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Raimey, I guess you are too young to remember real "short wood" pulpwood trucks, trees are all bound for "chip and saw" mills now; it was just a joke. Mike
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Oh no, I well remember all & well knew it was a joke. My family were huge loggers, sawmillers, block setters, as well as Moonshine makers. Both go hand in hand. I am still looking for a 25 gallon copper pot in Bankhead....
On my visit to said Sawmill, I did learn a tonne about mills specifically about hammering a sawblade(60" w/ 52 teeth I think....)
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On a blade that size you had to do it with a hammer, no one made a sawset that large and if they did you couldn't set the teeth by hand. Finding that copper pot is likely a lost cause, if the Sheriff didn't dynamite it "scrappers" likely found it. Mike
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"My family were huge ... Moonshine makers." Raimey, I suspected it all the time!  Cheers, Jani
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Jani, my old Tuscan Pheasant Hunting Buddy, you know me all too well. But on occasion I do prefer Slivovitz......
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Yeah, replacing those 52 teeth is really an art & takes wisdom.
I was down near an axed still just yesterday. I have seen my fair share & more. But if you run across one in Moreland, Alabama of Bankhead National Forest. It was ours. I think some of my relatives even have a Still as their headstone??? All were known to sell Corn by the gallon. I think I still have one opportunity to obtain a family recipe?
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Raimey, Even if you don't use it, it would be good to keep it for family history. Corn is easier to haul by the gallon than by the bushel, anyway. Mike
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My neighbor's grandfather paid for his farm with moonshine. He used ponies to haul corn and sugar into the mountains and to bring shine out. He let local kids ride the ponies and we kids thought he was the greatest man alive. Little did we know.
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We would typically call that Cat a Mule Skinner. I have heard a very similar story many times from Eastern Kentucky & Tennessee.
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Raimey, Even if you don't use it, it would be good to keep it for family history. Corn is easier to haul by the gallon than by the bushel, anyway. Mike That one fact is the sole reason the Bourbon industry started 250 years ago in Kentucky. They inadvertently invented Bourbon in their effort to manufacture liquid corn. Many histories will quote the demand from the East as the reason, but when production became large I believe most of it went to the sea in New Orleans along with the sale of the lumber sawed and used for the flatbottom boats used to ship it there. People would make the whiskey, cut and dress the lumber, build the boats and then sell the entire package in New Orleans. Abraham Lincoln worked in that business for a while when young.
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