Not your usual 2-wheeled tractor

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bcp

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This is real. Several companies made them.

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Do you recognize it?

Photos in use to come later.

Bruce
 
   / Not your usual 2-wheeled tractor #2  
Interesting. I would like to see a YouTube video to see how it worked.
 
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Like many early tractors, it was a replacement for horses.

Remember these? :)

Horse-drawn, steam-powered-pump, fire engines.

HDS-4-1901-SFDHist.jpg HDS-5-1901-SFD Hist.jpg HDS-6-1901-SFDHist.jpg

The two wheeled tractors replaced the horses and front axle, leaving the rest of the fire engine the same.

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Source of the original post's drawing:

American LaFrance Standard Front Drive Tractor

Bruce
 
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As Mike Perry says, firefighters like their toys!

Thanks for the pics. I bet it took a real man to operate that steering wheel. I know how bad it is ti steer a John Deere A w/o power steering.
 
 
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