[AT] 'farmer' Francis Robinson

Indiana Robinson robinson46176 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 30 13:28:21 PST 2017


50 years ago when I was cutting wood in zero weather I used to set the axe
near the truck heater going to the woods. The woods was about 12 miles
away. Now I don't worry about it because if it is below about 35 or 40 I
just don't go wood cutting...  :-)


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On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 2:10 PM, charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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> >> Francis Robinson
> >> aka "farmer"
> >> Central Indiana USA
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Francis Robinson
aka "farmer"
Central Indiana USA
robinson46176 at gmail.com



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