A visit to Ross farm museum
My girlfriend Jean, drive a school bus, today she had a school trip to make to Ross Farm museum , so I joined her for a short while. No, that is not the bus she drive :-) But the kids are from her bus ... I have known about this museum for many years, but somehow never got around to visit. When you talk about rural way of life years ago, you know there is going to be a blacksmith, a cooper and other trade of interest, even a working saw mill :-) A stave and shingle mill It did not disappoint, the trades I mentioned were well represented by re-enactors that really know their stuff, it was quite pleasant to discuss some of the old ways of working wood and see it in action. The pile at the mill entrance This machine apparently cut the half round covers for the dry goods barrels. Two half makes a cover. Not the final products but the left over pieces This strange looking saw apparatus, cuts a concave back on the staves A cooper jointer, to size and refine the edges prior to fitting the sta...