06 Nytro

[Metallicat]

Yep, good times. My best memories as a youngster was riding around Newberry with my dad, uncles, and cousins. We had a 1971 Puma 399, 1979 Enticer 300, and a couple of early 440 Exciters. Our hands were always frozen. We couldn't feel our feet. The leaf springers with 2" of travel provided no bump isolation. Trails were almost never groomed. But we loved it all! My dad is 80 and purchased a new trailer this year to accommodate our snowmobiles with my kids. Riding with his grandkids was on his bucket list, and he got to do that this year. We rode 220 miles with the boys over a day and a half. My dad and I have been riding together, forever. He probably has a few more years left in him. Cherish the moments.

 

[Metallicat]

My cousins and I in the 80s. We used to haul this #*$&@ to the UP and beat the #*$&@ out of ourselves, and we loved it.

 

[Snowbound98]

Yep, good times. My best memories as a youngster was riding around Newberry with my dad, uncles, and cousins. We had a 1971 Puma 399, 1979 Enticer 300, and a couple of early 440 Exciters. Our hands were always frozen. We couldn't feel our feet. The leaf springers with 2" of travel provided no bump isolation. Trails were almost never groomed. But we loved it all! My dad is 80 and purchased a new trailer this year to accommodate our snowmobiles with my kids. Riding with his grandkids was on his bucket list, and he got to do that this year. We rode 220 miles with the boys over a day and a half. My dad and I have been riding together, forever. He probably has a few more years left in him. Cherish the moments.

Love hearing these stories. We have the same experience. I got to ride with my grandpa. I started on a 74 Puma. We had an 80 Enticer 340 and you couldn’t kill that thing! Been riding our entire lives and now my dad is the grandpa. He was ready to hang it up a few years back but my brother and I got together to keep him in the sport.

 

[Metallicat]

 

[Metallicat]

 

[Metallicat]

New generation! I love it!

 

[Snowbound98]

New generation! I love it!

That’s what I’m talking about. Awesome job!

 

[DGZRT]

For those unexpected off Trail adventures . Of which my whole family has had a few
I've Invested in the Following https://www.allsportprotection.com/Demon_D3O_Hypervest_V2_p/ds5390.2.htm

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I even make my 5 year old grandson wear a Tek-vest because he can roll anything .

I hope you enjoy next weekend .

 

[Metallicat]

Thanks for the link DG. Not a bad price at all and something I should probably pick up.

 

[DGZRT]

After seeing my brother's driving last weekend I ordered him one for and early birthday gift .

 

[Snowbound98]

February of 22 was the last post on this? Wow, time has flown by! Let’s see if I can do a quick recap of what’s happened since.
I did get the 120 fixed that year. Good as new.

The biggest thing that happened that year was someone bought the lot next to me up north and told me that my snowmobile garage I built was on the property line and actually 6” on his property in one corner. The lot lines he had were on an angle where mine were straight. I had a new survey done and I guess he was right. I went to the village that issued me my building permit and they accepted no responsibility. The new neighbor offered to buy my house and I told him I wasn’t willing to sell. I offered to buy the property around my garage to make it right and he said no because he needed his lot to be a certain width in order to build a house. Later found out that was total BS. So as I’m trying to figure out a resolution, this guy goes and buys the property behind me and kiddy-corner from me. I talked to the city and asked if I could just pu my garage 12” into my property to make it right and they were ok with it. He found out and argued that I have to be 10’ off the property line. So I offered to give him 20’ across my rear yard for 10’ down the side. He said no. At that point he offered to buy my house again and I told him to go make love to himself, but not in so many words. So now I know what his plan was all along. I’ll burn my house down before I sell to him at this point.
So this is what I have. 2-1/2 attached garage and a 1-3/4 car garage with garage doors on front and back to use as a drive thru for the sleds. This POS installed a wire fence that went along the property line and directly across the back of my garage so I couldn’t use the rear door. I ripped his fence down, got in trouble with the sheriff, almost went to jail for making his face run into my fist over and over again so I had to do something but legal.

I couldn’t pull my garage 10’ onto my property because it has to be 10’ off any other existing structure for fire code. If I pulled it 10’ in and 8’ towards the road, it would be too far into my driveway. So I figured I’m gonna have to pull it in, 1/4 turn it and move it 4’ closer to road.
Dotted line was moving it in and you can see how much driveway it would take up. Solid line was 1/4 turned.

 

[Snowbound98]

So tree had to come down, a lot of dirt was brought in to level everything off and then it was compacted and sand brought in for the base.
Here in Illinois we use gravel but for some reason, Wisconsin uses sand.

My brother and I were doing all the work. I was dragging a skidsteer back and forth for a few weekends to get the yard to grade for the garage floor. I finally had to realize that I had to hire out the concrete work or else I would have to pay premiums for weekend concrete delivery and it was a lot for two of us to do in a weekend. So I hired a contractor to pour the concrete. I met with him on a Friday and explained to him what I wanted and this is what I got.

I told the guy I wanted the concrete all the way to the edge of the old slab so I can have an apron on the back garage door but he followed my lines I had painted in yard instead.

Took him 5 weeks just to get the slab down so I went up and poured the rest myself. And of course it rained on my brother and I the entire weekend.

 

[Snowbound98]

So now the fun begins!
We drove up on a Friday afternoon, stopped at Home Depot in Wausau and bought a bunch of 2x10, 2x8 and 2x6 to brace the garage for the move.
That night we removed all the plywood from the bottom 4’ of the walls and braced everything the best we could.

I used some 1/4” C-channel and bridged the corners because this is where we are setting the garage on my rollers.

The rollers are heavy duty equipment movers as along as we stayed on the concrete, they will roll just fine.

The next morning bright and early we cut the anchor bolts, jacked up the garage and set it on the rollers.

 

[Snowbound98]

With the garage up off the slab about 5/8”, I used my winch on my truck to pull, tug and shift the garage around on the slab.

By Saturday night, well Sunday morning really, it was about 2:30am, we had the garage moved in place and set on the slab. It was bedtime!

 

[Snowbound98]

Sunday morning bright and early after about a 3 hr sleep, we were back out there. We squared up the garage and anchored it to the slab with redhead concrete anchors. We checked the garage doors to make sure they sealed against floor and were square. Removed all the bracing, loaded up and went home so we could be at work the next morning.
This was done with just my brother and I. I had brought my riding buddy who is 62 years old and he did help us some but mostly 2 guys did this on a weekend. I was proud of what we accomplished but I felt it for the next week and a half.