nice to see how its done my uncle was a cooper for perrys brewery here in ireland he often told me about the process of making barrels and repairing then.
Tavy@ brilliant to watch. Just a pure joy to watch a trade that took so much skill, hard labour, geometry just by using there eye, and an art, and they took great pride in the finished article to perfection. And great speed of thought! A worked in a cooperage as a labourer and that was really hard and dirty as well. Imagine todays 16 to 22 year old mobile phone and computer mad doing that work lol or trying to do it or learn it. They would say "sorry but a need to take this call" every 5 minutes! But where a worked they would just get rid of them. They knew who wanted to work and who could work. A thinck in todays britain theres to many firms, companys, jobs, with no respect for there staff. Plus to tight to pay out good money to keep there staff. When a heard people saying "we get timend when we go to the toillet and if were 20 seconds late we can lose wer job, we get treated as rubbish" a thought no thats going to far, to far and then hard working mums and dads get sanctiond? Its a mess!!! And needs fixed by experts. Not just mp's that dont know how or what a town or city centre looks like. Then people cant look for work sanctiond so sanctiond again. There killing people!!!!
I'm researching this craft !! Fixing to start "Building Barrels" myself !!. I'm 47, Retired, Disabled, And looking for something to do as a "Extra Income" !! And I love working with wood. I already have everything needed (except the cable winch) to start from scratch !! I even have a small Sawmill to cut the logs onto wood !!. Just hope the "Profit" is enough to justify all the work !!. It's AWESOME tho !!
I believe we need to go back to manual labor for production of products. Although the invent of computers and AI, which negate the need for humans, may seem a good thing, it saps the human spirit, as human beings, and all other living things, need to be engaged to survive.
Now check out this great Irish tune, "Dublin in the Rare Auld Time": ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1bNp3E-SuQw.html Listen to the second verse - the narrator, Sean Dempsey, was a cooper who was "lost out to redundancy" (as in laid off, job went away). Hundreds of coopers lost their jobs when Guinness went to metal barrels beginning in 1946. The coopers hung on in increasingly smaller numbers throughout the '50s, but by the early '60s just a handful were left, paid to convert mountains of old wooden barrels into patio and rumpus room furniture. Progress, sure, but still the sad loss of a centuries-old artisanal tradition...
Tavy@ could you imagine todays computer laptop freaks in a shirt and tie doing this kind of work lol. They sit down all day and still dont want to do anything. Or they just fob ye off. At least i worked in a cooperage and it was hard sweaty and really dirty. The dirt even got inside my pockets and it was jeans a wore? Its a dieying trade becouse no one wants to do it despite the great money. Now they just want to sit next to a phone eating sweets. Wtf is happening!!!!!
So if your new barrel has sawdust and wood chips inside, the dumbass drilled the holes AFTER assembling the entire barrel. It's fun to clean this out of a barrel, let me tell ya.
@@bobbyt9431 Tell that to all the wives that got beaten by a drunk husband. Tell it to all the children who went hungry because daddy squandered his paycheck before he managed to stumble home.
