Snow/ice scratchers?

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crispyknite

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What has worked the best for you?
Ski scratchers or rail scratchers?
I like to try and get more snow to my heat exchangers, If you look in my profile I put A 136" M-10 on my 2000 formula deluxe 600 and sometime when they is not enough snow it likes to overheat.
 
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techsledder

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My brother and I have used these scratchers with great success. There are few places online that make them that are the same as the Holz kind… a big spring with a bolted bushing connection to your skid… You just have to shop around a bit. Really, if one had the tools you could make your own really. I’ve seen folks use farm implement springs (hay rake tines from a local farm supply store) being used for the scratcher.
 
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polarisrider1

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www.slidekicks.net Far superior to any thing else out there. These work in reverse too! I have wrecked many of the wire scratchers forgeting they were down and backed up. Only about $10 more and you get the good stuff.
 
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snowfish

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Yep, those are it. Can't back up with them, but they kick more ground up ice, into the skid, than the slide kicks brand due to greater down force. If you're riding on snow or ice, you will not over heat. Just remember that they do a great job of throwing sand, gravel, and rocks into the skid as well.
 
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fgsacts

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Wayne, you had good luck with the Slidekicks? Only know one guy who tried them and he did not care for them. Went back to regular scratchers. What has your experience been?
 
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twodeere

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Anyone ever break a scratcher due to it hitting or getting caught up on rock, tree root ect ?
Are they pretty durable ?
 
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dave_m

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I am going to try out the ski mounted-hay rake tine-scratchers this winter... so far only $3.28 invested..so if they don't work,, oh well.
 
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polarisrider1

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Andy, I love them. It was Dougs idea to try them and he gets the credit for it. I constantly forget the hard wire type when I back up. The slidekicks have been greatly improved since the first model yr. You need to get the ones with the black coating, they are much tougher. I think they are made of logging cable with ends crimped on and a rubber coating. I have replacement carbide ends for mine. If the origial ends wear out. I leave them down all the time in the UP since I go to trail, to off trail and back again quite a bit.
 
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fgsacts

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The guy I know who tried them said they did not get enough ice up in the tunnel because there is no down pressure. You are just relying on them bouncing. If you say they work I believe you. I already have the traditional scratchers on both my sleds. Have not bent a set yet but the M7 does not have reverse anyway.
 
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dab102999

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I just got mine installed on my attak and am doing the wifes Blizzard tonight. I would doubt that there is not enough down pressure, in order to set them up so they pointed down I had to lift the back of the sled off the ground. These things are like 1/2 dia and pretty hard to bend by hand, before I installed I dry tested where I wanted them and tried holding them on the rail while I bent them back to see where I wanted them to hook when not in use and I could not do it.
 
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skylar

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I started out with Sledikicks, switched to the spring steel kind. My slidekicks were the second version, regular tips, not the carbide. My rails are all beat to heck from the slidekicks bouncing up off the trail and on to the rails. Yes, I have backed up the spring steel ones, they bent, but didn't break yet. LOL. Not sure if I will try the slidekicks again or not.
 
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dab102999

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Skylar, that is the one thing I am worried about. If they bounce where will they go. I will put the wifes down first and follow her and see what they do. I also wondered what they will do if they lay on the track for any lenght of time. Who know's I may have two sets for sale in a few months!!! I know a couple of guys who cracked there rails backing up with the wire type ones. But they also had them mounted behind boggie wheels to. I think if you mount the wire type ones up close to the rail you are better off.
 
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crispyknite

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I think I'm going to go with the ski scratchers, I can make them cheap and makes more sence, I'll be getting more ice/snow in the tunnel. I HOPE
 
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polarisrider1

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dab, the new slide kicks do NOT bounce and hit rails. the work fantastic. They did have issues with the wire not being tense enough in the first issue. I have the secound run of these. Also they must be installed as in the picture on the web site. Angle of the bracket is important to get them to drag properly. They are way easy to install. I do get comments from short trackers that don't know what they are. They say, "Hey, I think your dragging something". Then I go into detail what they do. Then they ask about the backpack and before you know it they are buying me beers for answers. What a concept.
 
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hometown

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Here's what I did,mounted a short track stud in the rear taper of the snowmoble ski.Works great!I just pop it in and out as needed.
 
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racerx

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I have done the same as hometown in a pinch. When we were up in Canada during a low snow & more ice condition our guide suggested this especially for the POLs in the group that had the exchangers on the running boards, like my old XLT, worked like a charm. The POLs had a hole in the steel ski so it was easy and the other sleds we had to drill a hole on the inside edge
 
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