[SEL] Alamo powered hacksaw.......

[Duncan Denman]

Hey Bill,

If you have pics of those machine gun tractors, I would certainly 
appreciate a copy of them if you don't mind.

Thanks,
Duncan

bill at antique-engines.com wrote:

>Boring for most I'm sure, but just got back from Waukee......... and
>thanks to a tip or two from a list member, I decided the Alamo 2 was about
>right speed and pulley size to run my hacksaw (the lighter, easier to move
>Marvel drawcut #1 as opposed to the #2 I got from Arnie that takes 2 good
>men to just move it)
>I belted it up, assuming a bit that the proper pulley rotation direction
>should be top of pulley toward back of saw, and let the engine idle all
>weekend, popping in the clutch now and then to let people see it cutting
>steel rods, and showing how when it finished, it kicked itself out of
>gear.
>The h&m Alamo was a tad less than even for cutting, but the engine idles
>so smoothly and evenly it wasn't TOO noticable, and I'm afraid a faster
>throttle-governed engine may have been a bit too fast for a good display.
>
>The FM w/mudpump ran well all weekend, stopping twice when my brazing rod
>contact broke due to metal fatigue.
>Still need to find a GOOD mag person to work on the AB33 for that beast.
>People loved watching  the water shoot out from a 3" pipe........ and
>tried to figure how much it could move in an hour.
>
>I only took 3 engines, as opposed to the 5 or 6 I usually take - hot, and
>simply too much going on with the car restoration, etc. The third, the
>Lindsay-Alamo, was on squirrelcage duty all weekend.................
>The Chapman 2 took a break and stayed home this time.
>
>The JD A machinegun tractors were a sight! They are reproductions of the
>rigs JD submitted to uncle sam for military use, but they proved to be too
>heavy and too difficult to maneuver, or for whatever reason, never made it
>into production. I can imaging the poor driver and machine gun operators
>in those steel armor cages in heat like we had. What a site! The first
>submitted was a narrow front, the armor doubled the weight of the tractor
>- to the point that if the front wheels dropped into a rut, it was
>literally not possible to steer or move the tractor. Inmagine a JD A
>tracor that weighed over 9,000 pounds (and a machine gun on each side!).
>the second attempt was a wide front end which worked better, but the
>drivers field of vision was pretty narrow. It, too, never made it to
>production.
>I've got some great photos.
>The slowest engines (that I found, anyway) - a 2-stroker running about 44
>RPM and a 4-stroker running at 36 rpm.
>There was also an Oliver with a factory road grader attachment on it that
>got a lot of attention.
>The corn for the sweet corn feed was once again steamed by traction engine
>- this time a Russel.
>
>The show on Saturday was actually a bit larger than last year despite the
>heat index of over 100. The ultralight rides were not offered this year,
>bummer!
>
>Bill
>Runnells, IA
>
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Duncan Denman
Ayton, Ontario
Canada
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