i'd like to... Stupid choke line, Stupid snow drift!

 

Every weekend, pushing snow and hauling logs.

 

Just did. Plowed the new snow that fell last night, then took the plow off and rode for an hour.
Lots of fun, but if your quad has a oil cooler, watch for the snow plugging it. My temp light
came on today 'cause the cooler was plugged solid.

 

woodsrunner? on the rancher?

 

yes on the Rancher. Why?

 

I run with Ranchers all the time and we get them covered in ice on the front end.... never heard of one overheating in the winter before.

 

I had been plowing, it got hot. Then I was running thru 18" snow drifts and the whole undercarriage got
packed with snow, all around the oil cooler and in front of the engine. No air flow. It melted the snow in the oil cooler in 3-4 mins after I shut it off, and I continued riding. Wasn't a big problem, just something to watch out for.

 

We ride in the winter here our last ride was just over a week ago, we froze pretty good though. The biggest thing for us is we have to pretty much stay down low or go were the snowmobiles have packed the snow down enough so we don't sink. Other wise it's lots of pushing digging and working out the winch. But I hate letting them sit and if I didn't ride them I would have to buy fuel stabilizer. We still need to add hand warmers.

 

We don't get as cold or as much snow here as you do in Idaho, so we can usually ride all winter.
Not many of those I ride with have the gonads to ride when it's really cold, and some are wimps
about taking thier quads out in the snow. Too bad, they miss some good fun. The only thing I don't
like about it is uses a lot more gas making them push through deep snow (deep for us is 6" LOL).
We had 7" this weekend, with a few 18-20" drifts in places.

I was going to get a set of grip warmers until I saw how much they cost. $110? Sheesh!
So I bought a case of chemical hand warming pouches. Grabber Mini-mini hand warmers.
They probably aren't as affective as grip warmers, but they get pretty hot, and do a fair
job. They cost about $1.00 per pair in 40 packs and heat to 90 degrees for 2 hours,
so two will last through most a plowing and riding session. I am happy with them.
Find them HERE http://www.warmhandsnow.com/store/warmers.shtml

 

I had a few of those little chemical packets that last time we rode problem was we waited until the kids had gotten cold before we broke them out. They helped then but not enough and I didn't have enough with us for everyone. I have about 10 inches packed snow in my yard right now and it is suposed to snow some everyday between now and next Monday. Most the places we ride has more than 2 feet of snow packed on the trails. Forces us to stay on the roads were the snowmobiles have packed it down. My daughter wasn't paying attention and followed the path of a snowmobile off the edge of the road and sunk it in 3 feet of soft snow. Took about 10 minutes to push it and lift it back ontot he road, I should have just used the winch would have been easier. On the subject of gripps you can buy then here for about $30.00. Just need to get over the bill the fat man left on the 25th and we can get some. A lot of our friends won't ride in the winter either or else they have snowmobiles, so we ride alone during the winter. Well anyhow have fun and stay warm, sounds like the people there are having a ton of trouble figuring out how to drive in the winter from the news reports we get, seems like everytime you guys get a good storm half the city gets in a wreck. I know they only report the negative stuff but they always show people stuck in just a few inches of snow looks funny to us, people here drive through everything until they shut the freeways when the drifts across it are more than 14 or 15 inches deep or the wind blows till you can't see. Of course we have plenty of then slid off the roads when it gets bad. I have had short trips take an extra hour just from pulling stupid people out of the median with my Powerstroke.