Bombardier J5 *pics*

[BigGreenMachine]

Check out our lil monster. Got it a few years ago without a running motor and a rusted out cab. Picked up a rebuilt motor for cheap and built a steel framed plywood cab. Replaced the 6 rotted tires and tubes and a couple broken steel cleats. The track is in awsome shape as well as the body tub. Runs great. Its a inline six flathead Dodge pickup motor and a 3spd manual trans. First gear it will idle along pulling a 2dr Chev Blazer. Great machine in the woods.

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[MTS]

Man that is Frickin Wicked....my friend had a bigger one before...had a 351 cleveland in it...too bad it got sent to the junkyard it was Sweet..

[darrel632]

I think you'll only find us Canuks who know love and understand the thrill of a nodwell/bombi tracked vehicle. Are you sure those are'nt solid tires though?
I'll see if I can hunt some of the pipeline crews I was on mostly we ran 110's with a few 90's and 60's tossed in for good measure; as well we ran a Delta 40 and 60 in support which are high flotation 4 and 6 wheel articulate buggies
Cute little plow unit, bet the neigbors love you in the winter.

[Rm250RF900R]

Those bombadiar sidewalk plows are sweet. All the works. Nice heated cab for those cold winter nights. I'd love to take one of those out in the woods on a cold, snowy winter night. Never get stuck.. We were going to get one. But down here you can't touch one for less than $3,000.

[Billy Golightly]

Nobody will believe me, but when they were doing product testing for those flextrack nodwells, my dad was sent one for testing down in the Everglades in south florida where he lived at the time. He always talks about it and until a couple years ago I never got the connection because he always called them "Bomb Ba Deers":)

I wonder if I can find some pictures of that one they messed with. I'm pretty sure it was bigger then this one picture. Not sure what kind of motor and stuff it had.

[BigGreenMachine]

MTS, your friend had a Muskeg. They are brutes plain and simple, big V8s and 8 wheels instead of the 6 on this one. There are a lot of the Muskegs around here. A local company called Green's uses them on the polelines.

Darrel, the tires are airfilled. The solid rubber tires cost a bloody fortune.

RM250R, our J5 isnt a sidewalk sweeper m8. Those sidewalk sweepers are useless in the woods around here, they flop over in our trails. A local mill has one and they blow. Our J5 is over 6 foot wide.

The plow is sweet but not heavy enough for our needs. The summer we will be redoing the cab (it was just for the cold winter) and remaking the mounts so that we can push the plow into the ground via the hydraulic rams. Right now it just raise and lowers and is connected to a chain so it can *float* over the surface.

Also the mounts need to be raised so we can drive this thing in the country and not have to worry about digging the mounts into rocks and solid ground.

Billy, when I was down in Louisianna a couple summers ago I saw a neat tractor called the MarshMaster? Aluminum tracks and a body that had air pockets built in so it floats. That thing was bloody cool.