Well im kind of the odd man out here!! i dont have snow tracs,tuckers,thiokols,bombardiers, or pisten bullys, but ive worked on most of them when i worked at Waterville valley ski area maintenance from 1970 thru 1983!!! I'm a new guy here my buddy up in Anchorage Alaska,who goes by 3512B told me about you guys a few weeks ago so i signed up.
One of my interest has been sled haulage of logs,timber and my main hobby is collecting and restoring "LOMBARD TRACTORS" the first over snow successful crawler tractors,the first one was built in 1900 by Alvin Lombard an inventor from Waterville Maine.The earliest were steam powered, but he started building gasoline log haulers in 1909. I have 2 1925 Gasoline log haulers that were originally used by Ed Lacroix in the Allagash wilderness of Maine. To make a long story short 1 is restored and running ,and i'm working on the second one now.Heres a picture of my restored machine with wheels on,the sled in front is used to replace the wheels for winter use. Thus these were in use long before the T ford snowmobile and all other over the snow crawler type machines.
heres a picture of one of my machines hauling wood back in the 30's
One of my interest has been sled haulage of logs,timber and my main hobby is collecting and restoring "LOMBARD TRACTORS" the first over snow successful crawler tractors,the first one was built in 1900 by Alvin Lombard an inventor from Waterville Maine.The earliest were steam powered, but he started building gasoline log haulers in 1909. I have 2 1925 Gasoline log haulers that were originally used by Ed Lacroix in the Allagash wilderness of Maine. To make a long story short 1 is restored and running ,and i'm working on the second one now.Heres a picture of my restored machine with wheels on,the sled in front is used to replace the wheels for winter use. Thus these were in use long before the T ford snowmobile and all other over the snow crawler type machines.
heres a picture of one of my machines hauling wood back in the 30's