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Club's Equipments
The EOSC owns 3 tractors and industrial groomers. For the 2004-2005 season, we have registered 2745 hours of grooming and consumed over $16,000.00 of diesel fuel to maintain 435 kilometres of trails within the Counties of Prescott and Russell. Twelve (12) groomer operators are responsible to operate our equipment to maintain our trails in good condition, mostly during the night 5 to 7 days a week.
Our equipment is spread over three (3) sectors. The first sector is Hawkesbury-L’Orignal-Alfred and surroundings, and the equipment is stationed in L’Orignal. The second sector is Plantagenet-St-Isidore, stationed in Plantagenet and the last sector is Bourget-Casselman-Embrun, stationed in Clarence Creek.
Our equipment is an agricultural tractor with a track conversion kit that gives flotation and traction characteristics in winter conditions. The EOSC choice to use this type of groomer is more economic (25 to 40% less expensive at purchase time), compare to a conventional groomer like Bombardier, Tucker or Lamtrac. It is also fuel efficient, provides more flexibility for parts, service and resale value.
The EOSC’s newest tractor is a 2003 Massey-Ferguson, model MF 6270, with a 105hp turbo charge 6-cylinder engine, together with a groomer conversion kit from the manufacturer, Marcel Grooming Equipment from New Liskeard, Ontario. The tractor groomer unit was purchased at a cost of $128,000 in 2004 including a 5 year warranty on all electronics and power train group.
The second tractor is a 1999 Massey Ferguson model MF 4270, with a 100hp, turbo charge 6-cylinder engine, together with a groomer conversion kit from the same manufacturer.
The third and last tractor is a 1998 Massey Ferguson model MF 399 with a 95hp atmospheric 6-cylinder engine with the same kit and from the same manufacturer.
Since a decade, we own 3 groomers-drags that are 10 feet wide by 20 feet long, brand name “Mogul Master” manufactured by “The Shop” in Lively, Ontario (near Sudbury). This equipment cuts and removes the mogul signature in the trail, spreads the snow evenly and compresses it. This system builds a levelled snow compacted trail that isolate the snowmobile from the ground. The machine creates a flat and safe trail that snowmobilers can ride on. This groomer-drag retails around $22,000 a unit.
Equipment History
- Skidozer Bombardier SV252D
- Skidozer Bombardier SV301D
- Traded the Skidozer Bombardier SV301D for a 2555 John
Deere tractor with a groomer conversion kit and a 9 feet
drag. (Lemire de St-Bruno de Guigues, QC)
- Traded Skidozer Bombardier SV252D for a 6400 John Deere
tractor with a groomer conversion kit and a 9 feet drag.
(Local fabrication at Jacques Legault Welding, Casselman,
ON)
- Traded the John Deere 2555 tractor for a 6400 model and
keeping the same kit and drag.
- Purchased of a 9 feet Mogul Master drag for the first 6400
John Deere from The Shop Industrial, Lively, ON
- Purchased of another Mogul Master 10 feet drag, the year
after from The Shop Industrial, Lively, ON
- Purchased of a third groomer, a 1998 Massey-Fergusson 399,
6 cylinders with a Marcel Grooming Equipment (MGE)
conversion kit from New Liskeard, ON
- Traded the #1 6400 John Deere for another MGE kit on a
1999 Massey-Fergusson 399, 6 cylinders from MGE, New
Liskeard, ON
- Traded the #2 6400 John Deere for another MGE kit on a
1999 Massey-Fergusson 4270, 6 cylinders turbocharged from
MGE, New Liskeard, ON
(2nd picture on this page)
- Purchased of a third Mogul-Master 10 feet drag from The
Shop Industrial, Lively, ON.
- Traded the #2 1999 Massey-Fergusson 399 for a 2003
Massey-Fergusson 6270, 6 cylinders turbocharged with a MGE
conversion kit from New Liskeard, ON (1st picture on this
page)
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