Re-cycling 1955 Style - My passion for building and riding go-carts is well chronicled on the Heaton St Thread. By now I was the proud owner of a Junior Carpentry Tool Kit which I had been given one Christmas. Although junior in size there was a full range of tools and they were working miniatures, made in Poland it had a confusing (for me that was) metric rule but that didn't hold me back too much. But with a zero budget obtaining raw materials for actually making the cart was quite a challenge. I re-cycled old timber when I could but sometimes there was no alternative than to obtain fresh material. In those days oranges were supplied to the greengrocers in wooden crates, these couldn't be sent back to South Africa from where the Outspan Oranges originated so the shop gave them away, but there was a high demand (they were used to build chicken hutches, pigeon coops, rabbit hutches and so on and often for kindling wood (coal fires were king)) so you had to be quick on your toes.
Peg.