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> >Not Lynn, but I too use a tote sled for just about anything in the 
> winter---

There's a type of sled used around here and is a traditional piece of 
Appalachian farm equipment.  It's called a "stone boat" because it is sturdy 
enough 
to haul a load of stones out of the fields as they were unearthed by the 
plow.  
But is is also used for wood, hay, and everything else.  

The runners are made of locust logs and if done properly it can be dragged 
over a pasture or hayfield and hardly leave a mark.  It's intended to be 
horse 
drawn, of course.

A similar device is the hay sled proper, two log runners with a wide platform 
and standards.  Here abouts wheeled vehicles for horses are dicey.  But with  
a sled, when the horse or team pulls it up (or down) a slope and the horse 
needs to stop, the sled stops too.

Also there is little danger of runaway.  Herself was training an unruly 
Belgian and when the onwer came for her (the Belgian, no matter how many 
offers I 
made!), the horse suppressed six weeks of training and went wild.  Herself 
hitched her to the stone boat and had all of us sit in it.  The horse again 
went 
wild, but after dragging the stone boat 100 feed under full load, decided 
better of it.  This going wild business was a lot of work!

James