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Quaint variation which, for reasons unknown , never really caught on ..https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_Horse_locomotiveDave
Would have been a fun one to watch. I wonder if it left piles of swarf behind it...!Guess you could adapt the same thing to poling a small boat along too. Steam powered venetian gondola?
Quote from: crueby on October 14, 2016, 09:15:41 PMWould have been a fun one to watch. I wonder if it left piles of swarf behind it...!Guess you could adapt the same thing to poling a small boat along too. Steam powered venetian gondola?Venetian gondolas are rowed, not poled. Didn't Abraham Lincoln get a patent for a device to "walk" a boat across sandbars or similar low obstructions?
Brian, to make it a continuous feed like the marble elevator, if the base was wide enough so the logs could roll back down a ramp to the start end, then another walking beam conveyor at an angle could bring them back up to the first hopper again...