A Sled Maker's Journal

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...

My introduction to handcrafted toboggans and sleds came in about 1985, when my uncle, Fr. Raymond DesChenes of the Oblate Fathers of Winnipeg, Manitoba encouraged me to build toboggans for the Can...

Dad has always had a way with teaching. My brother and I have countless memories of learning of the goose migration, the conservation management of the many generations of forest, moral mushroom p...

“I have never seen anybody selling such high quality hand made toboggans.  I will gladly pass along your information to every jealous person who asks where the toboggan is from!” (Bill Grohs, Oxfor...

“Hi John, Thank you. We received the Toboggan today!  Let me rephrase that and say the BEAUTIFUL Toboggan.  Not that it exceeded my expectation because I really did expect it to be as wonderful a...

(Dave had just moved south from the high Arctic to Yellowknife NWT…) John, Just to let you know I got the toboggan tied on Saturday and took it out for a run on Sunday. I can’t say enough about the...

HELLO JOHN! Finally, we got to see the full power of the sled today.  Loaded with wood, it ran as if there was no wood in it.  Such a smooth, well built, device.  Our winter has been disappointing...

Hi John:  Picked up Toboggan today. Overland was very nice to deal with. I'm very, very impressed with the toboggan. Happy that I decided to make purchase. Keep up the excellent work. Will be sure ...

“Thanks John, It's really wonderful and I know they'll get many years of pleasure from it. I think it will become a family heirloom!” (Alby Silva, Centerville MA) DOWNHILL PRODUCT PAGE