While growing up, we used a very basic 1 gallon jug with a screw on lid and shook it until everything separated.
I have also used an old churn that was nothing more than an old jug with a handle that you pull up and down until everything separated.
But while cleaning out from under the front porch of our house, in amidst a truck load of junk I hauled to the garbage dump, I kept this early electric butter churn.
I didn't even know there was such a thing as an electric churn.
This would've been considered "livin' good" back when I was growing up
The motor and belt are gone, and the entire thing has a coat of rust from top to bottom, but the wheels and gears are still free and everything turns and works despite it being over a hundred years old now.
I'm thinking of sandblasting and refinishing and maybe finding a small motor for it to get it back to working order.
Mostly because it's getting cooler weather and I am needing a winter project, and two, because I like to save this old stuff rather than just letting it ruin and go to waste.
The wooden base and the bottom part that would actually churn the milk is still pretty solid, but I think I will replace it with new wood.
Mainly because if I restore it, I will probably use it and I don't think I want to eat anything that touches that
Anyway, here's some pics.
The text says:
The Reliable Churn
Patent date Jan 4 1910
Taylor Bros Churn
St Louis MO
I have also used an old churn that was nothing more than an old jug with a handle that you pull up and down until everything separated.
But while cleaning out from under the front porch of our house, in amidst a truck load of junk I hauled to the garbage dump, I kept this early electric butter churn.
I didn't even know there was such a thing as an electric churn.
This would've been considered "livin' good" back when I was growing up
The motor and belt are gone, and the entire thing has a coat of rust from top to bottom, but the wheels and gears are still free and everything turns and works despite it being over a hundred years old now.
I'm thinking of sandblasting and refinishing and maybe finding a small motor for it to get it back to working order.
Mostly because it's getting cooler weather and I am needing a winter project, and two, because I like to save this old stuff rather than just letting it ruin and go to waste.
The wooden base and the bottom part that would actually churn the milk is still pretty solid, but I think I will replace it with new wood.
Mainly because if I restore it, I will probably use it and I don't think I want to eat anything that touches that
Anyway, here's some pics.
The text says:
The Reliable Churn
Patent date Jan 4 1910
Taylor Bros Churn
St Louis MO