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Rolling downhill inside a cable drum.
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Previously:
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...637#post128527
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...025#post137857
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...069#post125626
Did we get to issue a couple Darwin awards
I like when it comes back for seconds.
That was retribution for cutting a large enough hole in one end so the guys could get inside and roll it down hill in the first place causing it to loose half its core.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jon
Those wooden spools have feelings too you know.
For when there are no hills nearby.
https://diqn32j8nouaz.cloudfront.net...own_stairs.gif
This stuff makes feel all warm and fuzzy!
Thank you Frank it had to be stated
I think I recognize some of them from a Bernie Sanders rally I saw the other night.Quote:
Originally Posted by Altair
though I never thought it possible,...my flabber is gasted
When I was about 4 or 5 years old, some other kids and myself were playing around a big hole in the ground which had been dug for a basement of a new house. Nearby there was an empty 45 gallon drum with one end cut out, for fun we decided to roll it down the slope of the excavation with one of us in it, it came about that I would be the first one to get the ride. What a ride that was, I'll never forget it. Needless to say, after that none of the other kids wanted to experience the "thrill" of a ride to the bottom.
This thread brought me to tears...now my co-workers think I'm crazy.
One of my Uncles bought new tires for one of the tractors. the old ones were just laying there and were just too tempting to us boys and girl cousins, We just had to roll them around. With no steep hills on the farm and the tires were just barely wide enough for the youngest of us to get inside we stuffed my youngest cousin and my little sister in 1 of them. 4 of us boys ran along side rolling the tire with the youngers screaming to the tops of their lungs while the girl cousins ran behind cheering everyone on. All was fun even for the 2 inside until the slope quickened just enough for the tire to get away from us and rolled into the stock pond. the middle of the winter is not a good time to be stuffed inside of a tire and it laying flat in 2 feet of water. Both of them managed to crawl out of the tire and crawl to the shore just about the time the rest of us had reached the pond. We hastily built a fire had them strip off their clothes and dried them and their clothes off but we still had to retrieve the tire. Now skinny dipping was a big thing for all of us in the summer time but in 40° weather 8 naked kids 5 boys and 3 girls ranging in ages from 7 to 15 scrambling around trying to extricate a 200 lb tractor tire stuck in the mud was a scene not even Norman Rockwell could have thought of