Hi Bruce, We are a living history museum located in Nova Scotia, Canada. We depict rural farm life through the 1800s and early 1900s and have many buildings on our site including a working blacksmith shop, cooperage, barn, woodworking shop etc... We use oxen and horses and hand tools to do much of the farm work the same as it was done many years ago. You can find more info about us on our website at: rossfarm.novascotia.ca/
hi rose thank you may I ask a question my twin boys who just turned 4have been wanting a certain toy that they asked Santa for the past 2 Xcmas ago they want a model of a towable gaspowered cement mixer that the bricklayer have I own one as they said dad big one they want one to tow behind there Tonka trucks my kids including my daughter who like her brothers uses there imagination using Lego Lincoln logs and have used Tonka truck my daughter owns a cement company and I built a box for her company with 3 cement truck.2 Tonka 1 green toy plus her jeep that her and her brothers were used a. she helped sand and pick out the paint same as her brothers Marinesniper1958@gmail.com I send you a picture
None missing at all. We take safety very seriously and staff is always reminded of situational awareness when working in the mill and since this video was posted almost 10 years ago there have been many safety improvements to the mill such as additional guards, etc... We work closely with OHS to maintain safe working practices throughout the museum site.
Hi @huskyjerk Here is a photo of some of the barrels made from the staves and heads that are produced in the mill. www.flickr.com/photos/rossfarmmuseum/4760801748/
Thank you for sharing this awesome video, it really has a feel good factor associated with it ,as well as a sawmill enterprise which I would never thought to exist, amazing old school techniques 10/10.
Forty five years a tool & die maker working with all kind of dangerous machinery the ones that get hurt are the ones who don't understand machinery and push it past its limits, its all about the process.
Interesting to see from some of the comments on here just how far back down the evolution ladder some people have gone, they see this working environment as dangerous, yet walk along the road with 1 ton cars whizzing past only inches away, what it shows is how far we have come away from being aware of potential dangers around us, these workers are fully alert to the moving machinery around them, yet the health and safety police ,who have'nt a clue, would stop them, it shows just how much the intelligent are being controlled by the unintelligent.
The first thing I noticed is how efficient the whole operation is. Nobody is standing around scratching waiting for the next piece to come by. I don't think safer machines, i.e., saw blade housings, would change that. These guys have been doing what they are doing for years, and you will notice that most of them are making some sort of quality or dimensional judgment on each piece before and/or after they run it. I doubt that any piece of electronic equipment could do better than the eye which has made the call tens of thousands of times with dead-on accuracy and allowance for error. The change to 21st-century safety standards would probably not change their output. But it very well might bankrupt the small business company they have. This is one situation where the old saying, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." still applies. Thanks for the vid.
. In the UK, Health and Safety laws began after the awful Flixborough disaster where it was discovered that deaths and injuries were the result of very poor working practices. The theory of health and safety at work practices is to minimise the opportunity for accidents to happen. Manual working resulted in fewer accidents but the industrial revolution brought much higher risks of deaths and injuries - think of cotton mills for instance. Do people at work need protecting? Is working safer now than 20 years; 30 years; 100 years; 200 years ago? Is it best practice to have processes and practices co designed with users to minimise risks? Are the health and safety police - as you call them - guilty of excesses and over-compensation? Quite possibly but I have to say that as an ex-MD with 3,500 people and with some of those involved in medium to high risk tasks, I was always grateful to have the disciplines imposed by the independent (from operations) company health and safety teams based upon the underpinning legal framework. We had all the processes required such as risk assessments - from which operations and H&S derived safe working practices; equipment testing; chemical evaluations - from which risks and then safe use were derived. We still had accidents, but in my 8 years only one serious one. That was an employee doing something that was very specifically banned. He was very seriously injured and never to fully recover. In that instance, he was doing private work albeit using company equipment. I believe that your comment about intelligent and unintelligent is very seriously misplaced. I have never found it respectful to define intelligence by role or role by intelligence. There are dumb people all over the place - even on YT. I would only add that common sense isn’t quite as common as we would like it to be
@@martincox7354 Your view of the H&S "industry" just about sums up the problem, once it was perceived to be an area where large amounts of profit could be made advising companies and selling goods, the whole thing took off in a big way, unions also took advantage of the situation, having worked as a plant engineer, and later a college lecturer in engineering I have seen this happen from the inside, no one is saying that unsafe practises should be forced upon workers, but in past times people were so much more intelligent when it came to manual operation of machines, that is simply because any lack of intelligence brought about an accident which usually took them out of the game, the poor working practices were usually brought about by the bonus scheme, which encouraged workers to take short cuts. Not calling people unintelligent is a product of the current PC ruling, one only has to drive a few miles on any road to see the result of unintelligent people acquiring a driver licence, but there are many more examples if you care to look around. As the apprentice system has fallen by the wayside we will get more reliant on multiple machine guard systems for uneducated workers, but not in the west as everything is now made in china, including the virus we are now suffering. You are of course absolutely correct in your observation about "common sense" that has also fallen by the wayside as well ! Stay safe.
@@453421abcdefg12345 did you really say " in past times people were so much more intelligent when it came to manual operation of machines, that is simply because any lack of intelligence brought about an accident which usually took them out of the game"? is that the kind of safety policy you want for your family; your neighbourhood; this society? where a lapse in intelligence by the worker "takes them out of the game" with no adequate responsibility on the employer. If you really believe that is the right ethic for the society that you want, then I'm very glad that you are in no position of power. Of course, companies will try and exploit any market - that applies to leisure; funeral plans and....health & safety. That's called capitalism within democracy; its not the pretty part but its inevitable and until someone comes up with a better system. Just out of interest, OSHA records that there were 35,000 deaths in 1900 with a further 400,000 maimed. That's in your time of "much more intelligent" workers fearful of an accident that would lose them their job; in 2018, there were, provisionally, less than 3,000 deaths. I reckon that's 32,000 people alive who might well have been dead in the time of "much more intelligent people" You can reply if you want but I'm not going to waste any more of my time pointing out to the rest of the public the illogical, selfish nature of your original comment. Keep safe - but that seems unlikely with your safety policy
I'm surprised they still have hands!! I'll say this They ain't scaird!! You couldn't melt me & pour me on any one of these folks . It's not their first rodeo. I have to give them all a hand no pun intended😁
I actually hand quilted (not pieced) my first quilt. This way we got to see how it was done way back when. I loved handquilting it. This one she is doing looks sooo nice and puffy and you just want to cuddle to it. Great job.