Re: Ice Bar

hmmm   vaguely remember those things from when I lived in the land of ice
and snow (most of my life, actually).  Usually can't find the snow shovel if/when
it snows here on the west coast in comfortable zone 8.  No snow at all last winter.
Cheers, Cheryl Oke
-----Original Message-----
From: Jack Barr <b*@isys.ca>
To: Iris e-mail onelist <i*@onelist.com>
Date: October 26, 1998 6:07 AM
Subject: [iris-talk] Ice Bar

Tom Krop wrote

the snow was blowing sideways & someone was up on his roof chopping ice off
the eaves of his house with an ice bar & punched a hole in the roof & wants
to know if I can come & patch the roof rite away. Oh you maybe don't know
what an ice bar is, it's an iron rod about 4 feet long flattend at one end
& sharpend , it is used for chopping holes in ice for ice fishing, but some
people have found other uses for it [like puncing holes in their roofs]. I

TOM
    Up here in Northern Ontario we refer to that bar as an ice spud just like the potato, funny how the same thing has a different name depending on were your from.
     I know were your coming from about retirement, l had my days of working outside in 20 and 30 and the odd time 35 to 40 below fighting fires, but now when the winds blow and the snow piles up, we'll worry about it to-morrow,
  Enjoy your retirement, I am

Jack Barr    Chilly side of zone 4
barr@isys.ca

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