Cream Seperator / Butter Churn 4 Homesteader

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Hello, I'm hoping 2 find a used cream seperator and butter churn 4 small homesteading family just starting on goat raising. I can't afford the new ones I've found and was hoping country side was the place 2 look. Please if any 1 can help e-mail or call (252)462-2369 Thank you and any extra advise could't hurt. Yvetta S. Black

-- Yvetta S. Black (VettsVet@aol.com), October 30, 2001

Answers

Check out eBay.com.

-- gita (gschmitz@directcon.net), October 30, 2001.

Yvetta: Where are you located? I'll have to check with the wife, but we have both items that she may be willing to part with. (We've never used them.)

-- skip (skip@h-ai.com), October 30, 2001.

If you cannot find a commercial butter churn, it wouldn't be that difficult to make one of your own.

Needed: Round, plastic, room-size trash container, say one two feet high. Someone with wood working ability. Piece of wood to fit the top. Section of broom handle or dowel rod. Two 2" strips of wood, such as maple, smaller than the inside diameter of the bottom.

Have the wood worker cut a round piece of wood to fit snuggly into the top of the contain, which will require champering the edges. Put a hole in the middle just larger than the rod you will be using. On the two strips, have them overlap them, mark, and cut grooves to where they fit together as a flat unit with a snug fit. (I make a batch occasionally for a consignment shop and a hole in each leg of the dasher.) Drill a hole in the center to where the rod will fit snuggly, then secure with nails from two sides. Length of rod should extend above the top of the churn about two feet. Wa-laa, a do-it- yourself churn.

I believe the churn song was: "Come butter come, Peter's waiting at the garden gate for his johnny cake, come butter come."

-- Ken S. in WC TN (scharabo@aol.com), October 30, 2001.


How about a gallon jar with a tight fitting lid. Just bounce it on your knee until it is butter. Can't get any less expensive than that.

-- m (foxpawz@gamewood.net), October 31, 2001.

Hi Yvetta I am thinking of doing the same in the spring, I'd love to "chat" with you about your experiences, drop me a line. Thanks. BTW what type of goats are you raising to milk?

-- Sandie in Maine (peqbear@maine.rr.com), October 31, 2001.


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