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"Crazy Ivan" Turn; Using Gooseneck on Grizzly/G2
Topic Started: Jan 3 2010, 07:09 PM (1,498 Views)
Steve.M
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Finally took my camera along while grooming today with the Grizzly and G2. We've had a topic on using a gooseneck to make sharp turns- I like the "Crazy Ivan" where you turn around and go back on yourself. Hope the pictures work okay.
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Rear view of Grizz and G2 with Gooseneck.
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Front view of our Grizz and G2 set-up.
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Climbing one of our steeper hills (it doesn't look so steep here, but it's quite a climb!)
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air19
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Great pictures, especially the six in sequence.

It looks like the standard G2 gooseneck is long enough to clear your track, or does it rub at any point during the "Crazy Ivan". So the gooseneck setup might be easier to rig with an ATV because you don't have to have such a long extender as you would with a regular pintle hitch to clear the tracks on sharp turns.

Do you use two different hitch setups between the gooseneck and the pintle?



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The stock Ginzu gooseneck and stock G2 gooseneck both clear the tracks easily when I'm cranked all the way sideways and when I start the turn back the opposite direction. If we put a pindle hitch on the G2 or Ginzu, then we switch our slide in receiver on the Grizzly to a pindle one instead of the 2" ball hitch. On ours, we probably could have used a shorter receiver because we have plenty of clearance behind the luggage rack. We did cut out the rear-most bar on the luggage rack to clear our original shorter receiver when using the gooseneck on it. Since we now have the gooseneck hitch plate re-installed on the tunnel of the skandic, we'll just always use the gooseneck on both pulling machines and on both drags (the G2 and the Ginzu).
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How do you keep the battery charged on the drag?

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The battery with the Tiddtech G2s is just a rechargeable that you would be at an auto parts place to jump start a car. You pull it out at the end of each day and bring inside to charge overnight. They might weigh 10 lbs so not a big deal. And the batteries charge a lot better in the warmth of a building.

The box he has setup contains two of these batteries. My grooming run is about 6 hours and I'm constantly moving the teeth up and down, and working the tracksetter, and I've never run out with just one battery.

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Yep, the G2 has two small battery packs in it-If one runs out of juice, I just plug the other one in. Usually I can do several days of grooming before thinking about re-charging one. On our Ginzu, we have one deep cycle battery, so about every 2 or 3 grooming sessions, I'll put a charger on it. It also powers a spot light on the rear of the Ginzu.
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