[TheForge] Environmentally friendly tooling

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

Veggie shaped steel hollowbodys?
Zucchini formed plate?
Squash forms own cooking vessel?

Mike Spencer wrote:
> Some people don't have the funds for a press.  Some people aren't in a
> great hurry to get a job done.  If you're in both of these categories,
> you might think about working up a press based on this little squibb:
> 
>     Rutherford Platt tells the Story in 'The Great American
>     Forest'....In 1875, a Massachusetts farmer, curious about the
>     growing power of expanding apples, melons, and squashes, harnessed
>     a squash to a weight-lifting device which had a dial like a
>     grocer's scale to indicate the pressure exerted by the expanding
>     fruit.  As the days passed, he kept piling on counterbalancing
>     weight; he could hardly believe his eyes when he saw his
>     vegetables questly exerting a lifting force of 5 thousand pounds
>     per square inch.  When nobody believed him, he set up exhibits of
>     harnessed squashes and invited the public to come and see.
> 
>     
> 
> Tip of the hat to Peggy, who spotted it in Annie Dillard's 'Pilgrim at
> Tinker Creek'.  (p. 166)
> 
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