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kcm.MN · Feb 14, 2020

jeffcat · Feb 14, 2020

That is a cool looking rig. But it must be pretty hard on the brakes to steer
it. Am I guessing wrong?

Deere Mark · Feb 14, 2020

Not much of a snow blade. Must be for scraping something else.

Steve@Advance · Feb 14, 2020

It would be hard for me to resist giving the wheel a turn!

marloweg · Feb 14, 2020

locale snowmobile club has on like that to do trails with mean looking

K Effective · Feb 14, 2020

local snowmobile club has one like that to do trails

Yep, it's a groomer tractor- pulls a drag groomer to smooth out the bumps and curves, some even cut cross-country ski tracks. The plow doesn't have to move giant piles, just cut down some ridges so the drag can do the work. There's an engineering group at Northern Michigan University that researches different groomer designs to find the best- current ones are like a series of angled rigid blades followed by a crumbler. A couple of manufacturers build job specific tractors (Bombardier, Bully) or clubs also use farm tractors, with or without the track setup.

Yukon3639 · Feb 14, 2020

(quoted from post at 23:55:51 02/13/20)

They fit hydraulic cylinders to the drag hitch to help steer much like an articulated tractor
Works pretty good

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