groomerdriver
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Kudo's to all that helped!!!!
From Facebook:
02-24-2016 Why is it that things happen in “3’s.” Had to remove track to remove a tire that tore to shreds. Taking the tracks apart is not a quick job nor is it an easy job. Then an 80 mile round trip to get new tire (oh yea, and a ton of snow had to be shoveled off trailer as needed trailer to haul tire), returned with new tire, & after mounting tire then had to put the track back together. This total process took little over 9 hours and was accomplished with the labor of 5 of our groomer operators (more volunteer time and away from their regular jobs). Sent this groomer & drag out approx. 9:30PM to begin grooming route and 14 miles out, the walking beam broke and much of the attachments broke apart and laying out there in pieces. This groomer had just been returned to us from a major repair job and it appears that the piece of steel used in the repair was a reject. Sooo, yesterday we needed to get out there and pick up those parts and the tracks themselves weigh little over 3,000 lbs. This meant we needed to get a lot of man power to lift them onto the drag of our other groomer to be pulled to our groomer barn. Total men involved were 18. We got as many of our groomer operators together again as we could find available-and enlisted 12 snowmobilers from our cabins to help. (Couldn’t have done it without their man power-thanks guys) Now we need to have everything hauled back to WI for repair again. Meanwhile, a groomer from the Greenland Groomer Barn had a tire go flat on the trail so another group, from Greenland area, went out the next day to do same procedure. Tire had to be ordered, should be in today-then another 80 mile round trip to pick it up and then install it and put that track back together. Hopefully, this is enough trials and tribulations for a while. I guess I’m telling our woes because grooming the trails is not the only thing that goes on with grooming and equipment maintenance. A lot of repair & maintenance expense is involved, also.
Hopefully all of this will help you understand why we praise our groomer operators so highly for their dedication as volunteers. Many Many Hours are involved. Many of them have regular jobs and groom at night. Just can’t tell them enough Thank You
From Facebook:
02-24-2016 Why is it that things happen in “3’s.” Had to remove track to remove a tire that tore to shreds. Taking the tracks apart is not a quick job nor is it an easy job. Then an 80 mile round trip to get new tire (oh yea, and a ton of snow had to be shoveled off trailer as needed trailer to haul tire), returned with new tire, & after mounting tire then had to put the track back together. This total process took little over 9 hours and was accomplished with the labor of 5 of our groomer operators (more volunteer time and away from their regular jobs). Sent this groomer & drag out approx. 9:30PM to begin grooming route and 14 miles out, the walking beam broke and much of the attachments broke apart and laying out there in pieces. This groomer had just been returned to us from a major repair job and it appears that the piece of steel used in the repair was a reject. Sooo, yesterday we needed to get out there and pick up those parts and the tracks themselves weigh little over 3,000 lbs. This meant we needed to get a lot of man power to lift them onto the drag of our other groomer to be pulled to our groomer barn. Total men involved were 18. We got as many of our groomer operators together again as we could find available-and enlisted 12 snowmobilers from our cabins to help. (Couldn’t have done it without their man power-thanks guys) Now we need to have everything hauled back to WI for repair again. Meanwhile, a groomer from the Greenland Groomer Barn had a tire go flat on the trail so another group, from Greenland area, went out the next day to do same procedure. Tire had to be ordered, should be in today-then another 80 mile round trip to pick it up and then install it and put that track back together. Hopefully, this is enough trials and tribulations for a while. I guess I’m telling our woes because grooming the trails is not the only thing that goes on with grooming and equipment maintenance. A lot of repair & maintenance expense is involved, also.
Hopefully all of this will help you understand why we praise our groomer operators so highly for their dedication as volunteers. Many Many Hours are involved. Many of them have regular jobs and groom at night. Just can’t tell them enough Thank You
Add some pseudo punctuation and you get:"it really puts things in perspective for us take-the-trails-for-granted-weekend-riders". He was thanking you in a round about fashion........