[AT] anti-freeze

[Larry Goss]

Uhhh, no, Steve.  I think I'll pass on the opportunity.  :-)

Larry


----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve W." <falcon at telenet.net>
Date: Wednesday, December 24, 2008 0:32
Subject: Re: [AT] anti-freeze
To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>

> 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
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