More Icehouse Talk

[Brian G. NY]

This is the local creamery about 1914.
It was the second one on this site.
The first one burned in 1911.
The third one burned in the early thirties.
A beautiful creamery.....a not so beautiful
ice house next to it.

 

[Adirondack case guy]

Brian, was that up in the Fulton area??
Loren

 

[mnscruff]

I love the covered loading dock in the photo, ride all the way to the creamery in the open, rain, sun, snow whatever, but your covered once ya get there!

 

[Brian G. NY]

(quoted from post at 02:02:35 01/16/18) Brian, was that up in the Fulton area??
Loren

Yep....Hamlet of West Fulton, right across the crik from the one room school house I attended for my first five years of school.
The concrete foundation and the concrete surrounding the dug well are still there.

 

[gtractorfan]

Looks like the milk can on the wheelbarrow would tip over when moved. There were carts with bigger steel wheels for carrying milk cans, I'm pretty sure the larger 2 wheels on the 3 wheel cart I made came from a milk can cart.

 

[gtractorfan]

Here's an example of a milk can cart.

 

[Leroy]

I have a milk can wheelbarrow here that Dad had made before I can remember and am now 74. it is a single wheel and holds 2 cans and bed of it is about 8" from ground, over the wheel was spot made to carry milker.

 

[Brian G. NY]

I wonder if the guy with the wheelbarrow lived in town and had only a cow or two and this was the extent of his production?

I remember seeing those milk carts when I was a kid.

 

[Adirondack case guy]

I remember that there was one of those milk can carts up at the farm, but it had rubber tires on it. Something like a 4.00x18 or 20. In it'd second life, it was used to carry bags of feed around, and a barrel was placed on it and filled with feed, and wheeled around in front of the cows to grain them. It was a bit wide, and slid into the manger a lot though. I don't know what happened to it. Might still be up there somewhere hiding in a corner.
Loren

 

[Loantaka]

There will be ice cutting on the mill pond in E. Meredith, NY on Saturday Feb. 3 from 10 am to 3 pm. This is at Hanford Mills Museum. We are
planning to go. Will be our first time to an ice cutting, our second time to HMM. Quite a place.
Ice cutting event

 

[Loantaka]

Oops, I see it mentioned already down below in another post. I?m way behind in my reading!