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Tycon AMLUV
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11/13/09 06:19 PM
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Description
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Driver Rod Mark Photographer Sandy Mark Location Radway Alberta Date July 13, 1989 1989 Tycon AMLUV Prototype Built by Rod Mark, Sandy Mark and Olegeezer
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316x179
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20.16 KB
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#70546 - 11/27/09 07:53 AM
Re: Tycon AMLUV
[Re: offroad1]
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Registered: 09/12/07
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Loc: Edmonton, Alberta
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Air conditioning - yes - suspension - no, floats and propels itself across lakes, sloughs and rivers - hulls for prototype were sheet steel covered with sheet plastic, similar to cutting boards. Powered by a 80 hp Honda 4 cylinder truck engine, auto transmission to front and back locked differentials - chain drive to the wheels, either 2 wheel or 4 wheel drive. We shot a lot of video while putting it through a number of tests; however, over the years, it has been misplaced; otherwise, I would put it up on YouTube. We couldn't find the funding to commercialize it even though we certainly got a lot of interest in showing it to folks in the petroleum industry. The actual model we would have commercialized would have had a light weight diesel with hydraulic motors on each set of wheels, the hulls would have been molded composite plastic etc....
All joking aside the beaver damn was on our property, the beavers had long since been done away with and the intention was to have it blown up to stop flooding of some of the pasture. It was actually designed to create very little in the way of ecological footprints as when we were travelling over muskeg, we would lower the legs to a point where most of the weight was on the bottom of hulls, which slide across the top of the muskeg and the tires did not sink in like they would if we were driving a quad. Part of the video we shot compared a quad to this machine. You would not even know that we had crossed the muskeg with this unit while there were fairly deep tracks from the quad tires.
We still have the machine even though the rubber seals around the windows and doors have perished over time. It still runs and moves around.
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#70549 - 11/27/09 05:59 PM
Re: Tycon AMLUV
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Registered: 10/07/04
Posts: 185
Loc: Stettler AB
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[quote=olegeezer]Air conditioning - yes - suspension - no, floats and propels itself across lakes, sloughs and rivers - hulls for prototype were sheet steel covered with sheet plastic, similar to cutting boards. Powered by a 80 hp Honda 4 cylinder truck engine, auto transmission to front and back locked differentials - chain drive to the wheels, either 2 wheel or 4 wheel drive. We shot a lot of video while putting it through a number of tests; however, over the years, it has been misplaced; otherwise, I would put it up on YouTube. We couldn't find the funding to commercialize it even though we certainly got a lot of interest in showing it to folks in the petroleum industry. The actual model we would have commercialized would have had a light weight diesel with hydraulic motors on each set of wheels, the hulls would have been molded composite plastic etc....
All joking aside the beaver damn was on our property, the beavers had long since been done away with and the intention was to have it blown up to stop flooding of some of the pasture. It was actually designed to create very little in the way of ecological footprints as when we were travelling over muskeg, we would lower the legs to a point where most of the weight was on the bottom of hulls, which slide across the top of the muskeg and the tires did not sink in like they would if we were driving a quad. Part of the video we shot compared a quad to this machine. You would not even know that we had crossed the muskeg with this unit while there were fairly deep tracks from the quad tires.
We still have the machine even though the rubber seals around the windows and doors have perished over time. It still runs and moves around. [/quote]
Geez, here I was thinkin all along you just built it for fun! lol
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