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The wide tracks of this 1991 Logan snowcat reduce the ground pressure and improve grip but render it vulnerable to bumps. A snowcat (a portmanteau of snow and caterpillar) is an enclosed-cab, truck-sized, fully tracked vehicle designed to travel over snow. Major manufacturers are PistenBully (Germany), Prinoth (Italy), and Tucker (United States).
The Snow Trac is a small personal Snowcat that is roughly the size of a modern compact car. Aktiv Snow Trac were manufactured in Sweden between 1957 and 1981, with additional vehicles manufactured in Scotland. 1972 Snow Trac ST4 7 passenger cabin variant
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Helicopters are used for heliskiing and snowcats for snowcat skiing. This is backcountry skiing or boarding accessed by a snowcat or helicopter instead of a lift, or by hiking. Cat skiing is less than half the cost of heliskiing, more expensive than a lift ticket but is easier than ski touring. Cat skiing is guided. [4]
Tucker Sno-Cats were originally built with a steel track that rotates around a steel pontoon. [1] Located at the top center of the pontoon is a drive sprocket with teeth that drive the chain-like tracks around the steel pontoon.
From the 1940s through the early 1970s, Bombardier built the most successful [citation needed] snowcat models ever produced by any snowcat manufacturer. [citation needed] The B12 seated 12 people, and the C18 seated 18. Both were similar in design with long tracks in the rear and skis used to steer the vehicle.
Snowcat, a truck-sized tracked snow vehicle; Tucker Sno-Cat, a family of tracked vehicles for snow conditions; Snow leopard, a large cat native to the mountain ranges of central Asia; Snow Cat (Transformers), a character from the Transformers: Energon cartoon series; Snow Cat, a book by Dayal Kaur Khalsa and an animated adaptation of the same name
LMC 1500 LMC 1200. Logan Manufacturing Company was a US manufacturer of snowcats that ceased operation in 2000. LMC is both the tradename (brand name) and an acronym.. The company's earliest history started with a prototype tracked snow vehicle built in 1948 by engineers Roy France and Emmett Devine, of the Utah Scientific Foundation at Utah State University in Logan, Utah.