snow mobils

HET GUYS: Did International Harvester ever make a snow mobil:
JUST A QUESTION
JR FRYE
MANY THANKS;;; HAVE AGREAT DAY

Never heard of one. Massey Ferguson and John Deere did though. If there is an IH sled out there... I'd sure like one!

nope

JD, Massey and in little tractors Wheel Horse all sold sleds with their LOGO's. Never sam many of the Massey's or WH's but there were a fair number of people who owned JD.

Rick

Not that I'm aware of either,

But.. I have owned 50+ Deere's and a few MF/ski whiz sleds. Here's a couple pictures.



This is my Ski-Whiz. I got it running for the first time since I acquired it a couple weeks ago and I'm hoping to have the time and money to do a complete restore on it.. Leaving it as is until winter is over, as I can have a little fun with it if it ever snows.



Here is the running part of the collection of Deere's I once had. I still have 4, a Liquifire, and 3 Cyclones. My pair of 78 Cyclones will eventually get reconditioned, and my plan is to take them to a vintage show/ride one time a winter, plus ride em around a little around here.



This is my Liquifire. It showed just over 800 miles when I bought it (picture taken the day I bought it, where I bought it) and today shows just under 850. The original owner told me he rode it the first few years, but at the time of the sale it had probably not been ridden in better than 20 years. Dad had 2 that were similar, but both were beat to the point that reconditioning would be cost prohibitive, and I luckily found this one.. Cleaned the carbs and new fuel lines/filters and we were up and running. I noticed the original seat is just starting to crack, so the seat will have to be recovered eventually.

Hope everyone enjoys the pictures..

Brad

I don't know about Massey or Wheel Horse, but Deere built their sleds. They didn't just put a logo on it. They had an active racing team and put a fair amount of resources into engineering.

Harley-Davidson used to build snowmobiles too, during the AMF years.

(quoted from post at 06:03:27 02/01/12) I don't know about Massey or Wheel Horse, but Deere built their sleds. They didn't just put a logo on it. They had an active racing team and put a fair amount of resources into engineering.

Harley-Davidson used to build snowmobiles too, during the AMF years.

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My snowmobile Mag had an article about Deere's racing efforts they put a lot into R&D for a few years and dominated the cross country competitions for two years.