Re: Another Chance for you guys to be just like me!
Dean, buy yourself a couple dozen silk Hawaiian shirts, buy, restore & play with equipment that is both antiquated and has no real use in your area (I believe I am the only private owner of a snow cat in Indiana), have a wife who thinks you are basically insane
, and have enough hair implants on your back to look like the dominant gorilla in the pack
, and you too can be like me!
As for this Tucker unit, it is from 1965 and it has the steel tracks. Those are pretty collectable Snow Cats. Tucker owners even have their own club like the antique tractor clubs. The most collectable of the Tuckers seem to be the steel track units. This one, being that it has a rear seating area, should be fairly desireable. They had a smaller unit called the Snow Kitten. And larger units that were like panel trucks. Tucker is one of the few American companies that made these.
Another very interesting brand is the Kristi snow cats. They were made in Colorado and was a small company, I believe they went out of business after an accident killed the company president. But the Kristi KT3 and KT4 units are great snow cats also. One of the great things about the KT3 and KT4 is that they can go anywhere a modern UTV can go, and can probably go a lot of places where a UTV would get stuck.
My snow cat is an Aktiv Snow Trac and was in production from 59 to 81. I have an enclosed cab version, but they were also available with an open cabin and I know of them being used in Texas oil fields as they were great on the sand. There were also grooming versions with short cabs and even wider higher floatation tracks.
Snow cats are great in swamps, sand dunes and snow. No reason why they can't be used on the farm too!
