A Sled Maker's Journal

Man this is it!!! This is the height of the year for lots of folks living in Northern Minnesota. November… the “grey month” is upon us and the season is-a-changin’ outside. There’s been a cold win...

Being in the business of building larger goods, people often ask how we ship our products. While we have regional distributors in Northern Canada who stock our products and sell to their communiti...

Of the materials that go into our toboggan and sleds there is none more important than Red Oak. It is the traditional material that my mentor used, and it is the preference of our long standing par...

Well it seems that there are mixed reviews on whether or not we will see a decent snow fall for the season ahead. If there is one consistency we have had in our 19 years of wood toboggan and sled m...

It was in 1995 when Northern Toboggan & Sled was born through the guidance of my mentor Milton Chaboyer. It was he who taught me the techniques and craft of traditional toboggan and sled maki...

As I have mentioned before, the original toboggans of the North used babiche for fastening the crosspieces. Babiche is a cord or lace made by cutting long circular cuts in an animal hide. These da...

With the rising cost of propane and electricity we have been thinking about adding a gas heating stove to our living room hearth. The kind of gas stove that looks like a wood stove and you can see...

We’ve talked a little bit about how the toboggan has evolved in Northern Canada from a hand hauling sleigh to a dog sled and then to a towing sled for snow machines. The best I can find on when wo...

The fall time always seems busy busy, for almost everyone and creatures alike. In the shop its working on orders and building inventory, outside its cleaning up the gardens and putting away summer...