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Post by sawduster on Dec 30, 2009 17:19:58 GMT -6
Had an email this morning from a local fella that I had exchanged emails with a while ago. He's wanting some hands on help with saw sharpening so I offered to give him some pointers.
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Post by fredbelknap on Dec 30, 2009 19:09:05 GMT -6
Good for you Jerry, if I was closer you could teach me.  |
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Post by lockman on Dec 30, 2009 19:29:25 GMT -6
Wish I was closer too. Sounds good for ya Jerry.
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Post by rhull on Dec 30, 2009 23:39:47 GMT -6
I don't need you to teach me, Jerry. But if it'll help you get out in the shop, I'd be happy to send you a few of my saws to sharpen.  |
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Post by Ruffnek on Dec 31, 2009 13:46:16 GMT -6
I don't need you to teach me, Jerry. But if it'll help you get out in the shop, I'd be happy to send you a few of my saws to sharpen. +1 ;D Although I still look forward to you giving a tutorial at M&G Sawmill one day. I'll be sure and bring you a dull saw to use. |
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Post by dicklaxt on Jan 2, 2010 14:48:18 GMT -6
Hey Saw,,,,,,,,I had a hand saw so dull I could'nt cut myself with it so I just threw it away and got one that would ,,,,,,,,smile.
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Post by sawduster on Jan 2, 2010 15:12:20 GMT -6
May or may not surprise you, Dickie, but I've got some handsaws that are even older than you!!! And with a few minutes with a saw file, they cut as well as the day they were made. ;D
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Post by dicklaxt on Jan 2, 2010 17:41:33 GMT -6
Jerry don't doubt that at all for I have sharpened some one man bucj saws and also the bigger two man cross cuts and even reset the teeth a time or two.We used to heat the house in the winter with hardwood in Michigan and it was part my job to cut those piles and piles of wood and split them too.When I was small say less than 10 years old we used wood for cooking as well,,,hotter than hell in the kitchen in the summer with no air conditioning,hey but we survived.
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Post by sawduster on Jan 3, 2010 12:36:33 GMT -6
Wow, you are old. That was way back before LBJ electrified the rural areas.
Closest I've been to that was when I was about 8 or so years old I went on "vacation" with my best friend and his mom to visit their relatives in Louisiana, just across the border from Paris Texas up in the mountains. I think they had 'lectricity, but drew most of their water from a well with a bucket. It was summertime so I don't know what sort of heat they had, but I think they were cooking on a wood burning stove. And they were some of the more well off in that area. They actually had a manual pump in the kitchen to draw water there. Only time I ever took a bath in one of those big tin tubs with water heated on a wood stove.
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Post by tw on Jan 4, 2010 5:13:42 GMT -6
Maybe he isn't that old........
Daddy is about the same age as you and he was about 12 years old when they got electricity and a mud road to the farm where he grew up.
About 20 years ago the last household in this village got electricity. That house is about 4 kilometres away from the rest of the village ond the terrain is a bit rough so for some strange reason they had been left off the grid unwillingly.
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Post by larryh86gt on Jan 5, 2010 12:53:29 GMT -6
They actually had a manual pump in the kitchen to draw water there. I remember the hand pump for water from the well or cistern in the kitchen of a home I lived in as a kid. And the outhouse in the back yard (especially in the winter). Larry |
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Post by sawduster on Jan 5, 2010 12:56:54 GMT -6
Surprised that the outhouse they had was not one of the things that popped into my mind when remembering that. They had this city boy scared as heck of spiders and snakes and such that might be lurking in that outhouse.  |
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Post by fredbelknap on Jan 5, 2010 15:37:17 GMT -6
Surprised that the outhouse they had was not one of the things that popped into my mind when remembering that. They had this city boy scared as heck of spiders and snakes and such that might be lurking in that outhouse. yea ours had the old copys of Sear's and Ward's catalog in them. It wasn't for reading.  |
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Post by imahic on Jan 5, 2010 19:20:39 GMT -6
Was that across the border in Louisiana or Oklahoma, Jerry?....lol Does Louisiana have any mountains?
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Post by sawduster on Jan 6, 2010 8:39:22 GMT -6
Was that across the border in Louisiana or Oklahoma, Jerry?....lol Does Louisiana have any mountains? What I remember was that his grandmother lived in Paris Texas and we stayed a couple days with her, then I'm pretty sure it was LA we went to, may have been further south, maybe south of Shreveport or something. I know the Piney Woods of far east Texas are somewhat mountainous and likely extend into LA a bit. Heck, maybe it was Arkansas, but I think LA. |
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Post by imahic on Jan 6, 2010 11:19:51 GMT -6
LOL ....I guess I have never seen those mountains then. I know there are the Kiamichi mountains across the borider into Okla from Paris. They extend into Arkansas also I believe. Never have spent a whole lot of time in Louisiana except for the southern part.
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Post by sawduster on Jan 6, 2010 12:27:29 GMT -6
Don't know that the "mountains" are very high above see level in that area. NE of Longview is a town called Jefferson which, before a bunch of changes to the geography, was an inland port which was on navigable water that ran all the way to Gulf.
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Post by imahic on Jan 6, 2010 16:53:25 GMT -6
You're probably right. The term mountain is relative. We have some just across the border in Okla called the Wichita Mtns just west of Lawton. But even those pale when compared to the Rockies...lol.
Mike
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Post by sawduster on Jan 6, 2010 19:01:28 GMT -6
You're probably right. The term mountain is relative. We have some just across the border in Okla called the Wichita Mtns just west of Lawton. But even those pale when compared to the Rockies...lol. Mike Dat's my really old stompin grounds, we're talkin the 1960s. Camped all over them mountains. We lived at Ft. Sill from 1962 to 1968. Many was the morning we'd wake up to find a heard of bison wandering through our camp. Springtime they'd be scraping their backs on the trees to shed their winter coats. |
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Post by imahic on Jan 6, 2010 21:10:31 GMT -6
We may have camped in the same campground back then, Jerry. When I was in boy scouts back then that was our favorite place to go camping. You can't camp over night there any more except for a couple of designated campsites. I know what you mean about the bison walking through our camp. We had a ton of fun up there back in those days. Crawled all over those mountains. Mainly the one called Mount Elk (or that's what we knew it as) We even had a spelunking guy take us through a cave in that mountain one time. That was really cool.
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