{"id":338,"date":"2011-11-27T21:06:49","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T02:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/?p=338"},"modified":"2011-12-13T22:58:19","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T03:58:19","slug":"on-loading-barrels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/?p=338","title":{"rendered":"On Loading Barrels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/?attachment_id=339\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-339\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-339 alignleft\" title=\"barrels\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/barrels-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/barrels-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/barrels-150x100.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/barrels-100x66.jpg 100w, http:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/barrels.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>We&#8217;ve often wondered if there was a particular way that barrels were always loaded.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve tried loading barrels in the bateaux both with the bilge down and with the head down.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve also tried with the bilge of the barrel athwart the vessel and with the bilge along the axis of the vessel.\u00a0 As far as convenience of loading empty barrels, having the bilge along the axis of the vessel seems easiest and gets the most barrels in the bateau, but I have no idea if this was the standard method or not.<\/p>\n<p>I was looking through <em>Sailing Vessels in Authentic Early Nineteenth-Century Illustrations (&#8220;Sixty Five Plates of Shipping and Craft&#8221;)<\/em> by Edward William Cooke, originally published in 1829 with reprints at various times.\u00a0 I have a Dover Publications book from 1989 (ISBN 0-486-26141-7).\u00a0 On page 16 is a plate which shows a small boat loaded with barrels (see picture).\u00a0 Rather than the barrels all being stacked one way or another, they are all in a jumble, stacked any which way.\u00a0 From this, I conclude that there is no standard method of loading them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve often wondered if there was a particular way that barrels were always loaded.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve tried loading barrels in the bateaux both with the bilge down and with the head down.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve also tried with the bilge of the barrel athwart the vessel and with the bilge along the axis of the vessel.\u00a0 As far&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barrels","tag-barrels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}