I love milk. I should get a setup like that for my own. When I'm grocery shopping I'll get a pint just to chug when I walk out of the store. Know what's good? A cookie and a tall ice cold glass of milk. Then another cookie and another ice cold glass of milk. Three cookies, three tall ice cold glasses of milk.

Someone, I don't know who sent me an email the other day that said drinking milk is as bad for you as coming down with ???, cancer maybe? I told them take me off of their PETA distribution list because when I see dairy cattle out in the field, I pull over and go out into the field and drink right from the udder's teat. I don't really, but I told them that I do just the same. Seems like a good idea now that I think about it.

Mark
 
That sure brings back memories. We had milk testing equipment like that at the high school. We used to bring in samples of each cow and tested them for butterfat. My uncle did a lot of the testing at the milk plant.
That receiving room sure was crude. The plant here had a moving track and everything was mechanized. Just three guys worked in there. Sam,Max and Earl. It only took two to dump. One would knock the lids loose with a rubber mallet and the other sat on a stool,read the scale and wrote down the weights and took the sample bottles out of the rack,sat them in place and put them back in the rack after a sample was taken automatically. The cans were dumped,the lids put in the steam washer and the cans pushed in to the washer all my machine. When they came out the other end,the lids slid back down on to them. We just had to straighten them out before we put the empties back in the truck.
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Yesterday I put our two forty quart containers back in storage after use at our church's VBS closing on Fri night. I looked at the labels. One was from Naple Creamery, The other from Hood Farm. The Hood farm was in Derry NH, and grew to the huge dairy that it is now, but I could find no reference to Naple Creamery.
 
Thank you for sharing that video. By the time I started shipping milk to Pet in Charlotte, Mi it had just converted to all bulk. The unloading rack our front was still there. In high school I worked for a guy that hauled milk and also had a small dairy of his own. He started hauling can milk when he was just out of school.He had more than a few stories that I enjoyed very much. Sometimes when he had truck trouble once it was fixed He'd have to run late into the nite to get caught back up. I'd ride along mostly to keep him awake. I had a lot of fun seeing the different farms and how they milked.
 
Thanks for posting.roelli cheese rebuilt an old truck like that it's open top full of cans it's in there Facebook photos. I can remember fishing cans out of the water tank rolling them out the door and swinging them in the back of the pickup even remember the feeling of coming in low and hitting the end gate. Then off to town unload at the special can door getting the cans back and then refilling with whey . Then home pouring the whey in the slop barrel then feeding the pigs my ears still hurts from the pig squeal. You could always tell a farm truck the back was in various stages of rotting out. Then clean up breakfast and then you started your day those things were just chores.
We had an army vet when he came back he didn't have a lot of money so what he did was start the day with the can box and as soon as the milk run was done he would switch boxes and put on one for livestock . He had a good rig just used barrels and bolts. How many would do that today
 
I guess my dad drove milk can truck that belonged to one of my uncles when my dad was in high school in the mid-late 50's. I'm guessing it was a truck about like the one in the video. I think he said my uncle had an REO and a GM and an International (not at the same time).

I guess he had a routine worked out and alsways had the same # of cans some empty some full. sometimes a farmer would be short a can or have an extra one (more than normal) and it would goof up the system. couldn't have a can missing or they'd move around in the back of the truck. don't know what dairy he hauled to or where it was at even. That was around Mercer County PA. i suppose there were a few dairy's scattered around back then.
 
I'm glad that you all enjoyed the clip.
It took me back to the 1950s, when my uncle had about 30 Holsteins and handled the canned milk in a manner similar to that shown. I still remember how cold the water was in his free running spring house where the cans were held until picked up. He is long gone at 97 (~2003?), and the farm has been "sculpted" (dozed flat) and subdivided into around 300 home sites.
Good memories, and thanks for sharing your's.
 

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