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.
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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.
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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.
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We agreed on a price and I started work.
This is mostly true 4" X 4" fir material.
It is fun to make!
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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