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The Johnson Skee Horse like the one pictured from 1966 was a 14 horsepower screamer for the time. As long as you were on a driveway, hard crust or a frozen lake, it ran super. But due to the extreme weight, if you got off the trail in three feet of new white powder, you did not go far until you bottomed out and sunk. Then it was wait until spring or coax one of my three older brothers to help me dig it out. The sled had a habit of the throttle sticking so once went air borne over a wood pile and had to bail off...watching the sled head down the driveway to the busy US Rt 2 wondering if it would get hit. It did not and by the time it crossed the road, the vibration caused the cold throttle cable to release. Graduated to a 1967 Sno Jet made in Thetford Mines, Quebec because dad got tired of digging us out and hearing the complaints of the Skee Horse on an open field. My Uncle Carl sold them and the 13.8 horsepower blue machine was much light, nimbler and I only had one complaint. The 
compression for an 11 year old was intense and as I cranked my heart out on the starter cord, it would recoil and put me hard into the engine casing, brusing fingers. The addage for snowsledding in the 1960's was "You tinker for two hours to use it for one". Learned alot about mechanics and patience. No one went too far from the farm either as you did not want to get stranded. As an adult, graduated to a Cobra Polaris that was uglier than sin but was a performer with its 440 air cooled engine. Bought my first new sled in 1989 that was a Polaris 3 cylinder 650 that would fly. New sleds have wider tracks, wider ski stance, gas shocks and are built to move on new groomed trails. There are 13,000 miles of snowsled trails to explore in 
Riding along, seeing a snowshoe hare rabbit zip across the trail, a deer drinking at an open brook, a mountain covered in snow, and sunsets out of this world! Get off the couch, put down the controller, circle the calendar for a weekend to come to Maine to rent a sled. I can promise you the white snow fever and thrill of being on a snowsled in Maine will make you a sledder for life! With new high tech clothing there is no reason to be cold either. Join a local club and meet some super people in Aroostook County ! Explore !
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HHmmmmm Andrew,
Ain't no snow sleds in Florida, wonder if them sleds would work on sand?
Sean Allen