One thing I have found, "cooking off" ammunition in a fire would often throw the brass farther than the bullet!! Still dangerous!!
Absolutely crazy Charlie!
Like idiots we'd all be poking our heads out from behind the trees waiting for it to explode
We used to cook off aerosol cans too
Probably one of the reasons there's no ozone layer left!
And nowadays, seesaws (also called teeter-totters) have been removed from the playgrounds for being too dangerous.
In retrospect, however, those playground carousel things we spun around on probably WERE genuinely dangerous...
They were starting to be replaced (by carousels) even when I was a kid, but here they had these things called
'Witches Hats', they were made of heavy wood and iron, weighed a ton, and had an irregular orbit, some of them were huge! Loads of kids must have lost teeth because of them!
When I was a youth-worker in the 1980's the council decided, (at considerable public expense, and having closed down the adventure playground the kids had helped build themselves on health and safety grounds), to install a "death-slide" (a sort of overhead monorail) on the playground that was part of my patch. Some of the councillors had been on a junket to Sweden to study one
The original had grass underneath it, but they thought that would get muddy, so they replaced the grass with concrete and gravel, and installed a bend, with a steel pillar built in just the right place to catch the kids shins as they banked round the corner. Every evening for a month, I had to be down there (unpaid), scraping kids off the gravel and applying first aid. Then an adult fell off and died, and they chained it up for the next 10 years before it was sold off for scrap
Why am I reminded of the Four Yorkshiremen sketch?
LOL!
Very cool Taylor
Our version was the rock encased in moist clay ,stuck on the end of a stick and flung with two handed samurai grip...passing trains were a prime target for this long range weapon.
What about bows and arrows, everyone used to make those? I remember getting hit in the collar-bone with an arrow someone had tipped with a pointed piece of roofing slate!
Thanks Harry! I'm a big guy 6'6, I fit comfortably on it. The steering wheel doesn't rub on my legs like my old rider and some of the other newer brands. This one is pretty cool, it has the "quick oil change" and the bigger V-twin engine. Plenty of power for my lil piece of property.
That's tall Taylor, I always think of you like your avatar
Really too bad because we could never find another tree as accessible and hugely spread. 
