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Pump log and pump log auger.
A pump log transported water from a spring to the farm. A pump log reamer was a tool with cutting edges that was used to enlarge or shape a hole running through the length of a log. A pump log auger was a boring tool. One of the pump logs in the museum's collection, dating to the 1920s, was made by Horace Cable who lived on a farm between Sawyerville and Randboro. Dug up in 1997 and donated to the museum, it was part of a water line of about 76 metres (250 feet) in length from a spring to the house and barn. About 40 logs had to be bored, their ends shaped with a reamer at one end and a "bummer" at the other end (like a giant pencil sharpener). They were then joined and buried in a trench where they would then transport the gravity-fed water.
(Compton County Museum Collection / Photo - Jackie Hyman)
A pump log transported water from a spring to the farm. A pump log reamer was a tool with cutting edges that was used to enlarge or shape a hole running through the length of a log. A pump log auger was a boring tool. One of the pump logs in the museum's collection, dating to the 1920s, was made by Horace Cable who lived on a farm between Sawyerville and Randboro. Dug up in 1997 and donated to the museum, it was part of a water line of about 76 metres (250 feet) in length from a spring to the house and barn. About 40 logs had to be bored, their ends shaped with a reamer at one end and a "bummer" at the other end (like a giant pencil sharpener). They were then joined and buried in a trench where they would then transport the gravity-fed water.
(Compton County Museum Collection / Photo - Jackie Hyman)