The club does an excellent job of maintaining and servicing our groomers to ensure that they are in the best condition possible for our volunteer operators. The maintenance we perform help to extend the useful life of them to get the biggest return on our investment as possible. We expect to get a minimum of 15 years of service from them.  Just like your automobile, each piece of equipment has a useable service life.

We have a 2014, 2016, and a 2018 model Pisten Bully as well as a 2015 New Holland tractor with tracks and a bat-wing mower, and a 2020 New Holland tractor with wheels that has a mower and brush trimmer.  We have 2 Dubie drags, an Arrowhead drag, and a Sno-Boss drag.  In addition, the maintenance crew fabricated 3 new rollers this past summer for packing trails.

We have found them to be the best choice and the most versatile for our grooming conditions. Farm tractors are more suited for trails in open areas and fields like in the southern part of the state.

Having one brand of groomer allows our operators to be familiar with the controls and the handling of the equipment no matter which machine they are assigned to. It also aids with familiarity and commonality of maintenance, repairs and spare parts.

The current equipment is in great condition, however not all the groomers are capable of traversing all of our trails. Our long-term goal is to have a fleet of groomers that are versatile enough to take the place of each other should one break down.  This would allow us to access 100% of our trails with each piece of equipment. 

Fortunately, we have had few major break-downs over the years mainly due to the preventative maintenance that is performed on the machines each year.  The crew is capable of repairing almost everything that we have encountered so far which keeps repair costs for a factory technician to a minimum. 

The equipment committee and board of directors are open to the idea of procuring used equipment depending on price, age, and condition should the right deal come along.

We have 2 tractors, the smaller one is wheeled and dedicated to mowing operations and trail maintenance.  The second machine is tracked and does mowing in the off-season and grooming in the winter months.