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Cheever leads mule around
while grinding clay.
Lanier then empties mill,
wedges clay into block, and
carries it into ware shop.
View of Cheever cutting
off chunk of clay with wire,
weighing it, and, while Arie
wedges it, Cheever explains
scale and use of ware he is
about to make.
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C: Come on, we'll keep going. Get some
grass in a minute, come on. Come right
on, boy. Getting tired? You ain't done
nothing in a week. Looks like you
wouldn't tired out too quick.
I'm used to grinding them with a mule,
diere. I never done nothing else. I just
like it. It ain't as fast as grinding it with a
machine, but I don't care anything about
hurrying anymore. Gonna take my time
from here out.
L: Well I reckon this is the only place like
this in the whole United States. Everything
is gone modern, using machinery.
Now, where else would you find an old
mill to use a mule to it. . . and where else
would you find a mule? Well, diere's no
reason to change it. I wanted to make a
barn out of it, one time, but I got talked
out of it no sooner than I mentioned it. I
never did mention it again.
WEIGHING, WEDGING, AND TURNING A
HALF-GALLON PITCHER
C: It takes about ten pounds to make a
gallon piece, for a one-gallon jug or
pitcher. Thatd make a half, half-a-gallon
size.
This weight here, that's for a four-gallon
size. That's a pretty good churn, and
they generally use them for milk
churning, old-time churning with a
churn stick. And then they use diat fourgallon
size for pickling beans, and kraut,
beet pickles, and the like of that. And
then we get down here to this five-gallon
size. That five-gallon size is made for the
same thing. Now, you take two fivegallon
churns, and fill it up full of pickle