Fun day on a hill in Iowa, Snow cat sledding

300 H and H · Dec 28, 2010

Spent a wonderful afternoon with my kids and an employee and his family/kids at a local sledding hill owned by the county. It used to have a tow rope untill the insurance industry did away with it. :glare:

For years we had enjoyed this with our families....now it sits mostly unused in comparison.

Maybe it's a bit overkill, but it turns out not really, the Snow Trac was called into action pulling these kids and adults up the hill. Worked out very well I might add. Here are a few pictures.

And the last one is of my daughter snowboarding like she is water skiiing behind a boat!

It is supposed to rain here for the next tow days, and I am afraid we will loose our snow for now. Please send some our way!

Best regards, Kirk

Cowboy · Dec 28, 2010

Cool pics looks like a blast , thanks for sharing :smile:

Northcoast · Dec 28, 2010

Really nice looking machine! Thanks for the pics.

pixie · Dec 28, 2010

Great pictures! Looks like tons of fun !!

Great looking Snow-Trac !

muleman · Dec 28, 2010

Great to see kids out being kids instead of playing video games. Nice to tow them so they can enjoy it more.

tommu56 · Dec 28, 2010

We use to do the same thing behind a farmall to get up the sledding hill.

tom

XeVfTEUtaAqJHTqq · Dec 28, 2010

Nice machine! I would love to have one just like it but I don't really "need" one. Some day.

tsaw · Dec 28, 2010

Nice pics and post! Looks so fun! Thanks.

northerndave · Dec 29, 2010

Awesome photos! Nice machine too!!

Big Dog · Dec 29, 2010

northerndave said:
Awesome photos! Nice machine too!!

Ditto ................. :wow:

loboloco · Dec 29, 2010

Good pics Kirk. nice machine. Kind of short on hills around there?

NorthernRedneck · Dec 29, 2010

Awesome looking machine!!! I'm jealous. I have been out much the past couple years in the lamtrac. I kinda miss getting out there. Someday I'll have my own machine for personal use rather than beating myself up for 10-12 hrs at a time on the lamtrac opening snowmobile trails.

Snowtrac Nome · Dec 29, 2010

kids love that we are getting enough cover on the hills behind nome so we will be doing this again kids love it and the plus is they can go till cold than you have a nice warm ride home

shopman · Dec 29, 2010

Great pictures, beautiful machine, what a wonderful way to have some family fun! It's dumping again in Colorado and hopefully it will be cold enough to get to you...

:letitsnow:

300 H and H · Dec 29, 2010

Thanks everyone!

And remember if you want a kid to do something other than sit in the house with a video game, some times you have to get up off your duff and make things happen....It takes a bit of work and planning, but well worth not only the time but the effort as well. Some times I think we get a little bit guilty of just letting our kids be to themselves. Make some memories, as in the end this is all we get to keep...

The beautiful for it's age Snow Trac (1962, #267) I can take little credit for. It was restored/rebuilt by a man in the Seattle area by the name of Joe Smolar, and what a job he did! In the future it will be my responcibilty to see that it is used wisely and well maintained, respecting him for his efforts..... I think this machine has a history with Lyndon, as Joe is a friend of his. Not to mention a log of it's history on the roof, written by those who used it for many years.

Yes here in Iowa you have to hunt for a good hill in my area, but we do have a few. :whistling:

Best regards, Kirk

Snowcat Operations · Dec 30, 2010

I love your Snow Trac! It looks like the one that was in Lyndons garage a few years back? Nice work with the kids. I use to run my kids and the neighbors kids up one of our local hills in my Snow Master. Next winter after I rebuild her I will do it again. Thanks for the pics!

300 H and H · Dec 30, 2010

The guy I bought it from told me he picked it up form Lydon's place, when he purchased it. So I am thinking it is indeed the same machine.

Kirk

Snowcat Operations · Dec 30, 2010

That would be the one then! Small world. I see your in Iowa. If these Snow Tracs could talk!

Snowtrac Nome · Dec 30, 2010

here's what my kids have to look forward to when the days get a little longer or the weather dosn't storm on the weekend.it's a five ninute ride to the bottom

300 H and H · Dec 30, 2010

Don,

I couldn't be more jealous!! We have lost all but a few drifts here in the last 36 hours, (hit 55 here today) and are likely to get a pissin ice storm to end this #@&* warm weather we have just gotten. Now my world will turn to a sheet of freakin' ice to slide around on, and take out our electricty, and damage for the second year in a row the trees in my yard. Dang this winter has sucked so far...

Hope you are having more fun....I gotta package to get ready to send you :whistling:

Later Kirk

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