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I'll bet my Uncle would have killed for one of these while trying to build a temporary airstrip when the Marines were hardly off the beach and Jap snipers everywhere.
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A fine Gentleman sent me these pictures of a Farmall Double A tractor.
Researching it, seems it's a homebuilt one-off. Quote:
Also came across this dude. Quote:
This shit is much more difficult than it seems, the guy has a lot of time and money tied up here. Probably his wife was grateful to get him out from underfoot, though.
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This is apparently a thing.
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What could possibly go wrong?
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I suspect there isn't much information in existence, at least in English, about this forge.
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I think I was still in High School when I read the Arms of Krupp, big fucking book, 400 years of Krupp.
Just couldn't put the damn thing down.
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That would be an interesting process.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bertha_%28howitzer%29 'A total of 12 complete M-Gerät were built; besides the two available when the war started, 10 more were built during the war.[1][10] This figure does not include additional barrels; two extra barrels were already available before the war started,[1] and possibly up to 20 barrels were built, though some sources state 18.[3] As the war ground on, several Berthas were destroyed when their barrels burst due to faulty ammunition. Later in the Great War, an L/30 30.5-cm barrel was developed and fitted to some Bertha carriages to provide longer-range, lighter fire. These weapons were known as the Schwere Kartaune or Beta-M-Gerät.[6][11]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Gun "The Paris Guns hold an important place in the history of astronautics, as their shells were the first human-made objects to reach the stratosphere."
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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?
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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:
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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.
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This beast fits better here than rims.
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Six-wheel drive from two axles?
Also, a nsfw warning woulda been nice...That one guy's plainly standing there with his tool in his hand.
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It said a 6-wheel drive, 6-cylinder was the biggest they built, not the only. The photographs and illustrations are a two axle and 4 cylinder engine so I guess they're not the biggest model, are they.
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Faegol(above) also made walking tractors. One being demonstrated and the crating dock at the factory.
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Like those rear wheels, bet they didn't get stuck much.
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