[TheForge] The hard cider is good... OT:

[Mike Spencer]

> But a vast refinement was a "mill wheel" of stone that rolled around
> in an annular trough.

A thing like that sat for years in a Halifax junk yard. About 8'
across, two cylinders of polished granite rolled in a steel (or cast
iron?) annular trough about a foot deep.  Heavy SOB.  I *wanted* that,
probably could have afforded to buy it at (then) scrap prices but
couldn't afford a crane truck to get it trucked 75 miles home.  Too
bad.

At some point, someone noticed that they'd been scrapping batteries
there and letting all the lead-bearing electrolytes just soak into the
ground.  So everything went away and they turned the site in to an
environmental disaster zone. I did get a good leg vise and a
repairable 30" paper shear out of their pile, though.


Must be a mizzable day everywhere.  We're all swapping email instead
of beating iron or splitting wood.

- Mike

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