[SEL] Fwd: [AT] Ice harvest coming up next month

[David Rotigel]

This was a topic recently on the tractor List. Some of you might be  
interested in going to the site and looking at the video.
	Dave


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> From: Larry Goss <rlgoss at insightbb.com>
> Date: January 29, 2010 5:54:47 PM EST
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com 
> >
> Subject: Re: [AT] Ice harvest coming up next month
> Reply-To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com 
> >
>
> Very interesting site, Steve.  It brings to mind entries in my  
> grandmother's diary where she describes the process of filling the  
> ice house on the farm in Colorado.  They lived on the St. Vrain  
> below Lyons, and had several irrigation lakes on the farm which were  
> fed by the river coming down from Estes Park.
>
> I was very interested in the particulars of the ice house in the  
> video.  It is smaller than I expected -- the one on the farm in  
> Colorado was at least twice as large in all dimensions -- 8 times as  
> much ice.  Dad said it got filled every winter, and they always had  
> ice available for an ice cream social every summer.
>
> I expected to see sawdust being used in conjunction with the  
> storage.  That's a detail that is missing from my father's  
> description, but he implied to me that they could not have done it  
> without sawdust.  By the time I was visiting on the farm during  
> summer vacations, refrigeration was well-established and the ice  
> house stood empty year-around.
>
> Larry
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve W." <falcon at telenet.net>
> Date: Friday, January 29, 2010 12:23
> Subject: [AT] Ice harvest coming up next month
> To: ATIS LIST <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>, Engine list <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com 
> >
>
>> For anyone interested in how they used to keep things cold prior
>> to the
>> refrigerator.
>>
>> http://millersmillsny.com/
>>
>> If it stays cold for the next couple of weeks they should get
>> some good
>> ice this year.
>>
>> Oh, if you plan on coming wear good boots. It gets wet on the
>> ice at
>> times. A set of ice cleats isn't a bad idea either...
>>
>> -- 
>> Steve W.