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[Billy Hood]

  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