Here's a decent photo of Molly in skate board gear.
And here is how you hold your finger over the lens and screw up the shot. But it was the only one I got of Spencer.
Remember when we made our own skate boards?
We started by taking our iron skates apart and nailing one half to each end of a 2' 2x4. Then we nailed a 12" square piece of 1/2" plywood to the back end. You could stand with your right foot crossways on the back and your left foot pointed straight ahead on the front. We had a great new road behind our house that was almost never used. We spent many an hour walking up and skating down that hill. We even came down one night in trail, each holding up a road flare like the skiers would do on TV.
I remember our attempt to make a six man skate board. It was a 2x12 about 8' long. We put two full skates on the back and a 2x6 about 4' long across the front. It had one full skate on each end and pivoted in the middle on a 1/2" bolt through both boards. We tied a rope to the ends so we could "steer" by pulling on one side or the other. Looked like a cross with the top in front.
Enthusiasm wained after the ill fated trial run. We only used three of us for that shake down, but three was enough to learn that after we sat on it, there was too much friction between the boards to steer. Of course we used the longest and steepest hill available so we found out just how much speed you can attain in a relatively straight line in a relatively short time. Brakes would have been a good idea.
It all seemed too much like tobogganing on asphalt, so after the road rash healed, we made several good one man skate boards out of the material.
Getting late so I'll check in down the road.
Stay warm.
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