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Charles Dadant

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#1 ·
I wonder if the Dadant factory in Hamilton, Illinois has any of the tools they used when they first started production of bee hives. I think it was 1875. No power tools so it must have been quite a process to produce all the mortice cuts and all the cuts on the frames etc. I imagine a hundred men with hand miter saws and special jigs. Could be wrong.
Is there a museum? Has anyone been there?
 
#2 ·
I have an AI Root catalog from the 1880s or 1890s. Among other things, they list (and show) saws setup to make beehives...tablesaws with ganged blades on a common spindle spaced to cut hive components. Saws are described as being treadle powered, with steam power being available at an extra cost.
 
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