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Next Sno-Cat project
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While I certainly don't doubt the ridiculous skills of someone, why bother pulling that up? Half grill? Coffee table?? Chandelier??
And the obvious question- why is only one pontoon at the bottom of a gulch and where is the rest of the machine? Did it come off the mountain riding an avalanche?
So many questions, so little patience!
We are thinking coffee table with glass top. Open to suggestions. Might be a bit heavy for any kind of overhead lighting fixture. I would not want to walk under it. This is an eight foot + long pontoon. We got it out of there at just the right time as a couple of guys had seen it and said they were going to haul it out. We spent much time the week before opening it up and removing mucho sand and rock. Of course, talk is cheap and they asked to buy it but that was the wrong time to ask after we had shot, skinned and wrapped it.
That lift is the second chair lift built in this country and I am told in the world. I remember riding it as a kid and in deep snow years they had to dig out the snow so you were in a ditch going up. The top of the trench was to the top of the towers. Kind of nice as you could let your skis ride on the snow. At shut down they would cover those areas with plywood to make the next day's shoveling easier. The replacement lifts were built on a higher ridge to the west of this one. You will get to go into this old top terminal at the Cat's Meow. It is very nice inside. You don't have to bring you skis out next April as the Lodge has good rental equipment.
Pretty much any one who can answer the question is dead. I talked with the longest member of the Lodge maintenance team and he recalls that one of the two large cats lost an axle up above Silcox and it stopped when it hit a big rock. He thinks it was then that the pontoons were changed on one of the cats to a belted system and the box was cut off and made into a flat bed to construct the Palmer chairlift. Most likely this pontoon was some how lost over the side of the canyon.
I was going to ask if the rest of the tucker was down there.
NOPE, the 2 shoe box tuckers were sold and moved a very long long long way away from timberline, before you ask, they will be coming home and the pontoon rescue is a part of the history of these big tuckers.
In the first picture of the second post I thought I was looking at a tarped up dog sled until I scrolled down... not sure how heavy it would be but it might be the start of a nice little pull behind sled for a cat or snowmobile... based on some of the historic Tucker photos I have seen- a motor, track and set of skis out front would be in keeping as well 
Now that would be one cool looking snow machine!
Now that would be one cool looking snow machine!
BTW Those who went to last year's Meow, parked their cats in this exact spot, just a bit more snow then.
Sno-Surfer
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Is this the one that was on eBay a little while back? 
Is this the one that was on eBay a little while back?
No, different cat, similar train of thought.