[AT] sickle grinder

[Larry D. Goss]

Wow!  You have the wooden box, too?  That's nice.  The boxes are missing
on the sets I have, but they are both Eclipse brand.  One was my
grandfather's the other was my great-grandfather's.  Somewhere in our
wealth of historical papers, I have the instructions that came with one
of the sets.  They're intermixed with letters, diaries, journals, day
books, and other such items that we're slowly but surely going through,
transcribing to word processor,  storing, and filing.  There's so much
from this family -- over 100 volumes of daily diaries kept by three
generations of the women, hundreds of letters that were received by my
grandfather before he married my grandmother in 1902, hundreds of
photographs, negatives, and slides of people (mostly relatives) that
have to be scanned, cleaned, corrected, and identified before being
burned to CD --- the list goes on.  We received most of this material
between 26 and 28 years ago, and we've been working at it reasonably
steadily ever since.  It's actually going a lot faster now that digital
imaging has come on the scene.  I might actually see my way clear to
getting it completed in the next ten years or so.

Larry

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 10:03 AM
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Hi Larry,

Here in my office I have the cobbler kit my granddaddy used to make
shoes 
for my mom, her brothers and sisters and some of her cousins.  It is a 
Purfoco Economical Cobbler kit #2011  according to the letters stamped
into 
the wooden box it came in.

I'm pretty proud of it as well as all of the tools I have that came from
my 
dad and granddad.  I know you feel the same way.

Charlie

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From: "jfgrant" <jfgrant at triton.net>
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> Larry, pretty darn neat! Remember, "All things come to those who wait"

> I'll be that old hammer means more to you than a new Craftsman tool
box 
> filled with new stuff. At least it would to me. Thanks for sharing
this 
> story. John Grant
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Larry D. Goss" <rlgoss at evansville.net>
> To: "'Antique tractor email discussion group'" 
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> Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 9:17 AM
> Subject: RE: [AT] sickle grinder
>
>
>> Just dodge the windstorms, Ron.  :-)
>>
>> I understand exactly the dilemma caused by the knowledge of
"ancestral
>> hardware" -- stuff that's in the family and that you could use but
that
>> you don't own.  I was really disappointed that my brother inherited
all
>> my Dad's tools, but several years after Dad's death I had the
>> opportunity to browse through the shop on the farm and take a good
hard
>> look at the tools that are there.  With rare exception, they are worn
>> out and dangerous.  Dad had gone through all his tools while he was
>> still alive and took the opportunity to give me several small items
of
>> historical significance.  It turned out that those were basically the
>> only items worth passing on to future generations, and he knew it.
>>
>> The reason for the trip to Colorado last week was to visit with a
cousin
>> who is terminally ill with pancreatic cancer.  One of the items he
gave
>> me was the hammer that belongs with the cobbler tools that our
>> great-grandfather owned back in the 1860's.  My cousin knew that I
have
>> the rest of the tools and wanted the hammer reunited with the set.
>>
>> Larry
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
>> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Ronald L.
>> Cook
>> Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2005 11:07 PM
>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>> Subject: Re: [AT] sickle grinder
>>
>> Larry,
>> I would sharpen the bottom serrated but not the top serrated.
>> Just as
>> you say.  The grinder I plan to get is only 8 miles from me in my
family
>>
>> farm's machine shed.  I have sharpened many a sickle on that thing
and
>> can still use it when I want to.  I just hope to obtain ownership one
of
>>
>> these days as I am the only one in the family that would use it
anyways.
>>
>> A little trip to Goodland would be fun, though.
>> Ron Cook
>> Salix, Ia
>>
>> Larry D. Goss wrote:
>>
>>> Well, head out to Goodland, Ron.  The one out there is only a day's
>>> travel each way.  It's complete.  As a matter of fact, it has a lot
>> more
>>> hardware on it than the IH grinder I used to have.  But, I didn't
look
>>> closely enough at this one to see its brand or its price.
>>>
>>> BTW, which style of serrated sections are you talking about?  I've
>>> always ground the ones with the serrations on the bottom, but I
notice
>>> that top-serrated sections are also available, and I presume those
>>> really can't be sharpened.
>>>
>>> Larry
>>
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