At a first glance they using old staves from larger barrels they just cutting them shorter this would be missing out real stave production how can this be a master cooper
Reconditioning old American Bourbon barrels as they can only be used once, by law, and are fully useful. Added..to the demise of the cooper trade in Ireland ,Scotland and England.
@@fredrickpinckney1092 Okay so let me get this straight. You're saying these guys take old hoops, cut off the rivet and punched ends (making the bar shorter and final hoop smaller), straighten the hoop out (which makes the stock thinner because of the "slant" needing to be corrected), whew we got a bar! Then they bend it again, punch holes and install rivet, and put the slant back in again, leaving you with a smaller and thinner hoop than the original. Yeah, I don't think so... sounds like it would be easier and much cheaper (labor alone) to just skip that first part and buy cheap 1/8" x 1" mild steel flat stock from a supplier for maybe 0.50 $/ft (that's what I pay, they are probably a large business and make big orders). Unless you mean they don't make new hoops at all and just reuse old ones, which I doubt. In my experience as a blacksmith, recycling is fun and I'm always throwing steel I find in the trunk, but if you're trying to sell something it is going to be cheaper 99% percent of the time to buy proper stock materials than to try and scrounge up what you can find (which usually means scrapyard unless you just make one-offs, so you pay something anyway), unless you value your "shop time" at slave pay lol. It also costs actual money (fuel, abrasives, power, etc) to prep the materials...
@@foggy7595 wow you have a big imagination, all you have to do is watch the video and see what's going on. There's not one single new or unused component shown in this entire video. By the way, you had me laughing out loud at your suggestion that this could be a large operation. I suggest you visit a modern cooperage and see the mass production methods used nowadays. No way is this outfit making any money unless they are charging outrageous prices to "craft" distillers for custom size barrels.
@@fredrickpinckney1092 So you're saying they don't make any new hoops? If they just reuse the same hoops over and over again fair enough, but there was a time when they needed to make those lol... so at that time, when they made them, they probably went out and bought flat stock.
Don’t miss the Clapper Bridge. Turn right and right again just after Killeen chapel. Well worth a visit and drive back as far as u can to the silver strand and thullabawn strand. Go to Leenane and see where the people walked for food during the famine and most died as there was no food. At the Clapper bridge you can see the remains of the colony set up to feed Catholics during the famine if they switched to the Protestant religion. Some did and who can blame them. U need to drive with care as the roads are very narrow but it’s all worthwhile 🌈
To my fellow Warriors of Mayo. We are a strong, tough breed of Irish people. We are determined and we are hard working. Be ye farmers, fishermen, trades, c.s, teachers or out abroad. Never forget where you come from. The Wild unforgiving West of the Ireland and be proud of it. Maigh Eo abú. Agus is mian liom sábháilte agus sláinte daoibh. Go bhfanfaidh bród muintir na Mhaigh Eo
I've never been more certain that a commercial was made specifically for me. I'm a school band director in New York City, two generations removed from County Mayo. I was fortunate to visit Ireland once, but in a week will be visiting Mayo for the first time. To say I'm excited is an understatement. It seems trite and eye-rolling, but I feel connected to this place somehow.
Deck starts coming in to the frame at 1:45:10, before that not much changing in the scene. There was a bit of a delay in starting, was supposed to start at noon but around 3:30pm before the deck started moving but it was well worth the wait. I'm sure there were lots of great photos taken by those that had came to see the huge lift. Well done to all concerned 👏👏👏
My mum is from Mayo and have been back ever since I was a kid. I’ve seen Knock Shrine, DownPatrick Head and will go again but there’s plenty more I have to see. I love Mayo to bits
