Our club is starting to get heavy into ATV pulls. We currently rent a sled from another club but will be building our own over the winter. I'm looking for plans or ideas on building a weight transfer sled. I'm also interested in your local pull rules and classes, and also the prize structures. Example: how do you split up the prize money if one class has 20 entries and another class only has 2 machines? Any help would be greatly appreciated! [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

 

BTT

 

inm pa its ususlally goes by cc's

 

Hey man..not to get off topic, but you should also have more of the races set up that you had at the Big X in BW. That was a blast to watch! Sorry its off topic, just thought i'd throw it in though.

 

Try this site http://hometown.aol.com/pullingtractor/sledinfo.htm will tell you how to build a sled.

 

DogS - thanks for the great site!
Scott - We've only got one event scheduled next summer of that type; it will be at the Bridgewater Exhibition. I'd love to have more, and maybe we can. What we need is organized ATV racing (moto-cross and cross-country) in NS.

 

I agree! I would LOVE to run my pred on a MX course or some sort of track. I wouldnt neccesarly have to race, but to just go out and put some laps down..thats what i'd like to do!

Watching the races at the bigx was great. Half the fun of going out is watching other people. Keep me posted if somthing comes up like this!

 

Try www.midwestsupercub.com links to lawn mower pulls. You could probley use the same rules.

 

NovaKaw650:
Brian's plans are great to get started, however I think the seld built that heavy would be to much for any thing under 400cc. My sled weighs around 2250 depending how much lunch I've had before the pull. The 250 size units can get a good pull as long as it is a utility machine, the sport quads have to much power for the weight, to pull very good, a 300cc 2x4 'Ute will spank a Baja650. We try to break the units at about 100cc intervals, or you can go with a set of scales and engine size, that way if you have a rider on a 500HO that weighs in at 130# with a pocket full of rocks pulling against the same machine with a 275# rider you can even things out. I have brakes on my sled that apply when the box reaches full travel, by doing that it really put the anchor down. It also has a 4speed with a 2 speed splitter, giving me 8 gears to choose from, 1st low will shut the Kawi Mule Diesel, or the Polaris Ranger down in about 52 feet or I think that would be 23.?? meters.
I might get in trouble for putting this in here but my sled is for sale. It has been used at the National ATV Jamboree in Fillmore, Utah and the Rocky Mountain ATV Jamboree in Richfield, Utah and here at home for the past 3 years. The folks from Kawasaki said they may rent the sled again to do some testing in the near future or come may come here to do the testing, nothing concrete yet. They used the old sled to test the 650 Twin when it came out. Pictures of the new unit can be seen on www.offroad.com, by searching for Rocky Mountain ATV Jamboree 2001, or 2002, go to the ATV Rodeo. There are also some shots at www.mooracing.com that is for the National ATV Jamboree check "Mudbog and Sled Pull" section. there may be pictures of the old sled (red & blue) the new one is yellow.
I am plan building a new sled and making it selfpropelled in stead of using a pullback unit, this one works fine but need a winter project to keep me out of trouble. Hope this helps you out, need more info shoot me a e-mail, I don't hang around on the forums much spend a lot of time out in the shop tinkering with something. Hope this helps.
Pullerguy
Sedlmaster from Northern Nevada

 

Thanks for all the info, Pullerguy. We're lucky, the places (fairgrounds) where we pull have scales that they use to weigh horses and oxen. It may sound crude, but we use 50# sandbags to bring all the machines up to the weight of the heaviest machine/driver in each class. By using sandbags it lets a lot more people get involved because they don't have to build elaborate weight racks for their quads in order to be competitive. As you know more than most here, weight means everything.