magnificent men and their machines

Armstead Snow Motors from Seeking Michigan on Vimeo.(double click to watch vid)
Can you imagine doing a donut on one of these? Well, watch the video, lol. I want one!
A few reactions after watching the video on the 1920's snow machine.
1. I bet the logging scenes were filmed in the U.P., heck, judging from snow heights, the whole thing probably was filmed in da yoop
1a. Bet those monstrous logs planed some timber widths you can't find today
2. PETA would have been in protest over the horse scene...!
3. That snow machine is a TANK!. That's about what we need right now as we're being held hostage by frozen solid snowbanks and drifts feet high!
4. The spirit of invention on these old films is inspiring to this day


They just don't build things nowadays the way they used to. Heck, I just recently had to get an estimate on my Jeep because when I was driving, a mean ice chunk or something fell off the back of a plow and took aim at my PLASTIC bumper and shattered it in the very cold weather we had, probably oh, an $800 repair.

How much steel was required to manufacture this? Looks real similar to the tractor in the video, btw:

Keweenaw Toro Tractor

This Toro Tractor at the Keweenaw Lodge will be still standing tall and proud long after many generations of today's cars are in the "scrap" heap. Heck, come to think about it, how much metal can you actually scrap out of a car these days?