Hollenberg Kansas

[Delmonico]

Just a note Charles Goodnight built his chuckwagons out of Osage Orange, but most were oak or ash.

[Lone Gunman]

Well, I see I've wasted the past hour looking for Marlowe Jensen's card     It seems I'm connected to this thread at every juncture except that we missed the Hollenberg event this year.     My Dad graduated from Hollenberg HS in 1934, I have a customer in her late 70's who trained under my grandmother who was the Hollenberg telephone operator. The newspaper in Jamesport MO is one of my customers. The Amish buggy maker's name is Yoder, I realize this is absolutely no help since "Yoder" is the Amish version of "Smith". The first time I visited his shop (looking for wheels BTW) I was surprised to see a modern looking table saw, drill press, etc but the place was lit with kerosene lanterns. As it turns out all this modern equipment was powered by air motors instead of electricity. The air was stored in an old 1,000 gal propane tank which was pumped up with a diesel compressor (no sparkplugs). The town lives off the tourist buses of folks shopping for antiques, etc. The Amish bakery was continually pestered by city folk wanting to use their credit/debit cards. They decided they could power the credit card terminal with a solar panel on the roof, so technicaly they weren't connected to the power grid and therefore not committing any sin. 

Well, I've rambled enough on this, here's some other wheel links Bill, I can't vouch for their products but I can guarantee that Marlowe Jensen hand makes his wheels using period correct tools & techniques. We had a wheel repairing weekend with our blacksmithing club last year and there's an art to getting things to work out right. An art we didn't quite perfect that weekend. 

Wheels
http://www.rptrading.biz/WoodenHubWheels.html R & P Trading
http://www.windyhillwoods.com/wooden-wagon-wheels.html Wooden Wagon Wheels
http://www.puddleandpond.com/wagon_wheels/ Puddle and Pond
http://www.customwagons.com/wagon_wheels.htm Custom Wagons
http://www.jakesctp.com/ JAKE'S COUNTRY TRADING POST
http://www.sprayingequipmentsupply.com/wooden-wagon-wheels.html Spraying Equipment Supply
http://www.hansenwheel.com/Wagon%20Wheels.htm Hansen Wheel & Wagon Shop
http://www.thespottedmule.com/Wheels.htm The Spotted Mule
http://wagonwheelmaker.tripod.com/welcome_.htm Old West Wagon Wheels Inc
http://schroedermachine.com/customize.htm Schroeder Machine
http://www.amishcraft.com/cgi-local/ddoptions.cgi?si=107526601878169141&id=1... Amishcraft.com

[Delmonico]

My new Avatar was taken at Hollenberg this weekend.  No I am not ready to sneeze as someone said, in another fourm.  I'm explaing to about 20 folks that I make my bread as dinner rolls so that one can just grab a hunk.



I do like to be colorful.

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[Ottawa Creek Bill]

Del,
Good looking shirt.....how many mouths did you feed that weekend? And, what is the largest gathering you have cooked for? (number of mouths you've fed in one setting)....I've got something I want to run by you.

by the way, I found a wagon builder out of South Dakota (Hanson Wheel and Wagon Shop) that are quite reasonable on the price of their wheels. I'm going to have them build four wheels for a prairie schooner that I have plans for. They also have plans for just about every kind of wagon/stage coach you can think of and have done a lot of restorations for museum/ historical parks all over the world including the Smithsonian, you should check their web site out. http://www.wagons-wheels.com/museums.html

Bill

[Grizzle Bear]

Here's some other folks that make wheels, or will build you a new wagon from scratch:

www.rainbowtel.net/~wagons/wernerwagonworks001.html


I have seen their work, it is good!

Grizzle Bear

[Delmonico]

I've done up to a hundred by myself but that was just supper.  Sunday was just maybe 25, supper only and three cooks, it was a very lazy day. 

The shirt is made on a now discontinued McCalls pattern.  It had an ungathered bib shirt and a gathered shirt in one package, one can build many variations on it.

[Delmonico]

This might give some nightmares.

[Grizzle Bear]

Seen a doctor about that, Del?

 

Grizzle Bear

[Ottawa Creek Bill]

Whew....that looks like something you would see in a slasher movie........

Bill

[Silver Creek Slim]

I think ya need a touch more flour. 

Slim

[River City John]

That looks awfully thick for a bullet lube.

[Samuel Kiteman Cody]

There was even a Ft Atkinson in Kansas

http://www.stjohnks.net/santafetrail/research/fortatkinson.html

Del,

Sounds like a fun event

'Ol Gabe,

Actually, that Ft. Atkinson is the 2nd of at least 3.  The first on located on the "Council Bluff" of Lewis and Clark located in Ft. Calhoun, NE which is 15 miles N of Omaha.  It was built on the bluff in the spring of 1820 and was torn down and most of it was moved down the river to the newly established Ft. Leavenworth in 1827.

IIRC, Ft. Atkinson, Iowa was built in the mid 1830's and lasted to the end of the 1840's.

I don't remember where the 3rd one was, possibly Wyoming or Arizona.

Not many Generals get 3 forts named after them!

[Dr. Bob]

Howdy Samuel K. Cody,

Thanks for the info and link about Ft. Atkinson, KS.  Now I can be more accurate about Ft. Atkinsons.  Always good to start the week with new knowledge!