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  • From: SJC <indexer AT localnet.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Insulation, homemade
  • Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:23:28 -0400


On Oct 27, 2008, at 1:04 PM, VAN DELL JORDAN wrote:
Sawdust was the insulation used in ice houses.

Still is. That's what we use here. Depending on the ice house (earthbermed best), and the temperature of the ice when it is packed, can still have ice in early Sept some years....

Curiosity item: they used to cut ice from the Androscoggin and Penobscot Rivers here, pack it in sawdust, and send it by ship to the Caribbean in years gone by....big trade item for many years.

SJ






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