I Remember when I was a Boy

[threedogs]

We carry on about recycling today, the bottle-o (licensed marine collector) would come and collect your empty beer bottles & leave a few cents on the back step, a pleasant surprise when you got home from school. We would get 3 cents back on a soft drink bottle at the deli (that is what we called milk bars here in WA). The milko collected your empty milk bottles, his horse new the route.
Graham

yep in Boys Club we had Bottle drives all the time.
and Penny drives where you lined up all your copper
coins end to end.
Nup can't do that anymore
Also had woodchop days where we chopped wood for the elderly for the colder months
How we never lost an arm or leg was beyound me

[mudnut]

I found the you tube link and added it to the post. Yes, his way of demonstrating stuff was excellent.
And this one, where he's playing with mercury.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIbX...I#t=857.211556

[dads tractor]

I remember when there was NO TV, all there was , was The air adventures of Hop Harrigan and the Smokey Dawson show along with Dad n Dave, all listened to on the Little Nipper radio.
Sitting on the floor as we had no chairs.
I remember a Joey kept in a sugar bag hanging on the kitchen door, and making Fairies houses out of sticks and setting fire to the hayshed (aged 4)
I remember stepping on a rabbit dung heap and getting snapped by a rabbit trap my dad had set.
We trapped a wild cat, it got away with a rabbit trap and lived under the house, us kids were petrified to go outside.
Darn those rabbit traps were cruel, but those were the days.
Still remember it all, even 60 years later lol
Cheers, the ferret.

Have you still got the peddle car Ferret as its a Cyclops and they are worth $ or like everyone else it ended up behind the shed to rust away .

[jay see]

Have you still got the peddle car Ferret as its a Cyclops and they are worth $ or like everyone else it ended up behind the shed to rust away .

Like these.



Mrs won't let me throw then out.

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[Plasnart]

Like these.



Mrs won't let me throw then out.

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The fire truck might be worth some bikkies to the right person mate! Not sure about the rest though.

[threedogs]

@jay seee is that the Aldi fire truck from a year back or so, was tempted to buy one @$200 a pop.

I remember the Rumble in the Jungle, growing up , for that matter most heavy weight fights
until Pay for view, but most pubs let you in for free anyway, good money spinner

[dads tractor]

Copy the stickers and dimensions and treat rust so when the grandies are finished and we are driving electric cars or wheelchairs you have a project in the shed .The wagon needs to be the metal body and wheels to rate and the 3 wheelers have to be the same all metal. Have fun looking .

[threedogs]

I reckon Ferets pedal car fully re-coed would come in at $1500
maybe more depends who's there. Would look great on the floor
next to some oil bottles,lol Man cave must have thats for sure lol

[dads tractor]

yep reading u 3d

[threedogs]

New show on tv soon called Aussie pickers should be interesting.


Back to when I was a boy I remember at school flicking the silver
foil bottle tops with some sort of accuracy.
When I was a boy we sang "God save the Queen"

a piece of 4"x2" made a great belly board with a fruit box
nailed to the back, under the seat[bunch of rags] you had oil for you
rear bearings,,, a handful of flat head nails to keep the rear bearing [claw hammer]
in place, if your were flash you bolted a free spinnig pram rim on the belly board and wrapped
your steering rope till tight, trouble was to turn left you needed to turn right
till you fitted more rope so it was correct. lol lol