they don't build em like they used to

Anonymous-0 · Mar 4, 2013

Remember how we were talking about sleds the other day - well the neighbor was throwing this one out. I don't know the story behind it but the paint ain't even off the rails yet. The wood is so thin it's no wonder it broke. SIL says these cost $80.00 in the stores. I am gonna fix it up right.

old · Mar 4, 2013

That brings back memories of the long distance past. Back when I live in Leigh NE I had an old sled we used and abused. I rebuilt it a few times due to the fact we loved to see how many kids we could put on a sled and for some odd reason it seemed to come back looking like that one

TonyIN · Mar 4, 2013

Nope... but it is possible to crack on e of the old ones.

This one was mine as a kid and I think possibly my dad's. I broke the rail with my head as a teenager and we replaced it with pine. My kids broke that a couple years ago - with their head.
Planning to replace it with some oak I milled from some trees on the property - figured that was as close as I'll get to an old piece of oak for it. Rest of the wood on the sled is oak.
Not sure how it will come out in the pic, but the closeup on the backside shows a price of $11.85... and of course "Made in the USA".

Tony

Vito · Mar 4, 2013

Yep,could say the same thing about women also.

Vito

GeneMO · Mar 4, 2013

Tony, I have one identical to that. My dad bought it at a neighbors sale. I was grown when he bought it, but my kids gave it a work out. We broke a crosspiece and I replaced it with oak. I still have it for use with my grandkids.

They do not make them like they use to.

Gene

Anonymous-0 · Mar 4, 2013

This one says made in canada - LYLE!!!!

Tom in TN · Mar 4, 2013

I, too, had a Flexible Flyer when I was a kid. I grew up in Northeastern Ohio. In addition to lots of sled riding, I had a paper route when I was 10, 11, 12, 13 years old. When the snow was high, I'd put my bag of papers on the sled and drag it around my paper route. My memories, 50 plus years later, are very fond of that. At the time, I didn't think it was very much fun.

Tom in TN

retired farmer · Mar 4, 2013

That must have been a little expensive for that time period.

Ivan in Mich · Mar 4, 2013

I had one like that when I was growing up. When we had the sale at my folks I let it go on the sale. I should have kept it. Last summer I bought one at a yard sale in good shape but had the center board broken. I paid a 1.00 for it. I took all the boards off it and planed new ones for it varnished it and it looks like new. Grandkids love it. Next summer I have to find another one so it will end the fights

Mark - IN. · Mar 4, 2013

I was trying to figure out if that was a caulk gun or a grease gun, then I saw the mouse. Kind brave little thing coming out to pose for your camera like that, huh? Fat little guy is eating pretty good, eh? Must be grain fed.

Mark

Anonymous-0 · Mar 4, 2013

Where?

Dave in GA · Mar 4, 2013

I've got 3 flexible flyers hanging on the wall in my North GA shop. Spent many hours on them growing up in Michigan. Not much snow in GA.
Sure miss snowmobiling and outdoor hockey too.

JMOR · Mar 4, 2013

(quoted from post at 22:59:31 03/04/13) I was trying to figure out if that was a caulk gun or a grease gun, then I saw the mouse. Kind brave little thing coming out to pose for your camera like that, huh? Fat little guy is eating pretty good, eh? Must be grain fed.

Mark

would say, neither, but don't see mouse.

Mark - IN. · Mar 4, 2013

Hey, just joking. There aint no mouse in yer house. Si whatever you do, don't get the wife all shook up running around the house with a tennis racket yellin "There's a mouse in our house". She would not appreciate that.

I somtimes do the same to others when they show pictures of their spreads. Asking things like, "Who is that lady out in the field over there, and why is she waving her arms like that?" And then they will ask "What lady, where?"

There aint no mouse in your house, because had there been one, your dog would have alerted on him long before I did.

Mark

Anonymous-0 · Mar 4, 2013

ok - you got me. I have blown up the pic and studying the heck out of it. And that was exactly what I was thinking about the dog, he didn't act like he picked up on anything. This is in the garage and with all the cold and snow I wouldn't be surprised if one found it's way in.

Mark - IN. · Mar 4, 2013

Many, many, many years ago when I was a punk kid. I took a pair of dark socks and put them in between the stove and kitchen counter, tying some fishing line around them, and across the floor under the table to the living room. It was many, many, many years ago and I was a kid. Mom was in the kitchen cooking dinner. At exactly the right time, I jerked the fishing line. No dinner that night. I never did that ever again. It seemed like a funny thing to do before I did it though.

Mark

oleclint · Mar 4, 2013

I had a Flexable-Flyer for years, never had a break down with it. I think they were considered top of the line sleds then. That was in the 1940 s. clint

tomturkey · Mar 4, 2013

One year we recieved for Christmas a long flexible flyer. Three of us were able to sit on it. Of course I was only 8 my older brothers 10 and 13. So our fannies weren't all that big. Any way we took the sled down the hilln and over a old car hood, a ramp. We went air borne but when we landed the sled broke all the cross supports. We fixed it without the folks ever knowing. gobble

Anonymous-0 · Mar 4, 2013

but still funny today!

JerryS · Mar 5, 2013

Lyle's would have a big diesel engine.

TonyIN · Mar 5, 2013

Not sure the exact time period. If it were when I was young that would have been mid to late 60's. Subtract 20 years for my dad. His dad ran a small corner grocery store and may have sold those at one time, so maybe that was "retail" pricing?

Anonymous-0 · Mar 5, 2013

If you fix it up right, then the porkers who broke it, will want it back!

Keith Molden · Mar 5, 2013

And if you look close, you can see that it was made by Planet Jr. Lots of their stuff is still around and still operating as it should. Keith

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