The Ultimate Groomer?

[Snow VP]

I do believe that I may have found something close to the ultimate groomer. It address several shortcomings that I see with our tractors. It would be weird pulling a drag that far behind you. The 200 HP is right at what I want. The only thing I can see that is not good is it doesn't have a 3-point lift on the rear. We would have to have the drags re-designed so the drag lifted itself. More hydro outlets should be fairly easy to add on to the 2 available. I think we would finally have to invest in that rear mounted video camera Jimmy D is always joking about getting.

Most interesting construction item to come out in a long time.

http://www.deere.com/en_US/cfd/construction/deere_const/newsroom/2008/080312_764_hsd.html#

A brochure is at the bottom of the page.
A cheezy utube vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwq99t3AKIA

A vid of one working: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW57k4fvG7M

[Snow VP]

OK So I am a bit excited about this one. I called and e-mailed for a price. We probably won't be eligable to replace our groomers for quite a while, but SOMEBODY has to try this one out (if the price is anywhere near right)

Check out the pics of an actual unit at a recent tractor show:

[ToddMeister]

Oh I likey, nice outfit.

[Griz]

That' one cool looking mo fo:cool2[1]:

[Snow VP]

Todd here are a couple more that I dug up.

[ToddMeister]

Controls are a lot different than the tractors, eh?

Thanks for the pics, Neil.

I like the gauges out front with the steering wheel.

[Snow VP]

That would be a big difference, they are set up to be a dulldozer first, tractor second. An add-on module with hydro controles would be a must. Strange, you can drive it with either the steering wheel, or joysticks.