matt17

Saw the Pisten Bully at Fishing Moose when I went by today. Came in from the west.

Club shared a picture of heavy equipment on site this week starting construction. While I am not sure about the mine I believe both the mill (whose owner is also an investor in the project) and CN have provided some sort of room purchase guarantees. Won't be done for this season but good to see work starting.

If you watch close I make a 1/2 second cameo in there too Was a fun day but I didn't end up on video much, he got some great stills of me though.

FYI https://www.ofsc.on.ca/2020/12/21/snowmobile-trails-grooming-operations-allowed-during-provincial-shutdown/

on the lower left you can choose show map layers. but generally for that application Grey is private, green is provincial/national park yellow/orange is crown, the different colours show different land use areas(this is for northern Ontario), from there you can click through to see the actually policy documents to determine what is allowed on a specific land use area. Lots of info through that application once you spend some time using it. But not the easiest to navigate superficially.

We installed the hydraulic cylinder on our drag a couple years ago. Works great (with an attentive operator) as we have it set to extend to about 10 degrees past vertical and it cuts way more. Can retract in to better balance the drag on side slopes and to avoid trees, later in season, or with less experienced operators we can leave it retracted in rather than removing like we did in the past. Not sure on specs for hydraulics. Ours came from Ebert with the brush bar, sat on a shelf for years as some of the other guys didn't think it was worth installing.