Some 'aggressive' tool for ID

[Rick]

Originally Posted by fernando

Surely a place with a significant history .

A little snip of history:

On April 19, 1775, 66 Dover Minutemen marched to fight along Battle Road under the command of Captain Ebenezer Battelle.

Elias Haven had been at work harrowing a field on the Chickering farm (still operating at 56 Haven Street) that morning. According to tradition he left his harrow in the field to answer the call to arms, and "was [later] shot down while standing beside his brother-in-law,
Aaron Whiting, at a corner of the Arlington meeting-house and is buried near the spot."

He was the only Dedham man killed that day. The harrow he abandoned is now in the Fisher Barn.

[kronckew]

Musta been a harrowing experience for Elias...

[fernando]

I wonder whether they keep hay knives at Fisher Barn, or only earlier tools.
During Elias Haven days such implement was yet to be invented.
However the local minutemen training camp still existed in 1910.


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[kronckew]

For completeness, Not Dover, De, NH, Pa, NJ, Or Dover, UK but
Dover, MA, USA - barn was re-erected & tools moved back to it.

[Rick]

“He that would make a pun would pick a pocket.”

Stephen Maturin

[kronckew]

peter piper picked a peck of pickled pockets, how many pickled pockets did peter piper pick? I suspect he used a hay saw.

[fernando]

Originally Posted by Rick

“He that would make a pun would pick a pocket.”

Stephen Maturin

Look the French version ...

" Qui vole un oeuf vole un boeuf "

[kronckew]

Originally Posted by fernando

Look the French version ...

" Qui vole un oeuf vole un boeuf "

Hang the thief! Obviously a vicious sociopath! next thing he will be asking for more porridge!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbdNgbCOq_s

[Rick]

Originally Posted by fernando

I wonder whether they keep hay knives at Fisher Barn, or only earlier tools.
During Elias Haven days such implement was yet to be invented.
However the local minutemen training camp still existed in 1910.

I have two immense hand turned wood cider press screws from the mill at Chickering Farm in my basement here on the Cape. There was a harrow at the farm made entirely of wood, teeth and all.
The place was a time capsule.

I never visited the Fisher Barn.

[fernando]

Originally Posted by Rick

I have two immense hand turned wood cider press screws from the mill at Chickering Farm in my basement here on the Cape...

Most interesting; and eventually the kind of things you can't collect and keep in a 1st floor apartment ...

[Rick]

I was hoping to use them as an interior feature in one of the houses I have built here, but I just couldn't find a way to do that, so they rest in the cellar.
Maybe my boy can find a use for them.

[fernando]

My neighborhood fellow collector has one of these things, but sturdier and with a wider thread pitch; for wine or olive oil, i don't remember ... but certainly not for cider. He decided to transform his large house basement divisions and removed the screw from its original old press apparatus. I don't know what will happen to it.