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To: average joe who wrote (358749)	4/10/2010 12:38:12 AM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793927

I imagine it is useful only for hard pack snow or ice. Once I drove a Sno-Cat with a similar track system. It drove with sticks like a tank. Hold the sticks forward to go, back to brake. Opposite sticks to turn around. I had one of only two career motor vehicle accidents while driving government property in that Sno-Cat, both of which were minor. It really wasn't my fault, as a motor grader plowing the road put itself in reverse and backed up without looking. I couldn't get the Sno-Cat in reverse fast enough to avoid being hit, but I still got an admonishment in my file. No damage to the Sno-Cat. The other accident was a bent tie rod resulting from a big rock in the bottom of a mud hole I drove through. I got an admonishment for that too.