I came across this while on my hike yesterday. I'm sure it's related to mining, but I have no idea what it is or what it's used for?
I came across this while on my hike yesterday. I'm sure it's related to mining, but I have no idea what it is or what it's used for?
The way its riverted up so strongly makes me think its some sort of boiler.
BKB
That's a very large piece of riveted, circular, rusted metal.
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Looks like the front part of an old railroad locomotive, but I remember somewhere else someone posted a similar picture and it was reported to be the boiler of an old steam engine that powered waterpumps for mines.
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I love finding old stuff when hiking through the woods.
That's real neat, whatever it is.
Wonder what Kribbs could get for it on eBay?
BKB
I find old stuff in the woods all the time, old cigarette butts, old beer cans, old Skoal cans, old plastic bags from chips, old vienna sausage cans
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Vienna sausages (VI-ennie Sausage if you're from here) is one of those foods that you can never find anyone that will admit to liking or eating, but you sure as heck find a lot of their empty cans lying around. Why are vienna sausage eaters such litterbugs? Huh?
BKB
Barry, count me in as a fan of Vienna sausages. I love to throw a couple cans in my pack and enjoy them in some remote location. However, I do have a confession to make. While I don't just toss the can out on the ground I do bury them and put a big rock over them when I'm done. The reason is the cans are full of that jelly like stuff they pack the sausages in and I don't want any of that junk leaking out and getting in my pack. I could possibly put them in a zip lock and haul them out, but I'd run the risk of the lid cutting the bag and then I'd have a nasty mess. I'm not sure why others leave them, but it's the same reason I also bury my kippered snack cans as well. Just too dang messy.
I prefer Underwoods devilled ham (what is the process for 'devilling'?) to vienna sausages. I imagine both are pretty disgusting but heck, I love souse too and its more disgusting than either of those.
BKB
I was going to say a donkey engine but they usually sit vertically. It's a steam boiler of some kind.Originally Posted by jb
Will
Pretty sure that's Bucky's last smoker. It wouldn't hold 220 degrees in a 89mph nor'east gale in December so he threw it away for the piece of crap it was.
If we all threw our problems in a pile, and you saw everyone else's problems-- you'd take yours back.
Dang.
Sure looks like it'd make a nice smoker. With some help and ingenuity. Bet Cappy could do it.
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Looks alot like the steam-fired tractors you find at the oldtime steam-threshing events they have around here.
Perhaps it was used to help cut the logs for the cabin or maybe to run a conveyor for moving stuff out of the mine?
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If we all threw our problems in a pile, and you saw everyone else's problems-- you'd take yours back.
My guess is its a boiler for some steam engine. Looks like water baffles and a fire box below (or to the side as it lays)
Whatever it is, is cool and I love to have it
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