Machines

xoxoxoBruce · 06-04-2016, 11:59 AM

Whoops, I was researching the machine and took the gun info from a sidebar, my bad.
Thanks Griff, the numbers are interesting, also the description of the mobile M gun.

Oh boy, we can take it along on vacation.
Where are you going?
Any fucking place we want.

What intrigued me was the referral to the inner tube of the barrel. I'd like to know how that barrel goes together. Also, I'm pretty certain in the photograph what they are doing is forging a huge steel blank which later will be divided up into a bunch of pieces. But I still would like to know more about that machine. Why? Damifino?

xoxoxoBruce · 06-05-2016, 04:42 PM

Don't know how I got the picture in there all over again, maybe glatt can remove the attachment from post #36.

Foreward...
This tractor was the first one designed to use rubber tires, a huge leap forward, and 25 mph was car normal speed in Model-A days.

Quote:

In 1919 Fate joined with Root-Heath Manufacturing Company and formed Fate-Root-Heath. The new organization continued to build clay machinery, yard locomotives, and added a line of sharpening equipment for reel type grass mowers. Business was good, and the company prospered until the economic crash of 1929.

By the early 1930's orders for expensive locomotives had slowed to a trickle. In order to keep the factory doors open, Fate-Root-Heath needed a product that was cheap enough that people could afford to buy in quantity. The town of Plymouth was located in the middle of prime Ohio farm land; a farm tractor would be a natural addition to the product line. A tractor was well within the company's engineering and production capabilities. Charles Heath, general manager of the company at that time, presented the idea of building a farm tractor to get the company through the depression. An employee recalls, "Charlie was the Kingpin of the operation. When Charlie hollered, everyone jumped, from the president on down. " So Fate-Root-Heath set out to build a farm tractor.

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xoxoxoBruce · 06-07-2016, 10:22 AM

Back in the early 1970s, when sophisticated electronics were huge, Segway a pipe dream, and radial tires were hey-buddy-you-got-a-flat, this was genius.

xoxoxoBruce · 06-14-2016, 12:26 AM

This beast fits better here than rims.

06-04-2016, 11:59 AM	#1
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Whoops, I was researching the machine and took the gun info from a sidebar, my bad. Thanks Griff, the numbers are interesting, also the description of the mobile M gun. Oh boy, we can take it along on vacation. Where are you going? Any fucking place we want. What intrigued me was the referral to the inner tube of the barrel. I'd like to know how that barrel goes together. Also, I'm pretty certain in the photograph what they are doing is forging a huge steel blank which later will be divided up into a bunch of pieces. But I still would like to know more about that machine. Why? Damifino? __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

06-14-2016, 12:26 AM	#4
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	This beast fits better here than rims. Attached Images __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

06-07-2016, 10:22 AM	#3
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Back in the early 1970s, when sophisticated electronics were huge, Segway a pipe dream, and radial tires were hey-buddy-you-got-a-flat, this was genius. Attached Images __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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