J5 Bombardier Trailer

[mike_belben]

UHMW is real expensive and used commercial cutting boards is the way ive scored it cheap.  Those are about 3/8 and very tough.   Next best place has been a company that makes it for tablesaw fence covers, i cant remember the name of. Google will turn them up. 

[Quebecnewf]

Quebecnewf, what is the thickness of the UHMW you used for your sleighs? Also, who did you buy it from and what was the cost? I would love to see a picture of the runners on the bottom also and close up of the tongue and side attachment points. Thanks for the information.
Mountain.

Our sleighs are not made from UHMW. They are made from a product called puckboard . It's the same product that rink boards are made with. It's cheaper but not as strong as UHMW. It does the job for us but we have had some breakage . If and when these wear out ( sixth winter now) I am thinking I would go with UHMW now that I have all the bugs worked out on my system .sleds are 3/8 thick . Mine are 36" wide by 12 ft long . The runners underneath are short sections of UHMW . There are all different ways of doing the runners depending on your needs with regard to side slip. 



You can see an early version in this pic.
There are 4 sections of alum angle 3x3x16. The small runners are bolted up through the bottom into the angle alum. The cross bunk that the logs rest on is a 6x6 section of spruce that sits between the angle alum . They are bolted in through the alum with one 6" by 1/2" lag bolt.
The tow hitch is two sections of 6x7" flat steel bolted together with a tongue welded to hitch it to snowmobile .
This is my set up but there are many variations .you could scale this up to tow behind a bigger rig . They use much bigger rigs like this down in Anarticia .
They tow them behind large tracked tractors up to 400 hp so serious pulling power
Quebecnewf 
Quebecnewf

[Ljohnsaw]

They are made from a product called puckboard . It's the same product that rink boards are made with.

Probably still out there - On CraigsList a hotel down in Las Vegas has 200 sheets (3x7 IIRC) for $150 each.  They had a rink for some special show and now what to get rid of it.  Shipping might be an issue unless you can get a FF member or 6 to relay haul it ;)

[Quebecnewf]

7 ft not long enough but if you could join them that's a real good price .

Someone will snap it up for something . Most likely not forestry sleds though

Quebecnewf

[doc henderson]

If looking for a cheap source for occasional use sled or nose piece to pull a log, what about the 300 gallon plastic liners for construction totes.  I made a spray booth in my shop, and covers for the firewood in the metal part of the crates.  Pretty tough, and if can get it free might be ok for occasional use.  Like when Magic M gets snow. !

[Ljohnsaw]

7 ft not long enough but if you could join them that's a real good price .

Someone will snap it up for something . Most likely not forestry sleds though

Quebecnewf

They've been listed for over a month.  I'm thinking they are worth $20 ;)  At that price I'd pick them all up and make a 1,400 ' year-round bobsled run on my property! 8)