Clue me in on the Essex Tri-directional

JBMac · Feb 10, 2011

I've been a huge fan of this site for a couple years. I always sense an "inside joke" about the Essex Tri-Directional. Could somebody fill me / us newer users in on it? Cant find much in the search.

thurlow · Feb 10, 2011

There are certainly some 'deny-ers'; but the EDT is NOT a joke........

Bob · Feb 10, 2011

JB, the page linked below MAY be of some help, but, SSSSHHHHH!, PLEASE don't reveal it;s contents to others!
SSSHHHH

JoeBob-IN · Feb 10, 2011

Oh man! If I were you I'd not mention it again and keep an eye out for "them". I heard they have been working on an Essex Quad Directional.

Rick Kr · Feb 10, 2011

The Essex Tri-Directional is NO JOKE. The elders educated me when I first joined this board 7-8 years ago. It has some functions that haven"t be revealed to me yet, since I am still "new" here.

Common folklore talks about it being a afterhours project of the Essex car company during the 1920s or 30s, not sure of the exact date. There are one of two pictures around.

Its rumored one is for sale some where.

toolman · Feb 10, 2011

Yup that tractor was /is one of the best things ever built. but you better be careful asking about it on YT, could get debanned (thats worst than banned) and then there,s that other THING.

kyhayman · Feb 10, 2011

Some of us might or might not have been party to a party where a beta version of the ETD was disassembled. It was just too dangerous. Each of those people who might or might not have been there hid a piece. Later, when the time is right it might or might not be reassembled by the people who might or might not have been there. The artificial gravity well on this particular beta made it most fascinating, except it kept making the beer disappear.

JMS/.MN · Feb 10, 2011

It"s too bad that the poster can"t see the absolute delight on the faces of the responders when asked about that great machine- priceless. We all know that EDT is not a joke, anymore than ED T rouble is not funny. Even the remarkable C Allis cannot compete.

just another old geezer · Feb 11, 2011

I don't know why people make such a fuss over that tractor, It's the Edsel of the tractor world. It' so blasted heavy and clumbsy as to be useless. What no one on here is telling you that, because of it's extreme weight, the three directions that they are refering to are, forward, backward, and DOWN!!! That's why none are known to have survived. They all sank into soft soil, never to be seen again.

HughB · Feb 11, 2011

Best to drop that subject. The last time I claimed or not that I owned one, or not, the Feds descended on my place like crows on a corn field. Strange looking guys who all looked alike.

Anonymous-0 · Feb 11, 2011

Aah yes, the adventure of the thread, that wouldn't stop. I think Kim had to get her servers to determine the value of pie, to the last digit, to drive it from the forum. It gets revived from time to time, but she installed turbo encabulator technology, and the differential girdle spring will knock it out, when it reaches a pre set level. We have a ways to go, so make an effort, and we'll see if we can overload the unilateral phase detractors, and snap the prefamulated amulite casing. Word is she gets really whizzed off when that happens!
Analyze the video below, and see if you can find any other flaws, which we can exploit:
Turbo encabulator

DH in Carolina · Feb 11, 2011

I know where there's one in an old barn way back up a holler in Virginia. The old farmer who owned it put a curse on it. It is covered up with tobacco stalks and loose hay. Would like to start it but I can't find the special fuel it needs to run. As Elmer Fudd says" Bee Verdy careful". DH

randallnMo · Feb 11, 2011

JB....based upon the below posts it's obvious that the common theme of YT is to "Lick on a New Sucker".
You had to ask.

Uncle Ernie · Feb 11, 2011

I know it's been a secrct all these year...but I must tell the truth before I die.
The last Essex Tri was SOLD overseas to a Nigerian oil ministers sisters older cousin for a third party bank draft on a credit union in England then the funds were wire transfered to my bank in the USA where I kept half for my troubles.
The fellows agent contacted me a few days afterward for the balance.
We all made way more money than was initally involved in the transaction and are living on a rather large island in an undisclosed location along with the Essex!
So...because it DID work once...the Essex is actually the cause of all the internet money scams!!!

supergrumpy · Feb 11, 2011

there was one listed on Craigslist a while back, before I could e-mail the seller I got an e-mail from him with directions, struck me as odd at the time

GPS acted up real bad when I got near the location and never did find his place

rrlund · Feb 11, 2011

First time I ever saw anybody ASK to be taken snipe hunting.

Rick Kr · Feb 11, 2011

Randall,
Be careful talking about the Essex in a negative tone.

I read on the internet, some one was once talking about the ETD poorly, the Essex located the guy via his IP address then proceeded to disable his other tractors during the night.

Rick

IA Leo · Feb 11, 2011

I don't know what is so special about it. The prototype had to be pulled with horses to get any plowing done.

soder33 · Feb 11, 2011

My Father had an Essex Tri-Directional in the 50's. He had it locked away in a machine shed, but sold it before I was old enough to use it. He said he only could take it out at night because it would stop traffic on the state highway a 1/4 mile away. No pictures were ever taken of it while he owned it. Wish I knew who bought it.

Anonymous-0 · Feb 11, 2011

i think the ETD tractor inspired hand clutches to be on left or rite side or both sides with a ft clutch option ,, which ever the owner desired,...some had the optional start while in gear if the owner could not make up his mind where to place clutch even one pedal or over center lever ,, worked ok for those that like to always be on he go and never stopped and rested ..

greenbeanman in Kansas · Feb 11, 2011

Just like the Essex care the Essex Tri-directional has now been replaced by the modern Airtrax Omni-directional.

See the demonstration video on YouTube.
Essex T D replacement, i.e. Airtrax Omin directional

730 virgil · Feb 11, 2011

you have to watch of these guys on here some of them are known world class b.s.ers.
my nieghbor leroy glenn has 2 of these tractors 1 is a gas powered engine with chain drive. the other might have been an experimental model as no one else seems to know anything about it. the biggest dealer in il wis was about 10 miles from here about got lots of tractors for feild testing. this tractor had a diesel -lp engine with a huge rubber band drive kinda like the cvt transmissions in some of todays newer tractors

cadet trooper · Feb 12, 2011

I believe the hottest seller was built in the late 70s or early 80s offering a model with no steering wheel and no seat made for farmers who were losing their backside and didn't know which way to turn. I'm pretty sure I've seen a couple right after I left the Long Branch Saloon one night.

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