a once around the garage to see what he is doing

brian6pac said

That chain looks like the one I had on my mini bike when I was a kid, I had a 12HP Wisconsin off of a cement mixer and a belt clutch off of a lawn tractor, What a ride! I was 12. Well maybe not that big but we scrounged what we could off of old construction equipment to build what we needed.
Yea the good old days.

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That story hits home for me also, We had nothing. My grandpa showed me how to put corn cobs in my bicycle tires, I couldn't afford a tube . Pack them tight and the break the last one to fit in. They only lasted a couple days until they tuned to powder. But I got to ride and I was so proud my grandpa for coming up with that idea. I thought he was a genius back then and it showed me I could do anything with some thought and my hands

Maybe that is why us old guys hoard things. we all had to use are imagination and what ever we had to get by. Yeah those were the good old days. They taught me anything can be fixed with a little thought and ingenuity.