Winter picture

[Robert_in_NY]

I would love to tell you but I have never watched them actually cut the ice and take it out. This time I was working on my truck as the starter cable corroded off so all I got to see was sled load after sled load go by. I had hoped to take some pictures from the barn loft but needed to get my truck running again while the places were open /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif Hopefully I will get a chance to see them cut another pond this year or I will wait till next year (I just don't want to be in their way /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif).

Here is the picture of the creek in Ellington.

 

[Robert_in_NY]

The other direction

 

[DRT]

Beenthere

I also rode on the old scoop shovel behind a horse. It was great fun. I still don’t know how I kept from breaking a leg thou. My cousins had horses and took them to shows. They would have shovel races there. Man some of them would get rather wild, dirt and mud flying all over the place.

Dennis

 

[kiphorn]

DAP,

My son has train video from Steamtown in Scranton, PA. It was shot in February 1996. There is a short section that shows some area people harvesting ice off of the reservoir. According to the video, they harvest it and then use it over the summer.

The saws they used were large (6' long or so) hand saws. They obviously had a system so that they could cut the ice loose without ending up in the water. After the blocks were cut loose they were pushed toward the ice house with long poles. They had a conveyor rigged up for taking the ice from the reservoir to the ice house.

All the work was done by hand using tools of the period.

Kip