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Originally Posted by pkadventures
So today we took out the new sled for its maiden trip on the M'boro trails...so, so beautiful!! We only put on a few miles this morning as the temperature gauge was in the red, making us nervous. We called the store we bought the sled from and they told us it was due to the lack of snow powder on the trails...that the sled was overheating as we were not kicking up enough snow to cool it off. They suggested going off trail into a field to kick up some powder. As rookies we were uncomfortable with the going off trail idea (just our luck...we would have a landowner come by!) so we stopped for the day.
pkadventures,
Thanks to everyone who works on these trails! They looked great to us! We look forward to putting many miles on our latest toy!
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One observation of yesterdays conditions. When I left my house yesterday morning (9:00am) it was 10 degrees. As I went up the Neck Road I could see where the Tucker had been out the night before. The groomed trails looked like they could be a little hard from the "COLD" night and still low morning temps. With this type of a hard surface being the first one on these trails could present a "cooling" problem. With such a hard surface very little snow will be picked up by the track. It can be even more problematic with out studs.
The dealer may have chosen the wrong words as to how to correct the over heating problem. What he could have said was to ride the "EDGE" of the trail where you could "Pick Up " some "Loose" snow. This maneuver is usually accomplished by going form on side of the trail to the other to get an equal amount of snow on both sides of the track. This maneuver is also used if the "Hyfax" (Sliders)start sticking.
This would bring the temp back down if it was the lack of snow being churned up by the track not an actual mechanical problem.
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