we got technology - or - alternative applications for motorcyles

[Steve Swan]

i stumbled into this youtube while looking at something else....... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q59vxMVeYe8

[frichie68]

"American ingenuity" seems to be fading as the electronics age takes over.

[RichO]

Necessity is the mother of invention.

[jcrawford]

(couldn't resist)..... so was Frank Zappa!!!

[painterdale]

(couldn't resist)..... so was Frank Zappa!!!

Nice!!

Dale

[tfburke3]

Somebody must have some pics of early American motorcycles /motors being used in similar get the job done easier ways.
Farmers are probably some of the most ingenious people when it comes to using whats available out of necessity.
Tom

[Jerry Wieland]

I do not have pictures but in the middle 70's I bought 7 old motorcycle engines from an auction at a Mennonite farmstead. All were earlier than 1920 and most were belt drive. Jerry

Somebody must have some pics of early American motorcycles /motors being used in similar get the job done easier ways.
Farmers are probably some of the most ingenious people when it comes to using whats available out of necessity.
Tom

[tfburke3]

Shortly after my post a Picker episode had a Harley trans hooked up to power hack saw.Exposed shifter selector on top so thinking pretty early?
Tom

[Rubone]

In the early '70s I worked in a machine shop that used an H-D 4 speed box attached to a drill press allowing 4 distinct ranges of speed besides the V-Belt stack. The box was vertical with the shifter end up and a simple lever to shift it. Kicker end plugged and box filled with light oil.

[JoJo357]

Bought a late teens early 20's JD Transmission for my Board Track Project a few years ago, i think from a guy in PA.
It was put to use in a saw mill. Missed out on a Detroit Henderson 4 cylinder that was being used as an irrigation pump motor, here in Michigan. Billy Lane beat me out of that one. Lane built a Board Track around it for his series...'Sons of Speed'.

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*M.A.D.*

[Rubone]

I have an empty 45 trans case and a V-belt pulley welded to a clutch spline that I gutted for the internals. Came off a farm in southern NM. No telling what it was used on.