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Posted by jdemaris on February 03, 2007 at 12:48:13 from (66.218.15.142):
Somebody on this forum - a few weeks back - asked about storing winter's cold and using it in the summer. That's basically what we did today. The water-powered (and steam) grist and saw mill that my wife helps run had it's annual ice-harvest today on the mill pond. It's all pretty much done the way it was 150 - 200 years ago. It gets stacked in the ice house packed in saw-dust, and this summer they will use it - mostly to make ice cream. The mules pull the ice-marker/scorer. Then the ice gets sawed by hand. There's also a Ford Model T powered ice-cutter. Ice chunks get pulled up the ramp onto the loading dock. The draft-horses pull the loaged ice-sled to the ice-house.
The harvest was initially cancelled two weeks ago - since we had the warmest winter on record. Then - went to below zero, off and on. We had 18 below zero last week and the ice is now 8" thick. 4 degrees F. above this morning, and warmed up later to 18F.
The one dark photo was first thing this morning. I was trying to get a shot of the moon - and a plow truck came by with flashers on (and got stuck for an hour).
The mule scoring ice is from Erie-Canal village-museum. The big holstein is an ox in training.
The happy little kid is my three-year old. He got cold in the snow and found a dry spot under a barn-eave by the mill's big steam-engine boiler. [IMG]http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m162/jdemaris/Ice%20Harvest%20Feb%202%202007/first-morning_light_plowtruck1.jpg[/IMG] 
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