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Offline Delmonico

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Re: Horseless Carriages and Iron Ponies.
« Reply #180 on: January 05, 2010, 06:24:33 PM »
Quote from: Four-Eyed Buck on January 05, 2010, 06:12:06 PM
Wonder why it didn't catch on? ::)

Might not have worked as good as the film, might not have been durable, might have been to expensive. 
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Re: Horseless Carriages and Iron Ponies.
« Reply #181 on: January 05, 2010, 09:51:40 PM »
Strange looking vehicle?
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Re: Horseless Carriages and Iron Ponies.
« Reply #182 on: January 05, 2010, 11:03:39 PM »
Quote from: Delmonico on January 05, 2010, 06:24:33 PM
Might not have worked as good as the film, might not have been durable, might have been to expensive. 

Or perhaps all of the above.  The demo came out 5 years before the depression, he prolly had it perfect right when everyone went broke.
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Re: Horseless Carriages and Iron Ponies.
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Re: Horseless Carriages and Iron Ponies.
« Reply #183 on: January 06, 2010, 09:37:34 AM »
During that time, most farmers didn't have the money to machinery.
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Re: Horseless Carriages and Iron Ponies.
« Reply #184 on: January 06, 2010, 04:58:37 PM »
Got to thinkin' also, most farmers would not have a way to lift that Fordson up high enough to put it together.
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Re: Horseless Carriages and Iron Ponies.
« Reply #185 on: January 06, 2010, 06:53:13 PM »
Have to have some pretty big beams in the barn and one heck of a winch........ ::) :-\
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Re: Horseless Carriages and Iron Ponies.
« Reply #186 on: January 06, 2010, 08:40:09 PM »
Some big beams and a big chain hoist.
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Re: Horseless Carriages and Iron Ponies.
« Reply #187 on: January 18, 2010, 07:05:29 AM »
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Re: Horseless Carriages and Iron Ponies.
« Reply #188 on: January 18, 2010, 08:34:44 PM »
Interesting film.  Saw a film of that same idea applied to watercraft, for the military, it seems, probably back in the forties or fifties.
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Re: Horseless Carriages and Iron Ponies.
« Reply #189 on: January 19, 2010, 08:41:45 AM »
Might be from an article from Mechanix Illustrated by Tom Maycahill.
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Re: Horseless Carriages and Iron Ponies.
« Reply #190 on: January 19, 2010, 09:28:01 AM »
The only good I see with having that set up would be to pull a bob sled of hay or flat out transportation. It probably wasn't worth a dam on real hilly terrain.  Go out to Montana Wyoming and the Dakotas and you can find other all terrain vehicles that would date in that era for use in snow. Not to exclude the areo cars.  Many of still being used... But I am reasonable sure the cost of one, out weighed the owning of one. However give a farmer a need and a scrap pile  and a long winter and they come up with outlandish contrapt(s?)ions.
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Re: Horseless Carriages and Iron Ponies.
« Reply #191 on: January 19, 2010, 09:31:05 AM »
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Re: Horseless Carriages and Iron Ponies.
« Reply #192 on: August 04, 2011, 10:52:16 AM »
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Re: Horseless Carriages and Iron Ponies.
« Reply #193 on: August 04, 2011, 03:57:56 PM »
That's when they had some metal in them things!. Those heavy presses remind me of the first years I had at Hoover's. Vacuums were still made of metal mostly, especially the canister models( Constellation, Slimline)........ ::)
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Re: Horseless Carriages and Iron Ponies.
« Reply #194 on: August 04, 2011, 06:44:50 PM »
Grew up pushin a Kirby.  That sucker had a few pounds a metal in it.  Could clamp the head ta a work bench an get all kinds of attatchments fer it, from grinding metal ta shinin shoes. 
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Re: Horseless Carriages and Iron Ponies.
« Reply #195 on: August 04, 2011, 08:37:13 PM »
Electrolux or the Rainbow were the best canisters on the market in the '70's- '90's. Could strip one myself...
Got a good cussin' in the mid '70's by my aunt for the "Rainbow door to door" sales guy that talked her inta buyin' it... She's still usin' it last I hear...
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Re: Horseless Carriages and Iron Ponies.
« Reply #196 on: August 04, 2011, 10:38:51 PM »
My parents bought a Kirby from a door-to-door salesman for several hundred dollars, back when that was a LOT of money. (About 1950) They wondered if they had been had.  The proof found in the pudding was that that heavy old beast kept on working for almost 50 years.
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Re: Horseless Carriages and Iron Ponies.
« Reply #197 on: September 30, 2011, 08:31:24 AM »
Just noticed this Topic...
Here are a couple of Iron Ponies I used to own. The Black one with the leather bags is a 1989 Heritage Softail. The Black one with hard bags is a 1994 Heritage Softail. The Blue one is a 1940 WL
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Re: Horseless Carriages and Iron Ponies.
« Reply #198 on: September 30, 2011, 12:02:08 PM »
The 45 inch flatty is beautiful.  Them rocker clutches er a lot a fun. 
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Re: Horseless Carriages and Iron Ponies.
« Reply #199 on: September 30, 2011, 12:05:01 PM »
So do any of you know why mortorcycles really have kick stands? ::) ;D ;)
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