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Post by Steve B on May 25, 2006 8:39:58 GMT -6
its an umbrella?
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Post by CoyoteMan50 on May 25, 2006 8:46:00 GMT -6
I guess you know That you have drove me to have to go see a shrink with this post of your. it was fun but then I have lost it. I can't take no more.
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Post by trappnman on May 25, 2006 9:42:59 GMT -6
LOL- I'd tell you the answer boys, but it would just go over your head, I guess.....
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Post by 17HMR on May 25, 2006 9:59:35 GMT -6
A reflector for light in the mine?
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Post by Drew on May 25, 2006 10:55:49 GMT -6
hardhat, lol
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Post by CoyoteMan50 on May 25, 2006 11:38:51 GMT -6
is it for heading cows. or used for rodeo barrels
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Post by trappnman on May 25, 2006 12:22:39 GMT -6
keep the clues in mind- and there are a couple of hidden clues.
I can't point out any more than I am.
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Post by trappermike220 on May 25, 2006 12:54:38 GMT -6
Steve you should of had us made sign a release form before we started guessing, larry is about to have an anurism over this lol
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Post by trappnman on May 25, 2006 13:44:17 GMT -6
I though one of the western guys would have gotten it right off. I saw examples of it still in use in Northern WY and in several places in the black hills......
another clue....city Casper lives in....
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Post by traptag on May 25, 2006 14:00:01 GMT -6
Do both lids fit back inside the barrel? Could they be used to compress something?
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Post by Stanley on May 25, 2006 14:12:32 GMT -6
When the miners would get drunk, they would talk into it and think that it was a ghost town.
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Post by trappnman on May 25, 2006 14:38:01 GMT -6
nope, nope and nope
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Post by JWarren on May 25, 2006 17:59:00 GMT -6
a cover for ventilation hole in the mine shaft?
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Post by robertw on May 25, 2006 19:02:21 GMT -6
Hole in the ground....
I think J Warren got it.
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Post by mmwb (Andrew Parker) on May 25, 2006 23:56:33 GMT -6
Amalgamation plate?
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Post by zone 9 on May 26, 2006 4:11:01 GMT -6
They would build shanteys from the barrels and use the lids as roof shingles.
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Post by trappnman on May 26, 2006 4:18:56 GMT -6
BINGO!
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Post by musher on May 26, 2006 4:25:19 GMT -6
Thank you Zone9. Now I can get on with my life. ;D
My guesses weren't exactly going in the direction of the correct answer
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Post by trappnman on May 26, 2006 5:33:18 GMT -6
LOL- that was fun.
There are several examples of this out in the Hills. The barrels were split and used for siding and the tops and bottoms were cut off and used as shingles.
This particular one came off an old mine site south of Deadwood on Strawberry Hill. The new highway cut into the mine, so we had access. 100 yards up the hill, were the miners cabins. This was 3 weeks after the fires a few years ago.
We were standing at the mine site, looking uphill, and because of the ash and the time of day...all of a sudden I could see a trail going up from the mine to the cabins- a shortcut for the miners. Very eerie. In the shadows and all the black/grey... I could almost see the miners walking down the hill to go to work.
This mine and cabins are now gone. Let me EMPHASIZE- we take nothing from these sites normally- but so many of the old mines and sites over the past 5 years have been removed, covered up, destroyed because of Homestake shutting down and EPA. Sad to see. The history of the Hills is disappearing.
So if we know something is going to be destroyed, we save a little of what we can.
Good work zone. You going to any conventions I'll be at?
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Post by thebeav2 on May 26, 2006 6:45:01 GMT -6
The barrel top Is not a antique It's just a old piece of junk sheet metal LOL But It was a very Interesting tale.
Gary
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