Vintage work crew photos

**Frank S** · Dec 21, 2018, 05:56 PM

Originally Posted by G.Paul

The do gooier democrats that are after gun control would be after you

I could always leave them loaded

**G.Paul** · Dec 21, 2018, 06:12 PM

Originally Posted by Frank S

I could always leave them loaded

Yea you would have to shoot one of them to get respect. Oh I need to tell you there was a foundry not far from me that casted old style barrels like you want I wonder if there are some laying around on he grounds of the property. My friend a pattern maker used to deal with them. I will ask if there are barrels. I am in SW Michigan.

**Frank S** · Dec 22, 2018, 08:25 PM

that was 1 steep ramp to the carriage shop

**Ralphxyz** · Dec 21, 2018, 08:43 AM

Great picture, love the heavy duty sawhorses.

Ralph

**mklotz** · Dec 21, 2018, 09:54 AM

Those guns look remarkably similar to the British BL 6inch Mark XIX Gun...

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...J1nXcxwgpqAKM:

I wonder if, that late in the war, the US was manufacturing the guns under license for use by US troops in Europe.

**Jon** · Dec 22, 2018, 07:09 PM

Harness and carriage shop employees, Hudson, Massachusetts, about 1900

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**suther51** · Dec 22, 2018, 09:10 PM

This is a picture of the building my boss bought. Built in 1844 as a harness and wagon shop. Just one of many old shops that utilized the second story beyond what we generally are accustomed to currently. The second story ramp in Jon's picture made me think of this. I believe that the wagons were built on the second story of the building my boss bought. After the harness and wagon shop the building became a tavern which prohibition put put of business. After setting empty for awhile the building was turned into the Pinewoods hotell, then a general - grocery store that my dad frequented as a young man. Later used as an antique shop which my boss still uses it for currently after a deep rehab. Found an 1898 dime in the crawl space. The original floor was cobbles over a layer of charcoal which I found interesting as I had read that some of the first improved roads in the eastern us were topped with charcoal. Tried to post an up to date picture but it would not up load. We put the porch back on from the grocery store days.

**Frank S** · Dec 26, 2018, 10:41 AM

I bet I know what that guy in front used to be before going to work shoveling coal. How do you like me now drill Sgt?

**Frank S** · Jan 4, 2019, 10:13 AM

I was going to try the paperboy delivery route thing but I lived 9 miles from town. Which would have meant I would have had to have gotten up at around 4 AM to do my chores around the farm then ride my bike to town load up with papers deliver them before people woke up to eat their breakfast then ride back home and get ready for school in time to catch the school buss since the town I went to school was 8 miles in the other direction of the town where I was going to be delivering papers.. I did actually deliver papers 2 weeks one summer after I had started work at the blacksmith shop. A friend of mine had to go on vacation with his parents so I took care of his route for the 2 weeks he was gone. Since the Blacksmith shop was in the same town it was no big deal to leave home a couple hours earlier than I normally did to get to work by 8 am but I made more working at the blacksmith shop that I did taking care of his route for him.