Cargo Gear Sled Review

My son was using one of our Pelican Gear sleds this morning to haul hay to the cows. We have had two of these sleds for about ten years. We bought them at Dunham's sporting goods store near Johnstown Pennsylvania. I think they were about $50 a piece back then. Probably a bit more today, but I'm pretty sure they still make them, an I know they have been very useful on the farm in the winter.

I initially bought them to haul logs out of the wood when I was cutting deadfall wood in the winter time. This makes me think that I may ahve had them for a bit more than 10 years, because when we first moved out to the mountains I did not know how much snow we would get, and how much wood I would burn, so I used to load my chainsaw, axe, sledge, wedges, gas, oil, etcectera into this sled and just pull it into the woods looking for wood.

There were a lot of old oak trees killed by gypsy moths in the seventies still standing or down on the ground, and I would cut them down and up and haul the wood out to the house, and burn it when it was still frozen. It would hiss for a while when I put it onto the red coals in the wood burner.

I haven't gathered wood like that for a long time. However, as you can see the sleds still get used a lot. For a while I would stuff three Brute garbage cans into the one designated as the garbage sled and pull it up our quarter mile drive to the curb, and then ride down in the sled through the field to the house. I still occasionally do this if my cart that I hook up to the Suburban can't make it up the driveway due to deep snow.

The other sled was designated as the wood sled, and it was used in the woods to gather logs and kindling which we stored in the barn.

Nowadays, one sled is known as the wood sled. It is primarily loaded up with logs that are stored in the barn and taken down to the porch to use in the woodburner in the family room. We pretty much heat the whole house with wood. We supplement it a bit with baseboard electric heaters. The other sled is used for hay and feed for the cows, as seen in the video.

These sleds have been well worth the money. They are durable and can haul a good load of wood. The ropes are strong and have never broken or pulled through after years of use.