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Finally putting some Imp time in, 'splain this to me

BoyToys

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If you're old enough you may remember pogo sticks. My Imp loves to do the pogo...front end oscillating up and down drastically when encountering whoopty-do's on an otherwise smooth surface. Might just be due to the heavy ass snow blade up front. What else could cause this? My guess: leaf springs are shot...say it's not so!
 
BoyToys said:
If you're old enough you may remember pogo sticks. My Imp loves to do the pogo...front end oscillating up and down drastically when encountering whoopty-do's on an otherwise smooth surface. Might just be due to the heavy ass snow blade up front. What else could cause this? My guess: leaf springs are shot...say it's not so!
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A good bit of it is the short track line so it comes by that naturally. Drop off your blade and run it to see if it makes it better.
 
300 H and H said:
A good bit of it is the short track line so it comes by that naturally. Drop off your blade and run it to see if it makes it better.
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I should try that. Dropping the blade is easy enough, but getting it back on a bit more challenging. I should eventually build some sort of stand to rest it on.
 
Put your blade down and shave off the moguls.

I angle it a bit and dump the snow to the low side.

Fwiw my green imp has a rear bumper made out of 1/2 plate. Its massive and cutts the porpoise-ing down a lot
 
Thanks for the replies. Seems to some extent normal I guess, exacerbated by the heavy plow sticking way out front, creating all sorts of leverage. My blade is 7 foot, heavy guage steel, appears home made, probably weighs 100 lbs. Would like to replace it with something thinner guage steel, or a composite of some sort. Perhaps a summer project.
Maybe next time I'm up at the cabin I'll remove the blade when done plowing my driveway.
 

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This probably isn't going to go over well, but a two track machine on a trail with a washboard-like surface is constantly oscillating up and down. It's not a pleasant experience.

A few years ago snowcat buddy/partner in crime Scott (aka:The Gorilla) and I took a Tucker 1544 and a DMC 1450 out for testing. Same day, same conditions, it was a fair head-to-head comparison. During the day we switched machines a few times, and when the day was over we compared notes over a sarsaparilla, or two.

Both machines ran well and there were no mechanical issues affecting either machine. We agreed the DMC 1450 performed well (truthfully, it exceeded our expectations). I'll pause for a moment and say this was a modified 1450 in that it had extra wide tracks. But the ultimate question was "Which machine do you prefer" and we were both in agreement the Tucker 1544, with its four-track system was better.

At the 2022 Sun Valley Serenade (I think that's the right one) none other than the Infamous WBJ1 drove that DMC 1450 for a day, and his comments on the ride mirrored ours.

Honestly, it's the nature of the beast.
 
Blackfoot Tucker said:
This probably isn't going to go over well, but a two track machine on a trail with a washboard-like surface is constantly oscillating up and down. It's not a pleasant experience.

A few years ago snowcat buddy/partner in crime Scott (aka:The Gorilla) and I took a Tucker 1544 and a DMC 1450 out for testing. Same day, same conditions, it was a fair head-to-head comparison. During the day we switched machines a few times, and when the day was over we compared notes over a sarsaparilla, or two.

Both machines ran well and there were no mechanical issues affecting either machine. We agreed the DMC 1450 performed well (truthfully, it exceeded our expectations). I'll pause for a moment and say this was a modified 1450 in that it had extra wide tracks. But the ultimate question was "Which machine do you prefer" and we were both in agreement the Tucker 1544, with its four-track system was better.

At the 2022 Sun Valley Serenade (I think that's the right one) none other than the Infamous WBJ1 drove that DMC 1450 for a day, and his comments on the ride mirrored ours.

Honestly, it's the nature of the beast.
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It is what it will be, the nature of the beast. I've only had it on a partially compacted road with about a foot of loose snow on top, so any lumps in the road will cause porpoise'ing. Just have to watch the road conditions ahead and slow down a bit so I don't get beat up inside the cabin.
Need to take her completely off road into untracked deep stuff. Sure to be a different story in those conditions I would think.
 
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