Any sled necks on here ? Track pick ?

Those tend to rip out and ruin tracks.

 

This is key. Break trail and get it packed down the day before. Or earlier. Trying to break trail and tow a load of wood won't work very well.

 

These are mostly used here because we don’t have the ice/overflow and have powder. And our snow is not deep, we need them as much for when you get to ground than on the snow.

I only have long tracks so I don’t put screws or studs in them. With a trail in I haven’t had issues, I also make sure I am already point the direction I need to go home before I start loading the sleigh.

 

Ya ! Those should help a bunch !
I've done a lot of loggin with a snogo and sled. More than anyone I know or know of.
But it was all with smaller sleds and snogo's.
Now that I have the Eskimo P. Logger, I want to wood er down hard. Fill the tub with short wood , go up a foot with 12' then continue up to the top with 16' wood.
Having All this horsepower will really give it some Snort ! IF I can keep from burying it's track. I always broke in my trails at least the afternoon before I was going to log on it.
2 passes with no sled on . Then 2 passes with the empty sled . Helped to fine tune the corners and bends where a guy would get stuck. Having a ridgid hitch will be different. I've always used a rope bridal. My first snogo was fairly useless in deep powder/ unbroken snow. I would have to snowshoe in to break my new trails out. It was a 340 Enticer with geared reverse. Oddly enough . It had real good Grunt for pulling a sled. My normal load was 1/3 rd cord. But pulled dozens of 1/2 cord sled loads with it.
My biggest sled load so far was a full 3/4 cord . I pulled that with my 440 Panther.
Gotta have your ____ together to get a load that big to the truck , not get stuck, keep the runners on the bottom. And not bash into any leave trees. I need to put a couple skegs under the E.P.L. to keep it tracking straight behind me . It likes to Swing WIDE . But I've had it up to 45 mph so far and I couldn't even feel it back there. Course that was empty. But it weighs about 300 lbs.


Yes I need a big skidoo SUV or a great big BearCat. But for that money, I could just about go to Canada and find an old TimberJack 230 D or similar and could easily get a D3 size Dresser Dozer that already has a winch and a high arch on it.
Besides, then I wouldn't be snogo loggin .

 

I have had many sleds and this is good advice. I used to go 1/4-inch taller stud than the lugs myself

 

I've got them queued up. Thank you !
These are what I was looking for by and large.