{"id":2553,"date":"2008-01-08T16:48:32","date_gmt":"2008-01-08T10:48:54","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-01-09T12:23:05","modified_gmt":"2008-01-09T06:23:05","slug":"homemade-sled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/homemade-sled\/","title":{"rendered":"Homemade Sled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nGood sleds are hard to find these days. Might be liability issues, since a fast sled can be dangerous for little kids. You can make a dangerous fast sled using an old pair of skis and a plastic tub &#8220;sled.&#8221;&#160; Jeff Potter, chief blogger at on <a href=\"http:\/\/outyourbackdoor.com\/article.php?id=876\">Out Your Backdoor<\/a> wrote to me with instructions:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/124946_sled.bardy.jpg\" height=\"266\" width=\"400\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"124946 Sled.Bardy\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMy brother Tim created a neat homebrew sled design. I made a couple of them for our kids for Xmas. What you do is take a plastic tub sled ($10 hardware store) and screw a pair of XC skis to the bottom of it. You can also use downhill skis&#8212;better for rough use. You can add a spacer of 1&#215;3 firring between sled and ski to get some height for floating better over fresh snow. Use short, stout screws, Gorilla Glue (expands) and big washers to avoid pull-thru. Then glue foam-padding into the inside. This sled runs straight, smooth and far. Definitely the fastest on the hill. You&#8217;ll be a big hit!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nIt&#8217;s dangerous because you can&#8217;t steer. But it&#8217;s fast. Pictures and inspiration were found on Out Your Backdoor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good sleds are hard to find these days. Might be liability issues, since a fast sled can be dangerous for little kids. You can make a dangerous fast sled using an old pair of skis and a plastic tub &#8220;sled.&#8221;&#160; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/homemade-sled\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[93],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}