farmallcub49 wrote:. . . The best was going down the local hill in town, Jim Becker you know this hill; . . .
The ball field near the Post Office?
As I recall, a sled behind a tractor was fairly tame. You can't steer a sled far enough to the side for the tow rope to catch up with a tire. If the tractor driver made a sharp turn, you probably could catch up with the inside tire. What usually happened was you would stop then get yanked when the sled started moving again - like being on the inside of a turn while water skiing. This is provided the tractor driver was sane. OTOH, I remember riding my "flying saucer" with my not-particularly-sane brother driving. Great fun when he swing me out into the road ditch and kept going full blast.
The only injury I remember was my cousin hitting a tree going downhill with his toboggan. It put a big crack in the toboggan where it hit, didn't do his head any good either. Who invented the toboggan? I had more chance of steering the flying saucer.