Back to Basics - The Lost Art of Coopering

Arnie Banstra demonstrates the lost skills of a cooper at the Homer Harvest Days outside of Chicago, IL.
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, butter churns, hogsheads, firkins, tierces, rundlets, puncheons, pipes, tuns, butts, pins and breakers.