On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 14:31:38 +0000, Mike Clarke wrote:

The Medway Handyman wrote:

The plastic sledges seem faster. *Is the idea to have narrow runners or
are you better off having wider ones to ride on top of the snow?

That depends on if you have the right sort of snow or not. If it's soft and
squashy then wide runners are probably best but if it gets frozen hard then
narrow ones would be better.

Last one we had was the only one locally that would run on an inch of fluffy
snow.
It was a sheet of varnished ply (can't remember th dimensions as it was
about 50 years ago) with thin ply nailed under the front end and held up in
a curve with string. A small length of pointy batten in the middle of the
back end would have made it easier to steer (like a skeg) but not on such
shallow snow.
It went rather fast and took some controlling to stop it turning and acting
as a shovel.
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