# Hooping Up (Barrel Making), Part 2 / Sweetness (Sugar Cane) / Net Profits (Fishing) / Will Rogers / The "Four" Runners of Joy (Wheels)

Hooping Up (Barrel Making), Part 2 / Sweetness (Sugar Cane) / Net Profits (Fishing) / Will Rogers / The "Four" Runners of Joy (Wheels) Produced: 1919 Description The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. “Staves are given their final preparation in the factory, planed and beveled.” Barrel factory - workers plane and bevel staves using power machinery. “Hooping ’em up.” Finished staves are placed in hoops. “The steam box gets the barrel used to the moisture.” Steaming barrels, final hoops placed and tightened. “No sooner out of the steam room than the barrel is dried.” “Often staves are broken.” Broken stave is replaced. “Large iron bands hold the barrel in shape much better than any corset add guarantees to do.” Bands pushed farther toward center of barrel by machinery. “Creating the well-known bung hole.” “Putting a bevel on each end of the barrel.” Placing ends on barrels by machinery. “Off come the iron bands, the barrel is planed and steel hoops adjusted.” Worker planes revolving barrel - hoops pushed down by machinery. “Making steel hoops.” Lengths of steel come out of machine, worker rivets two ends together, worker places them on stretching and shaping machine. “The inside of the barrel is glued and the outside painted by machinery.” “Nine months have elapsed since the oak tree was felled. Here, at last, is the finished product.” “And now loaded with various American products, the barrels start for all corners of the…

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1919
- By: National Archives
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/fc-fc-231a-e)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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