Shappell Jet Ice Fishing Sled, Large Heavy-Duty Multi-Purpose Utility Sleds for Hauling Fire Wood, Deer, Duck Hunting, Fishing Gear, Supplies, and Accessories

I hardly ever write reviews but I feel compelled because this sled is awesome!! I bought this sled primarily to haul firewood length logs I've cut out in the woods behind my house during the winter. I haul the firewood out of the woods during the non-winter months using a Gorilla cart but, while the Gorilla cart is great, it isn't the best for some terrain because the land is a combination of hills, swampy-mud and rocks. When I bought this sled to haul standing-dead trees I had cut in winter, I couldn't believe how easy it was to haul the wood! It slides easily on as little as 1/64 of an inch of snow barely covering the leaves. If the leaves are completely covered with snow, it is even easier. It really reduces the effort needed to haul the wood. I can easily traverse the swampy-mud that are frozen in winter, the rocks, small bushes, downed tree limbs, etc... Beyond the wood hauling capabilities, we have used it for sledding. I am so disgusted with buying the cheap plastic snow sleds for $10 - $15 only to have it shatter into 20 different pieces the first day you use it to go sledding on a cold day. The cheap and thin plastic on cheap sleds shatters too easily. Buying those cheap sleds is just like throwing my money away. THIS SLED, on the other hand, is EXTREMELY HEAVY-DUTY! I went sledding with my 2 sons in this sled and even went over jumps that someone had built where we were sledding. So, 1 adult and 2 kids in this sled at the same time going over a jump that was about 1 foot tall, catching air and landing was nothing for this sled. I imagine that this sled it will easily last a lifetime. Highly recommended!!

I decided on buying this sled because my 11yr old wanted a sled for Christmas. She is HARD on ALL things, the neighborhood kids call her "Crash Test Dummy." We currently live in a wooded area that doesn't get snow and her intended use of her future sled was going to be "sled" down a dry wooded hill (55% grade) into the ditch (hey, at least it's not Fortnite!). She borrowed a kiddie sled from a pal to try her idea, she gave back the flimsy sled and got to keep the two broken toes and the bruised rib she earned. From that point my adrenaline junkie Jr. was hooked and NEEDED a sled, but we needed her to have a durable safe option, enter: Jet Sled. I purchased it because you sit IN it, not just ON it. I thought the 10" side walls would help keep her safe from debris and the molded plastic would withstand the rocks and trees it would come in contact with. I was right! It turned out to be so durable and fun my hubby and I, together (350+lbs) have used it to go down leafy hills too. Then a Christmas miracle happened.... our "not snowy region" received a freak storm that gave us TWELVE INCHES of snow in 12hrs!! We showed up to the sledding hill with a HUMVEE of a sled screamed down the hills past all the Prius sleds. This sled is amazing (we also lived in Alaska to prove we know a thing or two about sledding). We easily had 400+lbs in the sled multiple times in cold temps, all day long. Crash. Boom. Bang. x 100= ZERO damage. Additionally, my daughter has made the sled into her new bed. She uses her sleeping bag and has spent the last two weeks sleeping in the sled. This sled is durable and well loved. My daughter is looking forward to warm weather to see how far down the river she can paddle in her sled-boat while the rest of us stick to our paddle boards. Great sled= great memories. Buy it.

We love our “Jet Sled” it’s so convenient for winter walks and sledding. Fits two kids and one adult. This is super durable and has been through about 3 winters and continues to look brand new. I went back and forth on getting this vs. a wooden toboggan, and I’m happy I went with this as it continues to withstand ongoing use and doesn’t have as much wear as a wooden one would at this point. For the price point you can’t beat it, I recommend it to everyone with young kids!

Excellent product! I actually bought this to pull our kids around in the snow behind our four wheeler, but 2 days after we got it my husband latched onto it to pull a deer our son shot out of the woods. It’s a very heavy duty sled & worked great for pulling a heavy deer out with no issue. I love that it’s a very heavy plastic but still has just enough flex that it’s not going to break easily & the high sides on it make it great for hauling things. It’s been cleaned & now ready for the kids for our next snow of the season. I’m sure between hunting & sledding this is going to be getting a lot of use! Only con I have, but it’s really not a big issue, the rope that comes with it is extremely short, even if you’re pulling it by hand you’ll probably want a longer one, but that’s an easy fix.

I buy many sleds for winter ice fishing and projects from the box stores. First time buying online. Have no complaints about the product itself. Shipping does come without a box so you get many shipping labels and stickers all over it that won’t come off easy. Also sates in the product description that it comes with the pull rope. That either may not be the case or it’s just taped onto the sled and is gone and or lost in shipping. Mine did come with a few dings also from the shipping. When the driver from FedEx showed up I could hear everything falling around the back of the box van. When he opened the door it was buried under a pile of boxes that had been falling and bouncing around the back of his delivery truck for awhile. Overall good product and about the same price I pay in the store’s for this sled minus the issues.

I bought this as one possible solution to assist in moving rocks down a slope in order to rebuild sections of a collapsed retaining wall / safety wall at the top of a sheer cliff. My problem was that the area near the retaining wall is steep and often wet in certain spots which makes it too risky to use heavy equipment. I had several workers try dollies and wheeled carts but they were very hard to stop the momentum once you're heading downhill with a lot of weight. I purchased this with low expectations and assumed it probably wouldn't last a day. I was very pleasantly surprised. This sled was unbelievably effective at solving my problem and I was able to move all the rocks much more easily by myself and much quicker than a group of workers with the wrong tools for the job. My rope was missing when it arrived so I can't speak to that, but I ended up finding a much longer rope suited my needs anyway. Using my zero turn mower, I moved countless piles of rocks, dirt, and cut trees limbs across grass on a downhill slope over several days..much bigger job than the pictures show. I couldn't lift many of the rocks off the ground but I was able to put the sled on its side and flip the rock into the sled easily. Some of the loads were probably over 150 pounds and I just pulled them downhill across the grass with my riding mower and then flipped them out at the destination. With the long rope and the zero turn, I was able to get good at turning sharply at speed guiding the sled to swing out against the retaining wall while I stayed on higher, less steep, ground. I thought it would crack, but came to realize that it is incredibly durable. It has enough flexibility to help it absorb a lot of punishment and it is still completely undamaged after a lot of abuse. I cracked the bottom of a Home Depot heavy duty plastic wheelbarrow on this same job earlier so I expected it would crack but it is not rigid which makes it much tougher. Some of the rocks were even wider than the sled, but it just bent out and bent back when unloaded. I know it just a molded piece of plastic but it sure made my life a lot easier. I use it constantly now for all kinds of lawn and garden jobs.

I've had this sled for 2 years, and it has been supremely useful in that time. It glides 3+ times better than any other snow sled we have. It's extremely durable. We've crashed into rocks and logs, and it has no dents. We've hauled all sorts of things in it, all year round. It's fun and useful. We added our own rope to it, but that was really easy to do. Things we've hauled: - Small trees we needed to transplant - Firewood logs - Compost - Soil - Random garden tools - 2 adults down a hill while sledding! - 1 adult + 2 kids when sledding! We've also filled it full of water when we needed a big pond for our ducks. It hasn't been warped at all through all this use. It glides so easily that my 10 year old son can pull me around easily in the snow, and it's really easy to pull our kids on sled rides. I apparently don't have any good pictures of it. The best I found was when my kids wanted a sled ride in the dark! But we use this no matter the time of year (and day) to haul stuff around. My whole family highly recommends it!

Great size and very durable. I use mine for a variety of jobs.