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Offline Sourdough

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« on: April 03, 2006, 07:18:44 AM »


This is a Nodwell R-110,  A real Alaskian ATV.  We carry the 4-wheelers in back till we get to good firm trails for them.  4-wheelers don't like the 32 miles of chocolate pudding mud we have to cross to get here.
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« Reply #1 on: April 05, 2006, 03:33:17 AM »
that thing looks kinda homemade reckneck style.  What exactly is a Nodwell R-110?  I couldn't see the pic real well as it opened really large maybe too large for my computer to handle.   Hunting in Alaska must be just so incredibly different from hunting the lower states...32 miles of mud.  Whew!  Bet it's worth it though.
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« Reply #2 on: April 05, 2006, 06:47:03 AM »
Do a search on NODWELL or FOREMOST.  You will see what they look like new and as built.  Ours has had the box on the back built and the seats aded to the top for use when we park it out in a big meadow.  We climb on top and use it as a portable hunting stand.  It's 15 feet from the ground to the top of the box.  This rig had been used by the army for years, Mike bought it from salvage.  We then rebuilt it using what we had availiable locally.  It has a Catapiller 3208 diesel engine.  Top speed is about 7 miles an hour.  We have mud areas that you can't walk across, mud about 4 foot deep with the consistancy of choclate pudding.  4-wheelers can not get across, anything with tires can't cross it.  Yet a Nodwell will crawl across it, sinking about 2 inches.  Any vegitation it crosses and mashes to the ground is pushed down so gently that it pops back up almost immediately.  If we leave the trail and go out across country, 24 hours later you will not be able to find our trails.

Here is a picture of my little rig, It's a Raidtrak 1800.

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A 'Veteran' -- whether active duty, discharged, retired, or reserve -- is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to 'The United States of America,' for an amount of 'up to, and including his life.' That is honor, and there are way too many people in this country today who no longer understand that fact.

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« Reply #3 on: April 05, 2006, 07:26:57 AM »
That little yellow bugggy is cool too.  Lets see 32 miles at 7mph max speed, will take???  Beats walking though.  Some day I have got to make it to hunt in Alaska...
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« Reply #4 on: April 09, 2006, 10:00:31 AM »
My little buggy will do 20 miles per hour.  I run off and leave the Nodwells.  It usually takes me 4 to 5 hours to get to the cabin.  The Nodwells take about 8 hours to get there.  Once we are there we stay for two weeks so it's not a big deal that we go so slow.
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What Is A Veteran?
A 'Veteran' -- whether active duty, discharged, retired, or reserve -- is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to 'The United States of America,' for an amount of 'up to, and including his life.' That is honor, and there are way too many people in this country today who no longer understand that fact.

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« Reply #5 on: April 11, 2006, 12:26:07 AM »
Sourdough, I've been there and that stuff you guys call mud looks like butterscotch pudding to me. Of course I was down around Trappers Creek.
Ive seen track vehicals go up against wheeled and the tracks win hands down!

We paid the guys with tracked Argo's to haul our mining gear back into the mines. Everything was covered in baby poop but it all got there in one trip and nobdy had to push.
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« Reply #6 on: May 06, 2006, 08:49:10 AM »
Never seen any rig that needed a "gitter done" sticker more than them two!--Mike
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