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Before electricity, back in the day
- Thread starter hughie
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Pretty cool! Family pictures? Didn’t think you were that old!!! Love the “back to work” after a little moonshine.
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Very interesting
Spindle gouge?
Even with or without electricity, some prefer to do it the old way. Note the skew and his sharpening system. Love this video.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnv0DAR_gWA
.I actually watched this one a while back. I spend too much time on You Tube..... Cooking shows, turning channels, woodworking/hand tool channels, and miscellaneous stuff....
robo hippy
robo hippy
The video that started this thread showed some of the methods of getting the logs out of the woods so I thought this might be interesting.
This photo was enlarged from a post card that my father had and he was able to identify the men in the picture. The photo was taken in Becker county MN near the source of the Mississippi before 1920 long before the electrical grid reached the area near where I currently live and the 2 farms that my grandfather owned.
The machine is called a "Steam hauler" and was used on ice roads to move the logs to lakes that could connect with saw mills in the spring . The Steam Hauler used a track system that was later adapted for use on bulldozers. There is a restored and operating Hauler in the state of Maine if anyone is interested.