Winter picture

[Robert_in_NY]

I was driving home the other day and the Amish were out clearing snow off our pond. They do this every year as they cut the ice for their coolers. I was having fun watching as the dad was working to clear the snow while the two boys were playing. As you can see the one boy is being pulled around the ice on the shovel /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[beenthere]

Used to do that shovel ride behind a horse, with a rope tied to the saddle horn, and the other end tied to the shovel handle. At a fast gallop through corn stubble, it was a lot of fun.

 

[Robert_in_NY]

Another picture of a Winter sunrise over Pine Valley.

 

[Robert_in_NY]

Last picture for now, this is not winter but is the sunrise I took this fall. It is from a hill in Ellington overlooking the valley Rt 62 runs between Ellington and Kennedy.

 

[higgy]

beautiful area, nice pics. Even as winter gets long in the teeth I still love and live for this time of year.

Dane

 

[frank_f15]

EXCELLENT SHOT OF THE SUNRISE. BOTH SUNRISE SHOTS ARE GREAT

 

[44trxfun]

Great pics Robert! We're lucky to live in this part of the world, eh? (I can't take credit for this picture, but it's also from outside Ellington.)

 

[Robert_in_NY]

That is a nice picture. I have a picture at home I will post later of the creek that runs thru Ellington right under Rt 62 past the corner diner. I was playing around that day with the camera as we were surveying the jobsite before we started there. Take care.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Darn, sure is pretty, sure looks cold.

I hope it's a dry cold. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Our super duper wireless atomic--gps clock--thermometer says it's twenty five outside, sixty one inside. Weatherbug says it's thirty three just a couple miles away.

I'm about to be out of here to do the last big stretches on a large fence job. The choices are fumbling with gloves, using lots of bad words, or fumbling without gloves, even more bad words.

The local weather folks are all in a tither. It appears Dallas has an outside chance of getting a bit of the white stuff. Some of our TBN'ers west are locked in for it along with those south of us.

It'd be comparable to ya'll getting a week in the eighties this time of the year for the weather crew. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

 

[DAP]

Robert, I love that pic. Assuming that those folks, perhaps incorrectly, aren't using a chain saw, how do they harvest the ice? That team and wagon ... they aren't actually on the ice are they?

Here's a pic of our creek during a squall. Man I love the woods.

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[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