Since we’ve had a decent winter for once I have been x-country skiing everyday. Most days I take my old skis out and x-country traditionally but if the snow is packed I will take out my skate skis and zip around the course I have around my house. I have about a 2.5 mile loop that I use. Does anyone know of a groomer I can pull behind a tractor to put down the cordorouy (sp?) for skating? I have thought of using a heavy cylinder used to flatten sod or baseball fields but I would like to get a real life cross country groomer if I can find one. thanks
I entered snow groomers into Google and received a lot of results that look promissing.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=snow+groomers
nowadays there are the very nice yellowstone and tidd tech products. i use both and they are great.
years back we would have guys make rollers out of culvert pipe and welded angle iron and they actually work pretty good.
an even cheaper way that works surprisingly well in most conditions is an old box spring. hitch is up and drag it around. you might be surprised. we had one that was actually two box springs wired toghter and that worked really well for years once we got thebalance down and got it to stop digging in on one side.
your biggest problem might end up being the tractor - no grooomer will cover up the wheel tracks. snow machine.