After the milking, I would separate the cream from the milk in a centrifugal separator in the basement. I always enjoyed that heavy whirl of it. It was an amazing piece of technology that demonstrated to me, a simple farm kid, the power of reason to solve problems, and so planted the seed in my mind of a future totally changed by science and technology. Soon science fiction supplanted the separator, and then science supplanted science fiction.
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Gord McCaw Great photo. At first I thought it was a painting...
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· 18 June 2016 at 22:31
Stan Burfield Yeah, I like that look too. I'm glad you saw it. The soft lighting and his face at that angle under that hat reminds me of how they used to paint peasants in Europe, like before the impressionists.
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· Reply · 18 June 2016 at 22:42
Al Broudy I remember the separator.
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· Reply · 18 June 2016 at 23:00
Gord McCaw Do they use separators in Quebec???
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· Reply · 18 June 2016 at 23:01
Stan Burfield Ha ha. You can still see them at antique stores.
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· Reply · 18 June 2016 at 23:01
Al Broudy Not any more.
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· Reply · 18 June 2016 at 23:02
Gord McCaw Some of the fondest memories I have are of spending summers at my maternal grandparents' farm near Carrot River. I well remember the heavy cream that came from that separator that went on the freshly picked strawberries from my old Romanian grandmother's garden. It doesn't get any better than that...
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· Reply · 18 June 2016 at 23:05
Larry Burfield I bought a small cream separator at a yard sale here in Kelowna to keep the memory alive, and I learned the separator turned at 6500 rpm... no wonder it was tough to get it up to speed!
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· Reply · 18 June 2016 at 23:09
Stan Burfield Yes, an amazing experience for a kid.
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· Reply · 18 June 2016 at 23:10
Stan Burfield Wow, yeah! The real thing. I slept over at a friend's farm a couple times, in my pup tent. They were a traditional German family. For breakfast we had those big Shredded Wheats in very fresh, still-warm, milk! I could hardly get it down, thinking of where it had been just minutes before.