The CMP milk crate

Catalpa1

One of the wonders of modern engineering, I have seen these babies used as steps for painting, plastering, for holding up boats, bikes even small cars. Have seen them used for sledges when it snowedyou name it they had a use. Like lots of old Cork things not as many around as their usedto be

lostinsuperfunk

Good post. I haven't seen one in a long time. They were useful for sitting on if there was nothing else to hand. Anyone have any photos?

aujopimur

I've a pair screwed together for a hopup, used them today cleaning my windows.
I remember when they were everywhere, red - CMP, blue - Ballinahina.
I got 200 damaged ones from CMP FOC about 20yrs ago to make a soakpit.
The ones made later were very flimsy and not much use for standing on.
The very early ones were made of steel, indesructable, I remember using them to support a car before those fancy axial stands were invented.

aujopimur

lostinsuperfunk wrote: »

Good post. I haven't seen one in a long time. They were useful for sitting on if there was nothing else to hand. Anyone have any photos?

Here's mine

jamesbere

When I was painting on sites a few years back, we use to have set of these crates tied together. Best thing ever, although you had to be very mindful of fellas trying to steal them

kub

jamesbere wrote: »

When I was painting on sites a few years back, we use to have set of these crates tied together. Best thing ever, although you had to be very mindful of fellas trying to steal them

Not to mention the paranoid Health & Safety inspectors and their attitude to such platforms.

aujopimur

kub wrote: »

Not to mention the paranoid Health & Safety inspectors and their attitude to such platforms.

I remember seeing a painter with a pair shoes screwed to the crates so that he could move around without having to get off.

Catalpa1

There were lots of crates used as steps up to Caravans/even houses around Crosser, In fact between Fords' boxes and CMP milk crates Cork was a bit like Ikea before there was an Ikea

aujopimur

I'm going to Crosser tomorrow for the classic car show, I hav'nt been there for a long time.
If I have time I'll go up to Graball for a few photos of Ford box bungalows if there's any left.

Show Time

Great burning in them for back in the day when having a few cans in the fields.

aujopimur

Not a Fords box bungalow anywhere to be seen in Crosser, but I did spot one of the old metal milk crates in a hedge.

Catalpa1

I'd say all the auld Fords boxes have morphed into houses or bungalows, I think as a child I remember seeing either a green bus or it might have been a railway carraige being used as a summer house, to my childish eyes it looked the coolest "house" ever and I wanted to live in it, God that steel milk crate must be pretty indistructable.

aujopimur

Catalpa1 wrote: »

I'd say all the auld Fords boxes have morphed into houses or bungalows, I think as a child I remember seeing either a green bus or it might have been a railway carraige being used as a summer house, to my childish eyes it looked the coolest "house" ever and I wanted to live in it, God that steel milk crate must be pretty indistructable.

There was a bus, a railway wagon and a tram on Camden Rd used as holiday homes.
I don't know what became of the bus or the wagon, but the tram was rescued by a few guys from the UK for restoration.