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Rantings in the digital wind as your Grot Shop of the information age. "I didn't get where I am today without recognising a completely useless machine when I see one" - C.J.
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Tuesday, March 7, 2006 |
We went to the Tuesday night hockey game and had a good time. Ended up leaving early but its a school night and that's just the way it has to be. Two more games coming up this weekend, so we'll be able to get our fill then.
Also, I completed the writeup of the first major piece of my home machine shop, the Grizzly 4" x 6" metal bandsaw. Next project will be to complete the mini lathe unpacking and cleaning.
See the assembly writeup at:
http://homepage.mac.com/zenblaster/ms/setup_g1010.html
In reading todays post, read from the bottom back up to the top for this day. That way the text introducing it will match up, and the pictures will be more in a sequential order. Next time I'll need to look at posting this all at once and editing, or doing it in reverse order. I simply added the pics one at a time today for simplicity and it seems a little backwards when going thru the pics on the final web page. Oh well, no biggie. More Grot coming soon...
9:37:24 PM 
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This looked like another planet where Cypress trees rule. Note the Cypress "knees" rising from the water. This was alongside one of the trails.
6:12:15 PM
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6:08:56 PM
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Here the trail can be seen alongside the canal. This seems to be some of the narrow areas. They join up at a wider area further down.
6:06:38 PM
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The Yesterdays Highways sign described how these hand dug canals connected to the Wando River then Charleston for shipping rice. The canals not only irrigated the fields, but were used by boats called flats to carry these goods. During the boom time of rice production of 1839-1859, South Carolina accounted for 70% of the nations rice crop.
6:03:32 PM
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5:55:05 PM
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5:53:23 PM
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Today I took a hike with the cool weather to a spot in the Francis Marion Nation Forest called the I'on Swamp Trail. This is built over some old rice fields, and has markers to describe them and the wildlife now living in these areas. The trail is about 2 miles off of SC Highway 17 near Awendaw. It starts off at a (currently) very boggy area, but quickly reaches a nice roadbed and the main trails. Its possible to avoid the bog by walking down the road thats about 100 feet prior to the trail head.
There's an artesian well spilling out into one of the ditch areas, and various wildlife. Once you reach the main trails, you're able to walk alongside the various ditches and canals which used to irrigate the rice fields and provide transportation of rice to Charleston via an inland canal system. The trails cover a large rectangle of the old rice fields, and form a loop so you can then head back to the trail head.
5:53:06 PM
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