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Snow Trac & Bombardier cleaning up old landfill in Alaska.

Moose Guy

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Hello everyone,

The Alaska Moose Federation was out a couple of weeks ago helping the Alaska Department of Fish & Game clean up an old landfill out on the Anchorage Coastal Wildlife Refuge. With the help of a Bombardier GT 300 from GCI (had 120 hours on it!:thumb:), our #1776 Snow Trac and an NC Machinery dnated excavator hauled 20 junked cars 4 miles to the nearest road.

Getting there was half the fun because our newly donated hook lift truck from Alaska Waste is working great with hauling our smaller rigs. Pretty funny with all the looks it was getting going through town as well:w00t2:. I've grown up with Snow Tracs in Alaska and this is one slick way to move them around! Good thing we built the roof rack because we picked up some parts that fell off the skid on the way back to the road. We put about 30 miles on the rigs and they ran great! If you want to see a short link to it on YouTube, here it is: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-zq_AiMVXY"]YouTube- Alaska Moose Federation Junk Car Beach Cleanup Anchorage 1-18-10 s strait.flv[/ame].

We'll be down there again during the week of Feb. 8-12 working with Granite Construction who has come on big to wrap up the project:clap:. This time we'll have the State Trooper's Haaglund as well. We have a couple of scouting troops that may be coming down so the extra room will help.

We'll make sure we post another thread after this upcoming work. It appears we may have some big crushing projects with some dozers and some right-of-way snow cat work helping to keep moose away from the Parks highway. No worries, we'll post those as well:brows:.

We also just started an Alaska Moose Federation Facebook page which we update when we're working our programs so check that out if it interests you. Tis' the season for trying to keep moose off of cars so we'll talk to you later, Gary.
 

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NorthernRedneck

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Nice pictures. Looks like your snowtrac is in great shape. That loading deck truck setup looks great too. Nice way to haul around the snowcat.
 

Melensdad

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Got to thinking, what was the Snow Trac actually used to do? It has somewhat limited towing capabilities so was it able to actually haul/drag/pull the old cars across the snow to where the backhoe could lift them onto something? Or did it pull a sled with a junk car on top? Or was it used more for hauling volunteers to and from the site? I'm under the impression that it can only pull about 1200#, and given its light weight that is not surprising.

I know I pulled a Jeep, or tried to, that was hung up on a root in a ditch. Even if it hadn't been stuck on the tree root, I'm not sure how successful I'd have been pulling it out of the ditch, it simply dug down into the snow. So what role did the Snow Trac provide?
 

Moose Guy

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The Snow Trac actually was used for 3 tasks on the projects. It was used as a personnel carrier down and back, a 'quality control' rig picking up anything that fell off the skid being pulled by the BR 300 on the way back from the landfill (which with 5 round trips, we grabbed a couple of doors, bumpers, an old bra that fell out of a split window bus:whistling:, etc. off the flats). Here are the photos of the BR 300 using its 28,000# winch pulling junked cars through the trees out onto the flats (the cable is big around as your thumb!). Now we've seen some incredible restoration projects on this site so, if any of you guys are looking for a 'fixer upper', you might check this bus out:cool2:! Oh yah, we checked, no 'Snow Trac' parts on the bus, already canabalized!:sad:

The third task is once we got to the road area where we stock piled the cars for the side dumps to haul away, we chained the top car to the back of the Snow Trac and it pulled (with ease!) the entire stack of cars off the skid (which were usually 4 deep!). We just made sure we had 2 lengths of chain so the top cars on the stack never came close to landing on number
#1776:hammer:!

This made it so we only needed 1 excavator that we left out at the landfill til the end of the project. We have a video that our video guru is putting together of the Snow Trac handling this part with ease that we'll have another link to as well shortly. Very fun project with many more to come!:brows:

We were hoping we would have our Snow Master (#1101) back together and running, after its restoration, by this winter but we ran out of time so we should have it going by April which it will then be running around at the summer parades, fairs and other events helping to explain what we do. Then it will be joining the fleet working this next winter on projects like this one:clap:. Take care!
 

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Melensdad

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Uh, I think that bus is beyond repair.

Maybe if you paint KRISTI on the side of it you can sell it to BIG AL and he can do some of his restoration magic on it, but short of that I think its a total write off.
 

bill w

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we also use our track rigs to remove dead cars....ours are from the dyke off of fairbanks....no pics yet....still dealing with gremlins in the system...will work it out soon....thanks to the moose federation for all they do.....and yes we will be at arctic man this year.........Bill w
 
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