Pail with lid?

[wore out]

What's a tall pail with lid like this called nowadays and where might a person buy a couple without paying "vintage" and "wedding decor" prices?


About 19.5" tall and 8" in diameter.

TIA!

 

[Dieseltech]

I've never seen one like that. What was it used for?

 

[Mark Poss]

Don’t know what it’s called but I think I have one in the barn.

 

[ADB-Ia]

What's a tall pail with lid like this called nowadays and where might a person buy a couple without paying "vintage" and "wedding decor" prices?


About 19.5" tall and 8" in diameter.

TIA!

Looks like the milk cans I would strain the milk into when I milked a cow by hand for our personal consumption. Just a galvanized can with a lid that I got at the local hardware store.

 

[Rich'sToys]

When I was a wee lad my Dad used to sell cream in cans like that.

 

[SweetFeet]

When I was a wee lad my Dad used to sell cream in cans like that.

I was also told those tall skinny pails were for cream.

 

[wore out]

I've never seen one like that. What was it used for?

When I was young the folks had several in the milkhouse, and used them for milk, cream, and hot water carried from the house to wash the cream separator, milk strainer, and pails. Any hardware store around here had them on the shelf up to probably the mid-70's. A few days ago I asked at several hardware stores and farm supplies and I might as well have asked for unicorn wax!

Today, I looked on 'net and the one$ I found were "u$ed" (read RU$TY) or mostly $maller and sold as country wedding decoration$.

I'm thinking they must be still available somewhere if one knows the "correct" modern name for them?

 

[rustred]

What's a tall pail with lid like this called nowadays and where might a person buy a couple without paying "vintage" and "wedding decor" prices?


About 19.5" tall and 8" in diameter.

TIA!

They were called creamers , or at least that’s what we called them. Stored the separated cream from the milk in them. Kept in down in the well in summer on a rope.

 

[DoubleO7]

What's a tall pail with lid like this called nowadays and where might a person buy a couple without paying "vintage" and "wedding decor" prices?


About 19.5" tall and 8" in diameter.

TIA!

!6 H x 8.5 dia, but apparently no lid.

 

[rustred]

Them old ones also had a tap at the bottom to run the cream out.

 

[Duner Wi]

We always called them a shotgun pail. That's how we kept our bubbler supplied with water at county school. Carried water from the neighbors.

 

[teddy52food]

It is called a shotgun pail. When filled with milk & left stand for a while, the cream would come to the top & could be skimmed off easily.

 

[wore out]

It is called a shotgun pail. When filled with milk & left stand for a while, the cream would come to the top & could be skimmed off easily.

Call it a "shotgun pail" if you want (must be a regional thing), but that still doesn't help with finding a reasonable NEW one!

 

[Duner Wi]

Original question. What's a tall pail with lid called nowadays? That is the question I was trying to help you with. I don't know who sells them, could try Lehmans non electric in Kidron Ohio, they have some items used by Amish.

 

[Mule Meat]

They are called "Ice cream pail" these days.
Vollrath is one company that still make them. I think about all of them are stainless now. Be warned. They do not come cheap at around $300 for one.

 

[Stroby]

What's a tall pail with lid like this called nowadays and where might a person buy a couple without paying "vintage" and "wedding decor" prices?


About 19.5" tall and 8" in diameter.

TIA!

From what I've read about this bucket, I'd check with the Amish. Their hardware store would likely be a source.

 

[stoughtonfarmboy]

We always called them a shotgun pail. That's how we kept our bubbler supplied with water at county school. Carried water from the neighbors.

Same terminology here in South Central Wisconsin. Also, the bubbler reference.

Ken

 

[bob p mn]

I've still got the one my folks had, it's tinned steel measures 9''X13'' with a cover that slips over the outside rather than in. I remember when they bought this one from the local Co-op probobly in the 60's the Midland label just came off a few years ago. We used it for carrying milk in the old days. I'm of Finnish ancestery and all our neighbors were Finns, in our house it was always called a saabas, pronounced saw bus don't know what it would translate too, but it's still called a saabas to this day. Mainly only use it for holding Maple syrup when it comes off the main cooker till the final cook. Milk cows long gone.

 

[RedMF40]

Maybe this’ll work? Showed up on FB marketplace without me looking for an item like that. Location is PA, maybe the seller would know where to buy them if it’s what you’re needing.

 

[fusion1]

Do you want to sell it ?
I will buy it
let me know .