[TheForge] OT....story of Ketchikan

Fri May 9 17:41:01 2003

You know what an Alaskan 10 is?

A woman with four teeth and a sixpack.

I imported my wife.

Frosty
------------------------
If it ain't forged
it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
The FrostWorks

Meadow Lakes, AK.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Reynolds" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] OT....story of Ketchikan

>
> 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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