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Old 02-06-2013, 02:25 AM
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Default Re: Snowcat with winch line

dabears:

Tracked ATV's can be used for lots of things. I've seen local ones that have drill rigs on their load beds, think they are Bombardiers, but wouldn't bet on it. Seen 'em in use year-round... makes a good, stable, low-ground-pressure equipment platform. They are also used up north where there can be snow one day, or mushy permafrost the next.

Heck, you don't HAVE to think of them as ~snow~ machines. Heck, they are great on the beach, and won't bog in grass... The Activ Fischer Snow-Trac model was bought by Saudi Arabia because it was great on sand...

They dinna use the ones in the '82 version of The Thing (just sat in 'em) but showed them to good use in the 2011 remake (Thiokol made the Sprite & Imp) and Kässbohrer PB's were used in AvP #1 - all those different load-beds!

Heck, a Thiokol chassis was used for the Robinson'd crawler in the Lost in Space series way back!

And then there is the ones you see in the X-files movie, when he heads south to rescue Scully (when Mulder goes north chasing the alien-assassin, he rents a 'Rolligon' - large-tire/low-inflation vehicle) Looked like a Tucker, and a fleet of Kässbohrer PB's.

Research it, you might decide to get one after all:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_grooming
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