From a German Snowcat Enthusiast

[Bobcat]

This guy has a great page with lots of pictures.
http://www.snow-groomer.com/index.php

Hello, Bob


Sorry for my bad english. My german is much better.


>I've seen your page on tracked vehicles and thought you might be interested
>in this...
>http://www.forumsforums.com/3_9/forumdisplay.php?f=65

Thank you for the link. Yes, that's very interesting for me.
Snow Groomer are my hobby. I know most of the european groomers. The early
ones, used in europe, came from USA. Bevore 1960 olympic games in sqaw valey
there were no goomed pistes and only very single manufactures of
over-snow-vehicles (Snow Track for example). Than the Thiokol Sprite came to
us - under the name "Ratrac S". Than Prinoth in Italy, Kaessbohrer in
Germany and the rest started building tracked vehikle for the ski areas. In
Austria Bombardier startet produktion (in a secondary manufactine, there
were different modells than in Canada), later they send their groomers from
Canada. By the way - the first Tucker came to europe for cutting gras (reed)
at Donau-Delta.


>I have a Kristi KT-3 like the one in one of your pictures.

That's a very nice design. I have had contact to a kristi owner in
Swisserland a few years ago, I think it was http://www.livu.ch .

Usualy it is not easy for me to get information about old american
snow-groomers. I have my problems with the language. But I am very
interested in.


By the way - I am collecting prospects (don't knew, if manual is the right
word). I have seen, that B-Skurka has made a dvd with very interesting
manuals. I have also a dvd with prospects, but mostly with european
groomers, most of them are not very old. There are nearly 100 prospects on
it. May be there is a interest to exchange the dvd's ? Please ask B-Skurka
for me.


Best regard

Juergen Pellengahr

Germany

[Deerlope]

This guy is very interesting. I spent a lot of time today looking at his pics and links.

[Doc]

Yes, and his english is very good. Good post Bob. I hope Juergen will join here on FF.