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Usually when I'm stumped I turn to the internet, but this time that approach proved to be a total flop! Let me start at the beginning. Lynn, the LOML, comes from a fairly long line of coopers. On her mother's side, in name only, so that would be a capital "C" Cooper. On her father's side, however, her great and great-great grandfathers made a living as coopers. Not the whisky barrel (wet) type, but DRY coopers. They made barrels to hold and ship potash to market. Back in the first half of the 1800's, folks in this area found out that they could make more money burning hardwood to make potash than they could make farming, so they did this all winter, and farmed in the warmer weather. Well, until all the trees were gone, anyway! But I digress! Lynn has developed an interest in cooperage. Any kind of cooperage. Last summer we were having a discussion with a gentleman who has a maple syrup farm on a piece of land once occupied by Lynn's ancestors, who produced apples at the time. He told us that there was still at least one apple barrel in the barn. Lynn offered to buy it, but he refused to take anything for it, so now we have an old apple barrel, which will be turned into something to clutter up our home! So now, I have cleaned it up as much as I dare, and would like to replace the (missing) lid, but can't fins ANY info on "Apple barrel" on the web. So my question is: Does anyone here know anything about these items? The staves are roughly 1/2" thick, the barrel is 21 3/4" tall and 15" across. The bands are wood held together with interlocking notches. No rivets or hardware of any kind! The bottom is set into a groove the same way as a wet barrel. The open top end, however, only has the inside taper, so no way to hold a lid. Any ideas?
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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.
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