(One of his few Amazon reviews of something other than a book is of set of colourful plastic pails and shovels for children: "I needed the shovel for a very specialized scooping task". This raises the small but distinct possibility that Mr Johnston is a sophisticated performance artist).
Sycamore wood was used for making milk pails as it doesn't give off any taste; wild cherry trees were known by lumberjacks as widow-makers because the "explosive energy" in their sprung trunks would fling a chainsaw back in your face.
Yet the place is heaving with farmers waiting for their produce to be tested, carrying it in pails on trucks, on the backs of motorbikes or on their heads.
1947 Dinny Pails (Austl).
Liquid egg products may be delivered in a variety of packages, including bulk tank trucks, smaller portable tanks or "totes," paper cartons, hermetically sealed polyethylene bags, lacquer-coated tins, and plastic pails.
Products include blow-molded bottles for milk and household cleaners; blow-extruded grocery bags, construction film, and agricultural mulch; and injection-molded pails, caps, appliance housings, and toys.
Uses include blow-molded bottles for milk and household cleaners and injection-molded pails, bottle caps, appliance housings, and toys.
For the first time, the occupants' needs for water could be met without relying on the time-honoured system of filling pails and carrying them where required.
It makes those rock-star dressing-room demands, for bowls of blue Smarties or pails of pink Cristal, look unduly modest.
Thousands of women picked up ploughs, hoes and milk pails in response.
However, this investment pails into insignificance when compared with the capital's Crossrail projects.
