[AT] anti-freeze

[Mike]

That's very interesting that the ice would remain through the summer, I would have never imagined it would last that long. How was the ice storage building constructed? Was it partially underground? Mike M

-- Larry Goss <rlgoss at insightbb.com> 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


----- Original Message -----
From: charliehill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 14:47
Subject: Re: [AT] anti-freeze
To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>

> Larry, you can ask Ralph but I suspect you won't get much water 
> out of the 
> ditch up his way!  grins.
> 
> charlie
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Larry Goss" <rlgoss at insightbb.com>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 2:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] anti-freeze
> 
> 
> > Humm.  This thread mentions an interesting concept -- 
> anti-freeze in a 
> > Johnny-Popper.  My uncle and my grandfather had around 2 
> dozen of them on 
> > the dairy farm and never put anti-freeze in any of them.  
> It was a lot 
> > cheaper to drain the radiator and the block every night and 
> fill it with a 
> > bucket of  water from the irrigation ditch every morning.
> >
> > Larry
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Ralph Goff <alfg at sasktel.net>
> > Date: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 12:22
> > Subject: Re: [AT] anti-freeze
> > To: Antique tractor email discussion group 
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> >
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message ----- 
> >> From: "charliehill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
> >> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
> >> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> >> Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 7:07 AM
> >> Subject: Re: [AT] Ralph Goff CLOSE THE DOOR
> >>
> >>
> >> > John my dad used to tell me about not being able to get 
> anti-
> >> freeze during
> >> > WW II and folks putting kerosene in the cooling system.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Charllie, my Dad also talked of using either diesel fuel or
> >> kerosene as
> >> anti-freeze in his John Deere D way back in the fifties. I don't
> >> know if he
> >> couldn't afford anti-freeze or if it wasn't available. It would
> >> have cost a
> >> fair bit to fill up that big cooling system on the D so maybe he
> >> was trying
> >> to avoid the cost. He did comment on at least one occasion when
> >> the
> >> "anti-freeze" (kerosene) got so thick in the radiator that it
> >> stopped
> >> circulating and actually overheated the engine.
> >> This would likely have been in the early fifties before
> >> electricity came to
> >> the rural areas so block heaters were not an option. No battery
> >> chargers
> >> either so when the batteries wouldn't crank anymore it was time
> >> to grab that
> >> big cast iron flywheel and try to start the tractor. I sometimes
> >> wonder how
> >> they survived those winters. We have it pretty easy now even
> >> though we
> >> complain about the cold.
> >>
> >> Ralph in Sask.
> >>
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