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Post by love2trap on May 22, 2006 12:47:50 GMT -6
Here's a couple of pure wild-assed guesses:
1) Used as a head shield while mucking around inside mines (so loose rocks didn't hit you in the head)...LOL
2) Used as a Headstone in case some of those loose rocks from #1 above actually got ya...LOL
3) Used as a makeshift umbrella to protect ya from unexpected rainstorms.
4) Same as above except to protect your noggin from the sun.
5) Mustelid's story was right on the money, except this is a frisbee for the God's to play with.
6) Or maybe RobertW was right all along and this is $.09 worth of scrap metal waiting its' turn to become a ford fender...LOL
Mark
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Post by trappermike220 on May 22, 2006 14:19:38 GMT -6
Heres my guess..again... I think steve has no idea what it is, he is just trying to see how long we can go before we give up and he keeps the shirt
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Post by zone 9 on May 22, 2006 15:38:11 GMT -6
;)The barrel parts where used to make a paddle wheel to power a dedge sluce.
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Post by trappnman on May 22, 2006 15:56:51 GMT -6
LOl- I know for a fact- that if anyone has spent any time at old mining camps, he would have seen this in fairly common use.
Clue #127- keep in mind the barrell was used in a complementary way.
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Post by zone 9 on May 22, 2006 16:37:28 GMT -6
a wood stove
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Post by David Kuhlmann on May 22, 2006 22:08:32 GMT -6
OH that's easy Steve.. those things w/ the round bottems hanging on the fence are lanters.. But the 2nd pic don't show them.. ha ha ha.. Would this be some sort of fleshing device? ?
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Post by blakcoyote on May 22, 2006 23:04:23 GMT -6
A dinner gong.
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Post by trappnman on May 23, 2006 4:26:15 GMT -6
nope, nope, nope.
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Post by Mud Turtle on May 23, 2006 5:59:49 GMT -6
Plow disk?
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Post by trappnman on May 23, 2006 6:14:18 GMT -6
Its from a 1890 circa cyanide barrell.
The tops and bottoms were cut off and used for ?
The barrell was then used for a complentary use.
I bet TC37 knows, but he probally isn't reading this post..and no one clue him in now, ya hear...LOL
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Post by thebeav2 on May 23, 2006 6:28:30 GMT -6
Well I for one really don't care and I think this thread should be moved to the OFF Topic forum since It's not related to trapping. LOl I'm with Robert It looks like junk sheet metal to me.
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Post by trappnman on May 23, 2006 6:34:56 GMT -6
Yet you read it.
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Post by Vanmeer on May 23, 2006 6:40:15 GMT -6
Barrel was used for toilet and lid was used for piling rock on then filling mining cart
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Post by thebeav2 on May 23, 2006 7:26:52 GMT -6
Well I need to entertain myself while waiting for my beaver to sell. LOl
Gary
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Post by limbhanger on May 23, 2006 8:55:25 GMT -6
I have been reading all this waiting for the auction to began also. My guess is it was used for cooking on???
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Post by trappnman on May 23, 2006 12:44:08 GMT -6
no- not to hold anything, to cook or heat anything
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Post by trappermike220 on May 23, 2006 12:46:01 GMT -6
I still think its some sick practical joke...
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Post by love2trap on May 23, 2006 15:04:53 GMT -6
Based on the scuff marks on the lower right side of the object...maybe it was used to clean off miners shoes at the end of the day by the right-handed miners...
The other end of the barrel was hung somewhere else in camp to be used by the left-handed miners to clean their shoes off.
Keeping the left-handed and right-handed miners seperate was important in those days as tensions ran high...LOL
Mark
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Post by CoyoteMan50 on May 24, 2006 16:54:33 GMT -6
The barrel was then used for tile for small creeks. making roads.
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Post by trappnman on May 25, 2006 7:51:22 GMT -6
and you call yourself trappers...
clue #elevenseventytwo- hmmmn..can't think of any that wouldn't be obvious..
lets summarize:
steel cyanide barrels miners mining camps 1880's Necessity is .........
Oh! ... heres a new clue "Where the deer and the buffalo roam..."
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