OLD! I surely don't know how those 2x8's were bent, but after you said roughcut oak, it was probably with boiled oak. In the 1970's I used to build and sell catfish baskets which were all white oak except the throat fingers, which were sasafras. Iwould take rough sawed white oak 2x12's from the local sawmill,and rip them on a table saw to 1/4"x2" slats. Put the slats in an oldpiece of 6" pipe, welded on one end to a 12"x12" of 1/4" steel plate. this stood verticaly, around 6' tall, and was filled with water and wood slats. I put my torch to the pipe down low, and boiled the slats. While still hot and wet, I would take one slat at a time out and bend it around a 12" dia. brake drim and nail it togeather where the ends lapped over. this yielded me a 12" diameter round hoop of which I needed 6 hoops for each fish basket. Naturally I used straight grain white oak, and didn't have knots in my slats.
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Today's Featured Article - Seeing an Old Friend - by Joe Evans. Dad had a concrete contracting business starting in 1960. One of his first pieces of equipment was a Ferguson TO-35 with a Davis loader. Dad replaced the TO-35 with a MF 202 Workbull, essentially an industrialized Ferguson 35 I am told. Dad bought the 202 new in 1962, and I recall quite clearly going to the dealer with him to sign for it.
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