Carrying cheese
Once the batch is sold and weighed, the cheese carriers carry the cheese across the market to the buyers’ lorries. Cheese is transported on the wooden barrow hanging between two cheese carriers, holding about 8 Gouda cheeses, each of them weighing 13,5 kilos. Carrying a heavy barrow (25 kilos)weighing about 130 kilos is not easy. The carriers walk with a special “cheese carriers’ dribble”, a particular walking rhythm to make it easier. They step out of time as it were, ensuring the barrow hangs as still as possible.