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Snow collector
Topic Started: Jan 4 2010, 03:29 PM (1,937 Views)
Grizzly
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(Actually I don not know any good english word for this equipment, so please correct my if there is a word for it.)

We have two types of winters where I set the tracks. Those with only a litle snow and those with huge amonts of snow. It is not common with something in between. Fore those winter with bad snow conditions we use to use a very simple machine to plough snow into the track. It did not worked very well and I wanted to make a better machine.

I had some criteria that I wanted ity to fullfill:
-Long enought to run stable behind the sleed.
-Adjustable width.
-Possible to connect a tracksetter.
-Possible to transport the tracksetter without setting tracks.
-Possible to pull with a tractor or ATV on roads on the way to the road, lake or fotball field we set the low snow tracks on.

This is how it ended up (se the pictures):
Frame is old waterpipes. The plough wings is a trafic sign from the junkyard. Wings hight is floating or adjustable with a R-pin or floating. Width is adjustable with the chains. It rolls on wheels becouse when we need it there is not enoght snow for skis any way.

I did not have very much use of it this winter, we got 40 cm of snow in the last three days, but I used it ones in december and it worked fine.
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Grizzly
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One more thing. The tracksetter got a shorter towbar (?) to follow the collector better. You can see the old towbar at the house wall. It is also possible to put weights on the collector to make it follow the sleed even better.
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JACA makes something like this called the snow grabber - SNow Grabberhttp://www.jacatrax.com/eng/products_snowgrabber.htm
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...yes, I did looked at the JACA snowgraber. Thats where I got the idea with the chains.
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