The Kentucky Horse Park has a display like that every year. I have gone through it a couple times.
Ezekiel 33 (11-05-2019), Quest (11-03-2019)
Ezekiel 33 (11-05-2019)
I cant imagine kids from warm country would even know what a sled is.
Trash can lid is creative. We never did that. Our favorite was bumper hitching during lunch break in high school.
My dad had me sit on a shovel, he would pull me around while I hung onto the handle. He enjoyed that more than I did. Farmers would take a junk hood of a car, flip it over, everybody jump in and be towed by the old John Deere.
Ezekiel 33 (11-05-2019)
Cool find! I love picking too whether its estate sales, yard sales or even some curb treasures like John recently posted. By chance were there any vintage blow molds there? Some are worth grabbing and reselling, there's quite a market for them especially this time of year.
FireBrand (11-05-2019)
FireBrand (11-05-2019)
My most exciting sliding experiences is on a toboggan. I had a 3-seater that a group of us high school guys took to Nub's Nob at night when the skiers were gone and before the groomers came out. We climbed "Scarface" which is the steepest gain this side of the Rockies. Brutal. It was a dare to see who chickened out first or just plain blown off the sled. The speeds were blinding, you could not breath. With good sense you would let go at the bottom before you hit the ski racks and lodge foundation. One guy didnt. He was never quite right after that. He came up from Indiana and stayed weekends with his folks our family friends. We also slid on cafeteria trays and a local invention call a "bumpjumper" from Petoskey. I had one of those.
Yes, tobogganing is the real deal, we had a dam with a steep slope that leveled and then went steep again, it was essentially a ramp system. Very few would go over the ramp, you would just be moving too fast so standard procedure was to ditch just before going airborne. One night 3 of of us decided to just do it, go full tilt off the ramp. The first two chickened out and ditched, my turn came and I just held it steady, I couldn't see anything about halfway down due to snow blowback so I just closed my eyes, relaxed and all of a sudden, whoosh, total silence, in the air. We landed nicely and I still couldn't see anything so I ditched it. But yeah, some of those rides are unforgettable.