We just got our power on after being out for 6 days here in the boonies in KY. Nasty little ice storm. During those six days, the only thing standing between me and an astronomical plumber's bill for frozen pipes was my Husky 272XP chain saw, and my Arctic Cat 500i with trailer.

My existing stock of firewood was gone in a day - I had let it get a little low figuring that March was coming and I wouldn't need so much (yeah, right!). Farm was too iced over to get the truck back in the woods, well get it in and back out, and with power out everywhere and roads iced over, nobody was delivering firewood at any price. Nearest firewood was over a mile back a steep trail, can't carry enough that far by hand. And I had just spent over three grand having new plumbing put in the house. But, there was no problem at all getting the big Cat down the icy trail to where the wood was, and hauling loaded trailers of oak back out. Probably moved close to two tons of firewood, kept two wood stoves and a fireplace constantly burning for five days, and kept that expensive plumbing intact. I probably could have found a portable generator or delivered firewood later this week, but by then the damage would have been done. For those first three days, when no one was moving, the quad did a job that nothing else could have done. The big Cat always started, never lost traction, and never let me down, through some pretty nasty conditions.

I like this machine! Just might have to treat it to a set of aluminum wheels, for being such a trooper.

 

You need to give that Cat some nip. Treat it to a good wash with that new plumbing and pet it till it purrssssssssssssssss

AC's are and awesome machine - that is why Suzuki uses their engine design Ooooooooops did I say that hehe.

 

And they say it's the "dog" that is "man's best friend"...heh..heh...heh...[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]

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Thats a graet story. I was stuck on I-75 for 8 hrs in that ice storm. I was pulling a 12ft covered trailer w/ 2001 -1500HD quad cab w/4wd. I had to throw it in a ditch at the bottom of an entrance ramp before hitting all the cars that were stuck in the traffic jam. Slid down the whole way. But that chevy backed right out of that muddy wess with the 4000 pound trailer behind it. In the middle or the weight for the traffic to start moving, all i wanted was my CAT. That is the machine of my choice when the conditions get bad.