On 2 Feb 2004, Jason G Tucker wrote:

I am very interested in building a traditional (mostly wooden)
kicksled. If anyone out there has blueprints or at least a fairly
detailed drawing and could post them or e-mail them to me directly I
would greatly appreciate it. Thank You J. G. Tucker Warren,Pa


Several years ago Tom Strang, from Ottawa, had a WWW site with plans
for a kicksled. Unfortunately the WWW site and Tom Strang have
disappeared. I tried e-mailing him, but my mail came back.

Lucky I saved his plans!

The plans included a text file (spark_bu.htm) plus about
20 picture files, totaling about 350 kbytes. I think I've got them all.
The easiest way so send all the files is to put them in one ZIP file.

Can you uncompress a ZIP file? I have temporarily put the ZIP
file at:
http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/dermott/ski/sparkbuild.zip

Download that file and "un-zip" it. It will create a
directory "build" with all the files. The main file is
"spark_bu.htm"

The project requires some blacksmith skills, bending the metal rails
for the sled runners. Tom said it was easy! But my propane torch isn't hot
enough. I was going to take the rails to a blacksmith or welder and have
them bend them.


Also, check out Jeff Potter's "rustic" kicksled:
"http://www.outyourbackdoor.com/articles2003/spark.sled.html"

Everything I know about kicksled at:
http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/dermott/ski/spark.html

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David Dermott , Wolfville Ridge, Nova Scotia, Canada
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WWW pages: http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/dermott/