[AT] Beilers Pictures now with link!!

[Rob Wilson]

My Dad has one of the stoves exactly like the red one in the 
picture and I was always told that it was a rendering pot. 
I wouldn't think they would decorate a pot to scald hogs
with cattle heads. The only thing different with his is that
one of the legs is missing and he has never found one. 

Rob 

> 	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