Paris plastic pulling pulk

[paddlpop]

Picked up a Paris plastic toboggan from Moondog last week with the aim to put together a working pulk for an upcoming main range adventure with 3 others, 2 of whom also intend to haul pulks. It seems like a no brainer when hiking in to Blue Lake from Thredbo top station and setting up a basecamp for 4 nights.
Biggest problem seems to finding 2m long 12mm solid fibreglass rods for the towing arms. Given the urgency to have this thing operational I decided to use some 11mm tent pole sections. This meant joining 3 sections together. Since the poles had a hole through which elastic was orinally threaded I epoxied in metal rods and then over sleeved the joins using the metal sleeves that id removed earlier.
The sled attachment point is steel as I dont have a TIG setup for aluminum. Using steel meant I could weld lugs and tie-down points too.
Anyway...a picture tells a 1000 words....

Attachments

Hip attachment point before welding

Ready to go...

[Moondog55]

Try to get some sort of shoulder straps going if you can, they stop the belt from slipping down all the time, as you are using a Canadian type belt any of the army "H" harness suspenders should work

[Franco]

When a mate and I put together something similar , we used climbing rope inside plastic (1" ?) orange pipes .
We tried to avoid using metal bits as much as we could. It was meant to work down to -50c and it did.

BTW, if using it on steepish ground , make sure that you have a quick release system because it looks a bit tippy to me. (high sides)
The one we built used a single large buckle on the harness (waist belt) to do that.