[AT] Unknown Implement

[Ronald L. Cook]

My Dad started me out with a T-stick and a small flat hoop.  I think it 
was off the hub of a wooden wagon wheel.  As soon as I got that figured 
out, I got a barrel hoop off the end of a nail keg.  Now that was tough 
to get going straight.  I never did get a hoop off a full sized barrel. 
I wonder if any of today's kids play with such things.  I know mine 
never did.

Ron Cook
Salix, IA

Larry D. Goss wrote:

> 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"
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> 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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