Haha! Most people are like “are you ok?” And thank you!
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to my capabilities of design, this is earth shattering…
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Thank you! Didn’t mean that to sound flippant. Just trying to be funny.
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You just need to make yourself a Dane Cart and put him to work 
It would work as a sled too I suppose.
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no worries, it was funny lol
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Love your sled. When I saw it—-instantly a great childhood memory pop up.
My childhood home sat on top of a great BIG hill. When it snowed all the kids and teenagers would bring their sleds. There was probably 50 kids from the neighborhood. No parents just kids having a great time. No helmets, kneepads or anything for protection. This was mid 70s to early 80s. My brother went down that hill hundreds of times. He NEVER got injured!!
UPDATE —- My brother purchased his home right next to our parent’s home. A few years back, he told me “My kids will NEVER slide down the hill— it is dangerous!”
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What a fun ride that would be…
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In the early 80s, the sleds were replaced with great big inner tubes. Sliding down the hill was awesome — walking back up through the snowy, grassy yards was strenuous.
After a few hours my parents and a few other parents showed up with hot cocoa for everyone.
The innocence of childhood never to be forgotten!
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Wow that is awesome!
We were tubing back in the 70’s on the snow and down the creek in the summer.
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My home is 40 miles away from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
In the mid-80s the snow tubes were now being used to go tubing in the mountains. I only did it two or three times. My father owned a landscape/lawn maintenance company that catered to large East TN. estates and I was working the entire summer.
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When the wife retires we are going to retire to the Smokies. We own a cabin on 3 acres just outside Gatlinburg. Cant wait to get there, The Mountains are Calling…
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It’s perfect! So when are you going to start offering a lifetime subscription to your files, like MakeCNC? 
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Back in the day the Coca-Cola signs were domed enameled steel discs, red with white lettering. There was a stack of the big ones, about 4 feet in diameter stored on edge nested together - right inside the open gate of the coke distribution yard… And there was a park right behind the place with a long sloping hill… Yeah, we did.
All 4 of us could fit in it.
The first run in the deep snow created a track. Every run after that was faster, soon like a bobsled track. Most fun I ever had sledding.
Watching Rick ride down his driveway, at once the family patriarch and still a child at heart gave me a big smile. If I only still had that coke sign I would ride it!
I have gotten looks from people flying my life in the neighborhood. 
If you grow up all the way something has been lost.
Nice scale reproduction of a childhood treasure there @designvh619! Thanks for stirring those memories!
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Gorgeous. It’s earth-shattering to me, because if someone said “make a sled”, I wouldn’t be able to come up with that. Super work!
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Well that is gorgeous! From your title I did not expect to see this little beauty. It is awesome!
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HAHA…Except I would be the one pulling. LOL
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I actually thought about that. I know people have had success on some of the subscription sites. Something to definitely think more about!
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Haha. Reminds me of my childhood. We lived out in the country on a dirt road at the top of a hill. I could hop on my sled after a good run and follow the road right to the edge of town. It even had a hill in the middle we kids named “the big hill” (something happened there cause the last time I saw it it was more of a hump) which, if the road was icy enough we could go right over and down the other side just with momentum. Unfortunately it was an unlighted road in the woods and a very long scary walk back for a little kid.
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Looks like the sled I had as a young boy
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