Your right Greg. Honda makes a great little machine. If their cars are as reliable and tough as their 3-wheelers, I've been thinking I should try one the next time I need a new car. Just been sticking with GM on autos over the years due to wanting to support USA made. Lost a lot of respect for GM now though. I saw where the CEO made a speech indicating they want 70% of their business to be done in China. That sure cooks my goose with leaning their way. I feel like they have given me the finger and walked away.
Anyhow, back to 3-wheelers, we too started out with a 110 when our kids were small. It was a tough critter also. However, when my daughter was about 8 or so, she and a bunch of kids went swimming in a ditch around the corner from us. She rode down there on the 110 and parked on the tile where the ditch crosses the road. A few minutes later the 110 coasted off the end of the tile and fell 8' into the hole they were swimming in. A neighbor called and said something had happened down there and my daughter was crying. I went down there and they had gotten it out of the water ASAP. It landed upside down and floated there for a minute or so before they up righted and got it on ground. I took the plug out and pulled the rope a couple of times, then put it in the pickup and brought it home. Blew all the water away that I could and let it set in the sun the rest of the afternoon and by night, it was running again.
i was a few minutes getting my daughter to settle down, I finally convinced her the 110 could be replaced and that I was so grateful that no one was under it when it fell. This was a lesson for her and it very well could have been much worse. That fall I traded for the Big Red, and then a couple years later I saw one about to be sold at an auction for a low price, so I jumped in a bid 1 time and got it. They've been mighty handy.
I notice your picture on your postings, standing next to a couple of flitches. Do you have a mill and saw your lumber? I have a friend that has a band mill and we have sawed a lot of lumber over the years. I've got several old wood working machines and enjoy seeing the wood transformed. But then, I enjoy the same with metal. I have 3 lathes and kick myself for not buying a milling machine years ago. Too old now though. I did build myself a power hammer years ago out of a set of 2 bottom plows that I had setting in the woods just for scrap metal. Saves a lot of pounding with a hammer and anvil when I fire up the forge.
JD
