Snow Going

Low-ground-pressure ATVs carry heavy payloads across Alaska’s fragile tundra with minimal impact.
Snow Going
A low-ground-pressure ATV, built by Busby Marine and owned by Peak Oilfield Service Co., hauls an 85,000-pound articulated water truck to a remote project near Cape Simpson, Alaska. The water truck is used for ice-road construction.

It’s difficult to imagine vehicles that can transport up to 100,000 pounds of payload on Alaska’s North Slope oilfields while putting a mere 14 psi of pressure on the environmentally sensitive tundra below its “bags,” or wheels. But that’s exactly what the two low-ground-pressure...

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