Mounting a Rack on runners?

It’s pretty straight forward. The one I built last fall was a little different from my old one. I used two 4″x6″ stringers between the standards (uprights) and just went across those with 2″x6″ plank. Easy. The dimensions on this one were 12’6″ long, 6’6″ wide. It worked out that lenght with the way I had the reach adjusted on my bobs.
The front edge of the rack comes forward to just a few inches shy of the evener pin, the back edge goes out to the end of my back runners.
Be sure to put blocks in front of and in back of your standards on your back bobs. Then be sure to anchor the sleighbed down to the back bobs so it can’t skip over the standards. I leave my front bobs loose so they walk over the rough ground better and you have a smoother ride. This is important for me as I go through a lot of swales and sagebrush, snowdrifts, etc.
My old sleigh was made different. An old guy that worked for my aunt taught us how to build them lower and lighter. We used stout 18′ lodgepoles for stringers, then came under those front and back with another stout pole 6’6″ wide, bolted underneath the stringers. On the outside edge of these cross members went another lighter stringer 18′ long, on each side. We then laid the floor on top of these 18′ stringers. For floor we used 1″x6″ winnie edge lumber.
By making the bed the way we used to it would actually make your sleigh bed lower than the way people usually make wagon beds, by about 6″ or more. This makes it super nice for picking ground bales off the haystacks.
My new sleigh is made lower from the runners to the standards anyway and is small enough that I didn’t feel the need to make it light. You can only fit a ton and a half on it, whereas the old sled I could put nearly three fairly easily. I hope this isn’t too confusing and I may try to post you some pictures of each so you can see for yourself.

I’ll try and get some tomorrow.

lost farmer is that sled something you made or is it manurfactured? looks like an awesome job. mink