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DIY Winter Camping Pulk Sled
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Feb 4, 2024
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Hey YouTube, how's it going? So prepared wander out in the woods today and I want
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to show you a system for hauling your gear in the winter that has been around
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forever but can be put together pretty cheaply and it's just a lot of fun. It's
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the sled or the pulk as a lot of people call it. I'm going to show you the
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upgrades I did to my sled and kind of talk about those and hopefully it'll
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give you guys some ideas and you go out and build your own so stick around
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I put together and basically what this is this sled I picked up at a hunting
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supply store and it's specifically designed for hunting gear and carrying out deer and things like that but it really didn't have any features or
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upgrades for carrying your gear or for pulling it and that's what I wanted to
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do is to make it more friendly to carry all my camping gear when I go out on a
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long hike or trip and the advantage the advantage of carrying a sled or pulling
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a sled is that you're able to carry a lot more gear and of course in the
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wintertime you know you're gonna need more gear and then also you're able to
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compartmentalize your gear you don't have to have it all in one gigantic
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backpack which is kind of a pain to fumble through and get through
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especially in the wintertime when you're looking for stuff so what you're able to do is you can take all your cooking gear and your food and your essential items
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put those in a day pack and then take your sleeping gear your tent sleeping
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bag and your clothes and put those in a couple dry bags and now you have a nice
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segmented compartmentalized way of carrying everything and plus you can carry oddball things like shovels axes larger saws it just gives you a lot more
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capability of carrying gear and carrying more gear and with winter camping you're gonna need a lot more gear to stay comfortable and dry so all
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right the first thing that the sled needed it needed a way to attach bungee
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cords and tie downs and what I did is it's pretty simple method I drilled
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holes along the perimeter edge of the sled and then ran this rope through it
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there it is in the back and that allows me to clip in with a bungee cord and tie
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down my gear like I've done right here the other thing is the sled didn't have any way of attaching a pulling method so
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a couple of eye bolts through the lip of this thing see if I can get this turned
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over so you can see it there's the eye bolts that allowed me to put on a drag
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handle and then allowed me to clip in my pulling system now the pulling system I
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have is crossed bar which is PVC pipe with rope ran through the middle of it
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and you're probably wondering okay what's the point of that way what's the
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advantage and from my understanding with these sleds the crossbar method actually stabilizes the sled a little bit and keeps it from going side to side
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on the trail it keeps it more straight behind you and that's really the only
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purpose of it is to help stabilize and steer the sled if you have the slack
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rope the it'll actually get away from you a little bit more from side to side
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and then what I've done is the crossbars come up here they hook in right there
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and all this is is a molly to waist belt for a backpack from the military and it's
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stiff enough that it holds it pulls that weight pretty well but still has some
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attachment points for other gear if I want to it just it's inexpensive and it
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works great I don't see any reason to try anything else for a hip belt I've
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been pulling with this one for a while now and it works really really well so
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that's really all it is to this system so the sleds depending on where you get
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them at they can be anywhere from 30 to 50 dollars and then the hardware on top
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of that you may have another 15 bucks 20 bucks in it so for under $100 you can
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build and customize a sled that's gonna pull your gear for the winter and of
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course when you're pulling with sleds you want to use trekking poles these are
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from outdoor products got these at Walmart very inexpensive but they're aluminum they're sturdy they're adjustable and they work they don't have
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to be super expensive trekking poles to get the job done they even have snow
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baskets on them right there which is nice now like I said this whole system
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is under $100 it doesn't cost very much it's probably not even close to $100
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when you're done with it maybe closer to 75 bucks something like that just
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depending on what shop you want to do what I plan on doing is I want to get a
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smaller sled a shorter one for day hikes and use this one the longer one
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for overnight trips when I'm carrying a lot more gear but for like out today just
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hiking around the fields I don't need a lot of gear I just need my day pack I
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brought my medical pack shovel and a seat pad and that's all I really need so
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a shorter sled or polk would be a lot nicer for this kind of trip and maybe
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I'll do a different pull system on it but for the most part this thing works
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great I have never had any issues with it it's fantastic for winter camping when
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you got to carry so much gear with you it's just a fun way of carrying your
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gear so definitely go out and try one and see what you think
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alright guys I'm gonna go hike a little bit more and as always please like
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