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billschaller
Senior Member
Username: billschaller
Post Number: 393
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, January 08, 2011 - 12:23 pm: | 
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Snowmobile coming down the Mississippi River to Hastings. ca. 1910. I wonder what they used for anti-freeze?
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andrew
Moderator
Username: andrew
Post Number: 1110
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, January 08, 2011 - 12:37 pm: |
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Wow, great looking rig.
I need one of those here in Vermont! |
john_archibald
Senior Member
Username: john_archibald
Post Number: 167
Registered: 08-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, January 08, 2011 - 12:44 pm: |
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How did it propel itself? |
richardday
Senior Member
Username: richardday
Post Number: 935
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, January 08, 2011 - 01:37 pm: |
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Alcohol |
johnny
Senior Member
Username: johnny
Post Number: 377
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, January 08, 2011 - 07:55 pm: |
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Here is a Detroit Engine Works on a snow mobile. However It's a stationary Detroit not a marine.
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johnny
Senior Member
Username: johnny
Post Number: 378
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, January 08, 2011 - 08:05 pm: |
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Another fine example of transportation back in the day. I'm guessing the gentleman probably had a hot dog or biscuit dangling from the end of that pole he is holding. Oops, getting off subject here a little bit. Sorry.
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gregoryan
Senior Member
Username: gregoryan
Post Number: 73
Registered: 09-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, January 08, 2011 - 08:44 pm: |
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How about water-cooling!? Keel cooler?; run the water through the skis!? |
billschaller
Senior Member
Username: billschaller
Post Number: 394
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, January 08, 2011 - 10:58 pm: |
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Here are a couple more from the same set, although they are not marine engines.
and a couple of newer European machines just for fun.
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solarrog
Senior Member
Username: solarrog
Post Number: 468
Registered: 03-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, January 08, 2011 - 11:11 pm: |
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another one |
billschaller
Senior Member
Username: billschaller
Post Number: 395
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, January 08, 2011 - 11:24 pm: |
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I still don't know how the first one gets the power to the ice. It looks like a gas tank on the near side, and a cooling water tank on the far side, and possibly a mag off the flywheel, and a whistle behind the cylinder. |
johnny
Senior Member
Username: johnny
Post Number: 380
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, January 09, 2011 - 07:05 am: |
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I bet you freeze to death with those prop-mobiles especially the puller one.
Bill, On the first photo maybe there using some kind of cork screw. |
billschaller
Senior Member
Username: billschaller
Post Number: 408
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, January 23, 2011 - 09:53 am: |
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3 hp boat motor on this one. 1909
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solarrog
Senior Member
Username: solarrog
Post Number: 469
Registered: 03-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, January 23, 2011 - 12:12 pm: |
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Can I sit up front please? I will need my elboe in the future I'm sure. one little momment of inattention and the guy in back will be called righty. |
johnny
Senior Member
Username: johnny
Post Number: 381
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, January 23, 2011 - 12:23 pm: |
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He gets that paints leg or jacket hung up in there and he'll be talking with a real high pitch voice. |
