Snowmobile Hall of Fame Round Up 2019

[bambam00]

Hi Everyone: HUGE Thank You to all that attended Snowmobile Hall of Fame Saturday & Sunday events !!! Great to see the large turnouts both days, weather could not have been better. ;D

To all SHOF members, Friends & Snowmobile folks, We have a HUGE building that will house tons of Racing & History of our Sport, Any Snowmobile minded person should be proud of the SHOF building that we all will get to share for now & well into the future !!!

Thanks from Myself, SHOF board & Jamie Craig Marchbank Pres. SHOF

[400brian]

I hadn't attended the Round-up since 2013 because of conflicts with farming. However, I made the trip this year, and was glad I did!

Great to see the new addition getting finishing touches, and the displayed sleds no longer being so packed together.

Great to hang out with the JD gang, and of course parts and stories were swapped.

Picked up a windshield for the wife's sled to replace the one that she kinda destroyed last Feb.

[JoeRainville]

We had a great turn out of JD guys at this years HoF open house and Classic Sled Roundup. Was it ever nice to see the new addition dedicated. A lot of positive momentum and changes under Craig and Tom since late, great Loren asked me if I was interested in a seat on the board in the summer of '13.

It was good to see Lindner sneak off the farm again for the first time in 6 years. Brock Webber, Matt Gabbler, Grumpy Heins, Chuck Moser, Brad Wheelock, Brian Lindner and Don Amber were all seen around, but for some reason, we never thought to do a group pic.

Brock brought the mother load of NOS Deere parts with him, which I found a few more parts for my NOS 80's Liquifire "NOS Sled" in, including handlebars and a few small things. I also picked up what looks to be an NOS 74 JDX-6 motor. Its a CCW KEC400/22 motor, never been ran, that will be a nice addition to the NOS motor collection.

It was great to see all you guys again, and thanks for the help loading up the 76 CCC parts sled Brian!

-Joe

[400brian]

Ah yes, the CC cat loading. About 8:00 pm Saturday night, Rainville decides he needs to go pick up 2 sleds and a pile of assorted junk. Brock and Matt wisely decided to go out for a steak supper rather than get involved with this fiasco.

The 2 sleds were east of Eagle River, and we met Adam Luebner on the way over, he had decided to not hang around either. The sleds were sitting behind a garage. A quick inspection revealed them to be utter junk!

The sled we loaded had sat in the dirt so long that the skis were rusted in half. Normally, you would lift the skis up onto the tailgate, then lift the rear and slide it in. THE SKIS WERE GONE! This wasn't going to work! The guy really didn't have much stuff laying around for us to work with. I found 2 strips of plywood, and a rectangular pallet. If you look in the above photo, we have the plywood under the skis kinda, this is to help slide the leaf springs up onto the tailgate, and try to prevent depreciating the tailgate and bed liner of Rainville's new $70k truck!

By the time that photo was taken, we had things pretty much in hand. we had the ski remnants on the tailgate without anyone losing a finger, and the pallet on edge was holding the rear in line with the truck. At that point we just slid it in. THEN, he wanted to load another one just like it into the truck as well, only backwards! This is where I called bullshit on the whole plan, there was no way we could do that with 2 people.

We tossed in a NOS tunnel, a proto hood, 2 exhaust systems, and other assorted junk. If it sounds like I really wasn't into this, then you are getting my point! If we had been loading 340/S parts or sleds, I would have been all for it, this junk, not so much.

We finished this project in the dark, and stopped at the Eagle River McDonald's drive thru for supper on the way back. When we got to the motel, Adam tells us that the guy has a forklift sitting in the garage, and it wasn't locked. I suggested that information like that would have done us more good if we had known it when we were there! I drive a skid steer loader every day. I think I could have figured out a fork lift! If I had stuck a fork through a sled it wouldn't have made them worth any less, Rainville's truck would have been the only thing to avoid.

Sunday night, long after I left for home, Rainville and Adam went back over and used the forklift to dump the second sled onto Joe's truck. If it fell off on the way to Texas, I sure wouldn't have went back to pick it up.

[jep_800]

That didn't look like fun with two guys. When David's 800 went down that his buddy Jim was driving on the Bogie Bash, we left it at our lunch stop just north of Eagle River. David and I drove over there with my pickup to retrieve it afterward, but we enlisted the help of a husband and wife to heave it in the back of the truck. I can't say I'd like to do that on a regular basis, much less a heavy pig like that 76' CCC.. good thing they weren't Dator's, but then you may have been more apt to help... I agree 340/s would have been better!

Jason