History of wine growing #1
For all who just know about stainless steal, there was a time before that.
This post is about the history of wine growing and showing you some tools as snapshots. There will be #2 shorty but I want to divide this topic about tools in before 1945 and later. 1945 as you know was the year the 2nd worldwar ended and brought many changes to viticulture and cellar work.

A plough for fields an vineyards. 1 horsepower or an ox and a men behind.

The tree press: a big tree on top presses the crushed but normally not destemmed grapes. On the picture a small crusher on the left and a wooden vat for the transport of the grapes out the vineyard (used like a backpack).

An old school crusher made out of wood. For manual mode only.

What you might have not seen yet: a tally stick (Kerbholz in German). For every vat which was brought out of the vineyard a men with this stick added a kerf with a knife (simple harvest control).

Since powdery and downy mildew came to europe, wine growers have to spray. Whatever they sprayed, this was the tool for it made out of wood! (Sure, there is a big difference what is applied in the vineyard. Here it was some copper for sure, because of the green color)

Since the celtics invented oak barrels, it's a scene which has not really changed in our times.

That's not a wine barrel. It's a manure barrel: looks alike but had a different usage :-)
I shot the pictures a the agricultural museum in St. Michael (Burgenland region) and in Moschendorf, a wine growing museum. Not to far from my place and absolutely worth to visit.
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