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Snow truck for sale

Talk about a limited-use vehicle but the cool factor is off the charts if you're working at a mountain ski area or on an oil rig in the tundra:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/2003-Ford-F-350-XL/292519740369?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649

Old 04-28-2018, 07:12 AM
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Pretty cool, but this Bug would be the one for me. Capable of taking 2 or 3 friends with me, snowboarding in the back bowls ..

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I've seen these tracks before and wondered how much and how good they worked.
That's only about a foot of snow and the tracks are sunk down most of the way. I can't see it going through 3-4' or more of snow, not enough floatation.
Good for a work truck at a ski hill and places with limited or hard pack snow, but I wouldn't want it anywhere with real snow.
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Why bother putting tracks on a 3 ton truck? I just laugh when people try to offroad those big rigs.
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I've seen these tracks before and wondered how much and how good they worked.
That's only about a foot of snow and the tracks are sunk down most of the way. I can't see it going through 3-4' or more of snow, not enough floatation.
Good for a work truck at a ski hill and places with limited or hard pack snow, but I wouldn't want it anywhere with real snow.
I think that's a little more than a foot of snow, looks like about 3'. I see your point, though. Apparently this was an effective work truck for some oil rig, sometimes you need some serious carrying capacity on your snowmobile.
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I love how he says that the miles are actually lower because of the gear reduction, etc. Lol. Like the truck really cares how far it traveled.

I could put a new vehicle on a spaceship and it could cover a million miles and still be like new. This guy doesn't seem to understand this.

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