Interview with Roy Wilhelm, February 28, 1993
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==Carpenter Tools== | ==Carpenter Tools== | ||
- | '''Roy''': And his profession, his being in the cattle business was accidental, but his profession was carpenter, he took training at that. | + | '''Roy''': And his ([[Zemira George Wilhelm|Georges's]]) profession, his being in the cattle business was accidental, but his profession was carpenter, he took training at that. |
'''John''': That explains why the assessor on the tax rolls over there was taxing him on carpenter tools. | '''John''': That explains why the assessor on the tax rolls over there was taxing him on carpenter tools. | ||
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'''Roy''': Yeah. | '''Roy''': Yeah. | ||
- | '''John''': Well now, some of those carpenter tools that your [[Zemira George Wilhelm|Dad]] owned, that you inherited, suppose those belonged to B.H. originally? | + | '''John''': Well now, some of those carpenter tools that your [[Zemira George Wilhelm|Dad]] owned, that you inherited, suppose those belonged to [[Bateman Haight Wilhelm|B.H.]] originally? |
'''Roy''': Maybe some of the older ones. | '''Roy''': Maybe some of the older ones. | ||
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'''John''': Oh, that one I've got up there then is a four plane, huh, that long one? | '''John''': Oh, that one I've got up there then is a four plane, huh, that long one? | ||
- | '''Roy''': Yeah, then I don't know what became of the jack plane | + | '''Roy''': Yeah, then I don't know what became of the jack plane... |
'''Roy''': I remember when he bought that. (The draw knife) | '''Roy''': I remember when he bought that. (The draw knife) | ||
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'''Roy''': Oh when we was livin' in . . . . | '''Roy''': Oh when we was livin' in . . . . | ||
- | '''John''': | + | '''John''': You mean when your [[Zemira George Wilhelm|Dad]] bought it? |
- | '''Roy''': Yeah, when my [[Zemira George Wilhelm|Dad]] bought it. But he had had one, kind of a blacksmith made thing. You see, every guy in the team and wagon days, he carried an auger, twist drill, hand operated auger. They would drill a hole, say yea big, and he carried a plane and he carried a good sharp axe and went to town, we went to cross the Vernon creek up at 20 foot | + | '''Roy''': Yeah, when my [[Zemira George Wilhelm|Dad]] bought it. But he had had one, kind of a blacksmith made thing. You see, every guy in the team and wagon days, he carried an auger, twist drill, hand operated auger. They would drill a hole, say yea big, and he carried a plane and he carried a good sharp axe and went to town, we went to cross the Vernon creek up at 20-foot Falls and he broke a double tree. Hell, that didn't stall him atall. He just went out beside the road where some of that second growth oak was, picked out a good one, chewed 'er down, you know you had to have a saw too and within forty-five minutes or an hour he had a damn good double tree. We was back on the road again. Had a draw knife, the old man always carried it in the jockey box. Along the front of the wagon box was a box about that deep and they were three-and-a-half feet, about like that, cause that's how much a wagon box was, and it had this lid down. |
==Pa and Marion's wagon box argument== | ==Pa and Marion's wagon box argument== |