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Maine

OAITW r.2.0

(28,529 posts) Sat Mar 19, 2022, 02:37 PM Mar 2022

Maine inventor's legacy rolls on while the world works

Interesting local TV report on the 1st mechanized log hauler. Local boy developed the track system 120 years ago.

https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/history/maine-inventors-legacy-rolls-on-while-the-world-works-engineering-logging

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Maine inventor's legacy rolls on while the world works (Original Post) OAITW r.2.0 Mar 2022 OP

There used to be a couple of abandoned Lombards jpak Mar 2022 #1

i got an error 404 when i clicked on the link AllaN01Bear Mar 2022 #2

Somewhere I read there was a post-WWI boom in farm equipment and the like bucolic_frolic Mar 2022 #3

jpak

(41,780 posts)

1. There used to be a couple of abandoned Lombards

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Sat Mar 19, 2022, 02:55 PM

Mar 2022

On the Allagash trail

AllaN01Bear

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2. i got an error 404 when i clicked on the link

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Sat Mar 19, 2022, 03:28 PM

Mar 2022

go away train, youre drunk.

bucolic_frolic

(47,374 posts)

3. Somewhere I read there was a post-WWI boom in farm equipment and the like

Reply to OAITW r.2.0 (Original post)

Sat Mar 19, 2022, 03:42 PM

Mar 2022

something like 600 manufacturers of tractors, many of which were steam. Steam tended to have tracks and iron wheels while gasoline engines had rubber tires. Yeah that link is a 404.

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