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kidden6968

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Possibly a milking stool?
« on: July 13, 2012, 07:15:32 pm »
Also painted multiple times and looks like the boards are splitting.

Just looking for time period - style etc.

I don't know much about furniture.

Thanks for the help as always!!

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Re: Possibly a milking stool?
« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2012, 01:28:28 am »
A true milking stool only has 3 legs.

It always sits firmly on the floor/ground.

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Re: Possibly a milking stool?
« Reply #2 on: July 14, 2012, 02:31:11 am »
Thanks Cogar - just an old little stool  then   ;D

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Re: Possibly a milking stool?
« Reply #3 on: July 14, 2012, 07:13:19 am »
We actually have a rather primitive milking stool with one leg! My wife used it when she milked goats. Very portable :)

This just looks like a regular stool, early 20th century, hard to tell since it's a common type without much stylistic flourish.
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Re: Possibly a milking stool?
« Reply #4 on: July 14, 2012, 10:25:08 am »
Yep !!  Just a utility stool !!

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Re: Possibly a milking stool?
« Reply #5 on: July 14, 2012, 05:23:14 pm »
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We actually have a rather primitive milking stool with one leg!

In one aspect the 1-leg milk stool was the most convinent because you could sit down sideways to the cow on it and then easily spin you legs underneath the cow to start milking, then spin back around when finished.

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Re: Possibly a milking stool?
« Reply #6 on: July 14, 2012, 06:20:31 pm »
Right you are. Or pick it up easily with one hand and move on down the line.
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Re: Possibly a milking stool?
« Reply #7 on: July 14, 2012, 06:25:43 pm »
Many had a handle for that purpose !! I had a darn paint bucket turned upside down and an ornery cow that insisted on taking a step the minute the pail was almost full !!

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Re: Possibly a milking stool?
« Reply #8 on: July 14, 2012, 09:40:25 pm »
We had a milking bucket that left a nice ridge on the leg top!!!
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Re: Possibly a milking stool?
« Reply #9 on: July 15, 2012, 10:04:17 am »
Whoever called those the "good old days" has never milked a cow in a February ice storm !!

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Re: Possibly a milking stool?
« Reply #10 on: July 15, 2012, 10:31:12 am »
Heh. True that!

Not that I've ever done it, either... :-[
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