Which ice scratcher

[PowderFalcon]

Ski mounted Cable scratchers worked awesome for me last year. Designed them to able to put on and take off trail side as needed using tool in my tool kit (10mm wrenches). Ran into icy conditions in northern Ontario. 5 mins had the scratchers mounted and sled ran 4 degrees cooler than normal operating temp!
No worries going reverse either.

 

[Brotherdan]

Do you have the SKI mounted kit, or the Skid/Rail mounted kit? I notice OTTP offers two designs, and they each cost abit diff.

The pics I posted are the SKI mounted kit.




It looks like some people have and were mounting the skid design to the ski, using a separate hole and bolt, where the ski design in pics, bolts onto the main ski/spindle bolt.

I was thinking I might grab a set of these, and have them ready if/when we get that odd type of condition where its needed. It only happened once or twice last winter, but it would be nice to have them ready to bolt on.

Not a fan of leaving them on sled permanently, too ugly for my OCD. lol

Dan

Ice storm ski mount

 

[ROCKERDAN]

Ski mounted Cable scratchers worked awesome for me last year. Designed them to able to put on and take off trail side as needed using tool in my tool kit (10mm wrenches). Ran into icy conditions in northern Ontario. 5 mins had the scratchers mounted and sled ran 4 degrees cooler than normal operating temp!
No worries going reverse either.

Looks great! I love the idea of quick mounting them, as most days we done need em, but would be nice to slap on quickly and not have to have them on always.

So which brand are those? Cable style i see....they look better then springs. But I have heard springs will bite into ice better. My bud Chris sells the OTTP ones and he has had all great reviews on them.

Dan

 

[ROCKERDAN]

Ice storm ski mount

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[PowderFalcon]

Looks great! I love the idea of quick mounting them, as most days we done need em, but would be nice to slap on quickly and not have to have them on always.

So which brand are those? Cable style i see....they look better then springs. But I have heard springs will bite into ice better. My bud Chris sells the OTTP ones and he has had all great reviews on them.

Dan

Dan, I got those cables right from my yamaha dealer! I liked that they have a 2 bolt mounting setup that acts as an anti-rotation feature much like Travis' BOP setup. This is key IMO so it keeps downward pressure on the carbide tip. They blast a beauty spray at the skid! Again running 4 degrees cooler than normal operating temp!
To be honest, 1 would likely be enough, but may as well be uniform. Quick and easy mounting and dismounting. They travel in my gear bag very nicely!

 

[hibshman25]

the slotted design of my mounts allows for very simple installation for those that want to be able to install quickly and easy along the trail. If the pinning screw is in place all you need to do is loosen the ski bolt nut and slide them in place.

 

[ROCKERDAN]

Dan, I got those cables right from my yamaha dealer! I liked that they have a 2 bolt mounting setup that acts as an anti-rotation feature much like Travis' BOP setup. This is key IMO so it keeps downward pressure on the carbide tip. They blast a beauty spray at the skid! Again running 4 degrees cooler than normal operating temp!
To be honest, 1 would likely be enough, but may as well be uniform. Quick and easy mounting and dismounting. They travel in my gear bag very nicely!

I have not been able to search out any cable type with those unique mounts. I would consider them as they cannot turn with that design. All others rely on lockwasher to keep them from turning, and I have seen most of them end up turning.

There is some on ebay called redneck cables....which look like a great design, cheaper replacements carbides that are a triangular shape will throw more snow....and what they did is make the left side mount a left handed thread, so it wont spin(loosen) it will tighten. Now that would be opposite when mounted to a ski inside.

But a ski mounted cable would need a special plate or adapter to keep it from spinning....I checked out the BOP bracket and it looks good, but it still does not fully address the fact they can spin. But it does look like it would help alot.

I just love this design you got though(below), where its set into the plate, and the shape wont allow it to turn.

Let me know if you can find them online somewhere so I can price them out.

thnx
Dan

 

[ROCKERDAN]

Here is the BOP Mount.....I would think the cable could still rotate but less likely when pointed rearward.

 

[PowderFalcon]

I have not been able to search out any cable type with those unique mounts. I would consider them as they cannot turn with that design. All others rely on lockwasher to keep them from turning, and I have seen most of them end up turning.

There is some on ebay called redneck cables....which look like a great design, cheaper replacements carbides that are a triangular shape will throw more snow....and what they did is make the left side mount a left handed thread, so it wont spin(loosen) it will tighten. Now that would be opposite when mounted to a ski inside.

But a ski mounted cable would need a special plate or adapter to keep it from spinning....I checked out the BOP bracket and it looks good, but it still does not fully address the fact they can spin. But it does look like it would help alot.

I just love this design you got though(below), where its set into the plate, and the shape wont allow it to turn.

Let me know if you can find them online somewhere so I can price them out.

thnx
Dan

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Here ya go! Same company that makes cobrahead carbides.

https://www.qualipieces.com/trail-blizzer

 

[ROCKERDAN]

Just found this searching google sites....looks to be called ''trail blizzer"

Dan

 

[ROCKERDAN]

Here ya go! Same company that makes cobrahead carbides.

https://www.qualipieces.com/trail-blizzer

Haha, awesome I just posted too....Im gonna look into these.

thanks bud!
Dan

 

[ROCKERDAN]

Very nice!

 

[PowderFalcon]

Just found this searching google sites....looks to be called ''trail blizzer"

Dan

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Haha, awesome I just posted too....Im gonna look into these.

thanks bud!
Dan

You'll like them! I used stainless steel I had kickin around for the plates

 

[ROCKERDAN]

And here is the price....def not cheap. The do offer steel ends too, but they wont last long id assume.

These are the carbide ones......107usd.

 

[ROCKERDAN]

You'll like them! I used stainless steel I had kickin around for the plates

Ok, so you made the plates in your pic....I see.

These are more or less made to bolt to rails as is.

I like the look, and ease of bolting them on when you need them, the spring ones are alot cheaper, but they do look abit ugly.


Man o Man im gonna be broke by time snow arrives with all the stuff im buying..lol