Re: Milk Churns.

Posted by Bill Brox on August 28, 2017 at 13:28:01 from (24.130.47.29):

In Reply to: Milk Churns. posted by Bill Brox on August 27, 2017 at 20:57:56:

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I am sorry about the milk churns. You see, I am from Norway, and I am a member of an English Ferguson tractor club and we talked about it there. And a fellow who knows I now live in California asked if the milk churns were still used here. So, I thought I better ask. :D

In England they call them milk churns, and I did not think more of it. In Norway they are called "melkespann", and you call them milk cans. Language can sometimes be a little tricky.

So, fair is fair, since you guys here have told me about how it is in the US, in England as we talked about they seems to be long gone. In addition the people there say they were not owned by the farmers, but the dairy owned them.

And, for me who is from Norway, I remember we had two cows in the mid 1960ties, and year or two later only one before my parents quit with the cows and we only had sheeps after that. I remember we had the milk cans then, but we had only small ones. Probably only 10 liter cans (2.5 gallons or so), or maybe they could be 20 liter.

And, when I was in the truck with my dad we always saw these small "huts" along the road, a platform raised up to the same height as the truck bed, and with 3 walls on and a roof. All the farms had them, and brought the milk there with the tractor. Then the truck from the dairy came and picked it up. But, at some point during the 1970ties this changed and the milk trucks had now become a tank truck.

The reason for my question in the English club forum was that Ferguson had a link transport box that was more or less made for 6 milk cans to fit on the lower link arms on the Grey Ferguson tractor and people used that box to haul the milk cans to this platform. I assume you guys also had those platforms. I have seen it in farm movies in England too, so it must have been a common thing.

Thank you everyone who responded to my question.

Bill :)

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