[AT] Ice harvest coming up next month

[John Dunlap]

I'd like to see one of those. Do you know the manufacturer?

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Gene Dotson <gdotsly at watchtv.net> wrote:
>
>    Ice houses are common in my neighborhood. I hauled a brand new to one of
> my neighbors. They are built by the community in southern Michigan. A semi
> truck delivered 4 of them in November. They are now insulated with 12 inches
> of expanding foam. They will keep ice up to 2 years with normal usage. They
> are pretty light and 4 of us easily loaded a 12'x12' 10' house on my trailer
> by tipping one end up and backing the trailer under and sliding it up on
> planks. They are anchored down to prevent blowing away when empty.
>
>                Gene
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ralph Goff" <alfg at sasktel.net>
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> Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 6:48 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Ice harvest coming up next month
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> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Gene Dotson" <gdotsly at watchtv.net>
> > To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
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> > 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.
> >
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