the same PTO.

[Marius]

Nice video. That could be a fun little project if one ever had the time. Its called the Archimedian Screw. It was also considered when developing the weasel, as you can see in this Weasel promo video:

http://www.realmilitaryflix.com/public/441.cfm?sd=61

Marius