Re: MtMan-List: New Wooden Barrels

["Barry Conner" <buck.conner@worldnet.att.net>]

Mike,

There are several that carry wooden kegs, buy oak not the bass wood or other
woods advertised, Track Of The Wolf, Panther Primitives, Log Cabin
Shop(special order), seem to all handle the same barrel with the steel
loops - riveted. Good price and will last as long as you will want to use
them. Have a 2 1/2 and a 5 gal that were purchased at Friendship in the late
1950's and still use them.

I have purchased several limb rapped (bands) handmade barrels that seem very
fragile, plus being very pricey, use them for displays or show and tells,
don't think they would take a lot of hard use like the other barrels. "Hard
use" being packed on horseback, canoe or even in the back of a truck going
and coming from an outing.

Always seems the more expensive items, no matter how careful you are, are
the things to take a beating!

Buck

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-----Original Message-----
From: MHoytRet@aol.com <MHoytRet@aol.com>
To: hist_text@xmission.com <hist_text@xmission.com>
Date: Thursday, November 26, 1998 1:29 PM
Subject: MtMan-List: New Wooden Barrels


>I am looking for a source (economical) of new wooden barrels for a display,
>sized from small to large.
>
>Do you have any idea where to look?
>
>Mike Hoyt
>
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