Re: historic hewing questionnaire
[Re: D Wagstaff]
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02/17/12 06:09 PM
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Sure,
take potatoes, preferably small ones parboil them with the skins on, let cool slowly a few hours or even better overnight. If you refrigerate or put into cold water, they get too sticky.
Take a knife and scratch off the skins, they should slip off without having to take any of the flesh from the potato.
Grate potatoes by hand, a cheese grater works fine. Machine grated potatoes are too mushy.
In an iron skillet (it will stick to stainless steel) melt butter.
Form grated potatoes into cake, and put into hot pan. cook on a medium heat about 5 to 7 minutes on a side, covered.
To turn cakes, the traditional way is to slide out of the pan onto a plate. Put another plate upside down on top, and flip the whole mess over very quickly, then slide back into pan with new butter.
The Röschti is usually about 5 to 6 inches wide, and 1/2 to 3/4 inches thick. It should have a crispy outside and a very light, fluffy inside.
This is the basic version. You might mix onions or herbs in with the potatoes, or you can top it off with 2 eggs or with cheese -but use a Swiss cheese. I made my lunch with a topping of mixed Emmentaler and Le Gruyere.
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Re: historic hewing questionnaire
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02/19/12 07:25 PM
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D Wagstaff
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Hi Richard, Recenlty catching up on historical roof material and came across these thinking it might be what you had mentioned here in your posting on the topic. I know it looks like just a stack of zinc plates in the picture but they are being offered as zinc dakpannen which you might call zinc shingles. Not inexpensive if I remember rightly. Greetings, Don Wagstaff
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Re: historic hewing questionnaire
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02/20/12 01:07 AM
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Hello evryone tonight
Hi Don
Thanks for the post and the picture of the zinc (roof) plates
Being zinc coated I suspect that they are of an old type before galvanizing, the older version contained lead and zinc and would last for a very long time exposed to the weather
Some of the latter versions contained copper, lead and zinc and were exceptionally weather resistant
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Re: historic hewing questionnaire
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03/25/12 05:03 PM
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well hello tonight
Sorry for having been away so long but have been under the weather
I had a fellow bring me a couple of handsaws to sharpen the other day and I finally felt able to get at them yesterday.
I have seen alot of handsaws in my day but one of these is particularly interesting--it is a Disston and in the embossed inscription it has a notation saying that it is "for cutting steel"--(this inscription is below the regular disston insignia)
This saw appears to me to be a regular hand saw--10pt-- so it certainly is not for cutting steel
Anyone have any ideas?
NH
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Re: historic hewing questionnaire
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03/25/12 05:16 PM
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D L Bahler
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repurposed or replaced handle, perhaps?
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Re: historic hewing questionnaire
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03/25/12 08:43 PM
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Hi DL
It doesn't appear to have been tampered with in that respect and in my opinion to be able to cut steel it would need to be a hard type of steel, and probably 20pts, and not shaped like a regular handsaw, it is very unusual indeed but I am bound to try and find an answer.
I did some investigation on the internet, on Disston saws but to no avail
Maybe someone that speciaqlizes in collecting disston saws or a museum that does--The disston saw company might have some information
NH
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Re: historic hewing questionnaire
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03/25/12 11:45 PM
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The saw is perhaps a Disston 340 through 343 series saw, termed a "hack hand saw". It has the shape and handle of the No. 7 carpenters saw. Reference the Disston catalogue of 1918, pdf image page 41 or catalogue page 184. http://www.roseantiquetools.com/id57.html
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Re: historic hewing questionnaire
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03/28/12 01:32 AM
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Hello everyone tonight
Hi Roger
Thanks for the wonderful info and Rose Antique tool site
I checked out the Disston 1918 catalogue, pg 184, and the saw appearing there is identical to the one I have, but the #on the saw is 240 there doesn't appear to be a #240 in the catalogue, I suspect it may have been produced in a previous or later year, what do you think?
Thanks again for the lead I really appreciate it!~!!
NH
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Re: historic hewing questionnaire
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03/28/12 03:47 AM
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Hi NH Looks like the 240, like myself, is post WWII era. http://www.disstonianinstitute.com/gallery2.htmlGood luck. Edit. The 240 seems to have a later and cruder D8 style handle than the 1918 340 which has a shapely NO 7 handle and blade with nib.
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Re: historic hewing questionnaire
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03/29/12 01:21 AM
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hello everyone tonight
Thanks Roger for all your help, I really appreciate it, and I think that many looking in probably learned much, and sharpened their enthusiasm for the appreciation of old tools
The older I get the more I appreciate the finer points of the tools I used, and will pass down to future generations
NH
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