Jewell, You might want to take a look at the following website. I am sure there are better resources, but I can't lay my hands on them right now.
I actually remember "Putting up" ice. When I was 6 or seven years old my job was to use a stick with a sharp pin in the end to keep the blocks of ice floating along to the endless chain conveyer to pick the blocks of ice out of the water after they had been cut offlake ice. Great resource. 2 or 3 cold nights and you could harvest the same area again. Joe http://www.link75.org/mmb/History/icecut2.htmlA There's a great book about harvesting the ice on the Kennebec River in Maine. They used to harvest the ice in the winter, put it up in large barn like structures, and as soon as ithe ice was out in the spring, they would bring in the "Clippers" and send Kennebec Ice around the world. I seem to remember they sent ice to New Zealand and Australia with only minimal losses. Or perhaps that was "acceptable" losses. t 10:11 PM 8/29/06, you wrote: >Max's explanation of how icecream was made before the days of >electric refrigeration and >icecream makers and the vital part that rock salt played in the >process, may provide the >answer to something that I have always wondered about, to whit, >where did the ice come >from that people used to be able to buy in summer in the days of >yore, and how was it that >this ice seemed to remain in its frozen state for quite long periods? >I imagine that it was stored in underground cellars or >specially-built ice houses, but >simply keeping it * cool would not delay thawing for as long a time >as, from my reading, >the ice seemed to last. How was this summer ice produced and was it >then packed in rock >salt to keep the ambient temperature down? > > Jewel > > > >To listen to the show archives go to link > http://acbradio.org/handyman.html >or >ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ > >The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. >http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday > >The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. >http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml > >Visit The New Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions > From Various List Members At The Following Address: >http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ >Visit the new archives page at the following address >http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy >Man list just send a blank message to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml Visit The New Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following Address: http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
