Preserving the history of the ski industry is important. We have learned a tremendous amount in the last 40 years of how to prepare the slopes and snow grooming is key to a great customer experience.
This 1981 DMC 3700 recently sold on our classifieds for only $2500. It spent the last 24 years in the south at Sky Valley, GA and then Scaly Mountain, NC. Scaly closed to skiing around 2000 and went to snowtubing only. Sky Valley (just a few miles south) closed around 2000 also and sold the cat to Scaly. The last five years, it was parked and not used. Scaly recently had the starter rebuilt, hooked up two batteries, added fresh fuel, and it fired right up! The crew was blown away that it sounded ready to work.
I delivered it to Raleigh, NC, of all places! Dale, the buyer, will be completely restoring it and then relocating it to his cabin in New Hampshire. I asked for pictures of the progress. A neighboring shop helped unload it with a forklift. The forklift operator John asked what it was. I told him it was a snowcat and showed him how the tracks look and what it does. He asked Dale if he was going to restore it and if he could help. John was super excited and ready to get started right away on it.
This cat came with a complete service manual from 1981. Old equipment doesn’t typically come with service manuals; this is gold!
If you have old service manuals, please don’t throw them away! Let me know what you have and I will pay for shipping or pick them up. I have a dream project to convert old manuals from anything in the ski industry to a PDF for all to use.
Sincerely,
Jason Sawin
Owner
CHS Snowmakers
