[TheForge] OT....story of Ketchikan

Fri May 9 15:01:01 2003

Cool to see ketchikan and hollis mentioned here I was
born in ketchikan and spent a summer in Craig on
prince of wales island as a teenager of course I live
in sunny new mexico now !
--- Reynolds <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> You might enjoy this Jerry. A friend of mine was an
> opthamologist in Ketchikan for about 8 years. He
> decided to move back to Anchorage about 2 years ago.
> We were vistiting at my brothers' home there and he
> told me about Ketchikan over pizza. Said if you
> liked bears, it was the place to be!<p>
> He was divorced for years and found it difficult to
> meet mutually compatible females while there, and
> that is what pushed him back to the city. He said to
> me, "Do you know the standard introduction line to
> women in Ketchikan?" I thought for a second and then
> replied I didn't have a clue.<p>
> He chortled and said, "Hey, nice tooth.">p?
> I rolled.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  --- On Fri 05/09, Darrell <
> [email protected] > wrote:
> From: Darrell [mailto: [email protected]]
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 10:12:14 -0700
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Line Shaft Driven Factories
> 
> Jerry,<br>If you take the ferry from Ketchikan to
> Hollis after you pass Kasan the<br>ferry makes about
> a 90 deg left turn heading to Hollis. About half
> way<br>between that turn and Hollis on the right
> side of the channel there was a<br>large building.
> This was about
>
1980.<br><br>Darrell<br><br>http://www.machinemaster.com<br>-----
> Original Message -----<br>From: "Jerry Frost"
> <[email protected]><br>To:
> <[email protected]><br>Sent: Thursday, May
> 08, 2003 10:38 PM<br>Subject: Re: [TheForge] Line
> Shaft Driven Factories<br><br><br>> I spent quite a
> bit of time on Prince of Wales Island a few years
> back and<br>> though I asked, nobody told me about
> such a shop.<br>><br>> Do you have more specifics on
> the shop's location? It's mostly just<br>> curiosity
> now as I don't expect to ever get back there but
> nothing's<br>> impossible.<br>><br>> There used to
> be a line shop in Seward AK. the Seward Machine
> Shop. I<br>> happened to be doing a job in the
> locale and heard the shop e
>  quipment and<br>> tools were for sale and soon to
> be auctioned. I looked up the fellow<br>> handling
> the estate and got to take a tour.<br>><br>> It was
> a very complete shop started in the late oughts or
> early teens. It<br>> stayed in the family till the
> old man died, his kids had no interest in it<br>> so
> it got sold off. The old man built about half the
> equipment himself<br>> seeing as Alaska was so
> remote at the time. He had a number of steam
> tools<br>> converted to compressed air and a home
> made pneumatic car lift to name a<br>>
> few.<br>><br>> Anyway, what really got my attention
> was the smithy, I ended up taking<br>home<br>> about
> 500 lbs of various tools, mostly set hammers and
> tongs. The one<br>thing<br>> I wish I could've taken
> but had no place to put it was a 1,200+lb
> anvil,<br>> Fisher as I recall. The other real
> roadblock to taking it home was the<br>> charming
> way the old man had built his shop, it started small
> and he kept<br>> adding on. No biggy except the onl
>  y way out was across a turn of the<br>century<br>>
> wooden floor over a full basement, running through a
> maze of . . . stuff.<br>> One piece of stuff being a
> dump truck.<br>><br>> Yeah, there was a dump truck
> parked on a wooden floor over the basement.<br>>
> (one of the basements actually) I thought that was
> scary enough but AFTER<br>he<br>> showed me the
> basement(s) we climbed up on the mezanine and I
> discovered<br>it<br>> was full of scrap
> steel.<br>><br>> Frosty<br>>
> ------------------------<br>> If it ain't
> forged<br>> it ain't real.<br>> Wrought iron
> is.<br>> The FrostWorks<br>><br>> Meadow Lakes,
> AK.<br>><br>><br>> ----- Original Message -----<br>>
> From: "Darrell" <[email protected]><br>> To:
> <[email protected]><br>> Sent: Thursday, May
> 08, 2003 3:59 PM<br>> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Line
> Shaft Driven Factories<br>><br>><br>> > There was a
> nice shop on the bay on the way to Hollis Alaska on
> Prince<br>of<br>> > Wales Island.<br>> > It had
> about an 8" dia wate
>  r line from a creek up the mountain that ran<br>> >
> everything by hydro power. Even had a small
> generator for lights. All of<br>> the<br>> >
> equipment was line shaft driven. It was a boat
> shop.<br>> > Darrell<br>> ><br>> >
> http://www.machinemaster.com<br>> > ----- Original
> Message -----<br>> > From: "RIES NIEMI"
> <[email protected]><br>> > To:
> <[email protected]><br>> > Sent: Thursday,
> May 08, 2003 3:26 PM<br>> > Subject: [TheForge] Line
> Shaft Driven Factories<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > >
> Snohomish Ironworks is an intact line shaft driven
> shop- its not<br>exactly<br>> a<br>> > > factory-
> the grandson, who runs it now, is more of a
> fabricator, and<br>> down<br>> > > the middle bay he
> has a large hydraulic ironworker and a couple of
> mig<br>> > > machines, which is mostly what he uses.
> On either side there are line<br>> > > shafts, and
> nothing has been touched or even cleaned up since at
> least<br>> the<br>> > > 40's, so there are operating
> lathes, drills, mills and a big plane
>  r<br>off<br>> > the<br>> > > line shaft.<br>> >
> ><br>> > > But even in the Northwest, its not very
> unique- I recently sold a line<br>> > shaft<br>> > >
> lathe, and in the process ended up finding out about
> 3 or 4 other line<br>> > shaft<br>> > > shops around
> here. Most of them are not job shops, they are
> specific<br>> > > craftsmen who use them for their
> work, but my guess would be that<br>there<br>> >
> are<br>> > > at least 100 shops as complete as
> Snohomish Ironworks around the<br>> country.<br>> >
> ><br>> > >
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