Lancaster fair was nice
I found something to cut with on my wood lots
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and to move my logs too :D
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then do the fire wood. might take all 4 hrs to cut my wood for the year.
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Back in the day In NH . When someone was lost we gave them the horn :D
From the 50s to the mid 70s it was used
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Air horn I bet it was loud :D
At the Hopkinton fair was nice too.
Can you imagine riding this all day
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How it was done back it the day. One piston
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And we have biguns too :D
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And the cowgirls are fast too
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all en all a good weekend. now back to the mill and cut and cut :D
You didn't bring any of those toys home?
I sure do enjoy looking at equipment,new or old,I like them all. We use to go to about 10-12 Fairs here in Maine. We enjoy going. Some of the Fairs hard to see it all in one day. We would sit and watch the goat,cattle judging,the ox and horse pulls,listen to music,go through the exhibition halls.look at the old,new stuff,eat fries. We would get there just about when the fair opens and try to leave around 5 before the night people came and get crowded.
I use to go with my Father. It was nice to hear him tell me about the old stuff and how to use it.He use to say,I'm more tired going to a fair than cutting wood all day.
Thanks for the pictures. I enjoy going to the fair, seeing friends, the exhibits and just do some people watching. I somehow missed it this year, but think of the money I saved.
Allan
That's some serious equipment!
Are there any other fairs coming up in NH?
Thank for posting. We haven't made it to any of the shows for awhile.seeing those pic made my day! :)
Quote from: Piston on September 07, 2013, 10:18:33 PM
That's some serious equipment!
Are there any other fairs coming up in NH?
Of course there are:
check out sites like this:
http://www.directorynh.com/NHFairs-Events/NHCountyFairs.html
Jim Rogers
Thanks Jim, there you go Piston. Next sat Ann and I are going to VT to a fair tonbrige. Wood Mizer will be there, I think the men from hanabel NY.
Thanks Jim!
Fryeburg, Maine Fair is the first week of October.
Quote from: sprucebunny on September 08, 2013, 06:59:57 PM
Fryeburg, Maine Fair is the first week of October.
Do you go to that one :)
Yes. The Woodsman's day is Monday. There are special vendors that day and I always go early and get a year's supply of saw chains etc.
I'm too short to see most of the events but I walk around a couple of times and go to the Forestry building where there are wood related items for sale and check out the equipment row.
There's been fewer bandsaws the last couple of years but there's some woodsplitters and log handleing stuff. Also some large harvesting stuff and trucks.
Thomas Bandsaw should be there. I don't know if I will get there or not this year.That Fair has more people there at 8am than most fairs in Maine have at 8pm. :D
I know if your not on the fairgrounds by 7 7/30 am you will set in traffic for hrs :D :D :D :D
Nice to see what was at your fair for some of the heavy equipment. I/we have not made it to a fair for over 45 years as they seem to have lost the appeal to sacrifice the time required.
Lots of folks from the Southern states. ;D I went with a few friends. One guy knew a "shortcut". I always go a certain way and don't get the tracffic. Coming in from the North. Somehow he missed the turn and we ended up coming in from the South. Yep,we was stuck there and than some. :o Took him a few years to live down his shortcut.
At the tonbrige fair things looked good
I like the old one lunger and my color. ;D
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Making ice cream.
Back in the day this how you made pipe
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And It was easy to tell what part of the country I'm in. :D :D ;D ;
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Was some men doing it the hard way. But they went right along, tools as sharp as a Wood Mizer blade :D
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My wife Ann like the loom
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This guy was making a chain out of one piece of wood
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And the fine gentlemen from Wood Mizer
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And they won the blue :D :D 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
A good day
I never saw a pipe making machine.
Wish we had fairs like that around here. Ours are mostly carnival with a little 4H thrown in.
Could not be a nicer day for the deer field.
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I like the one lungs the things they can do :o
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and tractors all you want and all makes
and my favorite ;D
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all the guys are getting ready for the pulls
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and the 4H what a good lob they do . I don't know about other states but in NH we are strong
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nice cows
and some cutting the hard way :D
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I don't know about using a belt sander on that
they had some nice thing
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They did have other mills
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And some nice things too
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All small pieces and inlay :o
And my friends they sold a lot of mills
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all and all a good day 8) 8) 8)
Did you happen to get a name or phone number of the guy with the big slab chain sawmill?
I wanted to contact him about doing some large logs here in my yard.
Jim Rogers
Peter I enjoyed this. You took some really nice pictures. smiley_thumbsup
No I did not Jim.
At the Fryeburg fair they had the usual things but this one thing was something to see
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It had a head and tail mounts like a wood lathe
This is how they load it
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Then put on a debarker.
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you can see how much it took off. You had to make the log the same size from end to end
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Then put the blade back on and make clapboard. The log goes back and forth
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The guy made the thing at his house and now he makes clapboards for a living.
And some guy I thought was good at what he did
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And some other good things
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I am a GM kind of guy ;D
And my friends from WM
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all and all a good time
That clap board miil is something new.
Yes it is, I thought it was clever.
Jim the guys with the chainsaw mill are Dunbarton woodcutters and land clearing.
Quote from: Woodboogah on October 06, 2013, 08:34:39 AM
Jim the guys with the chainsaw mill are Dunbarton woodcutters and land clearing.
Thanks that's just what I was looking for.
Jim Rogers
I would also be looking for someone with a Lucas or Peterson dedicated slabber.
How did the guy with the clapboard setup get them off the log when he finished? That's really neat.
They should just snap off. Not much holding them on.
thanks for all the pics. love the GTO and the siding maker very ingenious.
Quote from: Piston on October 08, 2013, 09:27:44 PM
How did the guy with the clapboard setup get them off the log when he finished? That's really neat.
he had to use a flat bar to get started then snap them off, I think if he index a little less they would fall out
Sawing a little deeper would cause them to drop off, but I suspect the diameter that the log is surfaced down to is planned such that the clapboards don't drop off prematurely (as that early dropping would likely happen before the saw cut was finished and may make a mess).
Yes Beenthere it would make a mess :D