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octopus

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that's really cool of park city to give a shout out to the repair/snowcat crew.

i need to learn how to operate a snowcat for future endeavors. what non snow vehicle drives like a cat?tracked bobcat, bulldozer?
 

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i need to learn how to operate a snowcat for future endeavors. what non snow vehicle drives like a cat?tracked bobcat, bulldozer?

it depends on the brand of snow cat. Piston bullys drive with a steering wheel.
Primoth uses a joystick. I do not know what Bombardier uses.
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it depends on the brand of snow cat. Piston bullys drive with a steering wheel.
Primoth uses a joystick. I do not know what Bombardier uses.
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Prinoth = Bombardier. Bombardier sold their snow division a few years back Camoplast, who ruined a lot, and then to Prinoth (!)

Prinoth still uses the "BR" prefix for its main line of groomers.
 
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At Belleayre the trails groomed by the older Bombardier snow cat seem to do better job than the trails groomed by the brand new PistonBully cats.
 

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Groomer girls:

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If we are going strictly by looks, I think the pisten bully's look better than the prinoths. Not a fan of gray .

How does one learn how to groom? Seems like a profession where the only way to learn is over time with on the job training.
 

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Do you have a tiller on the back of that cat or just a drag bar of some kind?

Just a compactor bar (C-Bar). Not enough depth for a tiller. We try to stick with C-Bars as much as possible. Once you till the snow once, the only way to rejuvenate the surface is to till it again (until a heavy fall of snow). The more you till, the harder the snow gets...
 

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Just a compactor bar (C-Bar). Not enough depth for a tiller. We try to stick with C-Bars as much as possible. Once you till the snow once, the only way to rejuvenate the surface is to till it again (until a heavy fall of snow). The more you till, the harder the snow gets...

I figured. I remember a wise man once telling me about the downsides of tillers.
 
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