In the interest in doing my share to keep this forum alive, I am posting a project that I am working on.
It is far from finished but I will update as I progress.
First the story.
A guy called me a few weeks ago and said he had an old bell. He said it was 120 years old and came out of a college in central Texas.
He is very patriotic and wanted to pull the bell on something in parades. He plans to ring it in honor of our military forces.
He thought a cannon carriage would work for his needs and he found me through my website.
He wanted to know if I was interested in building something like that.
I told him sure! I love stuff like that.
After thinking about it for a day, I told him he needed a limber instead of a cannon carriage. A limber is the two wheeled vehicle that pulls a cannon. In the Civil War, it was pulled by six horses.
I have made two of them. They also held the ammunition chest.
I made up one of my famous hand drawings to show him what I had in mind.
It will have 36" wheels. The bell is 18" tall and weighs 105 lbs.
We agreed on a price and I started work.
This is mostly true 4" X 4" fir material.
It is fun to make!
His intent is to pull this by hand so I made a handle for the front that also can also be lowered to be a foot. I also modified the front end of the pull pole to accept a trailer hitch receiver. Now he can pull it with a four wheeler or a golf cart if he wants to.
I'm dressing the whole thing up with some cool metal work. He doesn't know any of this yet.
More pictures as I progress.
Zulu