My Backcountry Plan--Tucker Snowcat

[skidmarks]

Thanks Jarrod! Let me know where you hide the keys

 

[Greg]

That Tucker is bad ass.

 

[bvibert]

Love the tucker. Glad to see they got the fuel issues from last season cleared up (apparently).

 

[skidmarks]

This Tucker would be Bad Ass!

That Tucker is bad ass.

This Tucker would be Bad Ass!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Tuck...0544355237?pt=Snowmobiles&hash=item27b53c57a5

 

[Glenn]

When I retire, I'm going to have a lot of land (hopefully)...and I'm going to buy one of those. I'll take it out and just drive it around. I don't know if it will be a Tucker...I just want a snowcat.

 

[bvibert]

This Tucker would be Bad Ass!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Tuck...0544355237?pt=Snowmobiles&hash=item27b53c57a5

Looks like an opportunity for Suburban Sports to expand into snowcat tours to me....

 

[drjeff]

When I retire, I'm going to have a lot of land (hopefully)...and I'm going to buy one of those. I'll take it out and just drive it around. I don't know if it will be a Tucker...I just want a snowcat.

Somehow I'm guessing that Mrs Glenn has already realized that this is an idea NOT worth trying to talk you out of in the future already! :lol:

 

[skidmarks]

Looks like an opportunity for Suburban Sports to expand into snowcat tours to me....

Tours at Besse Park?

 

[bvibert]

Tours at Besse Park?

Totally!

 

[AdironRider]

Does CT ever even have a reliable snowpack to consistently run a snowcat?

Id get it if it was up in Northern VT or what have you, but CT, please.

Still definitely very cool, and would love to have one myself, but thats one hell of an expensive useless toy in Connecticut.


Also, what boggles my mind is that those things weigh under 1 ton (from the tag posted up in that ebay ad). Holy crap, for a big hunk for detroit muscle and steel, thats one light vehicle. My track spec e30 I used to auto-x and race weighed like 300 pounds more than that, and it was maybe 1/3 the size.

 

[bvibert]

Does CT ever even have a reliable snowpack to consistently run a snowcat?

Id get it if it was up in Northern VT or what have you, but CT, please.

Still definitely very cool, and would love to have one myself, but thats one hell of an expensive useless toy in Connecticut.

Thanks Captain Obvious.

It was a joke, not meant to be taken seriously... 8)

 

[AdironRider]

Although, I think I like this one a bit better. Build a custom 4 person box on the back with gear storage. Wide track for deep days. Classified history which leads me to believe it really was well taken care of. (For real, if its classified ops more than likely they want to ensure they get out there AND back again).

Dope.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/LMC-...nowmobiles&hash=item27b53b7f5f#ht_1166wt_1167

 

[Glenn]

Somehow I'm guessing that Mrs Glenn has already realized that this is an idea NOT worth trying to talk you out of in the future already! :lol:

She's fully aware of all the "stuff" I want on the farm when we retire: Snowcat, tractor(s), bulldozer, front end loader, work truck(s), quads, snowmobiles...ect. I figure with that much mechanical stuff, I can spend a good amount of time fixing all of it...and the other time cutting, processing and stacking firewood.

Cliffs: I'm a simpleton.

*Edit:
I think for a little CT backcountry a quad would do nicely. If you really want to do it right, get one with a set of Mattracks:

 

[wa-loaf]

screw those slow old beasts. I want one of these:

 

[drjeff]

screw those slow old beasts. I want one of these:

I'm guessing that Ken scared the heck out of a few folks skiing at Deer Valley the day they shot that! (the ski trail you see in that vid is the connector from the top of Flagstaff Mtn down to the Empire Canyon area)