Ok you guys who live in real snow country, what do you do for snow so deep the rig starts riding on top of the snow on the skide plate? I lose traction in about a foot of snow. How do I get to keep going in the deep stuff?

 

I see guys around here (northern wisconsin) buy tracks for their wheelers- the type that bolt up in place of your wheels. That seems to add a couple more inches of ground clearance and it also helps you float on top of the snow like a snowmobile. The downfall is that they are expensive (easily over 1k) and they slow you way down. The plus side to them is that you can go through all sorts of stuff and at least around here legaly drive it on the snowmobile trails......

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i park it in the garage and pull out the sled, lol, those track systems seem to be the way to go if you can afford them

 

I asked my dealer the other day and he said that the full set of tracks is five thousand bucks![img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-shocked.gif[/img]

 

the local honda shop has them on a couple rincons, they added like 1500 onto the price, and they also give you a bigfoot kit with mudlites with the machine in place of the stock wheels and tires

 

My problem is that we don't get snow here at the house( sea level) very often. Got 2 feet yesterday. But I live on a major hill, very, very steep and need to get off and down to the highway. The wife has to be at work when her shift comes up, she's a Para-medic. If we head up into the mountains we hit snow all the time in the winter. Maybe I better wait a year or so and get a snowmobile when she retires and we move to central Oregon(4000 feet).

 

Bear
Just give her a little more gas ;^>

 

MnCat, more gas don't help as the tires are not on the surface with enough weight to pevent slipping of the tires. I though maybe someone knew of a system that moved enough snow to the side down to a depth that wouldn't hit the skid plate.

 

Bear, I hear ya! I live in Michigan and I have a house up north. I tried to get to the house last winter on the AC 500i and as I did make it to the house, it took longer than normal due to 24 inches of snow on the ground. The mud & snow tires did a good job of not getting stuck but it was all up hill to the house and I was worried monster might not make the 200 feet to the building. After a four hour ride north, we decided to go back home. The truck was never gonna get up the hill and we were running out of time... it was still snowing.
You're sure you want to move to Oregon?
Chuck

PS. Man I like that line you use.

 

Ecorman1; Well at least the stuff is melting here and fast, thank God as I have a Sporting Clay event this sunday. My mother in law lives in Battle Creek and the wife was born in Benton Harbor, so I know about about your snow. As to Oregon, the wife and I love it down there. Already have property, on a river no less with some of the best trout fishing in the world. Lots of deer and elk. The even have four distinct seasons which is better than we usually have here. This about half way between Bend and Crater Lake, with trails all the way between them.