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Arrowhead Drag; Sidehilling with an ArrowHead Drag
Topic Started: Dec 25 2012, 09:40 PM (1,167 Views)
mtnmaxman600
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What the best way to keep and arrowhead drag following behind the groomer on the hill sides?
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Sledderglen
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mtnmaxman600
Dec 25 2012, 09:40 PM
What the best way to keep and arrowhead drag following behind the groomer on the hill sides?
We added pizza cutters to our 5x9.5 drag. 14" Coulters from a John Deere air seeder on a hub bearing assembly . Can raise and lower them for when not needed. Works very good
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firecat
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We have a Sno-Boss drag , which is almost identical to an Arrowhead. I have learned to lower the rear tires so that they touch the ground. This will keep it from sliding sideways. After a little practice , you will find how much to lower them. You should also make sure your side guide plates or "rudders" are hanging down below the side plates of your drag to where you want them. I've found if you have these hanging down too far , and you are not in real deep snow , you won't get a good "finish" because the pan is actually held up off the snow because of the guides. :myopinon:
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St. Louis Dave
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Yes on all of the above. The rear wheel trick works very well.
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trailboss77
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The wheel trick works well with a Sno-Boss drag but not so good with the Arrowhead. Arrowhead drags have wider tires and with 4 of them on the back it still likes to slide.
Have been grooming since 1978 have covered more than 100,000 miles of snowmobile trail.
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RJ85MSP
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Well nothing is the absolute solution for this drag. Longer skegs, pizza cutters etc help but only marginally. Wheels down act ok but leave wheel prints ruts in the snow.

The only solution is to have more skegs such as what you see on the mogul master drag or maxi drag. These styles use 5 skegs of adjustable height to control this.

We had arrowhead and while it groomed ok, we were always dissapointed in the way it tracked. It's just the design, it needs more than pizza cutters that's for sure.
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Our older Ultra only has single wheels in the back and one set of rudders. I see the newer Ultras now have rudders on the outside also.
We weleded a 1" square stock to the bottome of our side rails. Like wear bars on a ski. This helped some but only if you you have the drag full of snow and flat on the ground. Lift the front at all and it still wants to slde.
We do a lot of ditches that are not flat, and I have found having more snow int he drag helps MOST of the time.
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