Chase is building a dog house for his Aunt. She got the plans and we printed them out and he is doing all the rest.
Good thing his dad has allot of tools!
Its funny, up until a year or so ago I was always calling him to come hold something when I was building something, now the tables are turned. He has been calling me, "will you hold this up so I can attach this to it"
Now I am the gopher and he is the one in charge...
Chase taking it on a test drive.
many issues. The front left wheel is welded crooked.
the steering does not work right.
its too tall
Its pretty heavy but not too bad. I can improve that.
But I think what I will do is take what I have learned from this and transfer that knowledge into a 2 person 2 story bike. I have parked this in the backyard and started building dirt bikes to sell, so I can have that money to build these weird things!
You take 2 20" bikes. weld one on top of the other. you lengthen the steering post. you redo the chain.
You get a kid to test it for you.
You have a tall bike!
I have 2 now so the kids can joust on them.
There pretty neat. you sit up twice as high so you can see much more.
After 18 years of using the washer and dryer my father in law gave us for a wedding present (we didnt get it until a few years after we were married since we were living in apartments and moving all the time)
We finally broke down and got new ones.
Front loading, energy effecient stackable ones!
These uses 60% plus less water than the old and half the time to wash and mucho shorter to dry!
I picked them up one at a time on sale from Lowes..one was a return and I got it over half off.
also makes tons more room in the laundry area as you can see they stack and I built a bench to fold etc on.
Wish my mom had these when we were growing up, she would have loved them. You can wash more clothes at once plus they dry as fast as they wash.
I just finished driving it down the street.
1. front left wheel is not straight. Have to reweld it.
2. Steering wheel as you can see is not straight.
3. Have to reweld the front pedal. Its not attached real well.
overall it pedals and rides better than my pvc one from last year. You sit up mucho higher and thats nice.
This design is gonna work, but will be best with 2 to 4 riders (IE pedalers) its pretty tough for one man.
The idea of being able to take it apart for transporting it is also going to work.
Got some steering going southern engineering style!
took some work and a used "Razor scooter" but steeering looks to be working.
I have to move one crank forward and weld one more on then some chains and might be able to do some test driving.
this is the 4 person pedal car that I am making and should be able to break it down to smaller size for transporting.
we shall see
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