Learning How to Milk a Cow from my Father, Part 1

In 1973 my parents left New York City in search of an alternative farming lifestyle. They spent the next 16 years working as farmers in Canada and in Israel. My father spent most of this time working as a dairy farmer. In 1989 we moved back to the United States and settled back into a capitalist lifestyle. My father has not milked a cow since.

In Learning How To Milk A Cow From My Father, I asked my father if he remembered how to milk a cow and whether he would teach me how to do it. I was working at a school in Vermont and my father lives in Florida, so I had him teach me how to milk a cow through a video chat (skype) conversation.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• art
• performance
• digital
• chat
• cow
• milk
• artist
• video
• father
• memory

[chudrocket]

quality milk time with your DAAAAYUUD

[mahafakir]

Are you the bearded man or is he your father. Who ever he is he is very slow. You can't take that much time milking a cow. Even Oakstorm does not know that you have only so much time to milk a cow because her hormones run out and the milk gets soaked back into the udder tissue. So milking by machine is best or you should have two persons milking two handed or four persons if u r going to milk one handed and you have to work fast. This guy in the video is very slow. Some body must show you.

[xpacmannx]

you may wanna check the milk first. Check for clumps or weird colors xP love all the professial commetns on this lol. Nice way to bring back memories

[BUHZERKER]

Just don't get confused and milk the Bull.. the cream will be thicker that day..

[Gaute83]

Noobie

[nikosaspros]

you must pinch the top of the teat with your index and thumb to avoid the milk in the teat to go up instead of out of the teat. Then close the other three fingers one at a time and quickly to get the milk out of the teat...

[mvtruckie]

thats an old cow. shed have to be wat, 5th lactation?

[LoonyBird27]

i milked a goat, never a cow but i really wanna try :-)

[Doctorate]

WOOOOOOOOOW!!!! I love the 4 scenes simultaneously!!! 10/5 :D

[Suzbekistan]

I love your comment, "You did this by hand?!" What hard work your father did!