[AT] Beilers Pictures now with link!!

[charlie hill]

Hi Cecil,

Look in the left foreground of frame #7.  It is a picture of a threashing
machine but you can see part of the stones.

Interesting that one would go to so much trouble and expense for scalding a
hog.  We used a vat about 6 feet long by 4 feet wide by 1 foot deep made of
galvanized sheet metal ( maybe 16 ga).  It was just a flat bottomed rig that
was supported on steel rods, angle iron, bricks, whatever about 6 inches off
the ground.  We filled it about 3 inches deep with water and put oak or
hickory coals under the pan.  For rendering lard or cooking hog killing stew
( made with anything we didn't want to salt or smoke or freeze) we just used
big cast iron pots over wood coals.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cecil E Monson" <cmonson at hvc.rr.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 9:30 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Beilers Pictures now with link!!


> Charlie, I saw what I think were those stones while I was there on
> Thursday morning but cannot find the photo you refer to. If they are what
I
> saw, whoever did them cut the letters into flat stone. I forget what the
> words were on them. Seems to me they were in with the stuff that was on
> pallets.
>
> Those cast iron stoves with the large tubs on top are what we always
> called "butchers cauldrons". Mostly used to heat scalding water to dip hog
> carcasses in prior to shaving. Could also be used to render lard, I
suppose.
> The one in red is pretty fancy, isn't it?
>
> Cecil
> -- 
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> what you said.
>
> Cecil E Monson
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