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Motorized Rocking Horse
"Kids love it and will ride non-stop for hours," says Denis Desjardins, Alcove, Quebec, about the motorized rocking horse he made for his children out of a 45-gal. plastic barrel.
The barrel mounts on a pair of automotive coil springs, anchored to a large steel plate on the ground. A pair of 1/2-in. thick round steel plates at the top of the springs fasten to the bottom of the barrel. A 10-in. pulley mounts under the barrel. A steel rod that's anchored to the base unit fastens to one side of the pulley. As the belt-driven pulley turns, the rod pulls the horse up and down.
"It moves forward and backward like the push arms on a train wheel," says Desjardins. "Two kids can ride it back to back. The front rider hangs onto a foam-covered handle salvaged from an old lawn mower and the back rider hangs onto the horse's tail. I used 3/4-in. thick plywood to make both the head and tail. The plastic barrel is soft which makes it comfortable to ride."
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Denis Desjardins, Rt. 1, Alcove, Quebec, Canada JOX lAO (ph 819 459-2548).


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1995 - Volume #19, Issue #6