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passing it on to the next generation
By: prof-pat-pending Date: September 5, 2014, 2:44 pm
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feeling a bit better today so i had chance to keep a long held
promise - and built something :-?
now what do all these random bits make ?
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yes you guessed right - its one of them !!!!!!!!
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i bet you had one in your youth - happy times
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i had a go in it to test it (elf'n'safety) - i think i'm getting
old - it hurts
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Re: passing it on to the next generation
By: kev Date: September 5, 2014, 2:59 pm
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We called them 'trollies' in these parts, made with proper
spoked pram wheels.
The ones I remember had a small platform behind the driver, on
which another kid would sit, facing backwards, and would push
with his feet to provide forward motion.
I still have a home made 'skateboard' at my parents gaff, that
was made from a rollerskate and a bit of ply, - before
skateboards were even invented! :o
Happy days...
(Tell the lad to lose the helmet. :gay: :toothless:)
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Re: passing it on to the next generation
By: nickjaxe Date: September 5, 2014, 3:39 pm
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We called em go carts when I was a kid...made with pram
wheels...sometime we made trailers for them artic style...happy
days.
Nick.
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Re: passing it on to the next generation
By: Albert Ross Date: September 5, 2014, 4:50 pm
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Me and my mate Andrew Thomson made one, we went down to the
village dump (common in those days) and rescued a fucked Silver
Cross bathtub pram!! (Leafsprings FTW!!!) with a borked front
wheel, and one of those old hag style tartan shopper trolleys.
We were Gods within a half hour of "finishing " it. My Dad cut
the wood, and sanded it so we didn't get splinters, Andrew's Dad
drilled and bolted it together, filing the sharp edges off the
exposed metal. We didn't bother painting it.... We were both
back home inside an hour.... scraped knees, bashed heads,
bruised elbows, and grins a mile wide. Oh the halcyon days of
youth in sunny Barrow Upon Humber. Quite nostalgic now. I might
have a cider to calm myself down.
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Re: passing it on to the next generation
By: espacekiller Date: September 7, 2014, 4:38 pm
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Love it, ours had some big pneumatic trailer wheels on a solid
steel 1" axle, once it got rolling you couldn't stop it!
My mate did the first run slid sideways in to the tyre (no
sides) on the first run and nearly ripped his arse cheek off
:haha: he had a proper skid mark rofl
We added sides, lights, school chair, number plates, a roof
:thumbs:
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Re: passing it on to the next generation
By: Dave Date: September 8, 2014, 2:47 am
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A mate built one that was totally enclosed, like an armoured
car. I was the test pilot and he pushed me off down Haggs Hill
Road. It gathered a bit of speed but being unable to put my feet
out to slow down I found it going faster and I swerved to avoid
a parked car. It went on its side and fell to bits. I ran like
like hell and left my mate to pick up the wreckage.
He didn't speak to me for a week cos I'd wrecked it and he
hadn't even had a go of it. :toothless:
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Re: passing it on to the next generation
By: espacekiller Date: September 8, 2014, 5:05 am
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Thanks Prof inevitably I am now on the lookout for some suitable
wheels. :rolleye0012:
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Re: passing it on to the next generation
By: Peter de Dawg Date: September 8, 2014, 12:39 pm
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Brilliant ! ..btw ,did anyone else used to make rafts from oil
drums ?
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Re: passing it on to the next generation
By: rowehillmaster Date: September 8, 2014, 1:31 pm
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- we called them bogeys ? ! ? I seem to recall mine had the
handle of the pram up the back so you could be pushed, at speed
around a flat course, in a race ?
- summer of 76, we used telegraph poles to make our raft, cut to
about 6' lengths with my dads chain saw ( he let me use it,
honest he did), we even moored it in the bay to some drain
covers from the building site as anchor weights (they were
surplus and unwanted, honest they were) - oh what fun we had -
did come a cropper riding down a slipway as fast as I could,
intention of going into the sea at speed, but some how I went
over the handlebars before I even reached the water and skidded
along on my bare back, still have the scars today !
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Re: passing it on to the next generation
By: rangerovering Date: September 11, 2014, 8:02 am
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Called it a bogey up in these parts as well, great fun! :giddy:
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