[AT] OT: Flashback - Early Farmers Building County Roads

Indiana Robinson robinson at svs.net
Fri Jan 27 04:53:55 PST 2006


	Do a simple "image" search on Google...
Search on "slip scoop" (including the quotes).
Search on "Fresno scraper" (including the quotes).
Search on "concrete fresno" (including the quotes).
Search on tumblebug (one word).
	Around here the kind pictured as a "tumblebug" were called 
a "roll-over scoop" but that brings up nothing in a search.
	I have a Ford (Dearborn) three point "slip scoop" that we 
bought new about 1953. We also have an old one horse drawn 
slip scoop in front of the house that Diana plants flowers 
in.
	A house I used to own east of here had a full basement 
that was dug years after the house was built using one 
horse and a slip scoop operated by a neighbor. He was lot 
younger when he dug it than when he told me about doing it. 
  :-)   They then poured the walls hand carrying all of the 
concrete in 5 gallon buckets.
	It wore me out just typing that last line...   ;-)

--
"farmer"

I try to take one day at a time but sometimes several days attack
me at once.   :-) 


Francis Robinson
Central Indiana, USA
robinson at svs.net





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