has anyone ever broken/ took a big chunk out of the sportsmans floor board? i did it broke on the part that secures your foot from fallin off the side! it suks!!!

 

Indeed !! Both sides look like the "Frankenstein" forehead. New ones are way expensive, and should have arrived already. Footwell skids will be installed next.

 

It happens all the time. You can fabricate nerf bars to go under the edge of the floor board or there is a company that makes steel floor boards and they are about $350. A new factory floor is $129. I have some nerf bars on mine and they work great. I can skim over rocks and they dont touch the floor.

 

From what I have heard from some local dealers in the new england area, is that there is a company out in Quebec that is fabricating them out of black diamond plate. They say they look the same as tha factory just a little bit heavier. (who cares a 25 pound increase on a 700 pound machine, BIG DEAL). I am going to get two sets. One for each of my machines. I will look for his number.

ps; about 500.00 per pair

 

My friends have busted a few I never have. I built some nerf bars a couple years ago for mine. Look at my pics.
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did you mean $50/pair? $500 is OUTRAGOUS. that's just CRAZY!
~MT

 

No I said 500.00 a pair. I have owned 5 machines in my life (polaris of course) from sportsmans to , atp's , all the way to magnums. I have used the atp 500 for my landscaping company for almost 2 years now. All the 500's are used for is plowing miles and miles of sidewalk (50 to be correct, and that is every snow storm). The floor boards on the two company machines I dont care about at all. The floor boards on thoes broke at the mounting bolts the first snow fall of 2004 , and now have been losse and floopy and mostly held on by self tapping screws.
On my wifes atp 330 and my sp 700, $500.00 is a small price to pay for good looks and safety. Oh yah and not to have to replace them next year too. The last time my wife and I went riding we came across a downd tree. When my wife came up to it she slowed down, checked the situation. When she put the front tires on it and gassed ot to bring the nose up and over everything was fine.When the nose came down the pressure of her 105 pounds put her left leg through the front of the left floor board straight to the ground. When her leg whent through her foot missed the front axle cv. by inches as well as the tire. If going faster she probably could of been hurt reel bad instead of just scratched. I weigh 245 pounds and if that was my fat sausage leg, I might of lost it (lol). Who knows...?


Ps; last year we replaced all 4 boards on both machines and payed close to 520.00 (not again for plastic cra@)



oh yah and the snow is falling here in CT WWOOOOOOHHH HHOOOOOOOOOO

 

OHHHHH YEA! snow's falling here as well! i have my plow mounted and ready!
can you give us a link so we can see the heavy-duty floorboards you are recommending? i'm actually interrested! LOL!
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I thought you guys might. I am going to go to the dealer and get the info. I will repost on monday. with I hope the info... My plow is a Glacier so it goes on in about 5 seconds anyway.
Have you seen anyone with the Razor plow yet?( sorry off the topic a little)

 

uhhh look in my signature, i own one! LOL[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]
it's a heavier blade than my 60" straight blade.......and i like that.
i'm trying to figure out how to add an upper rubber deflector. my local Dealer says Polaris doesn't offer one so i will try and make one i guess. i have only plowed with it once (3" storm) and it performed well. i have to see how it handles the deep stuff. too new to give an opinion yet.
~MT