I pulled this wood sled by hand for years. My wife suggested hooking it up to the snowmobile. What a time saver! The stacks aren’t that far from the house, but there’s a small hill. And let’s face it, the snowmobile is faster than I am. We had the racks under the deck topped of quickly and we’re ready for the wind chill that rolled in yesterday evening/night. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Not much at all! Lightly snowed all day and maybe 3”. Definitely hit southern New England with more snow.
You will want to make a rigid tow bar for the wood sled. Using a snowmobile or ATV with these jet sleds is a game changer.
This reminds me of the old husky snow machines… looks like there are couple companies still making them in addition to Husky. kinda cool the bogies allow you to use them all year…
My brother who owns a place at Killington has reported multiple days not making it to zero the past few weeks. I'm sure you are going through the wood pretty good.
Jrider, Bingo! It’s been really cold lately up there. I’ve loaded a lot of wood into the Jotul. To the point, I have to start shoveling out coals to make room in the firebox. We’ve had our place there for almost 13 years, and I can’t recall this much consistently cold weather. I can’t complain though; it helps keep the snow intact. A ridged hitch has crossed my mind for that pull behind sled. Anyone have any pics of a setup?
Does your sled have attachment points like this one? If so, that's where you attach the one Warner posted, or this one, which is like mine.
Skier76, if you're cheap like me you can make your own 'hitch', cheap and easy. Get two equal length pieces of pvc, roughly 4'(or whatever length you think), thread the rope through the two pieces of pvc and leave enough room/rope on the end to attach it to your sled. (I hope that makes sense)
Great suggestions everyone! I was thinking this was something that would have to be fabbed up; not that I mind doing so. It's cool to see there are prebuilt options out there...along with some good homemade options. Has anyone put a strip of metal on the leading edge of the sled where you attach the hitch to? Seem that it may help with keeping the plastic from breaking or the holes egging out over time.
If your sled doesn't have the bosses like the ones on mine does, you might need to do that. I'd suggest a bracket that goes to the sides too and bolts on the front and sides.
I have pretty much the same hitch that Warner showed for my small sled and the Otter hitch for my large sled. Otter Shelter Tow Hitch - 670651, Ice Fishing Gear at Sportsman's Guide (sportsmansguide.com)
I don't have many , if any pics of our small sleds . I should take some now that I'm using my Maremma Sheepdogs to pull them. I've got to get some actual harnesses for them . At around 1 year old they are too full of p+v when I take them for their evening walks. And I've been sledding my daily firewood about 200 feet lately. I got my wife a Jet Sled Junior 6 or 8 years ago. It's brought in probably 14 cord of wood over the years. Still looks about like it did when new. About 4 or 5 years ago my wife got me a Shappel Kodiak Jet Sled. IMHO it's perfect. For me any way . I can easily put about 12 cubic feet of stove length firewood in it. And it's not too heavy to pull by hand. With 1 dog pulling it I have to walk fast to keep up. These still have their original ropes. The Kodiak has sledded in most all our firewood since she got it for me for a Christmas present. So, it's had at least 24 -26 Cord of firewood in it. Since we have snow on the ground for 7 months a year or more every year. These sleds are our carts and wheel barrows much more than our actual karts and wheel barrows ! Groceries, laundry, generators, ECT ECT and firewood. A steel hitch can be nice for some things. . And if you have hills , they are important. But they make it easy to break the sled. The rope thru the plastic pipe works very well and let's the sled wiggle around better when it encounters a hard object. You can get a bolt on hitch for the bumper of your snogo ( snowmobile ) As I'm not on hilly ground, I've always used rope bridals on my loggin sleds. Tho I built a ridged hitch for my current loggin sled.
