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x3 on the dumpster lid. We used to pull them behind the fourwheeler in a hay field. lol

Gosh, this brings back some memories...
Had about 5 inches of snow in Tuscaloosa when I was in school there in the late 70s.
Well, we had a guy in the Frat house that was kinnda like Bulushi in Animal House....

He pryed the big sliding door of off the dumpster, tied a rope to the handle and was pulling folks around behind his Big Dirt Bike.
You had to wear a helmet with the face shield to keep the snow out of your eyes.

Loads of fun

God Bless you

cardboard boxes work well until they get real wet

I constructed one last night in a pinch. I took four scrap 2' (roughly) sections of 2 x 4 and 2 pieces of plywood about 4' long and 2' wide, an eye bolt with a pointed end (for self tapping into the wood) for attachment of the rope, and a piece of pvc pipe for a handle and some rope. I'll try to post some pictures here in a little while.

In the second pic, you can see how the rear two 2 x 4's are standing up and the front one is flat...this is done to give it some rake?? I think it's called...anyway, it's to get the front end a little higher than the back end to keep it from wanting to plow through the snow and ride on top. In the 1st pic you can see where I screwed the eyebolt into the front and the rope attached. The 4th piece of 2 x 4 is on top of the sled and serves 2 purposes. One is to serve as something to put your feet against, and the other is that it is screwed down "pinching" the rope down that the handle is on. I screwed it down and tied knots in the ropes to keep them from pulling out under load.

The heavy duty plastic pallets work great too. I had two behind my tractor. Wife and kids had a blast!

A water scamp will hold three grown girls (wife and daughters), two labs and two house dogs and will flat hang some curves.....

does this make me a redneck?

road sign.. the long narrow ones. just bend the one end up and instant sled. knee board works too. if you went to the levee today, you saw all kinds of homemade sleds. most anything slick on the bottom will work. if its got some chines like a jon boat, it will help it go straight but that takes all the fun out of it.

grnhed wrote:

Bonehead wrote:In college we used the lid off of a dumpster... Hooked it up to truck bumper with ski rope and it was "on."

x2... these works great, just dont get caught stealing one!

x3. Those hills on the South Farm at MSU were fun for a full week.

randywallace wrote:x3. Those hills on the South Farm at MSU were fun for a full week.

we used to always hit the big hill behind the enology building (wine lab by north farm)....depending on how your sled dealt with friction, dictated how much you had to worry about crossing the gravel and abruptly stopping against the chain link fence around the treatment pond! big boys go faster and further!!

....for the best air - the double lipped hill behind the post office on campus!! that hill has knocked the breath out of many-a-lad....the second free fall is the one that gets you!

trash can lids, tray's out off the cafeteria at the student union, plastic lids off tuperware containers... just a few of the different items we used throughout college