“”We used to do the same thing with hail and pond ice only then it was called an ice box.””
Guess we’re all a bunch of old duffers here today. I remember my father and hired men cutting the ice on the ice pond, hauling blocks of ice to the barn with the work horses and storing it and covering it with sawdust. I understood it was used for the milk vats to keep the milk cool in the warm weather.
I followed my brother one time onto the ice pond when he went skating - didn’t follow tracks in the snow but went my own way and fell through the ice. He managed to pull me out, got me on a sled and raced me up to the house - don’t even know how he got his skates off so fast. I was probably 7-8 - wonder if I ever thanked him - LOL! Probably scared him to pieces!
Wow. Falling through the ice is serious business because you simply cannot climb out by yourself. You were very fortunate you brother was nearby and knew how to help you get out!
The idea of falling into ice-cold water still scares me to death. If the ice isn’t 6 inches or more thick, I’m not heading out on it.
“I understood it was used for the milk vats to keep the milk cool in the warm weather.”
That use would be the short length of time the warm weather actually existed in some places. Many times the outside air was colder than the spikes cut so they stayed ice for a long time unneeded. One place I went in the 80’s had a stand alone freezer which was turned off and a window left open on the building during the winter, barred of course, (wolves), because in winter it got colder outside than the freezer inside. Why waste the manpower and tools to refreeze ice?
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