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How's the season going???
Topic Started: Jan 24 2010, 02:43 PM (1,142 Views)
semntrails
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We started the season out good with a nice early snowfall. Since then we haven't gotten much of anything for snow. A new 3-4" snowfall would be nice.
Over the weekend we had high temps and rain. We lost a lot of snow but yesterday we went out and groomed everything up, skating is nice and a solid trail. There are classic tracks but they are shallow, hard to cut up the ice and get it to reform into a track. We'll keep working on it this week and should have decent tracks back soon.
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Well, we got closer to 12" of snow on top of the frozen trail, and it was too much for the 6' Tidd to handle - it plowed under regardless of where the teeth were set. The 4' TT floated on top and since we ran multiple passes with the Skandics we ended up with packed trails. Note it took about 3-1/2 hours for 2 people on 2 machines to get about 1-1/2 miles done. Ice had dropped all the saplings/brush we should be cutting off the edges of the trails down to the trail. Oofda. (That's a Nordic expression.)
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smeurett
Jan 26 2010, 07:25 AM
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Jan 26 2010, 07:18 AM


Seems like the TT needed some weight on the front end (over the knives). I added some 8x8 concrete blocks. Any other ideas for improving on the TT?

Yes, the Nordic 50 is a good ol' boy. It's such a contrast- driving a new SWT800 4 stroke in the morning, then firing up the Nordic in the evening.
Wt on the TT does help-depending on how old a model it is, I found it could be hard to get a decent corduroy when adjusting the tooth height. I almost always used two tracksetters off the back, suspended by their (raise and lower) cables and that helped press the comb into the snow. Those knives are thick and as you found out, you can't set them too deep or the TT will squiggle and crab down the trail. Better to do several passes as with most groomers.

I found some old, heavy highway sign posts (6') in the shed. Two of them nested together fit nicely between the frame at the back, right over the comb and skegs. Weighs maybe 25-30# and really helped press the comb into the snow.
I'm getting the hang of adjusting the depth of the knives.
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Jan 27 2010, 07:39 AM
smeurett
Jan 26 2010, 07:25 AM
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Jan 26 2010, 07:18 AM


Seems like the TT needed some weight on the front end (over the knives). I added some 8x8 concrete blocks. Any other ideas for improving on the TT?

Yes, the Nordic 50 is a good ol' boy. It's such a contrast- driving a new SWT800 4 stroke in the morning, then firing up the Nordic in the evening.
Wt on the TT does help-depending on how old a model it is, I found it could be hard to get a decent corduroy when adjusting the tooth height. I almost always used two tracksetters off the back, suspended by their (raise and lower) cables and that helped press the comb into the snow. Those knives are thick and as you found out, you can't set them too deep or the TT will squiggle and crab down the trail. Better to do several passes as with most groomers.

I found some old, heavy highway sign posts (6') in the shed. Two of them nested together fit nicely between the frame at the back, right over the comb and skegs. Weighs maybe 25-30# and really helped press the comb into the snow.
I'm getting the hang of adjusting the depth of the knives.
(Beautiful snow photos BTW-I could ski there!) I did something similar with my old TT- Screwed a wedge shaped board between the frame and comb angle iron-that presses the comb down. If it's warmer or powder, the comb tends to "dam" up the snow under the pan-had that happen a few times. I see you have one of the really old TTs with the two crank handles-I would have liked those for cutting into sidehills!
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