ThomasPowers Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 I've been paging though the 1897 edition of the Sears & Roebuck Catalog at breakfast, (1960 reprint), and have run across a bunch of things that show how different life was back then. Now I recognize that "cast steel" tools were not cast to shape but made from crucible steel. Some items are still made from wrought iron and some from steel (some can be either if you pay the price!) One I ran across this morning was threaded bolt ends with nuts all you had to do was to forge weld them to a piece of stock to get a bolt the length you needed! Nowadays it would be simple enough to just thread the end of the rod and tap and die sets can be had pretty cheaply compared to the effort and skill of getting a good forge weld. Now the dog, goat or sheep powered butter churn looks like a great idea.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smoggy Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 Plenty of welders regularly make bolts from threaded rod with a nut zapwelded on, and it's not so long ago that dogs powered the roasting spit in Wales. Seems to me sometimes the more things change the more they stay the same and it is very rare you ever come across anything genuinely new! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted December 21, 2016 Author Share Posted December 21, 2016 I bet they are not forge welding them on! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 Dog-spit-roasted whale sounds incredibly unappetizing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Evans Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 No it is not that sort of whale...it is more likely to do with wailing and gnashing of teeth...if it is anything to do with dogs and spitting. Alan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianinsa Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 1 hour ago, JHCC said: Dog-spit-roasted whale sounds incredibly unappetizing. I know some dogs slobber a lot but just how much would one need to baste your roasted whale? and I can't fathom a Welshman wailing, whining and whinging possibly but in a melodic fasion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 Personally, I always thought Dylan Thomas's "A Child's Christmas in Wales" was about the young Jonah. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Turley Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 Got a sorghum molasses mill powered by a burro (donkey) going round and round at our Spanish Colonial living museum, El Rancho de las Golondrinas, 12 miles south of Santa Fe, NM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted December 21, 2016 Author Share Posted December 21, 2016 Are you familiar with the filksong Welsh History 101 by Heather Rose Jones? My wife had one set of grandparents that were 100% Welsh married to 100% Polish (in true American melting pot style!) Their arguments were legendary as they both reverted to their native languages! Frank; the 1897 Sears & Roebuck catalog has a cane mill like that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Evans Posted December 22, 2016 Share Posted December 22, 2016 Very good I have just looked it up. Typical border reiver skulduggery. The nearest I can get to your wife's grandparents is putting the wax polish on my maternal grandmother's Welsh dresser. Weak jokes aside, my maternal grandmother always said she was a true Briton. She had an Irish a Welsh a Scots and an English grandparent. Alan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gote Posted December 22, 2016 Share Posted December 22, 2016 On 2016-12-21 at 6:59 PM, JHCC said: Dog-spit-roasted whale sounds incredibly unappetizing. Whale meat is quite tasty but no longer an option Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CTBlades Posted December 22, 2016 Share Posted December 22, 2016 I'm all for saving the whale for sure. That said I'm also one that will try anything. I can't fathom how one would taste but I'm thinking it would be pretty good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted December 22, 2016 Author Share Posted December 22, 2016 If you wanted to add whale to your carnivore life list you need to plan a visit to Japan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CTBlades Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 Yeah but like I said I'm all for saving the whales....and I support the Sea Shepherd efforts. I guess I'll never know lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Evans Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 How time and attitudes have changed, from olden days and olden ways.... The squaddies ate so much of it during the Second World War and always in clement weather....that they were fed up with it. Vera Lynn the "forces sweetheart" Sang a song about it...."Whale meat again, don't know where, don't know when, but I know whale meat again some sunny day..." Alan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John McPherson Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 Bravo, Mr. Evans, bravo. Whale done! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Evans Posted December 24, 2016 Share Posted December 24, 2016 I wish everybody a Merry Christmas and hope you all have a whale of a time....or should that be wassail of a time?...I am confused now. I trust nobody will bolt their food over the holiday, you will be nuts if you do. In deference to the OP, TPI would like to pitch an idea....that we bring this thread back on track, Alan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Comtois Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 My wife makes Nuts & Bolts for the holidays. I usually gain several pounds of "water weight" from all the salt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted January 4, 2017 Author Share Posted January 4, 2017 Alan; that was Dr Strangelove's concluding song---back in 1968 my parents asked me to stay up late and watch it on the late late show; surrounded as we were by folks working in the Pentagon and CIA, (McLean, VA), my parents wanted me to see another viewpoint---and then they moved me to Indiana! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Evans Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 Slim Pickens...Yeehah! Alan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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