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Offline Sourdough

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« on: April 03, 2006, 07:01:51 AM »



Hay, finally remembered how to do this!  Here is a picture of the rig we use.
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« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2006, 01:58:37 PM »
I believe that's called a "tundra buggy", right?
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« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2006, 06:49:54 PM »
No!  Tundra Buggies have tires.  If I can find some pictures of one of those I'll post it.  We had a fellow bring in his Tundra Buggy last year to the cabin.  It was a one ton truck with a 454cu in engine.  The axles from an Air Force tug with planitaries turning tires about 24" wide and 5 feet tall.  

I personally like the track rigs better they don't leave much of a foot print after they leave.  In fact when I leave the trail to recover a downed Moose I mash down all the vegitation and one would think a lot of damage has been done.  But next day the brush has sprang back up and their is no sign left that I ever passed through.   The pounds per square inch is so low that it does not break off the brush, it just mashes it to the ground where it pops back up with in a few hours undamaged.
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« Reply #3 on: April 04, 2006, 11:21:05 PM »
Sourdough that's quite a rig!  A guy out my way calls them moose panzers.

I like the idea that you don't trash the country.  I hate flying over, or walking on places, especially bogs and tundra that have been ripped up by wheeled rigs. Permanent damage often times.
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« Reply #4 on: April 05, 2006, 02:40:49 PM »
We usually call them track rigs, nothing special.  There are little tracked ones we call weasels.  My old man told me a story about a time him and a buddy took his dads big track rigs and went through he forest... thorugh the forest, he said they were taking over 10" or more trees!  Boom!, crack! and just keep going.
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