A Sled Maker's Journal

A toboggan full of family!

The toboggan is an ingenious snow sled. Flat boards held together with crosspieces and on one end, the boards are curled over 180 degrees so it can climb on top of snow and over obstacles. It perf...

There is a definite correlation between snow on the ground in December and families having a toboggan under the tree for the holidays. While some may grumble when the white stuff starts piling up ...

The Technology It is doubtful that the first sleigh makers used a term like “technology,” but they certainly understood its meaning and developed methods and found materials that provided them wit...

"BWCAW Winter camping trip from 2011. We all caught our limit of lake trout. The toboggan worked great over the lakes and through the portages." JR Bradley   NTSled Hand Toboggan   Save

Sometime after the toboggan or "flat sled" arrived on the scene, experimentation began with runner sleds. The need had arisen for a more rigid sled that could support a heavy load on narrow runners...

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 toboggan or hunting sleigh was likely to have been the first wooden winter sled used in Northern Canada. We believe that the first toboggans were long, flexible, narrow, and pulled by hand. A ...

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...