[SEL] Re:cool spring show

[skip landis]

i'm leaving the list for awhile, been a lurker most of the time anyhow. hope to
see some of you at cool spring on the 17th.  skip in nw montana

Richard Strobel wrote:

>   As the show season is well on it's way, I would like to recruit photo's of
> the old unique iron that was on the belt.  These go in my Webshots album,
> "So Whad they use'm for."  And as always ya'll can use them anyway you see
> fit.
>
>   Helen, could I put the Brick Crusher in the album..with proper credit
> given of course??  That's pretty unique and never seen one before.
>
>   Always nice to get guestbook entries in regards to the albums I have;
>
>   Makes the heart a little warmer..here it is:
>
> People are talking about your photos!
>
> On June 8 [barnchaser] viewed your album entitled
> "So Whad They Use'm For ? "Domestic  Applications"" and wrote:
>
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> What a very interesting series of albums!  Believe it or not, as a girl we
> used an old belt saw with a huge round blade (about 3 ft. in diameter) to
> cut our firewood.  The 6 inch wide belt was hooked around the rear axel of
> an old, undriveable car with the rear end supported on blocks.  Sure made
> fast work of the huge stacks of slab wood left on the property by previous
> logging operations through our forests. We also used an old style hand pump
> to draw our water from a 24 ft deep well. In hindsight, it's noteworthy that
> this was located just 30 miles out of Washington, D.C. in the 1960's.  Those
> forests are long gone to make way for crowded housing developments and
> shopping malls.  Sigh...  Charlotte, now in El Paso, TX where
> overdevelopment is threatening to expend the last vestiges of the one paved
> "country road" still in the area.
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