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Tucker & grooming

yj junker

yj junker

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Well after a few yrs. of offering my time to groom for the local atv club ,I finally got my chance last week and again last night ,it is a 78 tucker 1346? with a mogul master 8x18 drag.The tucker is powered by a 318 chrysler engine and a five speed transmission,the machine has suffered from alot of neglect and mickey moude repair and I can see that I am going to have to do alot of repairs to it to get it working properly for a safe season,the electrical in it scares the he!! out of me ,alot of darkened wires and melted plugs:unsure: we can run the lights for about an hr then the breaker kick out and takes another hr to come back on:ermm: somebody has rigged up a "spare" light for this situation.I can see this is going to be a great season:yum: Has anybody tried a brush cutter bar on a drag and what are your opinons on them? http://mountaingrooming.com/pdfs/BrushBar.pdf
 
Sounds like you have your work cut out for you this season. We've got a brush cutter bar on or drag we just installed this fall. So far, it's doing a good job. We have one stretch of trail in particular that's about forty miles in length and full of tag alders sticking out from the side. I'm waiting for the report on how it performs on that stretch. We should be covering it for the first time this weekend.

Now, if we can just figure out how to mount a brush bar horizontally on the front of the drag, we should be able to take care of all those pain in the a$$ tag alders that grow up in the middle of the trail every summer.
 
We do most of our trail work in the beginning of the winter once the ground freezes up. Most of our trails are not necessarily summer trails and the ones that the 4-wheelers do find and use get torn up and are more difficult to get set and groomed early on. We also take a lot more flak from the greenies if the trails turn into summer trails too.

Around here if one set of tracks is seen going off into the woods then pretty soon every one and their brother will follow and the wet spots become muck holes real fast. People do try and come out and ride the trails in the summer but for the most part they are hard to distinguish from the rest of the forest and they give up. Nothing against 4 wheeler use, I have one too, but they tear things up in a hurry and without "hardening" the surface it just get worse and worse.
 
snow dog said:
I always thought Trail work should be done in the summer
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That's all fine and dandy if you can access the areas during the summer and the trails are located on either old logging roads, rail lines, or farmers feilds. It our case, the whole area is muskeg swamp gpoing through virgin timber and you'd sink outa sight going on allot of our trails during the summer. The tag alders on our trail seem to grow so fast we'd need a full time crew running all summer long keeping them trimmed down. And when we normally only have 3-4 guys keeping open a 200 mile trail system, it would be next to impossible to do that.
 
Alaska Snow Cat said:
That is just about how many guys and how many miles we have too!:w00t2:
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we have about 10 volunters out cutting on 200 miles but alot of our trails are abandoned wood road and an old train track that was abandoned 15 yrs ago and the tracks were just removed this yr,
Alaska snow cat,these trails are maintained and groomed by the atv club but we are loosing our field crossings and having to reroute due to the snowmobiles running where ever they want in the fields,the snowmobile club has there own trails and 3 tuckers but they only groom around there B.O.D.'s camps and not in towards the city where we groom so we get ALOT of sled traffic which helps pack down our trail if they are not just out to trench it :evil:
 
No doubt the snowmobilers do their fare share of destruction, that is what motivated my involvement in developing and grooming a backbone trail system. For the most part you can ride snowmobiles,as well as 4 wheelers, where ever you want on a lot of the public lands around here. Most of the old existing trails went to private property and that is where the conflicts were most heated. I felt if we built a new trail system, all on public lands, that was a better more attractive place to ride, folks would ride there instead of on the old narrow trails that aren't best suited for recreational use. For the most part it has worked. There is not much overlapping atv and snowmobile use around here and most people do one in the summer and the other in the winter. They are us.:smile:

IMO if we go out and work on the "new" winter trails in the summer it will make the winter maintenance more difficult in some respects.
 
Had another interesting day in the tucker, went out to groom a trail for the first time this season and sunk the tucker ,it went down through the snow and into the mud:sad: we got out and fought with the winch cable for over an hour to get it out ,last one who had it out did not spool it in properly :doh:,after we got the cable out our rescue crew showed up on bikes so we got them to cut some trees and put them under the tracks and she came right out with the winch and wood,by this time it was getting dark so we finished the loop with the lights kicking the relays in and out every 20 minutes, glad we have 3 circuits of lights so we can keep switching them:shifty: I will be glad to get it into my shop to rewire:biggrin:
 
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