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Post by frogsdigger on Jul 26, 2006 9:21:26 GMT -5
I think it would be cool if guys posted thier pictures when they were on the jr. drill team, much younger, or even as children playing racing in thier driveway and then post a picture of where they have ended up today.
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Post by hnic04 on Jul 26, 2006 21:06:51 GMT -5
good post... i think my mom has a picture of me "driving" my big wheel on the street after i put "lines" down with her sugar i think im running "b" hose at the hydrant i used to drag to the curb.... i know cheesy story but what the hell .... kenny whfd
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Post by GuardrailGeek on Jul 26, 2006 21:50:04 GMT -5
This thread has great potential. I too had some mean driveway tournaments. I gotta go thru the family album to see if there were any photos, but I doubt it. Pops didn't like when we dented the gutter on the garage from throwing the ladder against it...
If we wanted to run with the hydrant on the right side, we had to run into the garage, and hit the target painted on the back wall. I don't think the water damage has been repaired yet...
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Post by Danger on Jul 26, 2006 22:55:50 GMT -5
CI still hosts an occasional garden hose tournament in front of the Shack.
Buddha used to be unstoppable, but he has lost a step..... watching him do the Motor Pump slide (with hockey gloves and sound effects) is still worth the price of admission.
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Post by BTritone on Jul 27, 2006 7:56:23 GMT -5
Danger that is cool, you guys inspired me as a kid. I would wait to hear your trucks go, then my friends and I would push the wagon in the back yard as the guy in the wagon held the ladder and we would stop at the swing set and swing the ladder up on it. I also had a fake hydrant in the back yard made out of piping and a natural gas valve with fittings to fit a garden hose, this was all connected to a wooden stake that was hammered into the ground and we would run b hose and effiency that way. Of course we were always pissed off at our town(your north neighbors) for not having a motorized team and we would call their non emergency Number and say get a "drill team and hang up!!, or "why don't you have a team?", we want our town represented!! never worked , so we thought that they just had poor morale!!. . Later I tried to join you guys in station 2 , but red tape with the town border thing happened and someone from a station 2 company would not let me in I think he hated the racing team or something and knew that I knew a bunch of guys on the team. So the teamthat I always wanted to race with never happend I guess I am a nut!!
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Post by Dan Laverty on Jul 27, 2006 8:11:59 GMT -5
Did a little driveway racing myself.Never did any of that yellow tape racing like the kids do now. We were serious, we used garden hose, had a little ladder(ran and dug) and had a target. I am not going to name names but (almost)everyone single one of us went on to run motorized racing. Also spent many an hour as a kid walking/running up and down and up and down the ladder at practices(after the team practiced 3-man the ladder was moved to the left side of the arch and was secured) and on the side of the firehouse. On of the greatest thrills as a kid was to be able to ride in the front seat of the b-truck and in the bed of the c-truck back to camp after a run in a tournament. I used to stand at the end of the track and would hop in/on. The best was after a really good run and everyone came running to camp to congradulate each other. I used to get upset when the driver would get pissed and drive back to camp in a huff and not wait for the guys b/c the run was not so good. As I got older I used to stand by the side of the track and carry the hydrant man's hose back to camp.
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Post by frogsdigger on Jul 27, 2006 8:30:02 GMT -5
I didn't have time to post after my original, but this is going well. Find pictures and stuff so we can all have a good laugh.
At my house we used to run power wheels b-hose. We would pack the bed the the "Bigfoot" and everything. We ran efficeny with the garden hose, and would put a wiffle ball on top of a cone as the target. We would run 3 man (2-man, my brother and I) on the swing set, that doubled as the arch for buckets. MY dad got a small plastic tub and we would take big coffee cans and fill a 5 gallon bucket at the top of the slide. My mom took an old pair of sweat pants and stuffed them so we could even run the dummy event. Only you would have to climb the ladder with the dummy, then slide down the slide.
I know have pictures of some of this stuff, I just have to dig them out and scan them. I hope all of you do the same.
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Post by minic95 on Jul 27, 2006 18:07:53 GMT -5
Well every year i still host the garden hose state tournament at my house, with the guy from our dept that grew up together on the juniors. We have up to 15 contests and records for each one. Kinda of died out because we arent young kids anymore but we try hard anyway.
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Post by cbiscuit on Jul 27, 2006 21:10:35 GMT -5
That is awesome! I have never been so elaborate, but I grew up using my bicycle as a 'B' rig... of course the legs get tired trying to tow the neighborhood on the back!!! LOL
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Post by 911pix on May 22, 2007 19:30:00 GMT -5
Guys, this is an awesome thread. Some of you guys mentioned possibly having some photos of yourselves as kids "drilling" in the backyard or driveway...if any of you feel like following up and digging out any of those old photos, I believe it would really be something special to have a couple of these photos appear in the book: I feel it would go a long way towards illustrating just how dedicated you guys are to the sport, as well as showing - literally - how the sport is passed down from generation to generation!
...any takers?
Mike
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Post by frogsdigger on May 26, 2007 21:14:15 GMT -5
I'm gonna scan the pictures i have tommorow Mike. If for nothing else, it will be a good laugh.
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Post by cbiscuit on May 26, 2007 21:18:10 GMT -5
i wish i would have thought to take pics... not that they would be good, but for a laugh as well...
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Post by frogsdigger on Aug 2, 2007 1:00:30 GMT -5
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Post by frogsdigger on Aug 2, 2007 1:02:06 GMT -5
Now: Left Digger/Climber
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Post by roadrunners69 on Aug 2, 2007 8:13:44 GMT -5
Future Roadrunners
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