Vintage work crew photos

**Ralphxyz** · Aug 11, 2019, 08:40 AM

What are those 3 yard cement mixers?

**Jon** · Aug 14, 2019, 11:38 AM

Trappers putting muskrat skins on wire stretchers before hanging them up to dry in back of their marsh camp. Delacroix Island, Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana. January 1941.

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**Ralphxyz** · Aug 14, 2019, 01:50 PM

judging from the pile of wire stretchers there would be a lot of skun muskrats. I'd like to see the after picture.

**Toolmaker51** · Aug 14, 2019, 03:54 PM

Muskrat skins I get, WTH is the work area paved with??? Oyster shells?

**volodar** · Aug 15, 2019, 09:05 AM

Originally Posted by Toolmaker51

Muskrat skins I get, WTH is the work area paved with??? Oyster shells?

Sure looks like it - the place is also an oyster shucking station. But what is the huge barrel on the left? Fresh water storage I would guess. How does it get filled?

**Hoosiersmoker** · Aug 16, 2019, 06:34 AM

Originally Posted by volodar

Sure looks like it - the place is also an oyster shucking station. But what is the huge barrel on the left? Fresh water storage I would guess. How does it get filled?

Probably rain barrel.

**hemmjo** · Aug 16, 2019, 06:51 AM

Originally Posted by volodar

... But what is the huge barrel on the left? Fresh water storage I would guess. ...

That barrel is interesting. Looks like was recently turned over. It seems to be wet by one of the bands, but the water seems to be running the wrong way.

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Also the bands seem to have been moved at somepoint in time, perhaps as the barrel aged.

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**Toolmaker51** · Aug 16, 2019, 05:18 PM

Originally Posted by hemmjo

That barrel is interesting. Looks like was recently turned over. It seems to be wet by one of the bands, but the water seems to be running the wrong way.

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Also the bands seem to have been moved at somepoint in time, perhaps as the barrel aged.

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Phenomenal observations!

Jon. Here's a deserving awardee for newly minted 'Sharp Eye' trophy. May I suggest deerstalker cap and calabash pipe.

**volodar** · Aug 17, 2019, 09:08 AM

Originally Posted by hemmjo

That barrel is interesting. Looks like was recently turned over. It seems to be wet by one of the bands, but the water seems to be running the wrong way.

Also the bands seem to have been moved at somepoint in time, perhaps as the barrel aged.

Good observation. I never noticed.

**Frank S** · Aug 26, 2019, 10:28 PM

Don't you just love the safety protocols 1 guy looks to be hanging onto and standing on bolts another is painting while on only walk planks no railings cables or any other form of barrier in the event of a miss step, too many things to mention that no one would even consider working in those conditions in today's world