Sled
A carriage ( OHG slito, glides ') is a vehicle skids, so one equipped with skids land vehicle used for the transport of persons and goods, or as sports equipment.
It is generally used for transport on surfaces with low friction, like ice, permafrost and snow (snow car ), but can be on wet meadows ( Tundra ) used. Sometimes also round river pebbles or sand are suitable for the use of a carriage.
A carriage slides on sloping ground due to the force of gravity downhill by itself, is drawn in the plane or uphill of people, draft animals, tractors or other vehicles or he has a private drive, which is usually motor- operated, like snowmobiling and Aerosledges, but also, Wind power can be exploited by sails or kites.
Designs, Zugmethoden and use
The carriage developed parallel to the rod loop that was like the travois pulled without skids across the floor.
There are several slides, some of which differ in size and function purpose.
Winter use
Toboggans are small and simply built, whereas the sleigh are built so that you can ride in or on them. Carriage can be pulled by dog teams. Of people drawn Nansen sledges were the traditional means of transport of the British Arctic and Antarctic expeditions in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Dogs were used by the expeditions of other countries, for example, by Roald Amundsen.
Slides are used as toys by taking advantage of the gravitational force down a hill to drive. Modern race sled go back to the first steerable sled from 1870 that were invented for British guests in St. Moritz as a pastime.
Foreign Driven sled called special vehicle skids ( animal -drawn carriage, but also snowmobiles ). The Aerosani as a historic motor vehicle of Red Army was driven by propeller, a iceboat sails like a sailing ship. Nowadays you also used paragliders to draw without fuel When carriage, called Akia.
On the other end,
The early slide Mesopotamia were threshing, shown in two illustrations from the temple district of Uruk (ca. 3500-3370 BC). It is believed that the Egyptians used sledges to transport material to construction sites.
Slide types
There are various types of carriage:
- Bob ( Rennbob ), a sports equipment
- Boards slide, a skid -free carriage
- Davos sledge, the most widely used recreational sled in Switzerland
- Threshing apparatus for threshing
- Ice sledge, a tool for water rescue
- Horn sledge, originally mostly used an implement of mountain farmers for transporting hay or wood, for years only for race
- Dog sled also Grönländerschlitten or Nansen sled used for transporting people and goods in polar regions
- Kreek, a traditional box slide from Blankenese
- Küttiger frog, a runner sled from Kuettigen
- Steering sled ( sledge Ghosky ), a controllable with weight transfer sled, fun sport product
- Papaholua
- Peekschlitten, a carriage in northern Germany, the moves propelled it standing with a steel-tipped rod ( Peeke or Peke ) repulsive forward
- Sleigh, a towed vehicle skids of horses
- Post slide
- Aerosledges, propeller-driven vehicle
- Luge ( Sports slide)
- Reindeer sleigh (also ACKJA or pulk )
- Sledge, winter sports equipment for sledding
- Sailing carriage ( iceboat )
- Chair slide, a slide, which came primarily on ice for use
- Kicksledges ( Spark, Kicksled ), a particularly common in Scandinavia sports and locomotion device
- Troika is a vehicle that is pulled by three horses. Mostly it involves a sled, but there are also carriages with wheels with that name.
- Skeleton, a special sledge when Skeleton
- Skibob, a winter sports equipment
- Toboggan, a sled -free slide of the North American Indians of the Subarctic
- Drawing carriage, the toboggan, historical transport device of the Alps for hay and wood