Hand Tote Sled

Hand pulled tote sled. This style was made in our area. Children of my father’s generation used this type of sled. In my generation people did not make their own but started buying the wooden board toboggan type with the curled up end at Western Auto. An old man in town built this for my father
when he was 6 or 7 year sold.

This sled may be off topic, but this same style sized up was used with horses to haul dunage into wood camps or hovels during the season. This sled was sized to track well behind you in a snowshoes trail. This sled had a hard life with my father, his brothers, sister, and then with his kids. I have very fond memories of this sled being used to go on ice skating parties and being whipped around by the older kids on the ice. Many a trip with friend’s towing this with our dunage ice fishing. Ah I can taste the potatoes fried in bacon grease right now, golden crispy brown.

This style works well as you can tie anything on anywhere and when you get there you have a great seat off the ground. Spent a lot of time sitting on this next to the fire waiting for the flags to go up. Sled got most of its damage being towed behind a brother’s snow sled. We hit a hardware snag in the bob and pulled this out to work on.

The metal runners are bolted on with a special screw that looks like a wood screw but is flat on the bottom. It was made to fit in the countersunk holes in the metal runner. I looked around on MSC’s web site to see if I could find some no luck.
Anyone know if they still make these and what the name of them would be? A name would narrow my search down.