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Old 12-22-2011 | 12:48 PM
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Old 12-22-2011 | 01:26 PM
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Cool, very cool! It looked like the truck was in reverse to drive the tracks?
Old 12-22-2011 | 03:19 PM
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I agree with Tim, EXTREMELY cool.

Now I'm gonna hafta build one!
Old 12-22-2011 | 03:27 PM
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There are some really cool inventors out there...
Old 12-22-2011 | 03:42 PM
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Nice find! I'm betting there's a ton of Pipeliners out there that would love to have one of those underneath their rig! Looks like it would be good for the muskeg up in Canada!
Old 12-22-2011 | 04:40 PM
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That is awesome!
Old 12-22-2011 | 06:36 PM
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I used to work for a snowcat company and thought of that first one years ago, but was afraid the tires would slip on the traction drive.
Old 12-22-2011 | 06:41 PM
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Just strap it down like on a dyno...
Old 12-22-2011 | 07:49 PM
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How does it steer? I wonder if the truck fill up w/ water when it got deep?
Old 12-23-2011 | 06:39 AM
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Originally Posted by dodgeguy71
Nice find! I'm betting there's a ton of Pipeliners out there that would love to have one of those underneath their rig! Looks like it would be good for the muskeg up in Canada!
We're thinking alike about the pipeliners. The only drawback to that is if Blake would have had one a few months ago Eric wouldn't have a new avatar and the rest of us wouldn't have had all these months of enjoyment ragging him.
Old 12-23-2011 | 07:08 AM
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search mattracks,made in northren Minn. Nodwell flextrack steers by applying brakes on left or right rear brakes,search nodwell to see pic of them.
Old 12-23-2011 | 07:16 AM
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I've gone through 15 pages of Google returns and still can't find any manufacturing info on the company but I did find this.

http://www.mattracks.com/models/powerboards/

Old 12-23-2011 | 07:31 AM
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search mattracks,made in northren Minn. Nodwell flextrack steers by applying brakes on left or right rear brakes,search nodwell to see pic of them.
I guess I should have typed it differently, I wonder how the truck on that trailer steered? You can't apply brakes to just one side of the truck to steer it. Unless it's hooked up differently. It's not really important I was just curious. It's the engineer trying to get out of me.
Old 12-23-2011 | 07:40 AM
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I looked at Mattracks, that's where I found the powerboard.
Old 12-23-2011 | 07:57 AM
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use google or go to www.mattracks.com


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