Sportsman 850 burnt up its toast

Whoa! That looks bad.

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I have seen pictures of sleds that caught on fire. Everything burns down to a little pile of ashes in the snow. About all that is left is the crankshaft, shock springs and small steel parts.The track and seat burn so hot it turns the tunnel into ashes, and all the plastics and gas burn so hot it melts the engine and bulkhead. You could put all that is left in a couple of 5 gallon paint buckets.

Nothing even left to salvage from your ATV. Hope you figure out how it happened and let us know so we may be able to prevent it from happening to others.

Hope you have good luck with your insurance and get a new ATV without to much trouble.

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I have never carried a fire extinguisher in an ATV. . I think that will be my new years resolution. I will get several and put one in each car and ATV. Wife's car has one but really old and probably needs replaced.

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I was thinking some one time use disposables for the ATV.

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"Taking a maintenance position in the city. I'm friggin done."

I worked for a municipality for 8 years. You are not going to distance yourself from cheap china crap. Municipalities buy from the lowest bidder and hires low bid contractors for anything they do. I spent most of my 8 years fixing or modifying what a low bidder installed. It always cost them more in the long run than if they would have bought quality instead of cheap.

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I hear ya. I was the machinist at a water treatment facility. We had a lot of old mechanical equipment that I rebuilt. That part I enjoyed, But, the city was always "upgrading" with modern electronic controllers trying to operate valves and pumps built in the 1930's. It was an automation nightmare. I also did boiler work. Lots of new electronic controls being added to old boilers these days too. Usually by the low bidder.

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