January 8, 20197 yr Popular Post Interesting video. A presentation at this week's woodworking club is a guy whose grandfather was a cooper and will be showing tools and techniques. I did a tour of a barrel co. in bourbon country a few years ago. Way more automated than this. And those guys, unless they were hamming up for the camera must have had some biceps and pecs.
January 8, 20197 yr Wow, that looks like some hard labor right there. I wonder who did the sharpening of these tools? Each guy responsible for his own, or maybe a whole other part of the barrel factory with a team devoted to it?
January 8, 20197 yr Pretty cool Keith to revisit what has become a dying art of craftsman...that was some very hard work even for the day. I noticed the guy running the table was still wearing a tie under his overalls; liked the "big" joiner too. Thanks for the post. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Well worth watching. Edited January 8, 20197 yr by Grandpadave52
January 8, 20197 yr 18 hours ago, kmealy said: Interesting video. it's not here anymore.. it tries to load and ghosts out...
January 8, 20197 yr 1 minute ago, Stick486 said: it's not here anymore.. it tries to load and ghosts out... I thought it was just me. I looked at the post at O'dark thirty and Dan was the only reply. There was nothing there. When I refreshed the site an outline of the embedded video flash up and then disappeared. I thought it was just my computer.
January 8, 20197 yr Works for me! Thanks, Keith. Had to show this to my wife... her great- and great-great-grandfathers were coopers. They made barrels for the potash industry 'way back when. Probably a bit different ("dry" as opposed to "wet" coopering), but very interesting just the same. Thanks. John
January 9, 20197 yr 12 hours ago, Cal said: Wow, that looks like some hard labor right there. I wonder who did the sharpening of these tools? Each guy responsible for his own, or maybe a whole other part of the barrel factory with a team devoted to it? First thought I had when I saw the video (well other than how much I like Guinness LOL). There had to be a team or at least a section of the factory devoted to sharpness. Oak, right?
January 9, 20197 yr 5 hours ago, schnewj said: I thought it was just me. I believe the issue is you need adobe flash player to see it...
January 9, 20197 yr Popular Post It occurred to me that this would be the perfect occupation for @Gene Howe! No measuring, only a compass to fit the lid! John
January 9, 20197 yr Popular Post 3 hours ago, HARO50 said: It occurred to me that this would be the perfect occupation for @Gene Howe! No measuring, only a compass to fit the lid! John He won't ever need his No-Number tape...perfect!
January 9, 20197 yr Popular Post Didja notice, not one measuring tape, ruler or pencil in evidence. And, the compass was only used to gauge the size of the top necessary to fit the diameter of the particular cask. Being of Welsh and Irish extraction, I can imagine they don't like numbers any more the I do. Edited January 10, 20197 yr by Gene Howe
January 10, 20197 yr Yeah but they had a measured jig to position the bung hole location centered approximately from the ends...just an observation.
January 10, 20197 yr Author 13 hours ago, HARO50 said: It occurred to me that this would be the perfect occupation for @Gene Howe! No measuring, only a compass to fit the lid! John It's precise measuring. If you walk the dividers around and end up at the same stop after six steps you have exactly the radius of the circle.
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