We construct wooden buckets for resale. Contact:
Bill Hersey
781-985-5489 [email protected] The English name Hooper is derived from that profession.
Cooper refers to a professional involved in the work of making utensils, casks, drum and barrels and other accessories, usually out of wood but may also include other materials. Traditionally, a cooper is someone who makes wooden, staved vessels, bound together with hoops and possessing flat ends or heads. Examples of a cooper's work include but are not limited to casks, barrels, buckets, tubs, bu
tter churns, hogsheads, firkins, tierces, rundlets, puncheons, pipes, tuns, butts, pins and breakers. Traditionally, a hooper was the man who fitted the metal hoops around the barrels or buckets that the cooper had made, essentially an assistant to the cooper. With time, many Coopers took on the role of the Hooper themselves. The word is derived from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German kūper 'cooper' from kūpe 'cask', in turn from Latin cupa 'tun, barrel'.[1] Everything a cooper produces is referred to collectively as cooperage. A cask is any piece of cooperage containing a bouge, bilge, or bulge in the middle of the container. A barrel is a type of cask, so the terms "barrel-maker" and "barrel-making" refer to just one aspect of a cooper's work. The facility in which casks are made is also referred to as a cooperage. Traditionally there were four divisions in the cooper's craft. The dry or slack cooper made containers that would be used to ship dry goods such as cereals, nails, to***co, fruits, and vegetables. The dry-tight cooper made casks designed to keep dry goods in and moisture out. Gunpowder and flour casks are examples of a dry-tight cooper's work. The white cooper made straight-staved containers like washtubs, buckets, and butter churns, which would hold water and other liquids but did not allow shipping of the liquids. Usually there was no bending of wood involved in white cooperage. The wet or tight cooper made casks for long-term storage and transportation of liquids that could even be under pressure, as with beer.
21st century[edit]
In the 21st century, coopers mostly operate barrel-making machinery and assemble casks for the wine and spirits industry. While plastics, stainless steel, pallets, and corrugated cardboard have replaced most wooden containers and largely made the cooper obsolete, there is still demand for high-quality wooden barrels, and it is thought that the highest-quality barrels are those hand-made by professional coopers. Examples may be seen in the cooperage at Seguin Moreau, a cooperage which was incorporated into the House of Rémy in 1971 for the express purpose of providing barrels made of Limousin oak. Limousin oak is renowned for the rich vanilla-like flavor it imparts to cognac. Rémy Martin will then produce Rémy Martin Grand Cru in these barrels with a retail cost well in excess of USD $1500 per bottle,[1], a single barrel being expected to hold nearly a quarter-million dollars' worth of cognac.[citation needed]
Coffin-makers are also sometimes known as coopers,[citation needed] though this is an uncommon usage. Cooperage as a namesake[edit]
In much the same way as the profession of smithing produced the common English surname Smith and the German name Schmidt, the trade of cooperage also gave the English name Cooper; French name Tonnelier and Tonnellier; Greek name Βαρελάς/Varelas; Danish name Bødker; German names like Faßbinder (literally cask binder), Böttcher (tub maker), Scheffler and Kübler; Dutch names like Kuiper or Cuypers; the Latvian name Mucenieks; the Hungarian name Kádár, Bodnár; Polish names such as Bednarz, Bednarski or Bednarczyk; the Czech name Bednář; the Romanian names Dogaru and Butnaru; Ukrainian family name Bondarenko, Ukrainian/Russian family name Bondarev and Bocharov; the Jewish name Bodner; the Portuguese names Tanoeiro and Toneleiro; Spanish Cubero Tonelero and via Greek: Varela.; Bulgarian Bachvarov (Български: Бъчваров) and Macedonian Bacvarovski (Македонски: Бачваровски); Croatian: Bačvar; and Italian Bottai (from "botte").
Good morning everyone i will be on chronicle this monday at 730 please tune in we will be getting together somewhere in Hingham with family and friends please come if you can ill post where this weekend.
26/03/2024
22/03/2024
Hello, my fellow bucket heads.I am proud to announce that chronicle.Just interviewed me earlier this week and we'll be airing.An episode in the middle to late april so please keep your eyes open for hersey buckets On the big screen
27/04/2023
Shaven staves
28/03/2023
Thank you Jeff Reale for your purchase of the Hingham Hersey Buckets
24/03/2023
Proud dad of these two great humans.... but it takes one to make one and lots of work.
24/03/2023
My daughter doing her best
22/03/2023
Who needs buckets
18/03/2023
Colonial fair
16/03/2023
Hersey canteens
15/03/2023
Canteens anyone
12/03/2023
Water tight Hersey canteens
09/03/2023
17th Century canteen
03/03/2023
Productive week so far
14/02/2023
HERSEYBUCKETS IS ON ESTY
10/02/2023
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