Old Photo - Old Model T Engine Re-purposed For Cutting Block Ice On A Lake

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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jay - In Northern California on Monday, June 24, 2013 - 11:18 am:


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Joe Van Evera on Monday, June 24, 2013 - 11:53 am:

I wonder how steep the ice would have been before the motor quit??? BTW Jay, I love all your photo's. Thanks for your efforts in posting them. Keep em coming!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Henry Petrino in Modesto, CA on Monday, June 24, 2013 - 11:59 am:

OK, I'm a California boy and consequently don't get it. Why would you want to "score the ice into even rows"?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Tom Miller, Mostly in Dearborn on Monday, June 24, 2013 - 12:09 pm:

The ice blocks were loaded on a sled, packed in sawdust and saved for summer use. The iceman cometh!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Roger Karlsson, southern Sweden on Monday, June 24, 2013 - 12:12 pm:

Big business for more than a century: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_trade


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Henry Petrino in Modesto, CA on Monday, June 24, 2013 - 12:31 pm:

No kiddin'! Thanks for the explanation.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Stan Howe Helena, Montana on Monday, June 24, 2013 - 12:38 pm:

Before the days of refrigeration a lot of that ice was shipped in box cars for use in places like California and the southern states during the summer.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jay - In Northern California on Monday, June 24, 2013 - 12:59 pm:


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dave Dufault on Monday, June 24, 2013 - 01:28 pm:

Henry, it is still being done "these days" ...

see:

http://www.pbase.com/johnfburns/snowmobile2013ice

(maybe other places, also)


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Roger Karlsson, southern Sweden on Monday, June 24, 2013 - 01:46 pm:

Nowadays some commercial ice harvesting is done for the various ice hotels around the world's colder regions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_hotel

ice harvest


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Lance Sorenson, North Carolina on Monday, June 24, 2013 - 03:53 pm:

Rob never seems to come up to New London-Spicer in January when they build a big ice castle on Green Lake, out of blocks of ice.

This ice equipment was displayed at a thrashing show;I think it was Model A powered.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jay - In Northern California on Tuesday, June 25, 2013 - 10:08 am:

Some more ice cutting machines at work.


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