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Offline Ronnie D

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Help ID'ing strange find
« on: Oct 23, 2022, 04:52 PM »
P/U trash walking from treestand this morning along da road & stepped on this when i slid on the swamp edge.
It's definitely metal. The thinner edges bend like lead, but the density is too thin ( fish scale 3.2 #. The rounded side is the ground contact imprint ( buried about 3" )& the top looks like poured molten. Not magnetic either.











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Re: Help ID'ing strange find
« Reply #1 on: Oct 23, 2022, 05:34 PM »
It appears to be a locking platter plate for an old style wood fired hydrostatic turboencabulator.

If there is no label on it that is a good indication that was forged on a Hoyt-Klagwell penumatic hammer, probably in 19th Century Mongolia.

But maybe not...
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Re: Help ID'ing strange find
« Reply #2 on: Oct 23, 2022, 06:57 PM »
Claymore or Bouncing Betsy.    Trip*BOOOOM*
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Re: Help ID'ing strange find
« Reply #3 on: Oct 23, 2022, 07:21 PM »
I have no clue..looks like a rusty part off a ford.hahaha jk

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Re: Help ID'ing strange find
« Reply #4 on: Oct 23, 2022, 07:24 PM »
I have no clue..looks like a rusty part off a ford.hahaha jk

More likey a Chebby muffler belt cover.   :roflmao:
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Re: Help ID'ing strange find
« Reply #5 on: Oct 23, 2022, 08:32 PM »
U F O ?

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Re: Help ID'ing strange find
« Reply #6 on: Oct 24, 2022, 07:29 AM »
I'm guessing some sort of slag or "klinker". Refuse from sort of forging operation or a coal "klinker".

Coupla years ago I snagged a few rock looking things out of our chain of lakes that looked similar to that only smaller. Couldn't get anyone to tell me what they were. They were pretty heavy until they dried out, kinda porous, broke apart fairly easily. In reading a history of the area the first postal service had a coal fired steamer they ran the chain with to deliver mail. The light came on. Same route every (or most every) day, probably pretty predictable dumping klinkers so they could stoke the boiler.

Looking at it again it does look "metalish" and seemingly rusty. Despite being non-magnetic ( which pretty much rules out a meteorite) is probably some sort of slag that was dumped or skimmed off of some forgery operation. Be interesting to know where it came from and how it got to where you found it.

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Re: Help ID'ing strange find
« Reply #7 on: Oct 24, 2022, 07:50 AM »
100% spot on there, it's a slag ball. There used to be a factory out in one of the spots I used to hunt way back then, and those things are all over out there... waste off the big furnaces.

I've never seen one that big, though. The ones out there ran anywhere between BB and golf ball sized.

 



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