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Originally Posted by 420
It looks like you're a commercial fisherman (crabber?). What do you call those bins?
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Actually, those are grape tubs. This was in the middle of harvest. For years I was a cellar rat (will work for wine & wine making knowledge).
About 8 weekends a year. I was 1st there, to show idiots (volunteer pickers) how to park, last to go. I couldn't lift the big tubs so I found chores nobody else would do. Guys would dump the tubs, I'd move them out of the way. Clean a batch, for the next load of grapes. When it's 40F, that water's cold. Helped on bottling runs. 'Got to taste test for quality control.'
Once a pump over-flowed and I showered in white wine until I got the valve shut off.
Actually, for a small winery won the most prestigious award in the U.S. --The Jefferson Cup.
Besides tubs, washed the presses and crusher-destemer. Helped bottling, blendings and spent many a day just reading a book, while drinking wine, overlooking the vineyards. I truly feel that then I was the richest man in the world.
Me just minutes before dropping from heat stoke. We had been harvesting in 106F for days, as the heat was destroying the grapes.