[AT] 'farmer' Francis Robinson

[charlie hill]

That gets back around to a discussion I believe we had many
years back about cold  embrittlement.

Very interesting phenomenon.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: John Hall
Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2017 5:03 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] 'farmer' Francis Robinson

Never heard the expression, this is what a search found:

*Don’t chop with a cold ax. *If you’re chopping in cold weather, warm
the ax head a bit by the fire before you get started. Striking a cold
steel ax head can cause it to chip or even shatter. When warming the ax
head by the fire, don’t get it too hot — fire takes the temper
(hardness) out of steel. It’s warm enough if you can still touch the ax
head with your hand.

John Hall

On 1/28/2017 10:06 PM, rlgoss at twc.com wrote:
> Got a question for you guys.  This is VERY OT and I can't think of any way 
> to bring a tractor reference into it.  Have you ever heard the slang 
> expression "warm chopping ax?"  This occurs in a couple of letters that 
> were written just prior to the 20th century by some young people.  These 
> were farm people who understood how to cope with the technology of the 
> day; cook stoves; firewood; butchering chickens; elementary animal 
> husbandry; etc.  I have been unsuccessful at finding a definition for it. 
> It could be used in all innocence, but I suspect that it has a fairly 
> bawdy connotation.  The whole sentence is: Give your warm chopping ax my 
> love, and your little warm one too.  The writers were in their teens and 
> early 20's.
>
> Oh wait! This writing predates farm tractors by a couple of decades. 
> (There's the tractor reference.)
>
> Larry
>
>
> ---- Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Last year I replaced the wood furnace in the house with a new larger one
>> that also has blower forced firebox air and automatic controls including 
>> a
>> remote thermostat. I pushed the old one (still in excellent condition) 
>> back
>> in a corner until I could move it to the farm shop. That didn't happen 
>> yet
>> so that is what I am doing this week. May need to get Scott to help me.
>> Once it is in place I will be able to heat the shop up fairly quickly so 
>> I
>> can work in there the rest of the winter and early spring.
>> Go ahead, ask me how many doctors, specialist and medical technicians you
>> can see in a day...  :-) I had always hoped that we would just get old 
>> and
>> fall over someday without dealing with all of this nonsense.
>> The Coq10 has apparently done a lot to repair some of that muscle damage
>> done by the Atorvastatin at maximum dose. Now if I could just find
>> something to deal with my arthritic spine.
>>
>>
>>
>> .
>>
>>
>> .
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 8:44 AM, Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I deleted my Facebook account 3 days ago and all those calls I used to
>>> get from solicitors quit!!!!
>>>
>>> Cecil in OKla
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 1/28/2017 1:09 AM, Indiana Robinson wrote:
>>>> Yeah, I'm still kicking...  :-)  Just not as high or as fast. Facebook
>>> has
>>>> gotten kind of out of hand and I no longer accept any friends there and
>>> am
>>>> going to cut some and some groups I am on there. More than once I have
>>>> considered dropping it completely. I would if it were not for family
>>>> contact I never otherwise see.
>>>> I still try to keep this list read but sometimes it gets a week ahead 
>>>> of
>>> me.
>>>> I have not shown any tractors for some time but would like to again. 
>>>> Son
>>>> Scott and I get to about 3 nearby shows a year.
>>>> I have more to post but it's 2:00 AM and my drive belt is starting to
>>>> slip...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> .
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 9:52 AM, Stephen Offiler <soffiler at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>> robinson46176 at gmail.com
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 9:37 AM, Gene Waugh <gwaugh at wowway.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks, I will see if I can locate him.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Gene
>>>>>> Elgin, Illinois
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Jan 25, 2017, at 7:28 AM, Stephen Offiler <soffiler at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> Still around... he posted something on his Facebook page two days 
>>>>>>> ago.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> SO
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 7:55 AM, Kenneth Gene Waugh <
>>> gwaugh at wowway.com
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Does anyone know the status of farmer (Indiana)?  I for one have 
>>>>>>>> not
>>>>>> heard
>>>>>>>> from or of him for ages.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Gene Waugh
>>>>>>>> Elgin, Illinois
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>> aka "farmer"
>> Central Indiana USA
>> robinson46176 at gmail.com
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