Snowmobile Wood Gathering

[MJR]

I have an old Johnson cutter that used to see wood duty. I had a Pantera and the long track and did well with it. The ZR800 clutch did like it. The wife’s Rev NOPE. One of the newer four stroke work sleds would be the cat’s but. I have a fond memory of the kids (3, 4, & 5) falling asleep in the cutter a couple miles from the house. I was trying to go fast enough not to over heat the sled without the bobble head effect. There is something about working in the woods in the winter – peaceful.

 

[IndyIan]

Actually found a video of some guys logging with an Alpine. Tough machine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=varyj07di9o

They are, one year in highschool during march break, me and a buddy did some work at fly in fish camp hauling logs for cabins across a couple lakes. I think they were 10 or 12" on the small end and 20-30' long and fairly dry.
We'd chain 3 butts ontop of the rear rack and then go for 3 miles across the lake back to the camp. We had two and they made a few dozen trips with no over heating issues.
Some of those logs took two of us to lift too so it wasn't easy pulling, or steering at times...
Ian

 

[brnchbrkr]

nice video

Actually found a video of some guys logging with an Alpine. Tough machine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=varyj07di9o

thanks for posting.

 

[blakey]

They sure beat on that machine in the video, good thing it has reverse. Pretty impressive load they end up pulling away.

 

[brnchbrkr]

Actually found a video of some guys logging with an Alpine. Tough machine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=varyj07di9o

One other twin track sled was the Raider.
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Vintage sleds.....
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[blakey]

Nice videos, that Bombardier unit with the round cage would be a beast in the woods.

 

[jwfirebird]

my neighbor has got two of those, i think he said his where from the 50's. its got a 650, reverse, you kind of sit on it like a older bomb atv. it just seems a little hard to steer. good thing for reverse. pic(courtesy of my wife )is him rescuing me from some unseen, unfrozen ground.