[AT] Ice harvest coming up next month

[Gene Dotson]

    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>
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> Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 4:18 PM
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>>    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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