Hi Jewel, You have had an excellent description from Dan, I just thought I would add that I remember doing this, well watching it being done anyway.
As a kid in Temagami in the '60s they used to cut ice for the water coolers at the mine. They would put a small bull dozer onto the lake to clear snow off of the surface of the ice trying not to get too much oil on the ice. We were a lot less squeamish about such things in those days. Men would then go out on the ice with large chain saws and saw the ice into blocks raised with big tongs and stacked then hauled to a root celer dug into the side of a hill and lined with timbers. As Dan already said, the ice was stacked in blocks packed in sawdust. All summer, blocks of ice were more or less dusted off and placed in these water coolers and the tanks filled with water. Oh a little sawdust would float around and have to be scooped out from time-to-time, a little different to the apparently sterile water we get in jugs today and cool with electricity and disinfect with bleach. The water was drawn directly from the lake complete with what ever else the fishes and ducks and loons and such might have used the lake for. Oddly, allergies were never much of a concern back then and we never had one case of dysentery either. Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jewel Blanch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 10:11 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Rock salt was Ice cream salt > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.6/428 - Release Date: 25/08/2006 > 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/
