Has anyone put front chains on a 2018 Yamaha Kodiak 700? There doesn’t seem to be a lot of clearance there.
Dont do it with stock 12″ wheels. If you upgrade to 14″ wheels it will be fine, the other option would be to put on some 1″ wheel spacers (4×110 pattern).
Otherwise the chain will hang up on brake components.
Jake, where are you located at? I would give TireWiz up in Buffalo a call, he has good prices and alot of tires for ATV’s on hand.
Overall I would recommend the Kenda Bearclaw HTR for a less expensive tire that works great.
Oh weird, I swear there were two or three posts above mine that are now gone. A moderator must have deleted them.
Otherwise I wouldn’t have re-opened a dead thread from two years ago.
I have a KDrill and I think its a good product but you need the right drill.
Just an FYI I am not going to recommend Ridgid at the moment, bought a new Gen5x (two of them actually, one 650in/lb and the other 750in/lb with 4.0Ah batteries).
They both have the same problem with the protection circuit kicking in even when I was only drilling 14″ of ice.
I have heard of others having similar problems, I have seen reviews where the Octane model with 6.0 and 9.0Ah batteries are running strong.
Next year I might sell the KDrill and get a Strikemaster Lithium, or possibly look at what DeWalt or Makita have to offer to replace my Ridgid.
I have been taking both the KDrill and my gas auger out this year. So far the electric is nice but have problems with it cutting out and glad I brought the gas auger with.
SuperWinch Terra35 Synthetic rope
100% satisfied with this winch.
I have Baffin Apex now, super comfortable, but they are huge. Dont try driving with them on, couldnt really feel the pedals and at times wound up stepping on the brakes and accelerator at the same time.
What the Superbowl was last night? I was watching something that put me to sleep around 6:30…
Yeah I saw your post over there and recognized the name as I watch IDO all the time, on a side note I really appreciate the time you guys spend analyzing lake maps it has helped me immensely to know what I am looking for.
I dont sell any ATV parts, just know how to work on them and am pretty active in helping my fellow Yamaha riders out. My Grizzly is more trail tuned and the Kodiak is more of a workhorse.
As far as your needs go (pushing snow, pulling sleds) I would look at 3 things:
CVT mods, tires and possibly adding a locker to the front.
CVT I would keep it simple and just do a 1.0mm shim and drop down to 20 gram weights. This will not affect your reliability at all as long as the primary is reinstalled correctly. Normally takes me about 2 hours but I would budget 4 hours, or if you are like me somehow you will be missing a couple tools and have to run to the local Fleet Farm or Home Depot… Cost is $3 for the shim, $28 for the tub of Ultramatic Grease, $80-120 for the weight set. It will give you about the equivalent of a 10% underdrive ratio.
Below is a good video on the process (other than using an impact wrench to tighten the primary nut, This needs to be torqued precisely to 100 ft lbs)
If done correctly your dealer wouldn’t even know you modded it unless they tore into the CVT for some reason.
Tire choices can get crazy, the stock tires are marginal in my opinion, plus with the clutch changes you can easily step up to true 26″ tires that will give you about an extra inch of ground clearance.
Then there is the front differential, front diff lock is handy to have but its also a good way to break a front axle. Put in low range with diff lock engaged and both wheels spinning is fun but if only one side grabs wrong the other side is still spinning and the torque has to unload somewhere… Factory diff lock reduces the power to prevent this from happening.
honestly I have only needed diff lock a couple of times (crawling over downed trees in the rain and also crawling up a slick rock incline)
Here is a pic of the Grizzly, The tires are about 27.5″ in diameter.
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Propane boils at -44F, this is where you could have an issue. The propane must be in a gas state to burn, too cold and it is a liquid and won’t burn. Also as you get close to that temp you will start to lose pressure which is also needed. There is a calculation of the amount of freespace needed in the tank for the btu of the furnace, an example is you can’t run a 150,000 btu torpedo heater off a 20lb tank for long, not enough free space and it sucks all the gas out until the pressure is 0 and it goes out.
100% correct.
The other factor besides freespace is surface area. The larger the surface area the more quantity can boil off into a gas state in a given time.
For example 20# and 40# tanks are the same diameter and so they technically have the same boil off rate. For example I have an 80,000 BTU burner that when above freezing it can run on the 20 or 40 tank fine, the 40 just gives more run time.
When it gets below freezing the boil off rate slows, then I run two 20’s in parallel that gives me twice the surface area.
This is why alot of 5th wheel campers will run dual 30 or 40 pound tanks so you can get decent surface area and run time, but yet small enough you can remove them and refill.
I will keep my list to fish that I catch without extensive travel.
Northern Pike
Trout
Crappie/Bluegill/Sunfish
Perch
Walleye
Bass, only when the water is cold
Catfish
I havent done it in years but growing up I liked smoked carp.
I wont keep any Muskies.
Also I wont keep fish if the water temp is above 72 or so, to be honest if its too high (above 76) I usually wont fish or I will do my best to catch and release as quick as possible.
I feel bad for the folks that live just North of me in Savage, about 5000 homes were without power. I made sure I had gas for the generator and extra oil in case of needing a change. Got lucky and didnt need it.
Dogs are not happy about going outside, pretty sure one of them will have an accident in the house at some point today.
Both vehicles didnt want to start, the Jeep was plugged in and that wasnt enough. Found out with Jeep/RAM/Dodge/Chrysler that have the proximity fob and button start you can step on the brake and hold the button down and it will keep turning over. After about 2 revolutions the Jeep fired up, the wifes car could hardly turn over and when I was about to give up it sparked to life.
Luckily other than that been doing ok.
Woke up to an error message from DirecTV saying there was no power connection to the SWS (whatever that is). Wife chewed me out via text for not paying the bill – umm it’s on autopay.
So now I get to call “customer service”
and talk to Habib in India where it is 117° and never drops below 70° and try to explain the issue. Looking forward to that as I do with any and all phone calls to communication companies.
SWS = Single Wire Switch, it is a device built into the LNA/LNB assembly (the thingy at the and of the dish that points back at the reflector. Since about 2012 they are built in, before that you had to run 4 individual lines to an external SWM that then broke out to the receivers. The SWS allows one wire to feed multiple receivers using a simple high frequency splitter.
It was not uncommon to lose power at temps below -20, what happens is the center conductor in the LNB has metal tabs that in extreme cold lose connection with the center conductor on the cable.
If I remember correctly it may give you an error that the splitter lost power, but the splitter is a pasive device and passes power from the receiver on port1 to the LNB on the dish.
I love the idea of putting the two flip over shacks side by side like that!
I run Amsoil Synthetic 0W-40 oil and carry a NoCo GB40 bump pack.
Packit Gourmet, Camp Chow, Mountain House, Outdoor Pantry, Good To-Go and other freeze dried foods can be easily done with a MSR or JetBoil boiler.
I usually keep about a weeks worth of meals on hand just in case. Easy thing would be to go to REI and check out all the backpacking/hiking meals. During the summer Fleet Farm usually has a pretty good selection on hand.
Pat, Jake and I were just talking today about a Red River cat show. I could see that happening. I expect we’ll also spend a lot of time chasing muskie and smallmouth on the Upper Miss and rivers in Wisconsin.
Heck yeah, there is even some interesting water between Savage and Mankato on the Minnesota river, probably too slow for a show, but I would check it out as its so close. If you google DTRO (His name is Darren) for his youtube channel there are some nice monsters he has pulled out of the Minnesota over the years.
I used to fish the Red a bit when I lived in Fargo, the fish get bigger the further north you go (Grand Forks to LockPort Manitoba), but exploring the area from Fargo to Grand Forks can be alot of fun as well. For me it was always like a light switch, either you had a day where it was turned on and was EPIC or the switch was off and didn’t catch much.
If you had a dewalt charger go bad due to a generator, I would throw that trash away. These drills and batteries are built to be used in the field and recharged under less then ideal conditions. I’d be very doubtful that it died because you charged it on the wrong genset. This is coming from a guy who has a huge set up tools and works in the field under crappy conditions day in and day out.
Other folks were having the same problem, it had to do with the square wave the inverter was putting out. Switching power supplies have a similar issue, generally linear power supplies are extremely forgiving. Linear power supplies are the old boat anchor supplies that weigh alot due to the large transformers they use and coils in the filtering section.
Traditional generator puts out a sine wave, it may vary between 55 and 60 Hz if your engine doesn’t do a good job maintaining its RPM’s and also the voltage will fluctuate some. 99% of most stuff is fine with that as most switching power supplies are rated to handle 100-240VAC at a frequency of 50-60Hz.
Inverter generators either put out a pure sine wave or a square wave (might be also noted as a “Modified Sine Wave”)
Pure Sine Wave = no problems other than sometimes you may get RFI on harmonic frequencies.
Square Wave or Modified Sine Wave = you can have problems depending on the combination of inverter and power supply.
I was only putting my experiences out there for others to read, I have seen power supplies from at least a dozen manufacturers (all high end and respected) fail because of dirty/garbage power over the last 20 years.
Go ahead and enjoy whatever generator you want, My experience in Inverter Generators have been the EU series from Honda has been great.
But if all you are going to do is power some lights and strobes on your ice house a cheap generator is all you probably need. Hell I remember for years just lugging a deep cycle battery around and then throwing it on the charger at home.
I would love it for bobber fishing, I used to throw out a bobber with worm or minnow and then cast with a second rod working jigs and spinners.
Managing all of the above mentioned different licenses for different technology will never fly. The logistics of it all would be a nightmare.
Easy solution:
#1: Reduce the limits on how many you can keep per day in conjunction with adding slots so big panfish are getting returned to the water and modify existing slots on other species.
#2: Make the two line rule to be when stationary (ice, shore, dock, boat when anchored)
Part of the trick would be to make the rules simple and make them statewide where possible.
Lets be honest GPS is here to stay, if they say you cant use GPS how do you police that, never will happen especially with things like the Navionics app on a phone.
Managing the limits on some of this would go a long way in helping our fisheries. I thought at one time we had a daily catch limit and a possession limit, when did that change?
Thomas, thank you very much, I used to spend a fair amount of time on Lida and West Silent when I lived up in Fargo a number of years ago.
Pelican is one of those lakes I have fished maybe 6 to 8 times, but just never produced for me. But it is a thought as I might be renting a place on Pelican when up there. I have never tried it ice fishing though.
I appreciate everyones input.
Not going to get in a pissin match here but I have had dirty power from a generator damage a few switching power supplies over the years. Plus I had a DeWalt 18v charger damaged as well.
That is not to say that it will always happen. inverters have improved over the years even the modified sine waves have gotten better.
The other thing that was more irritating was an annoying buzz I would get from the radio and occasionally the lights.
For me I need a generator to power sensitive computer and radio equipment (Sometimes over $6,000 worth of equipment), having the generator to use at camp or if I goto a fish shack is an added bonus.
All I can say is I have been very happy with my Honda’s and can recommend them to anyone.
Check out the following about 3/4 way down:
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Hondas have a real clean sine wave output, beware that not all inverters are the same:
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Some also use a square wave, some use a stepped square, some even use a jacked up triangle wave (not common) and then there is the sawtooth wave…
Pure Sine Wave costs 4x as much, but is 100% worth it.
Garmin now owns Navionics, I believe that they might have a lake card for the handheld Montana and Oregon GPS’s
I love my Nitto TerraGrappler G2’s 54,000 miles and great traction. Only downside is they were a lil noisy.
I have run Cooper Discoverer’s in the past as well and liked them.
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I have a Honda 2000W unit, works great, reason I went with Honda though was because I am a HAM radio operator and the Honda has the cleanest sine wave and does not cause RF interference with other devices.
10 years later it still runs great, but if I dont run it at least for 15 minutes every 3 months or so it is a B!+CH to get started. I should just set up a calendar reminder to go run and put some gas through all of the small engines every couple months.
Depending on where you are on the river, bring some orange cones.
A friend had his hub shelter ran into because a nutcase on a snowmobile came around a corner at 50MPH and didnt see it until it was too late. Luckily no one hurt bad, throw a couple cones around if you have a blind corner.
I have fished a few areas north of the bridge at Hendrum and Halstad, you almost need to go out in the summer/fall, run sidescan find the holes and then mark them on GPS. Finding structure on the ice is almost impossible on that river.
With that said, there are some beautiful walleye on the river if you can find them. Also you might hook into one heck of a nice Channel Cat up that way.
Welcome to my love hate relationship with flouro…
Love how it sinks, dang near invisible, no stretch.
Hate how it wants to come off the reel or make a mess of itself.
I only use it for leaders now, but I do know others that use it as main line.
In some cases it could be considered stiffer, I am sure someone here with a physics degree could correct me but I would say it definitely retains more memory. If it is straight and you coil it, it wants to go back straight, but once it conforms to the reel and you pull it off it wants to remain coiled…
and talk to Habib in India where it is 117° and never drops below 70° and try to explain the issue. Looking forward to that as I do with any and all phone calls to communication companies.