[TheForge] OT....story of Ketchikan

Fri May 9 17:33:00 2003

I lived in Craig from 1981 to 1985. We had the gas station by the boat
harbor. To make a living I ran the gas station, sold propane, repaired
marine electronics, sold and repaired TVs, repaired house hold appliances
and I had a backhoe, dump truck, log skidder and a Mighty Mite saw mill to
fill in my time. I made good money but darn near killed my self doing it.
Darrell

http://www.machinemaster.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "aaron craig" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] OT....story of Ketchikan

> 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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