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DopeSauce
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Okay, I live where it doesn't snow, but we got an indoor snowdome down the road, and the park there kinda sucks a lot of the time, so me and the rest of the people I ski with are bored. It costs $250 to get a trailer and car full of snow from the snowdome (that's what they charge) to set up an urb. Of course, $250 can add up, and is there andy kind of snowmaking machine that like 8 of us could pitch in to buy so that we could hit urbz all the time? Any advice would be appreciated.
Jan 15 2007 3:47AM
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grams.
Posts: 7406 - Karma: 186
at home snowmakers are pretty easy to make i think...and you can buy some online from around 35-75 bucks, PM Snowcase and ask him and he'll give you a site, wouldn't it be hard to make snow right where you want your urban though?..w.e it would be good for backyard though and shit...theres alotta threads on this also
Jan 15 2007 7:47AM
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LostValleyPowMan
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ya there definitely is for like under 1000$...i don't know the names of any... try googling it
Jan 15 2007 7:52AM
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philipc
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you can get some for under 100, but you need it to be colder than 28 farenheit or 0 celcius, and you also need a air compressor which can run rather expensive
Jan 15 2007 8:06AM
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socktrooper
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go to www.snowmakers.com and check out there forums
Jan 15 2007 8:55AM
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steevner
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250??? thats really steep! just go to your local arena, its free!
Jan 15 2007 10:12AM
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tribefan226
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dude go to www.snowathome.com. it made one from their plans last year for like $80 and it works pretty good when the conditions r good
Jan 15 2007 12:56PM
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skiRay
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^^ i am gonna try that...
Jan 15 2007 1:20PM
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ski.trees
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hey what about a power washer? could u use one of those
Jan 15 2007 1:38PM
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396222687862
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deffinitly just go to your local ice rink and take their zamboni left over snow for free
Jan 15 2007 2:25PM
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tribefan226
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u gotta mix it w/ compressed air though. plus u gotta make it spray out of a really small nozzle or else it will just make ice
Jan 15 2007 2:31PM
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Canuker
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ive seen some for like 75$
Jan 15 2007 3:30PM
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DopeSauce
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Yeah well Thats a good point about how I could get it to the urbans, and the weather here is always really warm anyway and snowaathome says it needs to be under 2degreesc C. I could wait until winter, then maybe hit some in the morning when it gets to around 2c
Jan 15 2007 3:39PM
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