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Mountains Don’t Move Themselves

November 2016 Issue

Snowcat Maintenance

A SAM roundtable discussion explores the practical, confounding, and sometimes comical world of vehicle maintenance.

Photo credit: Pisten Bully

Snowcats are funny creatures. They meow, hum, purr, hack up a snowball now and then. Sometimes they shut down and take a nap. Sometimes a cat will dart left or right with no warning at all. It is the snowcat mechanic’s mission and desire to ensure that the cat purrs all the time, and to keep those other behaviors to a minimum.

The cat tech’s efforts aren’t the only variable in the system, however. The other responsible party for snowcat care is the operator. It’s a huge benefit, and a challenge, for operators to know what the techs know in order to keep the cat happy and purring.

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