[AT] Unknown Implement

[charlie hill]

George my mother used to talk about rolling a hoop when she was a kid.  I
haven't heard her mention it lately.  I think theirs was wooden and they
used a loose stick to roll it.  Grandaddy was a farmer/blacksmith so I guess
theirs might have been metal too.
There was 4 girls and 2 boys plus some cousins they took in so there were
plenty of folks to take turns with the hoop.   The other thing they had was
a little goat cart.  It was just big enough for one kid (human) pun not
intended but their goat didn't like to pull it so they would hitch him up
and all the kids would drag the goat as far away from the barn as their
combined energy would allow then one would jump in and the goat would run
wide open back to the barn.

Charlie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Willer" <gwill at toast.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Cc: "Dick Willer" <rhwiller at wcnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 9:49 PM
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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