ReMan
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| posted on 4/2/12 at 08:57 PM |
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Snow Emergency
Told my daugter I'd take her sledging tomorrow
But I havn't got a sledge 
Tesco's will be sold out for sure
I'm too beered to make one
What alternatives do you use?
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fullpint
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| posted on 4/2/12 at 09:04 PM |
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A nice thick plastic water tank or plastic sheet (again nice and thick). Next doors shed door and just bolt on two runners 
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austin man
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| posted on 4/2/12 at 09:05 PM |
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Kitchen tray, bin liner, tyre inner tube,
Life is like a bowl of fruit, funny how all the weird looking ones are left alone
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BigFaceDave
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| posted on 4/2/12 at 09:05 PM |
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I have been informed that a upturned car bonnet is also very good if you have one kicking about 
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CRAIGR
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| posted on 4/2/12 at 09:05 PM |
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Car bonnet. Well fast but bloody dangerous
Kayak but much the same as above.
[Edited on 4/2/12 by CRAIGR]
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ReMan
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| posted on 4/2/12 at 09:11 PM |
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Think next doors car bonnet willl be a bit dangerous with other peoples about
Keep em coming, i'm off to the kitchen
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blakep82
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| posted on 4/2/12 at 09:11 PM |
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Did some girl not end up with a broken back from sledging on a car bonnet? Think it was on video too. Paralysed :-(
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spiderman
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| posted on 4/2/12 at 09:17 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by BigFaceDave
I have been informed that a upturned car bonnet is also very good if you have one kicking about
A35 bonnet was the best sledge I ever had. Although it may be a little scary for a young one boy or girl, very fast and not much in the way of
steering, just launch yourself and hang on for an adrenaline fuelled ride. Just make sure there is plenty of stopping room at the bottom of the slope
without any obstructions. There are plenty of horrific stories of people who have collided with obstacles at the end of a slope even ones of
decapitation of lads going through a barb wire fence.
Be save and have fun.
Spider
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stevec
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| posted on 4/2/12 at 09:21 PM |
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Wheely bin lid ?
Steve
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 4/2/12 at 09:40 PM |
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One of them plastic emergency sleeping bag things, possibly still available in camping shops? Not used one (and that was for sledging) since the early
nineties
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afj
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| posted on 4/2/12 at 09:54 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Ninehigh
One of them plastic emergency sleeping bag things, possibly still available in camping shops? Not used one (and that was for sledging) since the early
nineties
Bivvy bag. Car bonnets are good but locally two girls went through a barb wire fence at speed. Pretty sure that was the end of them
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skydivepaul
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| posted on 4/2/12 at 10:32 PM |
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Beware the car bonnet or other parts to make a sledge
I never will forget my mate when I was a kid. His dad made him a sledge from dexion shelving for the seat and a mini bumper cut in half for the
runners
Awesome looking thing and weighed a tin. We dragged it up the hill and he went down like a rocket.
Straight through a barb wire fence at the bottom. He got away with 4 stitches to the chin
The sledge was mothballed after that
Safer bet is a thick poly bag or tea tray
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zilspeed
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| posted on 4/2/12 at 10:40 PM |
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Thick black bag.
You won't go very fast and will fall off at low speed before it all goes wrong.
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skov
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| posted on 4/2/12 at 10:55 PM |
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My best mate and I 'borrowed' his dad's windsurf board to use as a sledge when we were nippers.
It worked great, and we could fit at least half a dozen of us on it at a time
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loggyboy
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| posted on 4/2/12 at 11:03 PM |
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2ftby 4ft of 22mm chipboard, 2x 50x50 timber bars, curtain rail, £20 and an hours work.
And will last for donkeys yrs.
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ReMan
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| posted on 4/2/12 at 11:08 PM |
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Curtain rail, hmm I like that
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JoelP
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| posted on 4/2/12 at 11:11 PM |
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the recent fatal one was 4 kids on a landrover roof. Moral - dont make it too good.
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ReMan
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| posted on 4/2/12 at 11:15 PM |
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What about stiff rubber backed carpet, would that work?
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monck
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| posted on 5/2/12 at 01:27 AM |
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i used a car bonnet today very fast and dangerous 
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owelly
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| posted on 5/2/12 at 10:25 AM |
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Fert bag. We grew-up knowing nothing else and when we got older, we found it hilarious that folks were BUYING plastic sledges.
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Peteff
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| posted on 5/2/12 at 10:39 AM |
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When I was a lad and lorries still had fibreglass cabs we had the roof off one as a sledge and in summer it turned into a boat
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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wilkingj
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| posted on 5/2/12 at 11:17 AM |
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Stay away from the metal objects. What with hard pointy bits, with hard or sharp edges, at speed and soft human flesh are not a good combination.
Car bonnets (as sledges) are like Se7ens. They need to be treated with the greatest of respect, and are not something for the kids to play with.
As so often said on here... When they bite back they BITE HARD.
Enjoy... but think about safety, especially where the kids are concerned. (That includes the BIG kids amongst us )
1. The point of a journey is not to arrive.
2. Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.
Best Regards
Geoff
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ReMan
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| posted on 6/2/12 at 11:09 PM |
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A good time was had, as can be seen a bonnet would not have been appropriate!
A Small t-tray type slege and an old shower curtain were used.
Will build one next weekend, that will put paid to any more snow in 2012
 
SNOWWW
[Edited on 7/2/12 by ReMan]
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 7/2/12 at 07:30 AM |
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That and I wanted some snow round here will guarantee there's none this year!
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swanny
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| posted on 7/2/12 at 09:55 AM |
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i have a huge fisher fury bonnet bulge that you can have if you want for next time it snows!
just sat in my garden at the moment.
paul
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