Impressive Army "tractors"...

blunosr · Mar 10, 2015

If you like old "arn" you'll like these...

http://youtu.be/huQhqXiB8O0

Bye for now,

Troy

JD Seller · Mar 10, 2015

That was GREAT!!!

Here are some more pictures of the same show form several years before the first one.
Great steam Show in England

jeffcat · Mar 11, 2015

WOW LEAVE IT TO THE BRITS!!

tractorsam · Mar 11, 2015

They certainly had their work cut out for them. Generally
steering on those is towards 50 turns lock to lock, not
something to trifle with on British roads. Someone I know had
one and I had the opportunity to help him with it on several
occasions. Great (if very dirty) fun. The load on the trailer is a
Fowler Gyrotiller, an even more unusual machine. Sam

Deere Scotty · Mar 11, 2015

I am Impressed. They sure don't like turns under load!

smallercrawler · Mar 11, 2015

More on Fowler Gyrotillers:
Untitled URL Link

Dick2 · Mar 11, 2015

My uncle was in WWI. His job was to drive mules and haul ammunition to the front and bodies back from the front. New officers would ride up to the front with the ammunition; if the officer was well liked, the troops would try to protect them. If the officer didn't treat the men right, my uncle would haul his body back a few days later with a bullet wound in the back of his head.

Uncle wasn't wounded, but the enemy kept shooting the mules! Uncle also had firing squad duty - that he couldn't refuse or he would have ended up in front of the firing squad himself. That's the way things were back then.

RayP(MI) · Mar 11, 2015

Probably no differential on driver wheels.

tractorsam · Mar 11, 2015

Many of them had differentials that could be locked, the rest used pins in the rear wheel to anchor them to the axle. You'd pull one pin for light loads on good roads. I would imagine they're running fully locked with that load as you sure wouldn't want it getting away on a hill if one wheel slipped, no real brakes. Sam

big fred · Mar 11, 2015

Kind of expect Benny Hill to come into the scene...

Bob Harvey · Mar 11, 2015

Ya just gotta love the Brits for keeping that stuff and operating it !

Deere Mark · Mar 14, 2015

Actually it is not a Fowler Gyrotiller at all. The American made HOLT crawler (used to tow large artillery pieces in WW1) is similar in appearance to the Fowler Gyrotiller. You can see the name "HOLT" at the top of the radiator. The Gyrotillers were probably not made until after 1920, and so would not be appropriate for a display of WW1 equipment.
Very good You Tube videos of this equipment; would be nice to see this in person.

Impressive Army "tractors"...

blunosr

Member

JD Seller

Well-known Member

jeffcat

Well-known Member

tractorsam

Well-known Member

Deere Scotty

Member

smallercrawler

Member

Dick2

Well-known Member

RayP(MI)

Well-known Member

tractorsam

Well-known Member

big fred

Well-known Member

Bob Harvey

Well-known Member

Deere Mark

Member

Similar threads