just for fun.

[Mr Mom]

     Has anybody built something to see if it just could be done.
One day last week, i was stuck in the house to long so i went outside to make a snow plow for my three wheeler. It worked but i went to park it and caught a tree and broke it.
It was only made out of 1x pices of wood.
     I just need to know if i am the only that thinks of stuff like this. I COULD BE GOING NUTS!!!!!!

[Weekend_Sawyer]

Yes you could be going nuts, quite possible. ;D

but not just because of that.

Dad used to plow our driveway, 150' long, but chaning a cross tie to the back of his truck and towing it around.
If he needed extra weight he would get a couple of us to stand on it. And we never got killed, not once ;)

Jon

[Modat22]

I tried to cast an iron wrench once without a cupola furnace.

I used a mixture of iron oxide, and aluminum powder (thermite) for the melt material. It fused the iron, melted the sand, and blew the top off my mold because the temperature was to great for the moisture content of the green sand.

[ohsoloco]

I've THOUGHT about what it would be like to put a snow plow on my three wheeler, but never thought about actually doing it, so yes....you are nuts  :D ;) 

Just wanna know what you mounted the plow to  ???  Ya can't really attatch it to the front since the plow will tilt every time you try to steer. 

Mine makes a jiffy log skidder though 

[thurlow]

Nuts you say??  Usta have a farm rented which had seveal nice pecan trees on it.   Tried thrashing/bumping  'em with a dozer, but it messed the tree up too bad, so  took a right-angle gear box off of an old drag-type combine, made a pto shaft and 3-point hitch to go on back of tractor.  Mounted an eccentric/off center stub shaft on gear box;   loop in end of 3/8 inch cable to go over shaft and run other end of cable to tree; move the tractor forward 'til cable was tight;  wouldn't shake the whole tree, but someone (my younger brother) would climb up to the first limbs and tie on.   He'd have to get down, because it would shake him out of tree when the pto was engaged.   By tying onto about 3 places (one at a time), would thrash any tree in 5 minutes or so.

[iain]

Thermite should be available at toys r us ;)

Thurlow i've seen harvesters like that
they clamp (big padded cuppie things) around the tree and use hydralic to shake/vibrate
i think it was cob nuts or it could have been almonds, something small and hard any way



  iain

[Modat22]

Need to weld some really thick pieces of metal? All ya need is a bit of thermite, a clay pot with a hole in the bottom and a piece of magnesium ribbon to ignite it.

Ohh and a bit of distance

[PawNature]

Speaking of Nuts. Me and friend were deer hunting. We got back to camp early and he decided he wanted more hickory nuts than what were lying on the ground. Sos he straps his tree stand around this big old scally bark hickory and wraps his arms around it and up he goes. Shakes the living daylights out of that tree not to many nuts though. Well on his way down his stand looses it grip and down he comes with his arms wraped around that big ole scalley bark with nuttin on but a shirt. You can imagine what he looked like. Kinda like he had been sorting wild cats.

[breederman]

I built a back blade to plow snow with my lawn tractor. It worked better in my imagination :(

[iain]

Thermite clears snow ;) 8)




      iain

[SwampDonkey]

Need to weld some really thick pieces of metal? All ya need is a bit of thermite, a clay pot with a hole in the bottom and a piece of magnesium ribbon to ignite it.

Ohh and a bit of distance

Here's about 10 lbs of magnesium I picked up in the field behind the house. Even has some sulfur in it. Should come in useful eh? ;D

[asy]

Thermite clears snow ;) 8)
      iain

You know this....   HOW?

asy :D

[Engineer]

I dunno about thermite but I can tell you that a back blade on a tractor works well for clearing snow.  Used to take me a couple hours to completely clean off my drive (450' +/-) with a front-end loader on my tractor, now I have a box scraper and that plus the loader cut the job time by 75%.   

[Tom]

What an interesting thing it must be to live in a place where you can stack water.  ;D

[Fla._Deadheader]

 :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

  Tom, you BAAADDDDDD :D :D :D

[breederman]

We didn't stack it today,just packed about 8 inches.Gonna live to regret that I'm sure.

[Modat22]

Here's about 10 lbs of magnesium I picked up in the field behind the house. Even has some sulfur in it. Should come in useful eh? ;D

Do you have a natural supply near you or is that left over from some sort of industrial process?

[dail_h]

   Looked like he'd been sortin wildcats----that's too good ha ha ho ho -----
    SORTIN WILDCATS  whoooooooohoooooo  shoeee I can't breve :D :D :D :D :D



                           sorti wildcats

[SwampDonkey]

Modat, it's a natural source. Only thing is, it was transported by glaciation. The whole outside of the rock had sulphur precipitated out, I took a hammer and removed it. Magnesium Sulphate. There is one mine near Lake George though.

[Mr Mom]

OHSOLOCO  i put a 2x4 under the foot pegs and bolted throught the pegs. Then i made a very long  H frame. put two hinges were the h frane meets 2x4. had to lift frame by hand with a small hunk of rope. it was just a stright pice of wood. it was not ment to do alot of plowing. Just something that I wanted to see if it would work.  :D :D :D






Mr Mom

[solodan]

Thurlow i've seen harvesters like that
they clamp (big padded cuppie things) around the tree and use hydralic to shake/vibrate
i think it was cob nuts or it could have been almonds, something small and hard any way



  iain

yeah, that's how they harvest almonds. that's why we call them almonds on the tree and amonds on the ground. you shake the L out of them. ;)then they drive this thing around like the golf ball harvester at the driving range to pick up the nuts.