Radio Flyer RE-DO *1st Birthday Present round 2*

[scbird94]

yard work today, carter hauling branches in his wagon. good thing for touch up paint lol. Thinkin about makin a insert out of 1/4 plywood and speaker box carpet as a "bedliner" to help protect it

 

[brats.n.harleys]

heres one i saw on another forum

 

[noisufnoc]

those wagons are awesome. Nice work!

 

[nathank]

Awesome!

I was loving the wagon pics, but the pic of him sitting in it made me smile (I have a 1 year old).

 

[ironheadtom]

Those are awesome !

 

[scbird94]

thanks guys!

 

[scbird94]

Day at the park!

 

[wbrian63]

Man - what are you feeding that kid? +4 months and he has GROWN...

I've got a niece that turns 2 in July - she seems to get larger as I watch...

For Christmas, sister asked me to make her a "box o' doors" - she likes anything with a latch or a key. I made a box with a top and bottom supported by 4 columns. Between each column I installed a door of a different style - each with a different type of lock. It's only about 12" on all sides, nice and small for a little girl.

Then I remembered I had a toy box in the storage shed. I was thinking it was a box that my great uncle and grandfather had made for my brother or sister (they're twins) for their first birthday in 1970. It was just a "plain plywood box" with screen molding used to cover the raw edges on the lid and triangular blocking in the corners of the box.

Of course, being 40 or so years old, the "plain plywood box" equivalent wood quality isn't available at any price now... Do you think you could find 1/2" plywood that is 1) actually 1/2" thick and 2) would remain perfectly flat with no support on a lid of 18" x 36" for 40 years?

It had seem some abuse over the years, so I did some repair, added some more decorative moldings to the top and the box body and painted it white to match all her other furniture. The original box came with 2 hinges and a chain to prevent the lid from opening too far - nothing to protect it from slamming on little hands. Kids were tougher way-back-when... I added a couple of friction lid stays and a piano hinge. Lid stays up, and when closed past about 60 degrees, closes smoothly on it's own - no slamming.

When I was cleaning out the inside, I found written in ball-point pen in my grandmother's handwriting: "To Brian: Happy Birthday from Granny and Grandpa - March 1964". It was my box after all!!! I added a dedication beside this one for Elizabeth. When I showed my sister, we both sat down and cried for a bit...

I like doing things for me. I LOVE doing things for people I care about.

You are obviously cut from the same bolt of cloth.

 

[leftyz]

Just found this thread, immediately went to CL and searched for radio flyers, I have a 1 month old son and would love to attempt a project like this for him (me?).

You could sell kits, with just the frame bits and maybe wheels /tires and let people source their own wagon bodies. I bet you'd do quite well. (I'd buy a kit)

Looks like you and this guy had similar ideas http://tampa.craigslist.org/hdo/for/1741963896.html

 

[4.0 Rambler]

Both look fantastic.

 

[scbird94]

You are obviously cut from the same bolt of cloth.

LOL that latch box is definately cool idea. I guess we are kindof cut from the same cloth huh- in my opinion, the coolest presents cannot be bought, and the presents you remember into adult hood DEFINATELY did NOT come from toys r us.

 

[Keep]

Carter (my son) is only a year old but his favorite thing to do is wreck stuff and smash things so i think his might be a different story.

HAHAHA come on, tell us you didn't do the same thing!

Those wagons are great BTW.

 

[scbird94]

Yes i was very destructive. I used to wreck my little brothers toys for fun, lol

 

[Art From De Leon]

Yes i was very destructive. I used to wreck my little brothers toys for fun, lol

A friend and I once used firecrackers to blow up his BIG brother's model car collection.

During the spring melt, I once took a model aircraft carrier, and set it in the water filled ruts in the drive, and while it was in the shipyard undergoing repairs, a 'spark' from a welder set the avaition gas on fire, burning it to the waterline.

Also, my toy soldiers used to get napalmed quite regularly while playing war.

But the best probably was at school when we exchanged presents for Christmas, I bought a model kit that had about 5 pieces, and a friend and I decided that "even John shouldn't have any problem putting that together", so we took a hammer and made it into like a 1000 piece kit, to make it a bit more challenging.

 

[scbird94]

3400 views. wow i should put a snapshot of this thread in some kind of scrap book (with pictures of wagons when they were still nice lol)

 

[cowboy73]

Wow. Those are cool. You're a good dad.

 

[O RLY]

those are both BOSS

 

[tjackson]

Those are really cool man, nice job!

 

[usa89gt]

Absolutely stunning!!! These will be passed on for generations.

 

[csp]

A different spin on the subject. These were built by a couple of friends of mine.

 

[scbird94]

those things are sweet! I bet they are a blast to drive at the track campgrounds

 

[Steve V.]

During the spring melt, I once took a model aircraft carrier, and set it in the water filled ruts in the drive, and while it was in the shipyard undergoing repairs, a 'spark' from a welder set the avaition gas on fire, burning it to the waterline.

Also, my toy soldiers used to get napalmed quite regularly while playing war.

A fellow pyro...I used to take SSP cars and light them and run them (and burn ships).

Steve

 

[TheGrooveking]

A fellow pyro...I used to take SSP cars and light them and run them (and burn ships).

Steve

I have a few of those! IHad when I was a kid, so about 10 years ago I went thru a period of buying a lot of toys I had from ebay. Have my Hot Wheel Sizzler's set with Speed Racer's Mach 5 and Racer X's car, my Tonka toys, my GAF talking view master and 30+ disks, my Cox Shrike and a whole bunch of stuff.

TheGrooveking