Originally Posted by
t00nces2
I had homemade stilts. I used to go down to the railroad track and walk for miles with my dogs. I used to play in streams and catch crayfish and frogs and turtles.
Two cans on a length of string, seeking out red rubber tubes to cut up for a sling shot, a pair of horse chest nuts tied onto 18 inches of string to be slung over the telephone wires, water and lye with scrap aluminum to make hydrogen balloons that would float off into the sky,
Adding carbide to water to make acetylene - boom. Grinding open a sodium cooled valve for the sodium. Going to Green Valley Fertiliser to get some sulphur off the train to make gun powder, Tree forts and underground forts.
Ah crap remembering all this neat stuff I want to be a kid once again.
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