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Susquatch said:
So, bottom line seems to be that only a very few of us actually milked by hand.

I milked by hand, got regularly kicked or spilled the pail, and often got crapped on too.

I also cranked the cream separator, and fed the skim back to the calves. We didn't sell milk, just cream and butter.

And yes, I churned the cream to make butter. We didn't use yellow dye though.

Every once is a blue moon I got to make ice-cream too!

Those were very good times.
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As soon as I read this I recalled the scene from the movie Kingpin with Roy Munson proudly holding the pail of milk and wiping his mouth.
 
JustaDB said:
Ah, we had the luxury International Harvester electric model. Couldn't find a correct photo, but similar to this one. Ours was black.
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And I bet I knew the salesman that your parents bought that electric separator from! I still have the International Harvester refrigerator that my parents bought fron the same gentleman. The fridge is still keeping my beer cold in my garage. 74 years old and still hasn't missed a beat.
 
DPittman said:
And I bet I knew the salesman that your parents bought that electric separator from! I still have the International Harvester refrigerator that my parents bought fron the same gentleman. The fridge is still keeping my beer cold in my garage. 74 years old and still hasn't missed a beat.
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Although it would have been my grandmother that bought it, yeah, there's a good chance. We also had an IH deep freeze in the basement, 6" thick walls, was still running when the farm was sold in 2000.
 
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