Alaskaboy gave you some good advice, Stick to a 4 wheel drive and racks. My son has a blaster and he is going to trade it in on a 4wd. He also needs the racks for farm use and hunting. I hope that you can find a good one for the kind of money you want to spend. lol

 

Nah, I'm not interested in a sporty quad. I just asked about the blasters cause they're cheap, don't know really anything else about them. It will be used primarily for fishing and camping. Just wondering of the capabilities of 2wd though. Most of the cheap used listings seem to be for 2wds.

 

Hi t5x, I had a Polaris trailboss for 2 years and never got stuck. You have to use common sense with a 2wd. Sometimes you have to go around some nasty looking mud instead of driving thru it. The third time I rode my new 4wd I got stuck, my fault not the machines. I have a friend of mine up in northern MN that rides his Trailboss in the winter. He says it goes good in the snow. Buy a use machine and after riding it for a year and meeting other riders and talking to them and seeing their machines you will have a better idea what you want, then sell the old one and get what you think you would like and not what other people think you should have. lol

 

Nubbin, going around mud holes that look to nasty is a good idea but also at the same time creating even a bigger mud hole, at least in tundra or boggy situations. We are experiencing negative feedback up here as the trail system from the air is getting wider and putting a bigger scar on the earth as the greenies say. I have found that if you are going to ride in this type of situations it is better to buy a 4x4 model and just give it enough gas to keep you momentum up and the wheeler will go right on thru these situations. Also as I have found out what looks like the worst is the best route to take as there is rocks and logs thrown in the bottom to give a base and traction. There is one nasty stretch that I ride on to get to my hunting spot that makes people sick to there stomach as they try to go around it and get stuck for hours even days depending on how big the rig is they plant. When if you go right thru the brown gooy mud there is rocks on the bottom usually 2 feet below the surface and it is just wide enough for a wheeler to go thru one at a time. I do not like to share this with people as my hunting spot is getting crowded enough. Looks are desceiving as they say. When I first started to ride up here there was no problems with the greenies but now the sport is getting realy popular and the trails are getting busier and the trails get tore up to the point that they make new ones that do not stand up to the traffic and new routes pops up. Just in the last couple of years they {Govt} have beeb talking about mapping the trail system and making laws to prevent destructive nature out there, I have no problems with this as there is a need for some laws. It used to be the day when we policed are selves but the new generations of riders have forgotten to respect everybody else and to heck with nature. When you talk to a new rider about slowing down or staying on the trails you get told to where you can stick it and it not just kids but grown adults. I know I am rambling here but I wanted to say alittle about going around mudholes. If I offened you it was not my intention. AlaskaBoy.

 

AlaskaBoy, I agreed with you, that is part of the reason I went out and bought a 4 wd. The terrian I drive on is mostly loging roads and trails in northen MN. in the summertime, and Ozark mtns in the winter. I hate mud and try to avoid it as much as possible,but no I don't go out and make new trails to avoid it. Most of the mud holes are small and there is already a existing trail aroud them, meaning like 50 feet. What makes me sick, and this happens in both MN. and AR is people dumping their garbage out on these loging roads and trails.And the attitude of some riders that they think they can go anywhere and do anything that they want. Tresspassing signs mean nothing. In ten years from now they will be wondering why they don't have any places to ride. I have 15 grandkids and I hope they will be able to enjoy the sport as much as I have. What I am trying to say is. I guess we all can try to do a little better then what we have done in the past, that includes me.

 

We used to have these side roads of the highway were you could go shoot skket and target practice and people started lugging washing machines and refregerators to shoot up and the next thing you you know there was a garbage pile and the people complained and the state blocked access to these areas. Bummer to, I reload and those were great spots to pick up brass. I remeber the trail in front of my moose camp used cross this bottleneck with the mountain on one side and a lake on the other, there was two trail through it. On one year you would use one trail and at the end of hunting season it was unpassable tehn the next year you used the other trail and the other one would dry out and grass would grow over again making it firm. Then everybody else found this trail and the next year there was not one defined trail the entire area {100yards by 500yards} was one massive mud pit with no way thru it without winching till the winch overheated. At least the next couple of years there was not to many new people back there unless the were brave. Then the land owners who have vacation property back in 10 miles got some federal money and brought a bulldozer and a backhoe and filled a drained all the worst holes and put in culverts and bridges to the point that you can drive a car back in the first 8 miles then the trail cuts off to the left and drops back down in the next valley over. I am always joking with my buddies when they get up during hunting season and tell them a Winnebago drove in while they were napping. One day that may just happen. Will be time to look for a new spot to hunt when it does. There is another trail we take back to Caribou camp and it is 15 miles to the camp, with two quads pulling meat trailers it takes 8 hours to do and that is on the trail, muddy yes but doable, just have to pick the right line thru it and take it nice slow so you don't spin the tires and bury it. There is one hill we call suicide hill as when it gets wet it is very slippery, but the same thing her happened, used to be just one trail and old cat trail. People got tired of the ruts that would develope and started climbing up the sides of the old trail and would make it then the next would not then move further over and so forth until now when you see the hill from a distance it is no longer covered in grass but just mud. If we could only get people on the same track and stop this abusive behavior we might have chance keeping the areas we got open. I had made a coment to one guy about giving them {antiatvers} stuff to use on us and his reply was they will just find something else to gripe about, you know if we would stop loading the gun they would not have anything to use against us in the first place.AlaskaBoy.