Ranch country · Scheduled visits · $75 trip fee
Meeteetse Small Engine Repair on a Schedule That Works
Meeteetse is about an hour from Powell, so it isn't a drop-in stop. Visits are scheduled ahead of time and ride along with Cody days, which keeps the trip fee fair and the arrival time predictable.
Ranch generators come first
Out here, a generator isn't just for power outages. It runs a well at a remote pasture, lights a calving barn at 2 a.m., or keeps a stock-tank heater going in January. A generator that won't start in calving season is a real problem, so service them in fall or early winter. Routine maintenance keeps them ready to start; if you want output tested under load, that's repair work we can add with your OK.
Long ranch lanes mean big snowblowers, too, often two-stage machines with electric start that get worked hard and stored wet. Shear pins, auger bearings and frozen chute cables are the usual suspects.
Why there's a trip fee, plainly
The drive is about two hours round trip from Powell. The $75 fee covers that drive time at roughly our hourly rate. If two or more Meeteetse places book the same day, everyone pays $50 instead. Talk to the neighbors, and if enough people want it, we'll set a regular monthly Meeteetse day.
A little local color
This is the Greybull River country, home to the big ranches like the Pitchfork, and Meeteetse is known as the place black-footed ferrets were rediscovered in 1981. The machines out here work hard, and so do the people who own them.
Common Meeteetse calls
- Ranch and well-site generators before calving season
- Two-stage snowblowers for long ranch lanes
- Lawn tractors at headquarters and in town
- Multi-machine ranch visits (one trip fee per address)
- Neighboring ranches splitting one south-of-Cody day
Meeteetse questions
Why is there a trip fee to Meeteetse?
Can neighbors share a visit?
How do I book?
Meeteetse runs on Cody-day routes heading south. The North Fork corridor the other direction is covered on the Wapiti page. Request a Meeteetse visit.
Rolling Ratchet is Daniel's mobile small engine repair truck out of Powell, Wyoming. Services: snowblower repair, lawn mower repair and generator service.