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Holy cow, WN you got talent.

Am I looking at fieldstone barn walls?

Thanks, Roundoak. But, the curvature of the milk can distorts the image BIG time. Lesson learned.

Yup. Fieldstone, 2 feet thick...warm in winter, cool in summer! We got lots of it around here. AND, that's no bull!

I had a canned milk pick-up route for a couple of years and delivered butter and cheese from the route while loading the cans of milk from the cooling tanks. Like working on our farm, loading milk cans built muscle and character, and probably contributed to my bad back now!!

That’s king salmon strips, almost finished.

In regard to the engineer’s caps that were once quite common on farms, I would imagine that perhaps that was a leftover from the days of steam (which was well before the days of free feed, seed, and implement brand cap giveaways).

Should have noticed you are in AK. Us city slickers cut them the other way to fit in our little store bought smokers.

I picked this one up a couple of months ago.

Hauling canned milk would have been a tough job, not only the labor part but navigating the roads winter and spring plus farm roads and barnyards. We had a Ford 8N that we could attach a 3-point platform with sides that we hauled hogs around the farm. If the farm road got to bad we would haul the cans out to the main road to meet the milk truck.

Did your milk truck have a whey tank mounted on the truck box? I don't remember how many days in the week that we took a delivery of whey. We had a livestock water tank with two exit pipes with shutoffs that directed the whey into the troughs of two seperate hog pens.

Cool beans, 280Shooter. It looks like the salesman sample I have. It has good detail, the hand crank works and bucket platform swivels.

Spent a lot of time on dairy farms in Northern , Wisconsin. The township had 102 farms at one time , now there are 2.
The best thing raised was rocks. Spent time pickin" rocks on little 7- 20 acre fields, or there-abouts.
I often remind my cousin , he sold the cows 15 years ago, about things like spreadin' $hit with chains on the tractor and - 30 in 3 feet of snow. $hit spreader would freeze up. Barn cleaner would break a link or take a $hit. Silo unloader would crap out. Hauled milk cans to milk house on a sled in the winter and wagon the rest of the year. Before pipelines and bulk tanks of course.
Yeah,
50 years a farmer and never stepped in $hit.
Of course we are on the tall stool when we talk of these memories.

We also had a De Laval separator that we used for more years than care to remember. And I DON'T have any pictures of that miserable thing.

That is very cool.

Anyone remember using one of these labor saving devices?

We used it to haul full milk cans from the barn to the milk house and whey cans out back to the pig barn.

This is a great thread.

I can also say I served my time milking with both DeLaval and Surge milkers. Also have milked by hand more than I care to admit, but feel a little embarrassed lamenting it when I remember my Grandfather was doing it yet in his eighties.

I don't remember what brand our separator was but I remember it had a bell on it to let you know you were turning it fast enough.

Roundoak, what breed of cows are those in the picture?

Nope, very innovative though.

Idared, Guernsey breed.

Thanks, I thought they were but couldn't tell for sure. My wife grew up milking Guernsey cows in Minnesota but everything around where I grew up in Wisconsin was pretty much Holstein.

Youse Betcha! Been there and done that!

Guernsey cows gave less milk but higher butterfat than Holsteins.

Neat pics and thread.


The only milking we do is either working a bad bag or a bitch heifer who won't take her calf.

Pain in the ass for sure but it has to be done.

Squeeze chute and rope a leg or you might get the chit kicked outta you!

Dairy Farmers as a group are the hardiest working farmers
alive!