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#1 ·
Hello everyone. Well I've been busy doing other things, such as building a shed for my crap including the sleds. So now that I will be finishing up the shed in a couple weeks I want to get the sleds moved back there. They run so I was thinking of riding them back there but I don't want to tear up the grass with he skis. I was thinking of ski skins just for moving them. The AC has plastic skis, so removing the carbides may work there. But the Doo has steel skis. I was thinking the covers would do the trick. I was thinking about a dolly but on soft grass I don't think it would be very easy to move by hand.

Anyone have any other ideas?
 
#2 ·
How far are you running them to the shed?

Ski skins are pretty spendy. Unless you are going to move them a lot across the grass, I'd just run 'em across instead of spending the money. If it's grass, there will be no damage to the skis, but your lawn will get a few little ruts in it, which will go away with time.

Gravel will scrape the dog doo out of plastic skis (or the ski skins.) Your call there...
 
#3 ·
It's about a 160ft run from the front to the back. I may try it to see how it does. It's all grass so damage to the skis will be nothing. I just didn't want to tear up the grass. The AC will get new carbides this year anyway so removing them would be OK.

I think I'll give it a shot. However by the time I get them in there and get everything situated I'll have to pull them right back out!
 
#4 ·
What you want are ski covers, the ski skins would go between the ski and the carbides would hold them on!
You could make a set and then you would have them?
I was thing Plumbing for some reason.
I would take about a 3' piece of 4" PVC and a 45 and then cut the pipe in half and glue a 45 on the end so that it would slip over the loop?
 
#5 ·
It shouldn't tear up the grass too bad as long as you don't drive like you stole them and do grass drags with them. To me it really wouldn't be worth the time or the money to build or buy ski skins. Just try to keep the turning of the skis to a minimal otherwise it will try to push the skis and tear up the yard. I drove a few sleds on wet/ muddy matted down grass and it really didn't do any real harm. Whatever it did do healed back up in a couple weeks. If your grass is relatively dry I would imagine it would not do much damage.
 
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