How to Hook Race Dogs to a Gang Line of a Sled

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Hi! I’m Lachland Clarke on behalf of Expert Village. I would like to invite you to visit our website at www.teamclarke.org. Whenever you are taking a run with your dogs you usually start by hooking your sled up and your gangline up to a solid object that the dogs can't move like a big truck or in this case a utility pole. A utility pole worked out pretty nicely for our take off spot. So we have a quick release that is actually a spinnaker release capable of releasing under 30,000 pounds of pressure with just two fingers. It's an amazing little device, which actually came from Marine Hardware Store. Now that's run directly to the snowhook line, and the snowhook line is attached directly to the gangline or the tow line, which the dogs are then attached to. That just keeps the dogs from, they have so much power that you need to hold them artificially with a snub line or a retainer line until you are ready to take off. But that line is not attached to the sled, that's pretty important to understand, because if you did that you would rip the sled to pieces. So that release line goes to the snowhook line, which is attached, not to the sled but is run through the sled, but is actually attached directly to the back end of the gangline or the tow line.

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