[AT] anti-freeze

[Steve W.]

Larry Goss wrote:
> That's one of the things about an irrigation ditch that I never
> understood.  The reservoir lakes themselves would be frozen deep
> enough to be cutting ice from six inches thick, but the supply ditch
> would still be running clear.  I have no explanation for it other
> than the water just ran too fast to freeze.
> 
> My grandfather and the hired man worked for weeks to fill the ice
> house with blocks of ice cut with the ice saw from the lake and
> carried on a horse-drawn sled that was built like a two-horse farm
> wagon but with four runners instead of wheels.  The ice was packed
> with sawdust for insulation and it would last until August every
> summer.  The farm "modernized" around WWII and they stopped filling
> the ice house after that time, but I remember visitiing on the farm
> in July and having homemade ice cream using the end of the ice that
> had been stored for months.
> 
> Larry
> 

Gee, you want to relive your youth? Drop by this area and cut ice just
like they did. It's the Millers Mills ice harvest. Usually held in late
February. I've cut ice and stacked it in the ice house as well.
http://www.millersmillsny.com/

-- 
Steve W.
Near Cooperstown, New York