Sometimes the "muse" get's me. While wandering around my property, I was looking at my collection of old wheels. The result was this improbable reproduction of a Penny Farthing bicycle. It's made of old tractor parts, drill rod horseshoes and an assortment of odds and ends. BRAIN TEASER....any guess as to what the end caps on the handle bars are?
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...off a safety trolley ?
The seat... is that a plow shear..????
Yep, it's a plow shear seat, nope on the handlebar ends. Good guess though, actually, since you took the time to guess, I'll tell you. They are steel shuffle board pucks you used in bar-room shuffle board games..remember the kind, or am I the oldest guy here?!
That looks way Cool!
So have you rode it yet?
Or is it a decorative Art kind of thing??
Nope...You ain't the oldest... I remember them heavy shuffleboard pucks..flung a bunch of them years ago..
QuoteSo have you rode it yet?
ROFL
Wow! You creative guys are always coming up with something different all right! I love it! I keep finding different things you used to put it together. I haven't seen one of those ol' well rope pulleys since I was a kid.
The horseshoe pedals look good! Hard to make up I would think!?
Watauga, This puppy weighs about 250+lbs, the front wheel is concave (upside down "u" shaped) and unless I shim a couple of things and grow to gorilla proportions, no way am I gonna ride it!!! If you take a horseshoe and mount one leg in a vise and hammer the other down, it's a natural curve the shoe takes. Welding the washers fore and aft is the toughest part.
Razor, whew, glad I'm not the only "Ole Coot" on the forum!!
Ironwood, I never seen one of those rope pullys till I was an adult LOL!
Waddya mean old - we still use them here in Oklahoma for playin shuffleboard! (But i am almost that old anyway)
Both my grandparents used to have them "old" pulleys hanging at the top of the barn, guess that makes me old pnic Is a nice piece of work thanks for sharing
hdslp Burnt my first rod in 71 and have seen a lot of creative metal work over the years, but that is cooool, metal artistry at it's finest, still know a couple places where a guy can get into a good game of bankboard, and you gotta ride it at least once, if only to say it bucked you off!!! ROFL ROFL
A 250 pound Penny Farthing might be very fast going downhill! 'shok'
You will need some good brakes! pnic pnic pnic
I don't know if this is dating me or not but the pulley in the picture looks about the same size as the one we had over the well until I was about 12 years old.
In the summer time I watered livestock at least 3 time a day from that well.
I. just took a pulley like that from my grandparents well house. I remembered cranking water out of the well for my grandmother. Nice creation! You are very creative!
Monte would be proud of you.
Mike
You think you guys are old because you jerked water from them wells in buckets. I wuz the fellow that dug them wells. Ole Tom has been around awhile. thmbsup