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<blockquote data-quote="Dean2" data-source="post: 2315859" data-attributes="member: 26077"><p>Living and hunting northern Alberta and the Territories we get a lot of cold weather. Coldest I have ever hunted was -55 F. Have hunted quite often at -25 to -35, which is chilly but not unpleasant, but you aren't going to sit in an unheated stand. Even the heater body suit requires auxiliary external heat like a little buddy heater if you are in the blind for more than 2 or 3 hours. -55 on a Skidoo meat hunting caribou north of Yellowknife was definitely pushing it. Not much runs good at that temp, and steel and rubber get quite brittle. There were 8 Skidoos on that trip to make sure we had lots of redundancy. When you are gutting Bou at that temperature you need to either keep your hands in the animal the whole time or use Gortex gloves. At -55, spit freezes in mid air, before it hits the snow, and that is not an exaggeration.</p><p></p><p>This is -35 F. At those temps you definitely want synthetic oil in the Quad. Snow is armpit deep as soon as you step out of the tire rut. The red skid plate is a heavy plastic/Nylon that goes all the way to the back, works like a toboggan to keep you from sinking into the deep snow. You can see from all the snow way up in the steering gear that u still have times where the snow is soft enough you are pushing with the front rack. The tires work like paddles.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/ifgj5pbh.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dean2, post: 2315859, member: 26077"] Living and hunting northern Alberta and the Territories we get a lot of cold weather. Coldest I have ever hunted was -55 F. Have hunted quite often at -25 to -35, which is chilly but not unpleasant, but you aren't going to sit in an unheated stand. Even the heater body suit requires auxiliary external heat like a little buddy heater if you are in the blind for more than 2 or 3 hours. -55 on a Skidoo meat hunting caribou north of Yellowknife was definitely pushing it. Not much runs good at that temp, and steel and rubber get quite brittle. There were 8 Skidoos on that trip to make sure we had lots of redundancy. When you are gutting Bou at that temperature you need to either keep your hands in the animal the whole time or use Gortex gloves. At -55, spit freezes in mid air, before it hits the snow, and that is not an exaggeration. This is -35 F. At those temps you definitely want synthetic oil in the Quad. Snow is armpit deep as soon as you step out of the tire rut. The red skid plate is a heavy plastic/Nylon that goes all the way to the back, works like a toboggan to keep you from sinking into the deep snow. You can see from all the snow way up in the steering gear that u still have times where the snow is soft enough you are pushing with the front rack. The tires work like paddles. [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/ifgj5pbh.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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