50's Vintage

Sundae · 06-28-2008, 07:20 AM

Would I watch a clip of men sawing wood with a 50s vintage tractor/ saw if it wasn't a Dwellar? No.

Was it fascinating and am I glad I did? Yes.

I love to know that simple tools/ machinery are still in use by people who know what they are doing and don't feel the advertisers' pressure to upgrade just for the sake of it. We have some old and potentially dangerous things here at work (shhhhhh) that work very well and are used by people with common sense and experience. No 50s tractors though I must admit.

Thank you for another insight into a world I don't know.
Beautiful setting too.

Griff · 06-28-2008, 07:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

Would I watch a clip of men sawing wood with a 50s vintage tractor/ saw if it wasn't a Dwellar? No.

Was it fascinating and am I glad I did? Yes.

I think places like the Cellar have a ton of potential for showing how people actually live rather than how Hollywood perceives lives. I come here for the broader perspective and really appreciate it when others share. Your video walking home is one that I really liked. Anyway, I realized that most dwellars are far removed from or even nostalgic for country life so I thought this was a good bit.

xoxoxoBruce · 06-28-2008, 09:03 AM

It's a lot easier being nostalgic while watching that country life on youtube, with my fat ass parked in a comfy chair.

limey · 06-28-2008, 10:55 AM

I know the guys down the road have and use that kind of technology ...
I get my kindlers by picking up the sticks from the sycamore (

) and ash in my front garden. I'm about to buy a year's licence to collect firewood from the forestry here, and to buy a domestic chainsaw (the sort you don't need a licence to use). I've got an axe and woodblock, and a bushman saw. Am wondering about making a sawhorse ... Anything to reduce using electricity for heating this winter ....

Edited to add "lumber fairy" ... snigger!

Glinda · 06-30-2008, 11:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Griff

I think places like the Cellar have a ton of potential for showing how people actually live rather than how Hollywood perceives lives. I come here for the broader perspective and really appreciate it when others share. Your video walking home is one that I really liked. Anyway, I realized that most dwellars are far removed from or even nostalgic for country life so I thought this was a good bit.

Great vid, Griff. I lust for such a nifty tool out here in my neck of the woods.

Some day I'm going to have the neighbors video me with my scythe*, as I whack down the ever-advancing brush along my gravel road, so ya'll can see how much fun us country folk really have.

* Couple years back, I saw a Craigslist ad announcing a cleaning out of an old farmhouse/barn - apparently grammy and grampy had finally passed on and the kids weren't interested in cleaning out 60 years of OLD stuff. All free - first come first served. Man did I score. Came home with several old scythes, trowels and shovels, antique shoe-making tools and lasts, metal buckets and standing sinks/tubs, several handmade tool boxes filled with square-head nails, hasps, and etc., six or eight bitchen antique oil cans, a motorized wring washer from the '20s, a treadle sewing machine, and so much more. Awesome!

limey · 06-30-2008, 01:19 PM

[quote=Glinda;465920]Great vid, Griff. I lust for such a nifty tool out here in my neck of the woods.

Some day I'm going to have the neighbors video me with my scythe*, as I whack down the ever-advancing brush along my gravel road, so ya'll can see how much fun us country folk really have.

...

Twenty or more yeras ago I stayed for eight months at a language centre near Paris where one of the staff used to keep the vast expanse of garden grass short as a lawn with a scythe. It was far more restful listening to the rhythmic swish of him cutting the grass than to the angry razz of the motorised mower that most people would have used.
Thanks for bringing this memory back for me, Glinda!

xoxoxoBruce · 06-30-2008, 11:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Glinda

* Couple years back, I saw a Craigslist ad announcing a cleaning out of an old farmhouse/barn - apparently grammy and grampy had finally passed on and the kids weren't interested in cleaning out 60 years of OLD stuff. All free - first come first served. Man did I score. Came home with several old scythes, trowels and shovels, antique shoe-making tools and lasts, metal buckets and standing sinks/tubs, several handmade tool boxes filled with square-head nails, hasps, and etc., six or eight bitchen antique oil cans, a motorized wring washer from the '20s, a treadle sewing machine, and so much more. Awesome!

Slobber, envy, drool, pant, covet...

Griff · 07-01-2008, 07:24 AM

Beating antiquers to the good stuff can be hard. Nice find Glinda.

glatt · 07-01-2008, 07:35 AM

When I was a teen, we had a scythe that came from my grandfather's old property. One summer, I tried cutting *really* tall grass with it. Like 2 feet tall. It was my mission to learn how to use it. I got so I could at least get the grass to cut instead of get matted down, but it was really hard to get consistent results. A year or so later I was in Germany and saw an old farming couple in the Black Forest cutting their meadow with a scythe. It was amazing to see them go. Nice clean cuts and cuttings ended up lying in nice rows that could be forked into a haystack. Real haystacks that would shed rain. I was very impressed. Pretty slow going, but they had finished the meadow when we went past again later that day.

06-28-2008, 07:20 AM	#1
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	Would I watch a clip of men sawing wood with a 50s vintage tractor/ saw if it wasn't a Dwellar? No. Was it fascinating and am I glad I did? Yes. I love to know that simple tools/ machinery are still in use by people who know what they are doing and don't feel the advertisers' pressure to upgrade just for the sake of it. We have some old and potentially dangerous things here at work (shhhhhh) that work very well and are used by people with common sense and experience. No 50s tractors though I must admit. Thank you for another insight into a world I don't know. Beautiful setting too. __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

06-28-2008, 09:03 AM	#3
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	It's a lot easier being nostalgic while watching that country life on youtube, with my fat ass parked in a comfy chair. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

06-28-2008, 10:55 AM	#4
limey Encroaching on your decrees Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland Posts: 7,016	I know the guys down the road have and use that kind of technology ... I get my kindlers by picking up the sticks from the sycamore ( ) and ash in my front garden. I'm about to buy a year's licence to collect firewood from the forestry here, and to buy a domestic chainsaw (the sort you don't need a licence to use). I've got an axe and woodblock, and a bushman saw. Am wondering about making a sawhorse ... Anything to reduce using electricity for heating this winter .... Edited to add "lumber fairy" ... snigger! __________________ Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of

06-30-2008, 01:19 PM	#6
limey Encroaching on your decrees Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland Posts: 7,016	[quote=Glinda;465920]Great vid, Griff. I lust for such a nifty tool out here in my neck of the woods. Some day I'm going to have the neighbors video me with my scythe, as I whack down the ever-advancing brush along my gravel road, so ya'll can see how much fun us country folk really* have. ... Twenty or more yeras ago I stayed for eight months at a language centre near Paris where one of the staff used to keep the vast expanse of garden grass short as a lawn with a scythe. It was far more restful listening to the rhythmic swish of him cutting the grass than to the angry razz of the motorised mower that most people would have used. Thanks for bringing this memory back for me, Glinda! __________________ Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of

07-01-2008, 07:24 AM	#8
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Beating antiquers to the good stuff can be hard. Nice find Glinda. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

07-01-2008, 07:35 AM	#9
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	When I was a teen, we had a scythe that came from my grandfather's old property. One summer, I tried cutting really tall grass with it. Like 2 feet tall. It was my mission to learn how to use it. I got so I could at least get the grass to cut instead of get matted down, but it was really hard to get consistent results. A year or so later I was in Germany and saw an old farming couple in the Black Forest cutting their meadow with a scythe. It was amazing to see them go. Nice clean cuts and cuttings ended up lying in nice rows that could be forked into a haystack. Real haystacks that would shed rain. I was very impressed. Pretty slow going, but they had finished the meadow when we went past again later that day.

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