Snowmobile
A snowmobile is a motorized vehicle used for travelling over snow. It is like a car, only instead of wheels, it has treads. Some snowmobiles have skis in the front for steering.
Adding snowmobile studs to the tread decreases the time and distance it takes to stop a snowmobile. Once you make a decision to stop a snowmobile, the distance it will take to stop will be a combination of the speed of the machine, weight of the machine and the available friction and or the mechanical damping (which will equal the effective drag factor) between the snowmobile and the surface on which it is trying to stop. If the surface is icy or hard-packed, the mechanical damping portion of the effective drag factor is decreased, leaving you with only the friction provided by the tread to stop.
Snowmobile studs made from steel or stainless steel with carbide tips are installed in the tread. The studs are designed for specific terrains in varying lengths, shapes and materials. The studs control acceleration, deceleration and maneuverability. The correct amount and type of stud installed in an effective pattern will produce the best traction results.
Snowmobile Media
A snowmobile tour at Yellowstone National Park
First person view of a snowmobile driven through Yellowstone National Park.
Harry Kalenze, inventor of the Vehicle Propeller
1921 Ford Model T snowmobile
Motor sled powered by a Coandă ducted fan
Snowmobile running on the Mississippi River near Hastings, Minnesota, 1910
Nicholas II Packard Twin-6 with Kégresse track
Early Bombardier Snowmobile
The interior view of a 12 passenger Bombardier B-12 Snowmobile, this is a 1951 wood bodied model.
Airplane-engine-powered skimobile taxi in Red Lake, Canada, 1937
Snow mobile race in 1979, Dutch newsreel
