If BOAT stands for "break out another thousand" what does SLED stand for?

I've been considering snagging a cost effective (read: cheap as dirt) sled so I have something to play with in winter.

Money pit?

Waiting for the radio flyer jokes...

F500 donor.

In SC it stands for State Law Enforcement Division. You don't want them knocking on your door.

Some.

Lost.

Extremities.

Deserved.

Are we talking about a snowmobile? I only have passing familiarity with this "snow" you speak of.

Buy one and it will never snow again within 100 miles of you.

Go for it, that way you jinx away winter in the north east.

I think my F-I-L used his once last year.

Sits Languishing Except December

Single Load Enhancement Device

Garand match shooters will know what this is.

In reply to Taiden:

The cheap ones go great in all four seasons. My free Scorpion 440 loved circling around my house all year.

If 100 GRMers throw in $50 each I should be able to jinx off winter in a very effective way.

$50 well spent, I say.

I still say I'd give my non-running artic cat 250 away to someone who would put a 12a wankel in it.....

All I ask for is video evidence of terror.

Oh, and Stupid Lessons Earned by Disaster?

So Long Every Dollar?

In to the rural Michigan, redneck community we lived when I was very young, it would have stood for Seriously Loud & Everyone's Drunk. We lived by lake and my mom was always paranoid we were going get hit by one drunk neighbors if played out on the ice.

Borrow a death sled before buying. I was given a rebuilt 1976 Arctic Cat El Tigre 440. That damn thing was fast, 90mph was indicated several times on a frozen lake. Ocassionally the brakes would refuse work. After changing my knickers they would work perfectly. They must have iced up. The belt required constant fiddling. It would get stuck in a foot of fresh snow, my RX-7 with snow tires was more effective on snowy 2 track roads. I have never operated anthing that was so cumbersome, awkward and just plain mean. It reminded me of a billy goat. I gave it back to the brothers that had given it to me. I will buy tire chains for my F-100 before I own another snow machine.

Good luck, and carry a first aid kit

Braden

Snowmobile: Likely Entices Dust

My buddy bought one of those 'sweet deal' $300 snowmobiles on craigslist last summer. Then, in freaking WISCONSIN, we had a record warm winter that meant he could ride it a whole two days or so all year.

Sold mine a couple years ago...In restrospect, I have ridden my motorcycle for the last 20some months straight in WEST MICHIGAN!!

But, I loved the sled when I had it. Cheap, fast, and that wonderful smell of 2-stroke.

Type Q wrote: Seriously Loud & Everyone's Drunk.

DING! DING! DING! We have a winner!!!

Around here during snow season we can tell when it's just after closing time (4am) at the local bars. The sleds make a helluva noise when they're running wide open and fully wound out coming by our house, located just about one mile from the town's major watering hole.

One day when I am rich and famous I will have a sled and ride it in Milwaukee during snow emergencies. Laws be damned!