Re: 1971 Aktiv Fischer ST4 "Snow Track"
Well we have sort of a good news-bad news-good news thing going.
For whatever reason (
and I am sure at a total loss to explain it) the Snow Trac, which my daughter & her friends now refer to as HERBIE, seems to start up and run every time I try. So I'm thinking that whatever ghost was in the machine is now gone and that is just fine with me. That is the good news. It starts & runs great again.
Soooo I went to park it after another spin around the front lawn, and I drove up on the lift ramps (
I have been parking Herbie on a 4 post car lift) and for some strange reason it takes a sharp left turn off the lift! Yikes. I know I didn't turn the wheel, its like the left track stopped and the right kept going. So now I decide to try to back out and I am not able to effectively steer in such tight quarters so I get it 1/2 on and 1/2 off the lift, sort of on its balance point. Time for a break to figure out what to do.
Off to the other garage to get a tractor and I attach a tow strap to the rear bumper and pull, the tractor tires just spin in the deep snow. Hmmm. Scrape a bit of snow away with the FEL and try again. Works like a charm, Herbie spins a bit and is almost back on the ramps. Reposition the tractor and the tow strap and I pull Herbie right up onto the ramps and continue to pull and pull it right out the garage door into the snow. Not too bad. Total time maybe 15 minutes, total damage, 0.
So I hop back into the Snow Trac and fire it up again, back up and turn around and drive over to the house and park it for the night next to the driveway. Who else can claim to have a small Orange tank like vehicle as yard art?
My daughter is having a slumber party so we have a house full of screaming 10 year old girls, they will get a ride in Herbie tomorrow morning. After that I am off to meet up with DavyNay, he's coming into town to pick up his new snowblower from my local Kubota/Cub Cadet dealership so we are going to meet for coffee.