[AT] Unknown Implement

[Kiser, Rick]

Don't forget about stilts made out of a couple of 5' 1X2s and short
pieces of 2X4s, or the loop of string with a button in the middle to
make a spinner. Did it for the grandkids, they were amazed and had 'way
more fun than with an electronic game. How about making a cat's cradle
with a loop of string, too?

Also rolling car tires around the area. (I had an old military tread
tire as a kid, so I had the only 4 wheel drive in the neighborhood!)

RickinNW-WA


-----Original Message-----
From: Billy Hood [mailto:aggie1967 at msn.com] 
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 10:13 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Unknown Implement


  From: charlie hill<mailto:chill8 at cox.net> 



  George my mother used to talk about rolling a hoop when she was a kid.

  My wife teaches at an outdoor learning center and they do many pioneer
type games.  I gave her a bunch of wagon hub hoops about 10 years ago
that came out of a bunch of scrap iron I bought at an auction.  They
made sticks and had a ball with these.  She then asked about more and
larger hoops.  I had a few barrel hoops but thought about pipe.  Called
my brother and his fab shop just took scrap ends of pipe from 14 to 30
inch diameter and cut them into rings about 3/4 to 1" on the pipe bevel
machine or or plasma cutoff.  He sent me a pickup load and they have fun
with them each week.




   The other thing they had was
  a little goat cart. 

  We had a goat cart my father built when I was growing up and had a big
billy goat that pulled it.  We rode it, and played with it a lot.  I was
about 10 or 12 and had been fishing with my dad and uncles on the
weekend.  As we pulled into the lane, our billy was leaving in the
backseat of a chevy coupe with four black hands that worked for my
mother in a rose packing shed.  This goat had always hated my mother and
would tree her whenever she went into the barn lot where the goat and a
couple of horses were kept.  It seems that right after we left to go
fishing, she went to the barn for something and the goat kept her treed
in the corner until her mad got up and she called the guys to come and
get it.  She said we could get a nanny to train to the cart, but if it
chased her, she would shoot it, not give it away.

  I am building a goat cart for a friend's little girls in the shop now.
He brought me a factory built cart to pattern after and the price tag on
it is only $700 and it is steel and will carry two small children or a
small adult.  I figure I will have about $50 in it as I had some
wheelchair wheels with big bearings on 5/8 shaft.  I built some steel
calves (like roping dummies) for my granddaughters kindergarten rodeo
day last week--guess I am just a sucker for little girls. 

  bear
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