[AT] Unknown Implement

[charlie hill]

Larry, my mom tried to get me interested in it too but it was to much
like......well.......running to suit me.  grins.

The top throwing I COULD do.  I actually picked that up on my own.  I was in
a little variety store when I was a teenager and saw a wooden top.  It was
cheap and I had never seen one before so I bought it.  I really enjoyed
playing with that thing.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry D. Goss" <rlgoss at evansville.net>
To: "'Antique tractor email discussion group'"
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Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 12:14 AM
Subject: RE: [AT] Unknown Implement


> I have a photograph of my Dad rolling a hoop when he was six or seven
> years old (about 1910).  He tried to get me and my brothers interested
> in the game but we apparently didn't have the talent or desire or
> something.  Dad said he always used a barrel hoop.  The fact that it was
> conical made it more difficult.  My Dad also taught himself to walk a
> tight rope.  He told me he could do it, and I always kind of felt in the
> back of my head that it was an exaggerated story.  But last year, my
> cousin and I came across a photo of him walking on a hay rope strung
> between two trees in the front yard of the home place out in Colorado.
> Dad also tried his best to teach me how to throw a top -- one of those
> designed like a stocky plumb bob.  Whenever I tried it, the top simply
> became a missile sailing through the air and it didn't develop enough
> spin to ever stand up.
>
> Larry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of George Willer
> Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 8:50 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Cc: Dick Willer
> Subject: Re: [AT] Unknown Implement
>
> Ralph and Rick,
>
> I'd forgotten about the family rolling hoop... it must have been around
> 1950
> or so when I last saw it.  It was at Uncle Jim's, but I think it was
> from
> the home place where Pop and his six brothers were raised, or maybe even
> their Grandpa's place.  Pop and all his brothers could hold the handle
> and
> run easily with it but none of us kids could control it, so the brothers
> must have all had a lot of practice when they were younger.  At that
> time
> their ages were from about 35 to 55.
>
> It must have been blacksmith made, from rod about 1/2 ".  It was about
> 3'
> diameter with a short handle with a closed eye fastened permanently, but
> very loosely.  I remember similar ones from old pictures being rolled
> with a
> loose stick.
>
> I also remember during the thirties, the common sight of people rolling
> tires down the street to the gas station to get them fixed.  They would
> only
> occasionally give them a nudge.  It was a talent learned of necessity.
>
> George Willer
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ralph Goff" <alfg at sasktel.net>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
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> Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 5:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Unknown Implement
>
>
> > Rick
> > We had similar entertainments here in Sask. as kids. I must be a
> little
> > younger than you as I missed out on the steel rims. Rubber tires were
> our
> > choice of rolling stock.
> >
> > Ralph in Sask.
> > http://www3.sk.sympatico.ca/lgoff/latestpage.html
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Richard Strobel <Richard_Strobel7 at msn.com>
> > To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 12:55 PM
> > Subject: Re: [AT] Unknown Implement
> >
> >
> > .
> > >    Spent many an hour on one of those as a kid on the ranch..turning
> the
> > big
> > > handwheels and cranks and such...course it never had anything hooked
> to
> it
> > > :-((  How we kept ourselves entertained on the ranch..remember
> rollin' a
> > > steel rim with a T-Handle down the road.
> > >
> > > later gang and thanks
> > > Rick
>
>
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