[AT] Unknown Implement

[Richard Strobel]

Yup..good one Rick..I learned the button trick later for some reason.  One 
of my most memorable experiences was watching Uncle Joe after a hard day on 
the tractor, sit down on the edge of HIS big stuffed chair and listening to 
the Friday? night fights.  Sponsored by Gillette.  ("to look sharp, to feel 
sharp") something like that.  And then an eternity of listening to him say; 
"Can't hurt a (racial slur) but hitting him in the head...hit him in the 
guts!"  on and on and on. Gawd I used to howl so hard my belly hurt.
   That was the only time that radio came on that I remember..the battery 
was a big as the radio.  Course this was all done after pumpin' up the 
kerosene lanterns and getting them lit.
  Whew, that calls for a beer!!!

later,
Rick


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kiser, Rick" <rkiser at islandhospital.org>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 1:04 PM
Subject: RE: [AT] Unknown Implement


> 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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