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Who all knows what this was for? #7470017 01/23/22 01:51 PM 01/23/22 01:51 PM
Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 19,719 pa H hippie OP trapper
hippie OP trapper H Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 19,719 pa	I always found this interesting.

Re: Who all knows what this was for? [Re: hippie] #7470028 01/23/22 01:57 PM 01/23/22 01:57 PM
Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 4,797 M.T.V. Alaska Y yukonjeff trapper
yukonjeff trapper Y Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 4,797 M.T.V. Alaska	Shot tower for making lead bullets and cannon balls https://www.youtube.com/user/yukonjeffimagery/videos?disable_polymer=1

Re: Who all knows what this was for? [Re: hippie] #7470029 01/23/22 01:59 PM 01/23/22 01:59 PM
Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 19,719 pa H hippie OP trapper
hippie OP trapper H Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 19,719 pa	Yepper. Would've loved to see it work! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Shot_Tower Last edited by hippie; 01/23/22 02:00 PM.

Re: Who all knows what this was for? [Re: hippie] #7470030 01/23/22 02:02 PM 01/23/22 02:02 PM
Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 4,797 M.T.V. Alaska Y yukonjeff trapper
yukonjeff trapper Y Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 4,797 M.T.V. Alaska	They drop the lead from the top and it cools on the way down and drops into water. Pretty neat. https://www.youtube.com/user/yukonjeffimagery/videos?disable_polymer=1

Re: Who all knows what this was for? [Re: hippie] #7470037 01/23/22 02:11 PM 01/23/22 02:11 PM
Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 19,719 pa H hippie OP trapper
hippie OP trapper H Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 19,719 pa	Glad it was kept intact. I tried making a similar deal to make shot for a shotgun. I couldn't get them round enough that I'd try to make muzzleloader balls with it. The height must be critical.

Re: Who all knows what this was for? [Re: hippie] #7470042 01/23/22 02:16 PM 01/23/22 02:16 PM
Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 25,413 williams,mn trapper les trapper
trapper les trapper Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 25,413 williams,mn	Interesting "Those who hammer their guns into plowshares will plow for those who do not."

Re: Who all knows what this was for? [Re: hippie] #7470045 01/23/22 02:17 PM 01/23/22 02:17 PM
Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 7,183 Wisconsin M Moosetrot trapper
Moosetrot trapper M Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 7,183 Wisconsin	We have one of those still standing in east-central Wisconsin. Moosetrot

Re: Who all knows what this was for? [Re: hippie] #7470048 01/23/22 02:21 PM 01/23/22 02:21 PM
Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 992 iowa T trappinia trapper
trappinia trapper T Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 992 iowa	There is also one in Dubuque Iowa .

Re: Who all knows what this was for? [Re: hippie] #7470049 01/23/22 02:22 PM 01/23/22 02:22 PM
Joined: Sep 2012 Posts: 1,970 New York P proratman trapper
proratman trapper P Joined: Sep 2012 Posts: 1,970 New York	Originally Posted by hippie Glad it was kept intact. I tried making a similar deal to make shot for a shotgun. I couldn't get them round enough that I'd try to make muzzleloader balls with it. The height must be critical. I always wonder how anyone ever figured that out back in the day.

Re: Who all knows what this was for? [Re: proratman] #7470065 01/23/22 02:38 PM 01/23/22 02:38 PM
Joined: Dec 2021 Posts: 828 Indiana C CaseXX trapper
CaseXX trapper C Joined: Dec 2021 Posts: 828 Indiana	Originally Posted by proratman Originally Posted by hippie Glad it was kept intact. I tried making a similar deal to make shot for a shotgun. I couldn't get them round enough that I'd try to make muzzleloader balls with it. The height must be critical. I always wonder how anyone ever figured that out back in the day. Ya how? That Isaac Newton guy must have been a genius or something. Case Rules: Col. Jeff Cooper #1for a gunfight Gibbs. #9 always carry a knife

Re: Who all knows what this was for? [Re: hippie] #7470069 01/23/22 02:42 PM 01/23/22 02:42 PM
Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 964 Ar G gregh trapper
gregh trapper G Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 964 Ar	I would hate to have been the one taking all the lead to the top of that thing by hand.

Re: Who all knows what this was for? [Re: hippie] #7470072 01/23/22 02:45 PM 01/23/22 02:45 PM
Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 8,553 Henderson, N.Y. Jefferson Co. W walleyed trapper
walleyed trapper W Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 8,553 Henderson, N.Y. Jefferson Co.	Originally Posted by hippie I always found this interesting. PIG CASTRATOR CANNON !!!! "Provisional/Interim" member of NYS Trappers Association Jefferson Co. Fur Harvesters I Support Non-Resident Trapping

Re: Who all knows what this was for? [Re: gregh] #7470075 01/23/22 02:51 PM 01/23/22 02:51 PM
Joined: Dec 2021 Posts: 828 Indiana C CaseXX trapper
CaseXX trapper C Joined: Dec 2021 Posts: 828 Indiana	Originally Posted by gregh I would hate to have been the one taking all the lead to the top of that thing by hand. Yes pulling on that rope through a block and tackle set up must have been grueling. Well after the masons carried the brick and mortar up there with brick and mortar hods. Rules: Col. Jeff Cooper #1for a gunfight Gibbs. #9 always carry a knife

Re: Who all knows what this was for? [Re: hippie] #7470077 01/23/22 02:54 PM 01/23/22 02:54 PM
Joined: Mar 2012 Posts: 4,324 AK F FairbanksLS trapper
FairbanksLS trapper F Joined: Mar 2012 Posts: 4,324 AK	Very cool. formerly posting as white dog

Re: Who all knows what this was for? [Re: proratman] #7470081 01/23/22 02:58 PM 01/23/22 02:58 PM
Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 17,855 MN 1 160user trapper
160user trapper 1 Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 17,855 MN	Originally Posted by proratman Originally Posted by hippie Glad it was kept intact. I tried making a similar deal to make shot for a shotgun. I couldn't get them round enough that I'd try to make muzzleloader balls with it. The height must be critical. I always wonder how anyone ever figured that out back in the day. How did we survive without Google? I have nothing clever to put here.

Re: Who all knows what this was for? [Re: hippie] #7470093 01/23/22 03:06 PM 01/23/22 03:06 PM
Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 5,569 La Crosse, WI Macthediver trapper
Macthediver trapper Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 5,569 La Crosse, WI	160 That's funny.. I did Google it Seems story is.. A church back in olden times with lead roof burned. Someone noticed that there was round balls of lead where it had dripped off as roof melted. The rest is history as they say.. Mac "Never Forget Which Way Is Up"

Re: Who all knows what this was for? [Re: hippie] #7470690 01/23/22 10:44 PM 01/23/22 10:44 PM
Joined: Aug 2011 Posts: 45,502 james bay frontierOnt. B Boco trapper
Boco trapper B Joined: Aug 2011 Posts: 45,502 james bay frontierOnt.	And today its likely a yuppie high end restaurant. Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.

Re: Who all knows what this was for? [Re: hippie] #7470792 01/24/22 12:03 AM 01/24/22 12:03 AM
Joined: Jan 2020 Posts: 4,949 Aliceville, Kansas 43 Yukon John trapper
Yukon John trapper Joined: Jan 2020 Posts: 4,949 Aliceville, Kansas 43	Castrating pigs, via gravity! Act like a blank, get treated like a blank. Insert your own blank!

Re: Who all knows what this was for? [Re: hippie] #7470805 01/24/22 12:19 AM 01/24/22 12:19 AM
Joined: Jul 2017 Posts: 2,672 Ohio W Willy Firewood trapper
Willy Firewood trapper W Joined: Jul 2017 Posts: 2,672 Ohio	Looks like a very early method of birth control. FRAC LIVES MATTER

Re: Who all knows what this was for? [Re: Willy Firewood] #7470812 01/24/22 12:32 AM 01/24/22 12:32 AM
Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 6,002 Rock Springs, WI Z Zim trapper
Zim trapper Z Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 6,002 Rock Springs, WI	There is one here in Iowa County, WI along the Wisconsin river that was built in 1832. They built a 60 foot tall structure along a shear bluff wall and then hired a local lead miner to sink a 120 foot deep shaft from the base of it to the elevation of the river. They then tunneled 90 feet horizontally from the river to intersect the shaft. It stayed in operation until 1860 and is now part of Tower Hill State Park. Zim

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