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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

> I recall a Tvo post on making an icehouse and harvesting ice.  Since it
> did not apply to me here in Georgia, I did not save it, but perhaps an
> archive search would pull it up.  I just remember something about
> insulating with sawdust.

He and I grew up in Wisconsin where, before modern refrigeration, 
iceboxes were widely used. When I was in high school I worked at a 
resort where one of my duties was delivering ice to the cabins. The 
ice was sawed from the lake, about a foot thick, and stored in the 
ice house with lots of sawdust for insulation. I used an axe and a 
big pick to break pieces loose where they froze together in spite of 
the sawdust, then delivered the chunks and put them in the iceboxes. 
This would be about 1953.