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1954 Fordson Major at Banbury Steam Fair http://www.banburysteam.com at Bloxham in Oxfordshire UK on Sunday 28thJune 2010 ,the first tractor in the demonstration ring on Sunday afternoon. Not many people at the show saw it because they were watching England in South Africa get knocked out of the 2010 football world cup by Germany on the TV in the beer tent . Its not strictly speaking square wheeled but the shape varies between maybe between a 6 sided hexagon , rectangle , rhombus , parallelogram, trapezoid , so its much simpler to say square wheels . The rear wheels were called Rotopad. Converted by Rotary Hoes Ltd., later called Howard Rotopad tracks. They are a type of track unit to achieve a Low Ground Pressure for working on soft surfaces. They were designed to replace the wheels on a tractor .The machine was used for cutting trenches in which originally were laid clay pipes for land drainage. These machines were developed over the years, certainly until the late 60s at which time they would be laying continuous plastic pipe, which of course is still used in land drainage today. This machine is a drainage trencher used for digging a trench the trencher which then laid the pipes as it moved slowly along putting clay pipes into wet land. After the pipes had been laid a tractor with a trailer having a side blade came along pushing the soil back into the trench. The machine is a Standard Fordson tractor with tracks that walked the machine along subsequently giving it better traction with less pressure on the ground than a wheeled type . They may look cumbersome but they were excellent when the going was wet . A slow motion clip at the end of this video,see if you can work out how the Rotopads work . http://www.banburysteam.com http://www.youtube.com/user/7779trevor How to Get Email Notifications of New Videos from a User You Subscribe To on YouTube Hi thanks for watching this video , If you liked it and would like to see more please subscribe to Trevor Ridvidd , also want to know when I upload a new video and receive a email notification, you need to 1) Subscribe to Trevor Ridvidd 2) Sign in to your utube channel 3) Go to your Subscriptions page by Clicking on your Channels name ( on top right Hand corner ) 4) Click on Manage subscriptions (On the left hand side lower screen) 5) Put 2 tick in Trevor Ridvidd box's (Email me about new uploads and show only uploads in feed " this box will put new uploads at top " ) cheers Trevor Ridvidd Good Detailed article on this subject http://m.wikihow.com/Get-Email-Notifications-of-New-Videos-from-a-User-You-Subscribe-To-on-YouTube
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He Man tank.
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What a ugly transformer
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the rotary hoes trencher built at rotary hoes horndon on the hill essex,the tracks are called roto pads and did work very well.when working this machine the driver walked and steered the machine from the rear and to one side of this machine,hope this makes sense,no one sat on the tractor when in working mode.
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looking closely it makes sense...
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The driver did not appear to or shaken or knocked about, it looked like a smooth ride!
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For a vehicle moving at a snail's pace, this is a great idea. On a fast moving vehicle, you're going to get your socks shaken off.
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Now there's an interesting machine.
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That's cool, probably not too reliable though.
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fordson trencher
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What happens when huge globs of mud get inside.
It looks like a major headache, to many parts to break.
There's a reason they are so rare, still fun to watch though. -
Now there's a mechanical arrangement I would never have come up with if I tried.
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yea, but there is still a round wheel inside the square one
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FAIL.
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Someone reinvented a tank track.
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I want to see it with an alcohol fueled drag car engine in it, breaking the sound barrier.
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they are called tracks
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genious....
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oh I agree, but, the stress seems to be put on the chains, not the wheel as the pivot, but still a lot of stress, i still stand with what i said, with some modern thought and parts this could have a place, the longer links would hold the weight better then the smaller links used now. a big plus being that you can use the front wheels to steer plus would be able to fit to any tractor (in theory) but the best reason is its just fun to watch drive by. art in my eyes... noisy art
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I suspect there's a hell of a lot more stress on the 'track pins' between the 6 long track segments than with short segmented crawler tracks. Those bars make long lever arms, there the wheel is a single pivot. It also looks like you'd be in trouble if a big chunk of wood or rock got in there. Plus its probably noisy as HECK. The phrase "cantankerous clattering contraption of calamity" comes to mind.
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you forgot "bananas" and "insane" in the title.