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Mills,Stills and Two Pump Stations - 2/3/2008 10:19:50 PM    OsiaBoyce Posts: 1782 Joined: 12/8/2005 From: Chinquapin Falls, S.C. Status: offline Watching Paula dig desided I'd dispell another myth. When it comes to moonshining it wasn't Snuffy Smith and a little copper still. It was made on an industrial scale. This one was blown in the early 70s about a quater mile from my house. There's not much left to these things. Attachment (1) Post #: 1

RE: Mills,Stills and Two Pump Stations - 2/3/2008 10:22:16 PM    OsiaBoyce Posts: 1782 Joined: 12/8/2005 From: Chinquapin Falls, S.C. Status: offline Another view Attachment (1) (in reply to OsiaBoyce) Post #: 2

RE: Mills,Stills and Two Pump Stations - 2/3/2008 10:23:48 PM    OsiaBoyce Posts: 1782 Joined: 12/8/2005 From: Chinquapin Falls, S.C. Status: offline Water was no problem. This is an old pond site a real old pond site. Attachment (1) (in reply to OsiaBoyce) Post #: 3

RE: Mills,Stills and Two Pump Stations - 2/3/2008 10:26:31 PM    OsiaBoyce Posts: 1782 Joined: 12/8/2005 From: Chinquapin Falls, S.C. Status: offline The mill at Bubbas Attachment (1) (in reply to OsiaBoyce) Post #: 4

RE: Mills,Stills and Two Pump Stations - 2/3/2008 10:30:16 PM    OsiaBoyce Posts: 1782 Joined: 12/8/2005 From: Chinquapin Falls, S.C. Status: offline The turbines. If your name was Plato Soccrateas [ You know who I'm talking about ] wouldn't you want to be called Bubba. Attachment (1) (in reply to OsiaBoyce) Post #: 5

RE: Mills,Stills and Two Pump Stations - 2/3/2008 10:32:58 PM    OsiaBoyce Posts: 1782 Joined: 12/8/2005 From: Chinquapin Falls, S.C. Status: offline Miss Ethlynns old stores. Attachment (1) (in reply to OsiaBoyce) Post #: 6

RE: Mills,Stills and Two Pump Stations - 2/3/2008 10:35:59 PM    OsiaBoyce Posts: 1782 Joined: 12/8/2005 From: Chinquapin Falls, S.C. Status: offline Aunt Irenes old store by the Steel  Bridge. That would be Junior,Snookie and Skeeters Mama Attachment (1) (in reply to OsiaBoyce) Post #: 7

RE: Mills,Stills and Two Pump Stations - 2/3/2008 10:54:28 PM    OsiaBoyce Posts: 1782 Joined: 12/8/2005 From: Chinquapin Falls, S.C. Status: offline This one was behind the house I grew up in. Attachment (1) (in reply to OsiaBoyce) Post #: 8

RE: Mills,Stills and Two Pump Stations - 2/3/2008 10:56:21 PM    OsiaBoyce Posts: 1782 Joined: 12/8/2005 From: Chinquapin Falls, S.C. Status: offline The Eargles mill Attachment (1) (in reply to OsiaBoyce) Post #: 9

RE: Mills,Stills and Two Pump Stations - 2/3/2008 11:01:17 PM    OsiaBoyce Posts: 1782 Joined: 12/8/2005 From: Chinquapin Falls, S.C. Status: offline No Bi-Lo,Winn Dixie or Piggly Wiggly. You brake the corn you planted and plowed. Load it on the wagon. Shuck and shell. Sack it up take it to the mill, and eat grits 7 days a week. And those were the days? Attachment (1) (in reply to OsiaBoyce) Post #: 10

RE: Mills,Stills and Two Pump Stations - 2/3/2008 11:03:43 PM    OsiaBoyce Posts: 1782 Joined: 12/8/2005 From: Chinquapin Falls, S.C. Status: offline Wooden spill way. Most of the big ponds where made this way Attachment (1) (in reply to OsiaBoyce) Post #: 11

RE: Mills,Stills and Two Pump Stations - 2/3/2008 11:07:32 PM    OsiaBoyce Posts: 1782 Joined: 12/8/2005 From: Chinquapin Falls, S.C. Status: offline This was a k gal. Blown in the early 60s. Those long pipes are flues that run through the boiler. Attachment (1) (in reply to OsiaBoyce) Post #: 12

RE: Mills,Stills and Two Pump Stations - 2/3/2008 11:09:17 PM    OsiaBoyce Posts: 1782 Joined: 12/8/2005 From: Chinquapin Falls, S.C. Status: offline Part of a flue Attachment (1) (in reply to OsiaBoyce) Post #: 13

RE: Mills,Stills and Two Pump Stations - 2/3/2008 11:13:52 PM    OsiaBoyce Posts: 1782 Joined: 12/8/2005 From: Chinquapin Falls, S.C. Status: offline Inside the boiler showing how the ran through. They would have a pipe w/ small hole drilled in it. In that kerosene would drip. Kinda like a shop heater or jet engine. They say you could hear 'em run from a ways away Attachment (1) (in reply to OsiaBoyce) Post #: 14

RE: Mills,Stills and Two Pump Stations - 2/3/2008 11:14:33 PM    tigue710 Posts: 1969 Joined: 7/11/2007 From: connecticut Status: offline nice pics, some of those mills look a little older too, hope you found a bottle or two around them!  haven't had a sip of the blue flame for while, got arrested in Pocahontas Arkansas with 5 jars and and 20 cases of beer on a way to concert in 2001, charged me with boot legging!  (dry county) didnt hold more then a 60 dollar fine...  Always thought I would frame that one and hang it on the wall! _____________________________ aint no bottles in there.... (in reply to OsiaBoyce) Post #: 15

RE: Mills,Stills and Two Pump Stations - 2/3/2008 11:18:24 PM    OsiaBoyce Posts: 1782 Joined: 12/8/2005 From: Chinquapin Falls, S.C. Status: offline More parts blown. Making a still this was a large investment and a labor intensive job. These things are deep in the woods. Attachment (1) (in reply to OsiaBoyce) Post #: 16

RE: Mills,Stills and Two Pump Stations - 2/3/2008 11:21:47 PM    OsiaBoyce Posts: 1782 Joined: 12/8/2005 From: Chinquapin Falls, S.C. Status: offline Chunk of steel been in them tree tops as long as I can remember Attachment (1) (in reply to OsiaBoyce) Post #: 17

RE: Mills,Stills and Two Pump Stations - 2/4/2008 12:36:25 AM    cobaltbot Posts: 1727 Joined: 4/7/2006 From: Delta, PA Status: online Cool pics - Cooperhead Road! _____________________________ My tombstone will read: He went out for a walk and never came back.... (in reply to OsiaBoyce) Post #: 18

RE: Mills,Stills and Two Pump Stations - 2/4/2008 1:41:08 AM    L C   Posts: 1631 Joined: 3/17/2007 From: Ohio Status: offline I worked in a factory in Blue Ash , Ohio in the middle to late sixties. There was a bunch of good old boys from across the river in Kentucky that worked there as well. The had access to the moonshine. They would bring it in to work with them in quart blue Ball jars. We would buy it for seven bucks a quart from them. And let me tell you, a few drinks of that stuff, and it would take you where no man ever went before, and the next day you would be trying to figure out where the hell you went and how the hell you got back !! (in reply to cobaltbot) Post #: 19

RE: Mills,Stills and Two Pump Stations - 2/4/2008 11:36:57 AM    OsiaBoyce Posts: 1782 Joined: 12/8/2005 From: Chinquapin Falls, S.C. Status: offline LC there must be something about that bootleg [other than books,movies or TV I've never heard it reffered to as moonshine in person] that just makes people wanna drink it. Must be in the name. I don't care for it,ya here people say "It's as smooth as water". I don't know where they get there water but I don't want no part of it. If ya ever tasted any where they scalded the mash that will just about break ya.of that. This is about all that's left of this 7k still. This was a big one. It only ran for about 2 mo.. I heard they where making liquor so fast they had a hard time emptying the buckets. Had the worm [condenser] set in the creek. Attachment (1) (in reply to L C) Post #: 20

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