...and now don't have a sledge to drag their 7 month old baby around on? Bundled up of course, maybe even still in the car seat with the rain cover! But something.
Might be a trug at this rate unless I can get to a shop that has something suitable and that seems unlikely (the shop having anything left bit).
Halfords have 15000 sledges hitting their stores this week - you can do reserve and collect online (having used this a few times it works really well - the store text/phone when they have the item).
Edit: Having said that, I built my kids one last year in similar circumstances. shaped two bits of wood with a jigsawand used the hardboard fromt he back of an old wardrobe as a 'base' and with a couple of those bits of metal you use on carpets under doors as 'runners' to hold the hardboard to the sides as it bent quite well, couple of braces across the top for a seat and somewhere to put their feet. Worked a treat 🙂
Don't suppose they have a built in Maxi Cosi base do they? Didn't think I would be that lucky 🙂 Might be worth a look, if the store actually opens, and the snow isn't too deep to cycle. I think the car is officially not going anywhere. The M reg Micra is usually perfect but I think it might actually get beached in this stuff.
one of things I always loved doing was building a sledge with my father, now looking forward to building one with my little boy. Much more fun than some environmentally damaging plastic monster that's going to be landfill in a few weeks. 😀
Last winter I built one the day the snow melted! It's had a long wait but now it's day has come.....
Well if it's any consolation I bought a sledge last Wednesday and it STILL hasn't snowed here, this must be the only place in the UK without snow 😥
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3 point harness for extreme baby sledging....alll the dads stand at the top of the steep hill and chuck their offspring down the slope in the hope of winning bragging rights 😉
rOcKeTdOg- I [b]need[/b] a link!!! 🙂
Baby sledge on here -> http://www.sledges.co.uk/Home/tabid/94/Default.aspx but the shop part of the site is borked.
http://www.sledges.co.uk/BabySledgesandBabySkis/tabid/144/Default.aspx
Although when you click through it just says "error".
Worst website I've seen in a while 🙂
Just found it, wondering how long it will take to singlespeed (something I do very infrequently) to Aviemore... from just outside Chesterfield to see if they have any in the shop (assuming there is an actual shop).
Might swap the Conti Gravity's for MudX's to speed things along...
Thanks by the way 🙂
Upside down Micra - sledge.
That sledge is pap how is a child ever going to experience flying off the thing and into a frozen ditch on that....you've been framed money is safe. H&S gone mad.
a kid that age would do grand in a recycling box and a cord to pull it along with you can pack em out nice and warm aswell.only works on compacted snow mind you.
Take an old wakeboard. Remove one binding and the fins - brilliant sledge! Can lie or sit on it. Or stand if you don't mind broken wrists.
Bin bag on a steep hill provides hours of fun. Even better is those thicker glossy bags, sort of like the kind that bags of mortar from Wickes comes in. But bigger.
we bought a sledge 5 years ago.. had to wait until last year to finally use it.. My Mrs has a (Weird) / keen eye for a Bargin, was cheep at the time !
Will be getting ours out and hitting the slopes later today
Tried to buy 50 back in the spring but all the bulk suppliers wanted orders of 500 minimum. Bought 3 off eBay instead .