FCOB #37 Awesome Rocks And Other Stuff
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- Опубликовано: 3 янв 2024
- On a overcast New Years Day we talk about the historic importance of railroads. Visit the remains of a 1900's era sawmill and the very, very rare remains of a shingle mill. Check out a abandoned oil lease and some big rocks. A great day to be out in Penn's Woods.
You never fail to provide enlightenment and enjoyment. Thank you Terry!
Terry thank you for all the enjoyable content you have shown on this site. I have been coming up to Forest County since 1969 and have spent more than half my days up here. I have gained a lot of knowledge of the history of the County because of you. Again, thank you very kindly.
Thanks for the great shots of a very nice boiler house! Also loved the rocks and stream. It always amazes me how clear the water is! Nice that you were able to deduce the probable location of the shingle mill. It is always good to take another look. Great job!
Great as usual
Keep up the good work
Thank you!
Awesome
New sub here. Terry thanks for the great content. Our family had a camp in potter county for close to 30 years. But like All things times change, the camp ended up being sold and we moved on. I’d love to find a new place a little bit closer to my north east Ohio home to deer and bear hunt. Our deer hunting over here is great , but it’s just not the same as PA. Love the mountains and being able to use a modern center fire rifle ( shotguns are for things that fly).
Welcome. We also have a Facebook group you can join.
Awesome video. I know you are reluctant to give out exact locations and I respect that. So I'll only ask this. Were you upstream of Salmon Creek Road (forest service road 145)? Only reason I ask is that stream looked great for trout this spring. And should I happen upon this site would make an interesting stop for lunch. Really enjoy this stuff, keep it up.
Yeah, that would be upstream.
hi terry, this is john dominelli
Hey John, hope things are going well for you. have you retired yet you should be getting close. I highly recommend it.
yea, i retired @ 62. it is very bad place.
Glad you made it. I finally retired completely 2 years ago, now I make youtube videos as you can see. Really enjoying it.@@tazo1jd
I'm not an expert on any of this, but this was probably a significant place to native Americans back in the day. There may have even been mounds and or treasure in this area. Search for out of place artifacts. Our world is much more strange than the people at the Smithsonian institute want you to believe it is. There have been cataclysms in the past that have wiped out whole civilizations. Some of those civilizations were quite advanced. They weren't only cutting lumber and making shingles back there
are there any weird shaped trees in the area?
Very interesting and thank you. Just joined. You mentioned a boiler for the saw mill so assuming a steam engine powered plant. Guessing as you mentioned that they picked up and moved most of the machine tools, would you say they moved the boilers as well?
The boilers were a very valuable piece on equipment as was the mill itself. They would be reused at other locations until worn out then scrapped or left to rust if it was too much trouble to haul them out. Most of the worn out equipment that was left behind was gathered up during the World Wars.
I did a video at the Pa lumber Museum that shows a reproduction boiler house. It is episode #34 Part 2, the boiler house is shown at the 5 minute mark. Now keep iin mind the mill in this video was small and had a single boiler not a battery of 3 as at the museum. They were housed in a stone structure for fire protection and to help retain heat.
I believe the structure at the shingle mill site was housing a very small boiler, a shingle mill did not require much in the way of horsepower. It is also extremely rare to fine any remains at all of a shingle mill.
@@forestcountyoutback7540 Thanks for your comments. It's all very interesting. A fella I follow on RUclips JonathanW has become quite the restorer of steam engines and the trips and adventures to harvest and rescue them. if interested @jonathanw4942
this is a very interesting presentation. can you please reveal to me where to find detail maps of forest county and the surrounding areas? i have purchased the pennsylvania gazeteer and it is not detailed enough. at this point i have no choice but to go to the county tax office and purchase maps. there must be a better way,
thank you,
bob kostreva
There are online sources that sell reproductions of vintage maps. The Library of Congress website also has vintage maps that are downloadable. The US Geological Survey site sells paper topo maps. They also have the National Map Viewer that allows you to zoom in on smaller areas and print out the maps, this is also where I get my Lidar maps from.
Hey Jason, that device at approx. 15:05, would it have been a belt housing to operate the saw?
Hey Terry, sorry for calling you Jason. (brain fart)
That was on the oil lease about 200 yards away from the mill looks like it was the belt pulley for the power house.