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The Step Saver was once extremely common and most farmers in their 50's and older probably remember using it. But, it appears that nobody ever took pictures of the system or made any effort to document it all these years. It cannot be found with Google except on articles in
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If you know where I can find a complete working Step Saver system I would like to come out and photograph it, and make a video of milk being poured into a functioning Step Saver. I would also be willing to buy new hose and rubber parts for an old mothballed system in a vacant barn, to get it back up
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On Friday Feb 6, 2009 I stumbled across a massive new archive of information that has not been publicized much at all. Virtually the entire history of
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The entire system consists of a stainless steel 3-wheel cart, with a 5-inch plastic ball and filter screens inside the cart. In the milkhouse was a glass vacuum breaker device about 18 inches tall and maybe 8 inches in diameter, containing a stainless steel float ball on a vertical arm through the
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I was hoping to get other people interested in this as a "WikiProject" but it appears the interest level is too low for now. Oh well. Contribute to it if you want.
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