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SVcummins · Jan 25, 2019

A John Deere snowmobile tonight after work I found this neat old safety video on YouTube

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rrlund · Jan 25, 2019

I had a JDX4 Special. That was one of the black ones. The remains of it are still out in the lean to on the corn crib.

grandpa Love · Jan 25, 2019

Hey SVcummins, you see my " hey SVcummins" post below?

SVcummins · Jan 25, 2019

Yes Kevin I saw that I am about 2,5 hours east of Pocatello

SVcummins · Jan 25, 2019

I have always wanted to get one to go with my John Deere 4 wheeler I missed out on a John Deere snow blower then I?d like to find a John Deere tiller

grizz02 · Jan 25, 2019

don't you mean west, I thought you were close to Boise

paul · Jan 25, 2019

I?ve got a jd 300, I think everything on it is original, I ran it 2 years or so, then we didn?t get winter for a couple years and then I lost interest. The gas line plastic shattered, I?m sure the track is stiff. But man it really didn?t get used much.

My neighbor got a 400, we rode around a while those 2 years. He was always mad that I could beat him since he had the bigger engine, he even worked on his engine some and it didn?t help.

He wasn?t much for reading, I never did tell him the 400 was geared different for towing a sled so it never would wind up enough to catch me......

Paul

greg oliver · Jan 25, 2019

SV Cummins, My first snowmobile was a JD 400. Good old sled my and my neighbor had a JDX carcass with a good track I used for my sled. My buddy Randy had a brand new Liquifire, man that was fast in the day. My friend Kevin bought the new Spitfire I wanted, Oh well I just didn't have enough money! That was around 1980 and things aren't much different today! lol

Kansas4010 · Jan 25, 2019

My mom has a tiller like this one. I have a Kubota walk behind.

Hayfarmer · Jan 25, 2019

back in the mid to llate 70s I worked with a guy at the dealership here who raced JD snomobiles(when we used to get enough snow to do it) I think he had a liquifier at the end. seemed like a pretty good machine. I think JD may have sponsored him with it.

rrlund · Jan 25, 2019

X4 was 340cc. I'm thinking the X8 was a 440.

rusty6 · Jan 25, 2019

A friend of mine had a 400 and we made a lot of miles trail riding in the 70s and 80s. Me on my Kawasaki Sno Jet. Later he got a Sportfire. My brother still has a 340 Cyclone. Much like my Kawasaki, sitting in the shed needing a little TLC. But we have not had what I consider good snow conditions for a long time. This is some video of me crusing with the old Astro 340 back in 1990.
Sno Jet 1990

jon f mn · Jan 25, 2019

The late model JD snowmobiles we're made by Arctic cat. I'm not sure about the early ones. One of my brothers had a jd, but I don't remember what model it was.

gab · Jan 25, 2019

I still have a pristine 79 Yamaha special twin 300. Drug it out a few years ago, drained the tank, cleaned the carb, washed/waxed it and was going to sell it, drove it around the yard a few times and parked it back in the shop.

Old weldor · Jan 25, 2019

I owned 5 different JD snowmobiles, including a liquifire made in 84. I?m not disputing you but this is the first time I ever heard Artic Cat made John Deere?s snowmobiles. My 84 had a Kawasaki engine!

jon f mn · Jan 25, 2019

Arctic cat used Kawasaki engines before going to Suzuki, then their own. I'm not sure of the years tho, and it may have just been some part of the sled that they used. I was pretty young then, so I may be remembering wrong.

rusty6 · Jan 25, 2019

(quoted from post at 17:02:39 01/25/19) The late model JD snowmobiles we're made by Arctic cat. I'm not sure about the early ones. One of my brothers had a jd, but I don't remember what model it was.

As far as I know there was no connection between Arctic Cat and John Deere snowmobiles other than that they both used Kawasaki built engine for a few years. John Deere built their own machines.

SVcummins · Jan 25, 2019

rusty6 John Deere built the snow machines at the
horicon works

SVcummins · Jan 26, 2019

That?s a neat roller I?d like to find one some day . I didn?t know kubota made a tiller

Bruce from Can. · Jan 26, 2019

My Dad bought a brand new JD Trail Fire 440 to ride to his favourite ice fishing spots. I rode it a few times, and it didn?t seem very fast, but it worked well enough.

Bud Sather in MT · Jan 26, 2019

I bought a skirole (sp?) that was made by the Coleman company. My brother raced it for one year and it was very competitive. He took it to West Yellowstone, Mt and placed in one of the events. It was a 440 RTX. The next year it was less than average but I rode it until the metal was so fatigued I finally recycled it. I still have the sachs engine, but what for I do not know. Bud

rusty6 · Jan 26, 2019

440 used to be as big as they got. I started out with a single cylinder 295 Sno Jet. Moved up to a much better 340 twin. Picture from February of 77. Me and little brother out on the 2 "jets".

Bruce from Can. · Jan 26, 2019

I understand the Yamaha?s with the round head light are highly sought after by collectors.

gab · Jan 26, 2019

I don't know anything about the snowmobiles any more, be 70 years old in a month and plowing the drive way is way more winter sport than I want. Would like to know if my Yamaha was worth anything though, should be in nice shape, has a nice track with new slides. Kids used to ride it around the yard and the neighbors pasture but not for over fifteen years.

oldtanker · Jan 26, 2019

Way back when I wanted a JD Liquidfire. Just wasn't home often enough to justify it.

Rick

Kansas4010 · Jan 26, 2019

This is mine. It's a heavy duty machine. My mom's little JD tiller threw a rod when me and my sister were younger. My dad refused to get a different one. He figured us kids were old enough to use the push cultivator. The little JD is still sitting in the junk pile.

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