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No, I used the "zero turn". I literally mowed lawn. I hadn't got to it the last 2 months, and after the wind last week, my yard as well as my pond is full of corn husks. It was 50* and I burnt up most of all the gas left in the machine. I would have liked to mow back here at the farm/shop as well, but time didn't allow, and no-one can see back here anyhow. Hopefully the pond will completely thaw before it flash freezes again tomorrow night, so that the fodder can all blow to one side somewhere. .

You need to grease a centrifuge routinely? Must run quite a bit? Spinning metal chips, laundry, or Uranium? I would think to NOT use reg farm grease. Of course it depends on what grease that you are using, but "standard" or base level or whatever tube grease that you have - is likely thinner than "wheel bearing grease". I was knocking out $400 top bearings on my vibratory finisher all too often. When I would take it apart (from the bottom) the bottom bearing was flooded with oil, but it was only ever "greased". Finally I called my lube guy and said that I need a case of tubes that is the next level thicker - if that is such a thing. He looked it up, and the next level grease mentioned "vibrating applications" as part of it's description. When I opened it up, it looked exactly like a can of wheel bearing grease. So I don't buy wheel bearing grease anymore, and I have not taken out a bearing in the vibratory finisher since either. The stuff that I use these days is Shell Gladus S3 V220C 2 Premium Multipurpose Extreme Pressure Grease I gave the balance of my old grease to my farmer landlord. .

I mowed yard yesterday afternoon. .

Can you jump on there and ride all the way to Wawa? There must be a narrows in there? I haven't been on that since '98 I think. (?) But as I recall, we left the badlands dam and headed 12 klicks (miles? I know it's 12 sumpthing) upstream to the new/nice cabin. Jump up on the road and run that into Dub. I don't recall the condition of the river at that point, but it almost seems like it was "dead end-y" at that point? So I ass_u_me that - depending on water depth, that may be the end of the res? .

I just remember a slushy spot on the other side of the ... lake - where you get off. .

Nope. No river pics. Keep trying.... .

Algoma has winter all this week. .

Just so long as the hockey game isn't in town this weekend.... Back-in-the-day - Manitouwadge had 2 (TWO!) motels across the road from each other, and we got the last room available. Otherwise it was all hockey! .

... and I'm sure that has been the case since the dawn of time. .

Oh heck, my dealer had to go to some third party to find a wiring harness for my '18 Summit! They hung me by my boots and shook until all $ was on the floor before they would put it in my paws too! BUT - I got it and it's in the machine, so .... .

OK, yeah, I had seen the other verbage, but not this one. .

I missed the "LUP" thing. What's that? .

Ah! I forgot that the Hornepayne / Hearst trail goes to Mooseland first these days. I haven't been on the new trail yet. .

Doo you mean Hearst to longlac? Yeah, that's 150 miles or so. Otherwise Manitouwadge is in the middle, so no issue. I think that you can make it from Manitouwadge up to Longlac on one tank. We was able to git gas in Caramat as we were headed back east to Hearst and I don't think that we have ever been on the short stretch east of Longlac? Hard to say if Caramat is open anymore tho. ??? .

Was just talking to my steel salesman in Chi-Town a bit ago. He said they were getting snow, and he's sending it our way. .

Apparently - that is a sign of it having had a wrap on it. They strip all the OEM decals off and put on ... those ... things .... I really don't git it .... So then, when they go to sell, they either have to find someone that thinks that wrap is kewl or they need to take it off and sell with no decals, or fetch new ones again. Can't say how many times I see a sled for sale. 1 yr old Laundry list of aftermarket shtuff they bolted onto it Don't forget the really kewl wrap! 400 miles $5000 in aftermarket BS and they got 400 miles on it... I jist don't git it.... .

My chum had a Jeep pick-up in high skewl. Straight 6 with Desert Dogs. Those tires are so loud, that he lost his muffler on the way to skewl one day, and didn't know it 'till he got there. Found it on the way home. .

Still got ice in the river!

Oh, so set it next to the recoil eh? That could be a new tactic to keeping the recoils cooler. Good idea! .

We used to run Hot Doggers (smaller unit than the Miff Pot). I think that the last time that I used that was one beautiful day when we were riding in + temps all day. It was tough going off-trail tho. Plenty of stucks I think. I had burritos in my [black] tank bag. When I put the burritos in the Dogger, they were both thawed, but didn't think much aboot it. We stopped at dusk for supper, and I made it aboot 100-200 meters and I was already sick! We were still 60 klicks from Halfway, and I had a hard time moving. Chums were playing and soon enough we were on the groomed trail for the last 45 klicks. I remember riding ahead slowly while they played. I got a ways ahead and stopped, shut the sled off, laid back on the sled and wished I was dead. I could hear noises in the bush beside me. I suspected that it was just sluffing snow, but it could have been a moose? I didn't care, I just laid there. After a few years of that - the novelty wore off, and I am just fine with dry goods packed for the day anymore. .

Must have a Hot Dogger down in there... Must be your own sleds and nor fly/rent? .

Here is my chum mid March 1997 in S Michigan. We left in an ice storm to go ride Algoma a cpl days later.

Well, it seems that someone hasn't drank the coolaid that winters are gone...

... "it's a cat" ....

Yeah. I plinked a rock that was looking just my direction just north of Wawa many years ago. Never seen it! But the shear edge was sharp and hooked in hard. Hadn't ridden 5 klicks from the truck yet, and the weekend was over. Stuffed my bulkhead back. It was a total loss - on the chassis... Within a few days I found a chassis in Indian River, Mich for cheap. Dealer had replaced the whole sled onto a new chassis. The left ski had caught something, and stuffed the trailing arm mount back into the footwell. My left footwell was fine. Pop a few rivits and replace, and then move the rest of the sled over onto it. Couple day job to move the whole thing over, but for the dealer to have just replaced the footwell would have been a LOT easier than what they had done. But as you say - apparently that's not how it's done... .