Thread: A new treadle machine?

I've never seen this before, so maybe I just haven't been paying attention, but I found it interesting that Janome is making a treadle powered machine. You have to have your own treadle for it ... http://content.janome.com/index.cfm/...Specialty/712T

Just thought I'd share it ...

Now that is interesting. I would never hear the end of it if i had one of those. The joke around my house is that i am a "crazy prepper." I like to stock pile items when they are on sale and i do a lot of canning in the summer. I think old fashioned and electric free is awesome. I like the way it is worded, "true Do It Yourself ethic." Every time i get teased i will quote that.

Originally Posted by Carrie in PA

Now that is interesting. I would never hear the end of it if i had one of those. The joke around my house is that i am a "crazy prepper." I like to stock pile items when they are on sale and i do a lot of canning in the summer. I think old fashioned and electric free is awesome. I like the way it is worded, "true Do It Yourself ethic." Every time i get teased i will quote that.

LOL, but the next time there's a wide spread electrical failure, you'd be the only one in business

Originally Posted by Carrie in PA

Now that is interesting. I would never hear the end of it if i had one of those. The joke around my house is that i am a "crazy prepper." I like to stock pile items when they are on sale and i do a lot of canning in the summer. I think old fashioned and electric free is awesome. I like the way it is worded, "true Do It Yourself ethic." Every time i get teased i will quote that.

Carrie, if there ever is a time when there is no electricity for an extended time, you will be the one laughing at them if you have this machine and your food supplies. I'd say go for it! I went without electricity and heat a week due to a bad storm several years ago, and that experience makes this machine look all the more attractive. I did use my Singer 127 treadle a lot during that time, and sewed by the light from the window.

I had been lobbying unsuccessfully for a wood cookstove (Grandma taught me to cook on hers) or at least a wood heat stove on which to do minimal cooking, and being in the cold all that time let me know I was right. Hubby doesn't think so, though. Hmmmmmm..... Any advice?

Cricket

Originally Posted by cricket_iscute

Carrie, if there ever is a time when there is no electricity for an extended time, you will be the one laughing at them if you have this machine and your food supplies. I'd say go for it! I went without electricity and heat a week due to a bad storm several years ago, and that experience makes this machine look all the more attractive. I did use my Singer 127 treadle a lot during that time, and sewed by the light from the window.

I had been lobbying unsuccessfully for a wood cookstove (Grandma taught me to cook on hers) or at least a wood heat stove on which to do minimal cooking, and being in the cold all that time let me know I was right. Hubby doesn't think so, though. Hmmmmmm..... Any advice?

Cricket

I agree with getting a wood stove. I convinced a friend of mine that it should be on her list of must have items because of where she lives and realistic "apocalypse" scenarios. Back when government shut down, her mother was in a panic and insisted we all needed to buy guns. I am not against guns but in a situation of power outages and food shortages, a gun won't help. She now owns a generator.

I am in an apartment so a wood stove isn't an option but i would love one. I could easily adapt to a pioneer woman type life. I wouldn't be happy at first but i wouldn't be miserable either. I once lived in a house with a morning glory heatrola. No furnace. We had to load coal into it by hand every few hours and it almost always went out while we slept. I wouldn't mind going back to that. In the end it was less expensive than other forms of heat and it didn't require electricity of any kind. When there were blackouts from ice and rain, we were still warm. I couldn't cook on top of it but it was sure nice for drying laundry and making the bread rise.

If there's a massive power outage here, i have an old singer 31-19. Its mounted to a table with electric but i joke that i will make my youngest daughter stand there and turn the wheel for me since it doesn't have a hand crank

Janome have done modern treadles for sometime.

Not far from me are many Amish and Mennonite families.
I'm sure they are delighted that they have this modern option.

Originally Posted by Skratchie

I've never seen this before, so maybe I just haven't been paying attention, but I found it interesting that Janome is making a treadle powered machine. You have to have your own treadle for it ... http://content.janome.com/index.cfm/...Specialty/712T

Just thought I'd share it ...

Fantastic. Wonderful for 3rd world countries that do not have reliable electricity.

Originally Posted by GrannieAnnie

Fantastic. Wonderful for 3rd world countries that do not have reliable electricity.

I just joined a church group that are a mix of quilters, sewers and knitters. A woman came back from vising Ethiopia. She told us there is a man who has electricity in his hut and has a sewing machine so the villagers take their fabric for him to sew. No details on what type he has.

This model has been available for several years. When I looked into it (lots of power failures), it was just the head. You had to supply the treadle mechanism yourself.