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Slowsters
Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2021 7:24 pm
by Bryant
All this talk of speedsters makes me want to slow down a bit
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Re: Slowsters
Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2021 7:26 pm
by Bryant
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Re: Slowsters
Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2021 7:28 pm
by Bryant
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Re: Slowsters
Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2021 7:28 pm
by Bryant
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Re: Slowsters
Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2021 8:01 pm
by KWTownsend
Here is my favorite:
What could possibly go wrong?
: ^ )
Re: Slowsters
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2021 6:15 am
by Bryant
Not to mention I don’t see a smoke stack. I could imagine after an hour or two the back seat driver might Suffer from affixation
Re: Slowsters
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2021 6:19 am
by Kaiser
Love the term 'Slowster'
Re: Slowsters
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2021 9:09 am
by Bryant
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Re: Slowsters
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2021 9:11 am
by Bryant
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Re: Slowsters
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2021 9:48 am
by TWrenn
Driving on much of anything firm with those steel "bar wheels" has to jar your teeth and kidneys right out of you!
Re: Slowsters
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2021 10:02 am
by Rich Bingham
That reminds me, I'm so ancient I remember signs on paved roads stating "Lug Wheels Prohibited" although by then, practically all equipment ran on pneumatic rubber tires.
By the way, "speed" is relative. Those who have never operated farm equipment may not comprehend just how incredibly fast things can happen at 2mph !
Re: Slowsters
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2021 10:15 am
by John kuehn
I just wonder how really efficient it was to pull a harrow, disk or a one way with a T even if it was geared down and had those steel wheels.
Of course when your going as slow as they were and only working a few acres it seemed like it was! Must have been a 10 acre farmers dream!
Re: Slowsters
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2021 10:53 am
by Rich Bingham
John kuehn wrote: ↑Wed Dec 29, 2021 10:15 am
I just wonder how really efficient it was . . . ?
In many ways, the better conversions would have been about equal to a 9N. Keep in mind the most productive ground could provide a living for a family on 40 acres, and horses were the power source even into the 1950s.
Re: Slowsters
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2021 11:04 am
by Bryant
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Re: Slowsters
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2021 11:05 am
by Bryant
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Re: Slowsters
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2021 11:31 am
by AndyClary
Stole this off Facebook. Looks pretty slow.
Andy
Re: Slowsters
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2021 12:46 pm
by Bryant
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Re: Slowsters
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2021 4:55 pm
by Bryant
Anyone around here ever tried to build one of these things?
Re: Slowsters
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2021 7:24 pm
by Michael Peternell
Bryant wrote: ↑Wed Dec 29, 2021 4:55 pm
Anyone around here ever tried to build one of these things?
Buy a carcus, pay a friend to put together a runner engine. Best butt buggy ever !
Re: Slowsters
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2021 7:50 pm
by Bryant
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Well I believe Henry would approve
Re: Slowsters
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2021 8:07 pm
by John kuehn
I wonder if that’s a T or early Ford engine in what he’s driving. Maybe some kind of prototype?
Re: Slowsters
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2021 8:18 pm
by Bryant
It said it had a 1904 model B engine
Re: Slowsters
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2021 8:18 pm
by Pep C Strebeck
John kuehn wrote: ↑Wed Dec 29, 2021 8:07 pm
I wonder if that’s a T or early Ford engine in what he’s driving. Maybe some kind of prototype?
Calling it his "automotive plow," Henry Ford had Joseph Galamb and C.J. Smith construct this experimental machine. It is powered by a 1905 Ford Model B engine with copper water jackets.
Re: Slowsters
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2021 8:23 pm
by Bryant
Re: Slowsters
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2021 8:40 pm
by Billy Vrana
I'm slowly working on getting a Fond du lac tractor attachment together, always too many other projects in the way,
Re: Slowsters
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2021 9:00 pm
by Bryant
Do you have any progress pictures? I passed on a really rotten pile of junk model A tractor once. I regret now I wish I would have gotten it for the steel wheels/drive gears.
Re: Slowsters
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2021 10:29 pm
by dobro1956
This is my 1930 or 31 Montgomery Ward Trail Blazer. It's a 27 chassis using a 1930 or 31 Montgomery Ward Kit. In 1929 Wards sold a Shaw and in 1932 the Trail Blazer switched to taller rear wheels with a external tooth bull gear.
Re: Slowsters
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2021 10:32 pm
by Billy Vrana
Its a Fond du lac tractor attachment, previously known as the 20th century farm horse from Fond du lac Wi, i live about 35 miles south of Fond du lac,
Re: Slowsters
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2021 10:36 pm
by Billy Vrana
Re: Slowsters
Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2021 6:38 am
by Bryant
Wonderful chunks of iron! One thing that has always attracted me to the model T is how it’s pretty much a tractor and car mixed together. I’ve always wanted to just go rake some hay with one
Re: Slowsters
Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2021 11:01 am
by Bryant
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Re: Slowsters
Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2021 2:14 pm
by Rich Bingham
This should count as a "slowster"
Sheep camp impedimenta on a TT from "down under",I believe. Has a replacement Peerless radiator.
Re: Slowsters
Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2021 2:55 pm
by Angmar
Dobro, that Wards T is fantastic.
Re: Slowsters
Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2021 3:17 pm
by Professor Fate
Here's some slow stuff ... I found this in upstate NY last year. Almost brought it home....
Re: Slowsters
Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2021 6:36 pm
by Bryant
this is a classic! Must have been slow
Re: Slowsters
Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2021 8:03 pm
by Bryant
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And last but not least. Thanks for playing all
Re: Slowsters
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2023 10:10 pm
by Bryant
Re: Slowsters
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2023 10:11 pm
by Bryant
Re: Slowsters
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2023 10:11 pm
by Bryant
Re: Slowsters
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2023 2:58 am
by TRDxB2
Re: Slowsters
Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2023 6:18 pm
by Bryant
I picture sparks flying off the rear wheels when she hits high gear! I would also like to see it pulling a couple passenger cars or maybe a caboose
Bryant
Re: Slowsters
Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2023 8:51 pm
by Bryant
I would like to see more of the front wheels on this one.
Bryant
Re: Slowsters
Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2023 10:13 pm
by tdump
I have a narrowed rear axle with gears on it for what i think was a Shaw conversion.
I had a chance to buy a chassis with axles and such that was a Shaw conversion and didn't get it like a ding bat.
Re: Slowsters
Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2023 8:16 pm
by Bryant
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interesting generator or maybe it’s a starter generator?
Bryant
