In church today, our Pastor was telling us a story about the old swing sets from the 1960's....
Reminded me of Grandma Clara VanDyke's swing set..
She had Dad, Willis and Henry make it for her, out of oilfield pipe!
It was heavy duty stuff and hurt if you smacked your head on it!
The boys usually did, (horsing around and all) ...
Don't know about the girls....
It was the shiniest black paint, oil base paint. I'm sure and I would bet it was from the oilfields too...LOL
Grandma thought something was up when her boys didn't fuss about making the swing set for us grandkids...
Then one day, while swinging and playing on the set, Henry came driving in with a trk and pulled over to the swing set, told all of us to get off!
He unhooked the chains from the top pipe bar, put them aside and flipped the rack into his trk..
Grandma came out of the house, yelling, asking, what was he doing??
Henry says, Mom we are pulling an engine out of a car, we need this engine hoist...
Grandma was right, they built it for pulling engines, but kept it at Grandmas for a swing set for us kids, till it was time to use it!
Grandma yells at him, as he is pulling out of the yard, "Bring it back when your done", Henry yelling and waving,Ya' Ya' Ya'.........
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