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

[bill at antique-engines.com]

I have not looked at all the pics I took - digital camera - but should
have some good ones, especially showing the JD tractor peeking out from
under the armor at the rear.

What I'll probably do is post a bunch to my web site, then provide links
to the full-size originals for those who want.

OT - an email address of  032214 at heavyiron.atis.net  should scan their
computer - NETSKY worm. I suspect that address was SPOOFED and it did not
really come from them but instead a 3rd party that has both that address
and my email on the infected computer and used their address to spoof a
message to me, but it's good to check anyway. Somewhere along the line, a
computer that has my email address anywhere on it, via web cache, list
messages, whatever, and has the above address is infected, netsky is old
and easy to catch, but only if running antivirus software so I guess this
is just a reminder as you may also be getting messages from the computer,
at this point unknown - that is infected.

Bill

> 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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>
>
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> Duncan Denman
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> Canada
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