NORTON! NORTON! NORTON! That's three cheers for Norton. Remember I said he called one day and claimed he had a sprise for me?
I'd had a really bad day and a surprise form Norton is very risky territory.
Boy, did I have to eat my attitude:
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So I took Norton out to the rail spur and abandoned mill and he found a treasure, a real treasure ~ a chain he can use to pull cars with his truck. ZOWIE!
He wrapped it around the bottom metal of his truck, with my supervision, and went to work. Well he now had a big thing to show and showed all the driver boys at the loading dock.
"Hmm. That reminds me of something," said one of the drivers. "I have a log raft chain."
Now. If this is an ocean-going log raft chain from the preceding century, it would be huge; and I guess, very very rare.
I don't have enough details to know yet.
The guy told Norton "Log Raft Chain," and the only log rafts I know of were the Pacific log rafts. (Doesn't mean there weren't others.) I forget who the famous baron was, that tried the log rafts, but the bound together a forest of logs about the size of an aircraft carrier and towed them from Oregon to mills South, on the coast of California. They were monsters.
This was in the 1870's? I forget.
The guy says you can tell a log raft chain because the chain has special spikes on it.
Norton said, "Well! You must be proud of that!"
"Not really. I'd like to get rid of it. You want it?"
So Norton called.
Late.
Excited.
I think he wants to add it to the collection here.
AND he knows a guy who restores farm tractors and will let me look thru his scrap pile.
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