Keeping the beer cool for Pleasant Flat bridge opening.1960`s.

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DescriptionKeeping the beer cool for Pleasant Flat bridge opening. Wooden hogs head 56s gallon barrels ,that wouldn't last long.
Shared with permission from Haast Road Opening 50th Anniversary.Date of Photo1960'sMap^[1]ContributorMaye Dunn

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Location (city or town)Pleasant FlatEventKeeping the beer cool for Pleasant Flat bridge opening.

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Date Created27th November 2019CommentsKevin Voigt: Wooden hogs head 56s gal barrels ,that wouldn't last long.

Kevin Oregan
The way it was. Old Fordson major with Hamilton loader. They got the job done.

Glenn Johnston
Is that a hogshead of 54 imperial gallons or a 36 gallon barrel? There are great views from the Pleasant Flat bridge of Mt Hooker etc. to the NE.

John Webster
Bozzie down Haast always said a nine gallon was to big for one but not big enough for two
Robert John Mallinson
Was in Haast 3 yrs prior the opening , left in 69/70

Ted McCreath
Boo hoo. Carted most of the steel-work from Cromwell for that bridge but missed out on the free beer.
Colin Henry Richards
I thought a hogshead was 2 barrels, 72 gallons.
Glenn Johnston
Colin Henry Richards talking beer a UK/Colonial Imperial measure hogshead from standardisation times in the early 1800's was 54 gallons. A beer barrel, 36 gallons, is two thirds the capacity of a hogshead, 54 gallons. Half the barrel capacity was a kil…
Colin Henry Richards
Glenn Johnston I was thinking of a puncheon, that's 72 imperial gallons. I only just looked that up. I should know, I worked for 2 U.K. breweries, but my experience was only in bottling & canning. Nothing bigger than 3L P.E.T. bottles.

Jock Allen

Jock Allen
Jean Wells THANKS JEAN

Jeremy Sutherland
The white stripes would indicate that the Hogshead came from Westland Breweries Hokitika Branch (old Mandl's Westland Brewery)

Peter Robertson
1960! (Not 1960s)

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Keeping the beer cool for Pleasant Flat bridge opening.1960`s.

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