Old Tools and Stuff at The Much Older Brothers Shop

A quick visit to the Much Older Brothers shop gave the opportunity to peruse some cool old things from our long gone relatives. Our Great G Father on our Grandmothers side died in 1933 and our Great G Father on our Dad's side died in 1948. Both were gone before I was born. However, some of their legacy lives on in the tools they left behind and though we do not have them all, we have enough to make a nice story.
For instance, our one GGFather started mining limestone blocks on one part of his 330 acre homestead. He built hog pen fences out of huge squares buried in the ground at 45* angle to each other...as well as foundations for the barn, and many other out buildings. Though it will not be depicted in this video the neatest thing he built of limestone was an outdoor oven that measured about 6 feet wide, 8 feet long and waist high. He used that oven, we suspect, first to fire harden the thousands of hand made red clay bricks to build the two story brick house that kept him and his family out of the elements. This would have been during the 1870's that he dug the red clay from another knoll on his property to form the hand made brick. The family resided in a home of hand hewn timbers during the years it took to build the new home. Of course the oven would have been used at the same time for our GG Mother to bake the great quantity of breads and other baked goods that it took to keep a family of 16 children happily fed.
That will be featured in a future video, because my Much Older Brother and myself got the opportunity to salvage ALL the stone from the old oven a few years back and we re-created it in a more modern version of an outdoor baking/cooking oven covered by a pavilion. But that's NOT what today's video is about.
I hope you stayed to the end, because the neatest of the items, we saved for last. Every part of the hand made wagon was built by Mr. Albert Vogt, our Grandfathers blacksmith and friend of the family. He was employed by our G-pa into the Great Depression and eventually the commercial services of the blacksmith shop was terminated, but he remained a friend of the family. As noted in the video, he built a minimum of three of these scaled down versions of the little wagons for our family members, with this being the one remaining pretty much exactly the same since 1949....except for a little faded paint.

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