Snowdog thoughts

[dubob]

Yes, it tracks much better behind the dog.  I spend a lot of time on the Gorge.  With the glare ice you experience there, your sled fish tails.  With the runners on the back corners of the sled, it tracks perfectly.  I’ve never uploaded a pic on this site, but I will snap some pics and see what I can do.

Still waiting for those pictures 6x7.  

Last summer, I ordered some ice studs for my Snowdog's track.  The company I bought the studs from is: Kold Kutter Traction Products.  The studs I bought are the Kold Kutter AMA 8-18 X 1/2" pk250.  They were the size the Kold Kutter tech recommended for the track based on the paddle size used on it.  While the Kold Kutter installation video recommended spraying the studs with WD-40 and pre-drilling the holes, I ended up not doing either.  Since there were plenty of studs (250) in the pack, I installed one in each round post found in the actual paddles - 4 in one row, 3 in the next row, repeat.

   

First step was to hoist the dog up on a table I use for cutting plywood sheets.  I put 2 pieces of water pipe through the frame and put jack stands under the pipe ends.  This isolated the track so I could turn it by hand using the belt pully under the machine cover.  It also made it easy to sit and screw the studs into the track.  Here's what it looked like.


If you look closely at the picture below, you can see some of the studs and which round posts they are screwed into.  I only put the studs in the round columns that were part of a paddle.
 

The whole job took me about 2 1/2 hours to complete.  This should make the dog much more stable on bare ice and give me traction on boat launch ramps that are snow packed and slick and in slush.

Come on ice.