I believe this is a link used to release a chain so it would slide under the rear bob on a bob sleigh such as the one pictured in the lower print. We used these when harvesting ice when I was a child -- yes, I really was involved in an ice harvest with horses when I was about 14! The chain ran across the front portion of the bob. Releasing it lengthened the chain which then dropped to the snow. The bob would run over the chain which dug into the snow braking the load. Each cake of ice weighed about 200 pounds so a loaded sleigh needed a brake. Ice was lifted into the ice house, skidded into position with long pikes and covered with sawdust which was always in the bottom of your glass during the summer...
This is Ken, The Rustic Woodcrafter. I wrote the post above and don't like being anonymous. You can contact me at kenp@crimages.com. Love this site and I look forward each day to something interesting. BTW, our ice house was sunk into the ground and two stories high. A horse, later a truck, later a jeep pulled each cake up to level one at a time. My job was to steer cakes as the came down the rails and shoot them to the packer who would set them in place.
Ken, thank you for that story, ice block storing isn't something anyone get to see much these days about this: https://www.alcoholprofessor.com/blog-posts/blog/2018/03/19/a-brief-history-of-ice
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I can't figure out how it might be used?
ReplyDeleteMaybe used to shorten a length of chain in the middle by putting a bight in it? Wild guess?
ReplyDeleteI believe this is a link used to release a chain so it would slide under the rear bob on a bob sleigh such as the one pictured in the lower print. We used these when harvesting ice when I was a child -- yes, I really was involved in an ice harvest with horses when I was about 14! The chain ran across the front portion of the bob. Releasing it lengthened the chain which then dropped to the snow. The bob would run over the chain which dug into the snow braking the load. Each cake of ice weighed about 200 pounds so a loaded sleigh needed a brake. Ice was lifted into the ice house, skidded into position with long pikes and covered with sawdust which was always in the bottom of your glass during the summer...
ReplyDeleteThis is Ken, The Rustic Woodcrafter. I wrote the post above and don't like being anonymous. You can contact me at kenp@crimages.com. Love this site and I look forward each day to something interesting. BTW, our ice house was sunk into the ground and two stories high. A horse, later a truck, later a jeep pulled each cake up to level one at a time. My job was to steer cakes as the came down the rails and shoot them to the packer who would set them in place.
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Ken, thank you for that story, ice block storing isn't something anyone get to see much these days
about this:
https://www.alcoholprofessor.com/blog-posts/blog/2018/03/19/a-brief-history-of-ice
Thanks for the links! (Haha) That certainly is not intuitive but when see it...
ReplyDeletehttps://www.amazon.com/Ice-Refrigeration-Vol-Illustrated-Classic/dp/0266250076
ReplyDeleteI haven't made it down myself yet, but in Bristol, Maine they have an operating ice harvesting museum...http://thompsonicehouse.com/
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