Thread: How to Build a Billycart?

Originally Posted by jimbur

Takes me back. We always used pram wheels and were extremely jealous of a local family who kept having kids. The babes had to learn to walk quickly.

Me too. The old fashioned prams had large spoked wheels so you could turn them with your hands on the flat and go like stink down hill.

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IMG_0043.jpgIMG_0044.jpgIMG_0045.jpgIMG_0046.jpgIMG_0047.jpgIMG_0048.JPGIMG_0049.jpgIMG_0050.jpgI want to make my cart faster can you please give me some tips

Briggs and Stratton 5hp will make a huge difference!!!

wheels from a push bike

What artme said.

Or you could find a steeper hill.

i keep on getting 17 seconds when i time it

Big skinny wheels, less rolling resistance.

Hi nadebta,

Welcome to the Forum. Here is a billy cart might be ok for you.
I use to build billy carts when I seven years old. I lost a lot
of skin riding them. I would build them out of any timber
or wooden crates I could get and old pram wheels.
You can't beat a billy cart made of wood. If you have
trouble see them let know.
Go Cart P1.jpgGo Cart P2.jpg


Cheers Graham.

As others have said, bigger wheels will help.

Billy carts, the memories come flooding back. We had a hill that went down to the vehicle punt on Georges River and when the punt was not loading the boom gates were down. Cars used to line up down the hill waiting so we went down the wrong side of the road and if you couldn't stop you had to get your head down so it didn't get removed as you went under the gate and of course you finished up in the river. Billy carts float and we had a rescue boat there as well, highly organised we were.

I know this is an older thread but after all the other comments I just could not help myself.

I remember that from the '60s.

I had several of his albums.