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paulz
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# Posted: 8 Nov 2025 08:36pm
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Just sold one of my old collector motorcycles to a young fellow. I knew his grandpa when I was just starting out, in fact I included the original sales receipt from his grandpas motorcycle shop. Pretty excited to get that with it. Gave him a great deal.
Anyway he came to the cabin to pick up some parts. I showed him a photo of the cabin mini bike I had with chainsaw hanging off, that I can’t ride anymore so sold. “Got just the thing” he says. There’s still some leftover inventory. Next week he drops this off. Nice, how much? Free, enjoy!
It’s super powerful and 5 speed (with reverse!) I can’t see ever getting out of first gear around the cabin.
I won’t be needing to buy one of those kids 12volt electric cart now..
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darz5150
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# Posted: 8 Nov 2025 09:57pm
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Good for you Paul! 
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Aklogcabin
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# Posted: 9 Nov 2025 07:33am
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Far out ! We have a Honda 3 wheeler. Suzuki 4 wheeler n polaris 6x6 at the cabin. And use snogos in the winter
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Great day hunting moose. Mt McKinley in background
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paulz
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# Posted: 9 Nov 2025 07:55am - Edited by: paulz
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Wow, you got the plan covered! As an old bike guy there’s a couple neat/scary things about this Honda. I’m used to bike transmissions, foot shift 1-N-2-3-4. This has it on handlebar electric switches. It has reverse too (since you can’t easily put your feet down to push it) which work fine now, but after a couple of years sitting outside? And no pull starter in case the electric starter/battery take a crap. They are part bike, part car I guess.
Oops, just found the pull start hidden. And I started it. Don’t know how big this engine is but takes a good pull.
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Nobadays
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# Posted: 9 Nov 2025 09:45am
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Nice gift Paul!
My cabin rig is still plugging along... multiple uses.
Pictures... driving the Alpine Loop in Colorado for fun. Two pictures with the tracks/snowplow on were taken two consecutive days! Knew the storm was coming so got it ready to go!
Alpine Loop
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paulz
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# Posted: 11 Nov 2025 08:12am
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Quoting: Nobadays My cabin rig is still plugging along... multiple uses.
Nice rig! What is that? Do the tracks go on and off easily enough?
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Nobadays
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# Posted: 11 Nov 2025 09:30am
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Quoting: paulz Nice rig! What is that? Do the tracks go on and off easily enough?
Thanks! It's a 1989 Geo Tracker with a 3" suspension lift. Yes the tracks aren't too bad coming on and off... quicker off as you don't have to align the holes to match. The drive sprocket on the tracks have several different bolt patterns so getting them rotated to line up with my hubs is sometimes a pain. We marked them a couple years ago with a paint pen so that made it easier. Takes about an hour and a half to put them on and about an hour to remove them. Not quick change so if they need to be put on they stay on for the winter.
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DRP
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# Posted: 13 Nov 2025 07:40pm - Edited by: DRP
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Most of ours have been trucks that cannot go on the road anymore. I had welded the frame back together on one old power wagon with hoedad blades.
A few years ago a friend dropped off the dozer for the winter. We built this place in our 20's, now deep in my 60's, she is much younger somehow. But she needed knee surgery and in my 20's a 25% driveway slope seemed fine. And it has worked well, we hike a lot in the winter, the Jehovah's stopped trying years ago.
So she had a post op appointment and we had a good snow. I spent the morning clearing the worst off the road, drove up top and loaded up the wife. She had ZZ top on when I got to the house. A dozer has one seat so I got her perched up on the armrest, I hopped on, hit the throttle and spun the machine on its tracks which also pointed us down the steep incline. She uttered "Have Mercy"... and off we went.
Today I got to the job and some battery truck was in my spot, check out the sticker 
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paulz
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# Posted: 14 Nov 2025 03:53pm
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25% slope, wow. I measured mine some time ago, 15 as I recall. Even at that I walked up it this morning, 500’, and pooped as usual. I used to have a 2wd pickup. Kept a load of pavers in the bed and mud and snows in back, it would usually make it up.
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toyota_mdt_tech
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# Posted: 15 Nov 2025 12:02pm
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Quoting: Nobadays My cabin rig is still plugging along... multiple uses. Pictures... driving the Alpine Loop in Colorado for fun. Two pictures with the tracks/snowplow on were taken two consecutive days! Knew the storm was coming so got it ready to go!
Nobadays, Im curious about the steps on your roof. Can I get more details, I'd love to add those to mine.
Paulz, nice gift, bless that kid. I had a Suzuki Eiger 400 4WD "shifter" quad also and its a game changer, skid logs, haul gear around, a real working tool. I sold it and now use the little truck, ie Kawasaki Mule.
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DRP
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# Posted: 16 Nov 2025 10:27am - Edited by: DRP
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One of the old farm toys. This old truck has been through 4 engines and transmissions, it worked hard for a half million miles, crossing the country multiple times, pulled out concrete trucks and even helped a couple of semis back to the road. A northern plow truck, it came with posi front and rear. After it became unsafe for the road it sat in the weeds for a dozen years. Notice the angle iron frame repair, flat springs and rotting hangers. Last year I pulled the bed, all the wiring, chopped the length a little, got it running and welded a dump bed out of an old water tank and scraps from around the place. Hydraulics are from an electric/hydraulic power unit behind the seat running to 2 salvage cylinders (bad paint and they scrapped em!).
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 16 Nov 2025 01:16pm
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Great Save!
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paulz
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# Posted: 16 Nov 2025 03:28pm - Edited by: paulz
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I have a Dodge dumper too, only didn’t build it, just bought it long ago. Here it is while building my carport, along with the old Datsun 4x4 I gave to a neighbor.
It’s a beast, 4x4, dualie, V10. Was a cream puff, now beat to death. But it hauled all the gravel to build my driveway, and drug the shipping container up there, and 100 other things. Now it’s just a backup vehicle to get up there if my daily dies.
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Nobadays
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# Posted: 17 Nov 2025 10:29am
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Quoting: toyota_mdt_tech Nobadays, Im curious about the steps on your roof. Can I get more details, I'd love to add those to mine.
They were made by the local metal roofing company and are intended to be long pieces screwed to the roof to keep snow from sliding off. I cut them long enough to span 3 ridges and used roofing metal "stitch" screws to fasten them to the ridges. There are actually 6 screws in each step... way too many holes in the roof. The screws have gaskets and I predrilled the hole then set the steps in silicone before screwing them down. I did have a couple small leaks the first snow as they trap the snow and it melts slowly. I went up after that and found some over-tightened screws that I replaced and also silicone all the screw heads. This has worked but...
In retrospect I believe I would not do it again... though these are great for getting up the 45* roof to clean the chimney. I would be inclined to build an aluminum ladder, od use one side of an extension ladder and fasten it at the top and bottom.
I'm not getting leaks anymore to my knowledge, and to be honest the first leaks were insignificant and short-lived, but less holes in the roof would mean less stress that leaks could happen again.
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 17 Nov 2025 12:49pm
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Holes in my new metal roof is why I just CANT put my solar array up there!
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MtnDon
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# Posted: 17 Nov 2025 10:27pm
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Non penetrating clamps for ribbed metal roofs. We used these
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