And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
You should try a 1020 tractor trailer inner tube or a contractor bag. Uncontrollable is the essence of those. 4 people can fit stacked on a.1020 tube but 1 percent did wind up unconscious.
Helmet? That's something your mom says. Man up a little head trauma builds character. Hard life lessons remain in the brain way after the fuzzieness clears
Grade school buddy had one of the real (wooden) kind which his dad would just wax the shit out of, and we'd tow it to a golf course hill a few miles away, through 2-3 foot drifts and play with the guys riding those big ol' Coke signs.
We had aluminum round saucers with leather grip straps, toboggans, and whatever was around from refrigerator boxes to salvage auto hoods, nothing like that beaut shown above. The car hoods got roped to a 4WD pickup, go "mushing", same time bunch of us be holding onto the step bumper. UPS trucks were a solid target for mushing, have that nice low step platform. Think we never laughed so hard, it was good times had by all.
That looks way too safe and controllable. Tobogganing is fun because of the psychotic out of control speed and near certainty of a crash.
ReplyDeleteYou should try a 1020 tractor trailer inner tube or a contractor bag. Uncontrollable is the essence of those. 4 people can fit stacked on a.1020 tube but 1 percent did wind up unconscious.
DeleteThe problem with old-style wooden toboggans is, yes, they are uncontrollable, and yes, they don't withstand head-ons with big rocks & trees well.
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Steering wheel? How about seat belts and a helmet as well? Sheesh ...
ReplyDeleteHelmet? That's something your mom says. Man up a little head trauma builds character. Hard life lessons remain in the brain way after the fuzzieness clears
DeleteSteering wheel? Brake??? This is child abuse.
ReplyDeleteMight pull it behind the boat but have no use for it if it ever snows on The Gulf of America again, I don't go out in the snow.
ReplyDeleteSnow Zoom Zoom!
ReplyDeleteGrade school buddy had one of the real (wooden) kind which his dad would just wax the shit out of, and we'd tow it to a golf course hill a few miles away, through 2-3 foot drifts and play with the guys riding those big ol' Coke signs.
ReplyDeleteRemember that?
We had aluminum round saucers with leather grip straps, toboggans, and whatever was around from refrigerator boxes to salvage auto hoods, nothing like that beaut shown above. The car hoods got roped to a 4WD pickup, go "mushing", same time bunch of us be holding onto the step bumper. UPS trucks were a solid target for mushing, have that nice low step platform. Think we never laughed so hard, it was good times had by all.
ReplyDeleteAnti slip ? That is a lie as in the snow everything gets slippery.
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