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Thursday, February 1, 2018

Traveling A Snowy Mountain On A Snowmobile Trail

By Deborah Hayes


Traveling a snowy path is a very dangerous thing to do. There are a lot of things that could happen on that mountain. Without the proper equipment and preparation, various accidents may happen during a planed trip with friends or a vacation with a bunch members of the family. The things that could happen in mountain is it could have avalanches and such.

Since decades ago, people have wanted to travel on top of snow to make it easier. The development of vehicular technology and advancement for snowmobiles have helped in thinks like traveling through winters. Allegan County snowmobile trail is where multiple vessels travel through on snowy days and through harsh icy conditions. These enables travel to be much faster and easier then before.

The history of creating a winter mobiles comes from multiple combinations. It uses tracks that could hold on to slippery ice as well skis that gives it great maneuverability in unpredictable surroundings. Many prototypes were made and each of them were popular in rural villages that had problems with mail services because of weather they had.

Cross country traveling in winter was a near impossible task due to how dangerous roads could be. If the temperature dropped enough, the car or truck would be buried by amount of ice roads have, especially if the place to be visited is a rural area were snow is known to gather in droves. So vehicles that could overcome this dilemma was in development during the early 20th century to help winter countries thrive.

Ice vehicles were eventually developed to carry two people. The change in machines were that two person tracked vessels is powered by gas engines that allowed them to carry sleds. It began with low speeds that depended on how thick and bad conditions were. The terrains and obstacles also played a role on how well traveling with the sled can be.

The origins of how this machine came to be goes back centuries. The development of it though can not be credited to given out to a single individual alone. The technology to build it look time and multiple parts were combined in order to finally make a prototypes for the desired snowmobile that has on production.

People who lived in Wisconsin began to experimenting on prototypes that could go over the harsh winters. Beginning with converting rear tractor treads and putting some skis at the front. Another prototypes was made during 1920, were a two cylinder motorcycle engine placed into a long sled. It used to steer with skis up front and is propelled by a single, endless tracks.

In Boston, a novel production was introduced to the public. During 1905, Boston companies had give the public a type of snowmobile that had a body frame that was a sleigh. It also had an engine that could be mounted on and helps it run well. Unfortunately, sales were very low and production was ceased on 1906.

The Russians saw world war two and introduced the Aerosani. The machine was built on 1909 and has been in development since. It usually said though that it does not count as a snowmobile because it does not tracks like tanks do.




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