[AT] Ice harvest coming up next month

[Ralph Goff]

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From: "Gene Dotson" <gdotsly at watchtv.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 4:18 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Ice harvest coming up next month


>    My Amish neighbors have their ice houses filled. Most cut 2 weeks ago


Ice houses, now theres something I guess only the old folks remember, well 
not really old because obviously I remember them and I'm not that old. ":-)
My grandfather had a little log ice house built here on the farm many years 
ago and I can still remember as a kid having to help shovel snow into it in 
spring before the snow all melted. I think sawdust was the main ingredient 
to protect the ice/snow  from melting through the summer. Handy since the 
woodpile and buzz saw were within a stone's throw of the ice house.
I think use of the ice house kind of trailed off after 1957 when the first 
freezer came to the farm but it still saw some use keeping the cans of cream 
cool while waiting for the cream truck to stop by.
Tractor reference: the roof of the ice house was steel panels made from the 
roof of the first tractor on this farm, the Rock Island Heider.

Ralph in Sask.