I love mine, the bodies generally stay centered as I drag and I can dump them in the holes all together and then pull the sled out and just rinse it off. Great product!!!
The intro is Untouchable LOL. Absolutely golden. Great presentation as always. And of course these things are not better than the trailer because you can only pull them on grass and maybe some dirt but anything else is going to be too abrasive. They definitely have their place and they would come in handy. I know most of us have piled a bunch of stuff on a tarp and pulled it across the yard numerous times so this is just more solid and reliable way to get the job done. You are a gifted salesman.
I put my tarp on this, load it with barn waste, pull the sides of the tarp up and bungee them, and it gives me way more vertical load. I LOVE my Yard Glider.
A version of this is used in technical high-angle rescue. It is called a Sked sled. Light enough to backpack to the rescue. Victim can be secured in the device and hauled up a slope/cliff. Also used for dragging them out. The company makes (or made) a light version for hunters to drag their animal out. Hospitals have something similar to slide patients from a room bed to a transport bed. Had an old one for years to drag stuff in my yard.
Thanks Court ....going to get one ordered ...we move a bunch of patio furniture across our huge yard both Spring and Fall...my bride is gonna love this !!! Shhhh I'm telling her it was my idea !! Ha ha pc
What an awesome solution for maintenance of a snowmobile in the summer. I have three sleds that would benefit from this idea for winter preparation before the snow flys.
Hey Courtney. When I first saw furniture gliders, I thought they were silly. Then I saw them being used and was amazed! I'm sure these have some incredible uses too. So simple, yet so handy! Love the creative editing too. -Ed
I did something like this with a dirt bike to carry the ice chest, boxes of supplies, and it worked great. So glad someone invented this. Much nicer looking than the one I put together, haha.
Well, the kids will love riding this thing behind an ATV. Back in the seventies, my dad would use an old 63 ford hood and his 8 n tractor to pull us kids across a snowy pasture. Great fun and memories. No helmets, seatbelts or knee pads back then. Gotta get one of these for my grandkids this winter
An easy way to get a wider version is to buy two and attach them together, either by bolting them or bind them together using the handle openings down the side. You would just have to make a single wider front bar to pull by. Good for thought 🤔
Hay bales hauled off the field to the barn. Great opportunity to max out huge loads of bales for transport. Large flat area of contact more stable than tired trailer hauling over ruts, mounds, dips etc.
28 years ago my dad made me a snow sled out of dump truck floor liner it's slippery it was awesome behind a snowmobile but after I think about years later I should be injured or dead but it sure was fun then but now I use it as a log hauler during the winter
A modern version of a farm sledge which was preferred over wheeled carts under nearly all circumstances. Over the years I have moved some quite large stones (upwards of two ton) on a sheet of plywood pulled by a farmall cub or smaller stones perhaps up to 1000 lbs on a piece of cardboard pulled by one or two guys
I was telling my wife and her sister about this product a few months ago. It looked like a really economical way to move things around. We do a lot of wood chipping and I told them that when we have a centralized pile that we're chipping from we could put it on to this and then take it out into our woods where we have a network of trails. I think it would be an easier way than some of the other ways we're doing it. I like the idea of being able to just pick it up and dump it which would be idea for getting it spread out on our trails in the woods. They just wondered if it really does work so thanks for spotlighting this product to give extra credibility. If you are gator challenged again this winter you might hook two together like somebody suggested and see what it does. Lol lol
I bought the 8' version a few weeks ago and it has already paid for itself multiple times over. It's excellent for hauling bags of mulch or compost from trailer to job site. I have had 20 bags on it and it is effortless.
Knocking it out of the park on the GWT discount club lineup! I will never forget February 20th, 2021 either ugh, lol! Such a funny ending, love it, great job as always! 🙂
Yup. I use two of those old roll up plastic sleds with ropes. Put them under the legs on the picnic table and a big glider swing so I can move them alone without tearing up the lawn or any heavy lifting.
This is a modern derivation of an ancient idea that mankind has used for thousands of years, i.e. the sled. When I was young we shifted large rocks with this idea, (made from a forked branch of a large tree) , a minimal lift for one thing enabled us to shift the rocks that we couldn’t lift to trailer height. Well done, and should prove quite useful. Dave from Oz.
I like the idea, I can imagine it would be extremely useful for many applications. If you're replacing the trailers, don't worry, I can give them a good home :)! As for a wider version, I would think you could find a way to attach two sheets through those handles, perhaps a strip with a combo of adhesive and mechanical attachments (flush head bolts or round headed carriage bolts?) to move the Gator around. If that fails, I do believe there is an engine located somewhere in the Gator that provides mobility to the machine. Should be in the manual.
@@GoodWorksTractors Sorry, my friend, I have been away for a few months due to work issues and only now am I getting back into it. Still doing great work!
Usually the back of the Gator is full with chainsaws, gas, oil, straps, etc... If I want to bring a load of wood to the house I have to unload everything back in the woods. Load the wood in the Gator, take the wood to the house, unload and then go back for my stuff. This might be a good solution. Thanks for showing us the Yard Glider.
I’ve been using a fourteen dollar ice fishing sled behind my tractor for years. Not as big, but has sides, holds water, or floats, tracks well, you can drop another on top as a lid, and, oh yeah, makes a great sled.
I’ve used the hood off an old car to do the exact same thing for ~10yrs. Freebie from my auto repair shop. Went to that after destroying the plywood sledge. Same cable setup to pull it. Move a lot of boulders the tractor couldn’t lift…
Hi Courtney, As was previously mentioned, fab up a hitch and get two of them side by side, then you can pull around your JD Gator. I think this would be a great video also, pulling your Gator around with your 1025R!!!
I made one out of a woven polyester forming wire. They are used on Nonwovens or tissue forming machines. They were 12’ wide x 40 - 80’ long. A double layer in a truck bed allowed me to unload an entire bed full of mulch by hooking the top layer to a tree and driving off.
Have you gotten any update on your order status? I ordered a PRO-10 on the 10th of August. I chose a model that was in-stock and indicated a short (2-4 day?) lead time, and received an order confirmation email that same day. By the 17th, I received nothing further and inquired as to the status. They indicated my order was in production, and scheduled for shipping that week. They provided a UPS tracking number, but after six days, UPS still indicates only that the "label has been created." Yard Glider's Website now indicates "ships in 5-10 days". Even with this revised lead-time, my order should have shipped 3 days ago. I understand that they were probably affected by the storms that ravaged the Florida panhandle this past week, but there's no mention of delays on their website, and I'm concerned that they don't seem to be providing updates to customers, unless customers contact them to inquire!
Sounds like they got a little backed up with all the orders after the video. I spoke to them today. They're cranking them out and hope to ship very soon. Hope you get it soon!
Remember those "Slip and Slides" we had as kids? This is the farmers' version. That does look like a handy tool to have. The small storage space it would need is very appealing to me.
Many years ago a plastics factory I delivered machinery to, gave me a scrap piece of material like that. Thicker and stiffer. It is about 3x5. I used it for my "creeper" to work on my big truck on the gravel driveway.
as a kid we called em krazycarpets and we used em in place of sleds .. although ours was thinner for carrying back up the hill. you could use em summer or winter
I have to cross a driveway a lot. I bet these would get torn up fast and lose the slip factor. My plastic wear bar on my snow plow gets chewed up pretty good.
We do junk removal. This would work great when we need to remove a hot tub. Some customer gates the 1025r won't fit. But this would help slide it to the gate then pick it up with the tractor.
This might work on a manicured lawns, but things move on ruff terrains, you would have to tie everything down, or stop every ten yards to put it back on
Looks like a good product to use on a flat property. My house is on the side of hill with a 35-40% grade on all sides so pulling something laterally across my yard would not work too well. If I had a nice flat meadow and yard I would def be picking one of these up. Thanks for sharing. Cheers!
No no no, you're thinking about it all wrong. Load it up and then drive along the side of a hill in the woods and everything will fall right off for you...Auto Unload! 😂
@@GoodWorksTractors Ha ha ha. Been there and done that with tarp a few years ago. I will say it would make a great Toboggan in Winter since I live in the Green Mountains of northern Vermont.
I got a tarp off a 42’ semi grain trailer. The dealer had a bunch of used ones that they normally throw away so he just gave it to me. A 42’ tarp was a little long to tow around, so flooded it in half. It works great to pull branches and debris to the brush pile. Just pull up, unhook it push the brush off. Did I mention the best part…. FREE!
In the 70s it was called an the blanket that mom didn't know dad and his elves were dragging around the yard collecting leaves and crap. lol In the military they were medical stretchers.
If you need to use it for a " wider " application, simply have two of them next to each other, tie both units to a solid bar and then hitch the solid bar to your towing unit. Cheap as, and practical.
I have a pro12. I've used it on brush, leaves, dirt, wood and it worked great. I'm going to try something stupid. I'm going to try to hall a swamp matt on it one at a time. it might work better than in the dirt. witch ever it still a great product better then lifting thing into a trailer
I love mine, the bodies generally stay centered as I drag and I can dump them in the holes all together and then pull the sled out and just rinse it off. Great product!!!
How many mother-in-laws can you fit on one slide? lol
I love mine! I just dump the pile of bags down the well and, that’s it, the body is gone.
@@AustralianFallenPolice Looks like he may have had one on the hook in the video getting it in position at @6:58
@@AustralianFallenPolice x-wives?
When I was a kid we had a hood from a late 1960's car that we used in the same manner...it was called a "stone boat".
I can't wait to watch the tutorial on how to back one of these up. Should make for a great video.
We'll just play the video in reverse! 😂
The intro is Untouchable LOL. Absolutely golden. Great presentation as always. And of course these things are not better than the trailer because you can only pull them on grass and maybe some dirt but anything else is going to be too abrasive. They definitely have their place and they would come in handy. I know most of us have piled a bunch of stuff on a tarp and pulled it across the yard numerous times so this is just more solid and reliable way to get the job done. You are a gifted salesman.
I put my tarp on this, load it with barn waste, pull the sides of the tarp up and bungee them, and it gives me way more vertical load. I LOVE my Yard Glider.
Here in New Brunswick Canada we use a similar unit to pull a full moose carcass out of the woods after a hunt.
A version of this is used in technical high-angle rescue. It is called a Sked sled. Light enough to backpack to the rescue. Victim can be secured in the device and hauled up a slope/cliff. Also used for dragging them out. The company makes (or made) a light version for hunters to drag their animal out. Hospitals have something similar to slide patients from a room bed to a transport bed. Had an old one for years to drag stuff in my yard.
Thanks Court ....going to get one ordered ...we move a bunch of patio furniture across our huge yard both Spring and Fall...my bride is gonna love this !!!
Shhhh
I'm telling her it was my idea !! Ha ha
pc
What an awesome solution for maintenance of a snowmobile in the summer. I have three sleds that would benefit from this idea for winter preparation before the snow flys.
That would be great for our Florida beaches. The wife always wants to get to the spot is the furthest from our car. 🤣
Thanks wouldn't have know about this without you. Ordered today. Just what I was looking for.
Great video . This is why you just can not beat american know how and product creation . Have a great day guys and be safe. Tim
My only regret was purchasing BEFORE I could get the discount! This thing is awesome! Nice video. Regards, Howard.
Hey Courtney. When I first saw furniture gliders, I thought they were silly. Then I saw them being used and was amazed! I'm sure these have some incredible uses too. So simple, yet so handy! Love the creative editing too. -Ed
...and this very SAME comparison was made at my house too, Ed.
I did something like this with a dirt bike to carry the ice chest, boxes of supplies, and it worked great. So glad someone invented this. Much nicer looking than the one I put together, haha.
Well, the kids will love riding this thing behind an ATV. Back in the seventies, my dad would use an old 63 ford hood and his 8 n tractor to pull us kids across a snowy pasture. Great fun and memories. No helmets, seatbelts or knee pads back then. Gotta get one of these for my grandkids this winter
An easy way to get a wider version is to buy two and attach them together, either by bolting them or bind them together using the handle openings down the side. You would just have to make a single wider front bar to pull by.
Good for thought 🤔
Yeah, definitely an option to consider if needed for your application!
Wow! The travois reborn!!!
Hay bales hauled off the field to the barn. Great opportunity to max out huge loads of bales for transport. Large flat area of contact more stable than tired trailer hauling over ruts, mounds, dips etc.
Thats pretty neat definitely would be handy to use behind a snowmobile in the winter.
I just took a piece of metal roofing & bolted a piece of angle iron to it . I will definitely look at this product. It’s a smart set up
28 years ago my dad made me a snow sled out of dump truck floor liner it's slippery it was awesome behind a snowmobile but after I think about years later I should be injured or dead but it sure was fun then but now I use it as a log hauler during the winter
Haha, the original Yard Glider 😂
Neat product. One of those "Now why didn't I think of that" things.
A modern version of a farm sledge which was preferred over wheeled carts under nearly all circumstances. Over the years I have moved some quite large stones (upwards of two ton) on a sheet of plywood pulled by a farmall cub or smaller stones perhaps up to 1000 lbs on a piece of cardboard pulled by one or two guys
exactly. this is not a new idea at all as the video seems to imply. the material may be but the concept is quite old.
Thank you for showing this was on the fence to buy one. Ordered one while the video was finishing. Shipping a trailer to Alaska is ridiculous.
Hey Courtney... Those folks are brilliant... Great idea.. Good attachment to have around for sure..Gonna look into that one too. LOL!
Morning sir, yeah they had a fantastic idea. Have a good one!
Big kid version of a crazy carpet if you ask me. It's perfect!
I was telling my wife and her sister about this product a few months ago. It looked like a really economical way to move things around. We do a lot of wood chipping and I told them that when we have a centralized pile that we're chipping from we could put it on to this and then take it out into our woods where we have a network of trails. I think it would be an easier way than some of the other ways we're doing it. I like the idea of being able to just pick it up and dump it which would be idea for getting it spread out on our trails in the woods. They just wondered if it really does work so thanks for spotlighting this product to give extra credibility. If you are gator challenged again this winter you might hook two together like somebody suggested and see what it does. Lol lol
I bought the 8' version a few weeks ago and it has already paid for itself multiple times over. It's excellent for hauling bags of mulch or compost from trailer to job site. I have had 20 bags on it and it is effortless.
Knocking it out of the park on the GWT discount club lineup! I will never forget February 20th, 2021 either ugh, lol! Such a funny ending, love it, great job as always! 🙂
Haha thank you sir!
Good idea. Been using a car hood (salvaged from junk) for years. Great way to haul boulders (no lifting just rolling).
Those Yard Gliders remind me of those plastic rollable snow sleds that I used as a kid in the Michigan winters in the past.
Yup. I use two of those old roll up plastic sleds with ropes. Put them under the legs on the picnic table and a big glider swing so I can move them alone without tearing up the lawn or any heavy lifting.
Super useful! Like a military skidco litter
The hi tech stone boat, in the early 70 we used a old truck engine hood upside down to haul stuff on. Best thing no flat tires
Or an old Coke sign which my brother in law uses for pulling the kids around in the snow behind his 4 wheeler.
This is a modern derivation of an ancient idea that mankind has used for thousands of years, i.e. the sled. When I was young we shifted large rocks with this idea, (made from a forked branch of a large tree) , a minimal lift for one thing enabled us to shift the rocks that we couldn’t lift to trailer height. Well done, and should prove quite useful. Dave from Oz.
I like the idea, I can imagine it would be extremely useful for many applications. If you're replacing the trailers, don't worry, I can give them a good home :)!
As for a wider version, I would think you could find a way to attach two sheets through those handles, perhaps a strip with a combo of adhesive and mechanical attachments (flush head bolts or round headed carriage bolts?) to move the Gator around.
If that fails, I do believe there is an engine located somewhere in the Gator that provides mobility to the machine. Should be in the manual.
Have you not watched my Stuck Gator video??? Sunk in the mud, froze up, broke the front axle, no bueno!! 😂
@@GoodWorksTractors Sorry, my friend, I have been away for a few months due to work issues and only now am I getting back into it. Still doing great work!
At Last! A Family size Crazy Carpet!
Let it Snow!
Usually the back of the Gator is full with chainsaws, gas, oil, straps, etc... If I want to bring a load of wood to the house I have to unload everything back in the woods. Load the wood in the Gator, take the wood to the house, unload and then go back for my stuff. This might be a good solution. Thanks for showing us the Yard Glider.
This looks awesome for deer hunting! Its hard to get a big old buck into the back of a utv even with another person. Perfect if you hunt by yourself
I’ve been using a fourteen dollar ice fishing sled behind my tractor for years. Not as big, but has sides, holds water, or floats, tracks well, you can drop another on top as a lid, and, oh yeah, makes a great sled.
Looks like it'd be a quick n ready, easy to set up, work surface when wrenching on your machines!
This would also be great dragging a deer out of the woods, on snow or dry cover.
Or other dead bodies into the woods!
Thats what I was thinking! Neat product.
Genius. Thanks for bringing that to us!
I’ve used the hood off an old car to do the exact same thing for ~10yrs. Freebie from my auto repair shop. Went to that after destroying the plywood sledge. Same cable setup to pull it. Move a lot of boulders the tractor couldn’t lift…
Hi Courtney,
As was previously mentioned, fab up a hitch and get two of them side by side, then you can pull around your JD Gator.
I think this would be a great video also, pulling your Gator around with your 1025R!!!
Haha that would work! 😂
I have used conveyor belting in this manner for years!
I made one out of a woven polyester forming wire. They are used on Nonwovens or tissue forming machines. They were 12’ wide x 40 - 80’ long. A double layer in a truck bed allowed me to unload an entire bed full of mulch by hooking the top layer to a tree and driving off.
Just ordered one! Great idea. I used a tarp for years and they always wear out. Thanks for showing us this!
Very cool, hope you enjoy!!
Have you gotten any update on your order status?
I ordered a PRO-10 on the 10th of August. I chose a model that was in-stock and indicated a short (2-4 day?) lead time, and received an order confirmation email that same day. By the 17th, I received nothing further and inquired as to the status. They indicated my order was in production, and scheduled for shipping that week.
They provided a UPS tracking number, but after six days, UPS still indicates only that the "label has been created." Yard Glider's Website now indicates "ships in 5-10 days". Even with this revised lead-time, my order should have shipped 3 days ago.
I understand that they were probably affected by the storms that ravaged the Florida panhandle this past week, but there's no mention of delays on their website, and I'm concerned that they don't seem to be providing updates to customers, unless customers contact them to inquire!
Sounds like they got a little backed up with all the orders after the video. I spoke to them today. They're cranking them out and hope to ship very soon. Hope you get it soon!
@@GoodWorksTractors Thank you. I'm sure that a lot of your subscribers too advantage of your discount code, like I did.
I received mine last Friday.
Remember those "Slip and Slides" we had as kids? This is the farmers' version.
That does look like a handy tool to have. The small storage space it would need is very appealing to me.
Haha, love the slip and slides!
Many years ago a plastics factory I delivered machinery to, gave me a scrap piece of material like that. Thicker and stiffer. It is about 3x5. I used it for my "creeper" to work on my big truck on the gravel driveway.
I used UHMW in the Mining Industry as wear plate and it was great.
Intro was strong to quite strong. Nice work.
Haha, thanks!
Hmmm, I have a roll of plastic pool wall that looks like that. Drill holes, add a cable.
That would be great hauling stuff on the beach!
That's a great idea!
That’s a clever idea 💡! Nice one
Great idea! Just ordered one.
as a kid we called em krazycarpets and we used em in place of sleds .. although ours was thinner for carrying back up the hill. you could use em summer or winter
We had these on the yard forever ago. It was called a Stone Boat and they’ve been around since before internal combustion engines.
Loved the ending. Just needed an explosion to walk away from and not look back. Hollywood!
Haha, ran out of budget!
I have to cross a driveway a lot. I bet these would get torn up fast and lose the slip factor. My plastic wear bar on my snow plow gets chewed up pretty good.
We do junk removal. This would work great when we need to remove a hot tub. Some customer gates the 1025r won't fit. But this would help slide it to the gate then pick it up with the tractor.
They work really well if you need to move something heavy and quick. My experience they dont last long if you are running it over rocky areas.
Nice product If the 💲is right! You could lash 2 of them together side by side or end to end for more space.
This might work on a manicured lawns, but things move on ruff terrains, you would have to tie everything down, or stop every ten yards to put it back on
Looks handy!
Grown up "Crazy Carpet" we used to sled on. But I've seen similar products used to get moose out of the woods.
Looks like a good product to use on a flat property. My house is on the side of hill with a 35-40% grade on all sides so pulling something laterally across my yard would not work too well. If I had a nice flat meadow and yard I would def be picking one of these up. Thanks for sharing. Cheers!
No no no, you're thinking about it all wrong. Load it up and then drive along the side of a hill in the woods and everything will fall right off for you...Auto Unload! 😂
@@GoodWorksTractors Ha ha ha. Been there and done that with tarp a few years ago. I will say it would make a great Toboggan in Winter since I live in the Green Mountains of northern Vermont.
excellent product to pull the kids around with.
I use a old pickup bed liner. Works real good.logs, mulch etc.
I got a tarp off a 42’ semi grain trailer. The dealer had a bunch of used ones that they normally throw away so he just gave it to me. A 42’ tarp was a little long to tow around, so flooded it in half. It works great to pull branches and debris to the brush pile. Just pull up, unhook it push the brush off. Did I mention the best part…. FREE!
Hard to beat FREE!
great info for yard/farm equipment and accessories
I have made something like this for leafs and firewood great idea
Good thing you have two! One for each side of that stuck gator!
Great idea, would be great moving firewood in the snow
Used truck bed liners work great too.
What a great 4 wheeler sled also
I use an old sheet of plywood but I like the product.
I wonder how a smaller section would work as a sulky for my walk-behind.
Gave you a thumbs up just for the intro. Haha
What a great idea. Would be great for limb trimming
It’s a skedco for your tractor, nice!
In the 70s it was called an the blanket that mom didn't know dad and his elves were dragging around the yard collecting leaves and crap. lol In the military they were medical stretchers.
Pretty cool!!
Lol, I don’t think of you as a person to laying down much. Will check them out, thanks.
I could pull my grandkids around all day !😍
So much cheese in this video i thought it was sponsored by Kraft lol. Pretty cool use for UHMW
A role up stone boat nice. I have a 1" thick hdpe sheet with a 6" steel tube on the front with pull chain. I wish mine could roll up.
💥 What a great idea! I could see that being a lot of fun in the winter sliding down a big hill.
*Keep on tractoring!* #ARITTERBITWILLDO
Haha, no doubt, handles and all!
Could you use 2 side by side to equal 8' wide?
I have been using a old conveyor belt for years. I know the UHMW is the real deal !
My dad still uses an old truck bed liner to haul stuff around. Cool idea though!
Oh I see you in your Whistlin diesel beanie 😂
If you need to use it for a " wider " application, simply have two of them next to each other, tie both units to a solid bar and then hitch the solid bar to your towing unit.
Cheap as, and practical.
Would this work for pulling logs up a steep grade, or would they slide off?
the "curl" is good! It keeps the edges from digging in.
Waiting to watch you back it up.
Everything's got limitations
I have a pro12. I've used it on brush, leaves, dirt, wood and it worked great. I'm going to try something stupid. I'm going to try to hall a swamp matt on it one at a time. it might work better than in the dirt. witch ever it still a great product better then lifting thing into a trailer
Put two together extend the angle iron or square stock front and back. when done unbolt. Looks like it would work.
Well done video 👍🏼
Thank you Carrie :)
Do you only do the rear?
This is genius.
That’s a good idea!