Snowmobile Utility Sleds and Gas Cans

[BIGNASTY]

Looking for some of you Snowmobile guys to help me with a purchase decision. I need a utility sled to pull behind my snowmobile for supplies and hopefully game. I have looked around and have found these but would like input from people that have experience with their choice and pro's and con's of them.



http://www.orionsleds.com/moonwalker.html



http://www.northernsledworks.com/NSYB_Freighter.html



Also will need to have quite a few gas cans to supply gas for snowmobile, generator, tractor, chainsaw. Have looked into one large tank but once snow hits there will be no way of refilling it, and it was thought that condensation would be a problem with long time storage of 7months. I have looked at 5gal ATV cans and others but my main concern is that I DONT, want to stand there holding a 5gal gas can to drain endlessly just to save the world from some imaginary hole in the atmosphere that I haven't seen, in other words IT NEEDS TO DRAIN FAST!!!!!! im sure that we have all been subjected to the recovery gas cans that don't work!!!!!!!



Thanks



BIG

 

[mwilson]

Big,

I saw some of these on a Jeep toad this summer. It had a rack on the rear that held two for gas and two for water.

See what you think...

http://rotopax.com/

Mike.

 

[BIGNASTY]

We have some that look like that Mike!! that fit on our Gator rack, the ones that we have don't have the capacity that we need. Was looking at the VP type I've seen them all the time in So Calif when they fill Quads and Motorbikes, they are expensive for the amount that we would need, so was thinking that we could go the cheap route and get MANY of the other kind and get a BIG funnel to make it dispense fuel fast when its used WITHOUT the cap and spout. Don't want to make a 25 mile run into town on a sled get fuel to many times a month.



Mike you are in the snowmobile capital of the US as far as im concerned, what kind of sled do you see that people use in Maine?



Thanks

BIG

 

[CBari]

BIG, I haven't used any thing quite like this but when I lived in the islands we used the 15 and 30 gal barrels for gas for the boats and just used 2in flexible line to syphon the fuel out while syphoning isn't the easiest we had made a tube with a valve in it and we could syphon with out making a mess or sucking a bunch of gas. You might look at something like this.



http://www.globalindustrial.com/p/s...mpaignId=T9A&gclid=COfzyPjA-LkCFSlo7AodTwoAAQ

 

[BIGNASTY]

BIG, I haven't used any thing quite like this but when I lived in the islands we used the 15 and 30 gal barrels for gas for the boats and just used 2in flexible line to syphon the fuel out while syphoning isn't the easiest we had made a tube with a valve in it and we could syphon with out making a mess or sucking a bunch of gas. You might look at something like this.



http://www.globalindustrial.com/p/s...mpaignId=T9A&gclid=COfzyPjA-LkCFSlo7AodTwoAAQ

Mr CBari



I thought about the barrels for fuel and went as far as buying one but the gas station wouldn't let me fill it because it wasn't a Certified gasoline approved container! so your link has possibilities went looking around on the link you sent and found a 14 gal container called FAST FLO. I will have to see how fast it flow's before I buy more and just dump the fuel into the 55 gal drum that the station wouldn't let me fill and use a hand crank pump like the one in the link or go fill it at the station when the attendant doesn't care or know about the approved container and then pump it into the equipment with a hand pump.



http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200129224_200129224

 

[JR]

Ski Door Summit X. NO, I'm not quite in the snow mobile capital... :-laf But my brother that lives in Wyoming is a DIE HARD sled nut. He lives to run the big mountains in the winter and I have seen him do some things with that sled that you would not believe BIG. It is bred 100% for running deep powder. Wide footprint, long track, and an 800 twin cylinder E tec Rotax that's got about as much torque as my 24 valve... .

 

[BIGNASTY]

Ski Door Summit X. NO, I'm not quite in the snow mobile capital... :-laf But my brother that lives in Wyoming is a DIE HARD sled nut. He lives to run the big mountains in the winter and I have seen him do some things with that sled that you would not believe BIG. It is bred 100% for running deep powder. Wide footprint, long track, and an 800 twin cylinder E tec Rotax that's got about as much torque as my 24 valve... .

D4L
They are fun, ours was bought with the thought of using it when the snow got so deep that we could still get to town or out someplace if need be. So far it hasn't come to that with our 400 yard driveway, but with our move to Babb MT this winter it has become a reality. Plowing snow from a 5mile driveway just aint going to happen. Wont have my Mules this winter anyway, didn't have time to provide shelter for them and don't what them on the food chain menu.

BIG

 

[CBari]

Mr CBari

I thought about the barrels for fuel and went as far as buying one but the gas station wouldn't let me fill it because it wasn't a Certified gasoline approved container! so your link has possibilities went looking around on the link you sent and found a 14 gal container called FAST FLO. I will have to see how fast it flow's before I buy more and just dump the fuel into the 55 gal drum that the station wouldn't let me fill and use a hand crank pump like the one in the link or go fill it at the station when the attendant doesn't care or know about the approved container and then pump it into the equipment with a hand pump.

http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200129224_200129224

Yea I forgot about the approved container think. There wasn't many regulations in the islands and the ones that existed could always be bought off. Lots of stories there, but that is another post. On a separate note the cheapest large container out there is the bulk agri chemical tanks the hold about 250 gallons and come with a 2in valve in bottom. I use them for farm fuel all the time for the tractors. Most places give them away triple rinse and are good to go. Keep the valve a little uphill and any condensation will accumulate in the back away from the valve. Also can put filter assemblies on these. Good luck with the move.

 

[BIGNASTY]

Yea I forgot about the approved container think. There wasn't many regulations in the islands and the ones that existed could always be bought off. Lots of stories there, but that is another post. On a separate note the cheapest large container out there is the bulk agri chemical tanks the hold about 250 gallons and come with a 2in valve in bottom. I use them for farm fuel all the time for the tractors. Most places give them away triple rinse and are good to go. Keep the valve a little uphill and any condensation will accumulate in the back away from the valve. Also can put filter assemblies on these. Good luck with the move.

Thanks for the tip on the tank, still looking for a way to get fuel in winter one of the locals said wave a 10 spot in front of the kid with no teeth he will sell you fuel in anything that will hold it, and even if it don't. So your advice about being bought off seems applicable to this young man anyway, where there is a buck to be had most will do what is needed to obtain it.

Looking at putting a large tank on skids to drag it out to the hwy and get an on site truck to re-fill and then drag it back. Just don't know if a snow machine is going to be enough to do the draging

 

[DonFitzwater]

We use those racing jugs here in ak quite a bit. They seem to work well.