MacLeod Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 Rescued from the jaws of a scrap merchant. A thing of genius and beauty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 Ooh, nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 SWEET! Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 Nice score! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dax Hewitt Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 It boggles me how anyone could scrap something like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jobtiel1 Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 Very cool find, and indeed, why someone would scrap that is beyond me. In the Netherlands these things are impossible to find so I can imagine they would fetch more than scrap price if someone is looking to get rid of it. ~Jobtiel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacLeod Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 Great thing is that after a wee clean of the cogs it’s turning as smooth as silk. Watching it turn and moving slowly down is almost hypnotic. A dewalt or makita has never brought me so much joy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 Scrapyard run today; not much---luckily as my allowance is dedicated to getting my LG new and repaired parts. About the only thing to brag about was 23 SAE lead? ingots + one unmarked one. Now if I don't just sell them on I can cast a score of cannon balls for my Falconette! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purple Bullet Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 My brother made a small cannon out of drill collar. Our ammo was orange juice cans full of concrete. They went a scary distance out in the marsh. I was always concerned that some fisherman or hunter would round the bend after the fuse was lit. A touch hole would have been safer. I don't think we could get away with that in these parts today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 How did you do the breech? Mine was made from high pressure flow line pipe, the weldor I got it from said they had run 20 KPSI for 24 hours through it one time. VoTech did the breech with 4" of fine thread IIRC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jobtiel1 Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 Mail call today! A mysterious package from overseas arrived. And inside of it a nice poster. Thanks Scott!! ~Jobtiel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purple Bullet Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 Like I said, my brother made it. He died years ago and the details died with him as the cannon was stolen out of my front yard years before that. We used to haul it up the Mississippi River levee and fire blanks on holidays. It was a muzzle loader and the carriage was fashioned after a naval carriage, but he used threads from a large C clamp for an elevation screw. The breech was solid welded with a reinforce and trunnions. I think he built it while riding a pipe lay barge down to Brazil back in the 1970's. Lots of time and materials available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 Your welcome, Job. Thank you for helping me with it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 Jobteil1: give new meaning to the term "Heart Burn". My falconette was made around 1981; so pre my marriage to Jo Ann in 1984. Seems like I fired it a lot more when I was single with no kids... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 I dunno it looks more like a belly ach to me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les L Posted July 8, 2022 Share Posted July 8, 2022 Back in the 70’s I was working with 3 farmers in Oklahoma, that had a lot of imagination and skill, and one day we came up with the idea to build an acetylene cannon to shoot the small 6.5 oz coke bottles from the cooler in the shop. After work for the day we’d sit back and drink a couple of Uncle Adolf’s coolants then charge it up from the acetylene generator and send a bottle across the section of land in front of the shop, that they owned. We retired it when an old gentleman showed up with pieces of the bottle and showed us the dent in his truck where it was hit a mile away on the section road north of the shop. We may have had a little too much courage in a can that evening when loading it, but we learned our lesson and gave thanks that no one was hurt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacLeod Posted July 8, 2022 Share Posted July 8, 2022 I love that poster. Looks weirdly familiar to me. Is it a well known image? 23 hours ago, Jobtiel1 said: nice poster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jobtiel1 Posted July 8, 2022 Share Posted July 8, 2022 I don't know, I posted this picture some time back in the Blacksmith Art thread and Scott printed some posters from it. ~Jobtiel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George N. M. Posted July 8, 2022 Share Posted July 8, 2022 This is just off the top of my head and misty memories but I believe that it is from a collection of humorous drawings of various trades fitted out as "one man bands" that was done in the late 17th or early 18th centuries. Thomas may have a more accurate citation. GNM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jobtiel1 Posted July 8, 2022 Share Posted July 8, 2022 In the book I got it from there were indeed 3 or 4 other trade pictures like this. ~Jobtiel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted July 9, 2022 Share Posted July 9, 2022 Scott sent me one of his posters and the look on Deb's face when she saw it was priceless. Thanks again Scott! Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted July 9, 2022 Share Posted July 9, 2022 Lol I wasn’t gonna say anything but Scott sent me one as well, I’m gonna hang it up in the house when ash ain’t looking an see what she says when she finds it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ThomasPowers Posted July 9, 2022 Share Posted July 9, 2022 Tell Ash it's the lead for your next "help wanted" sign. Scrapyard visit today 29# and they gave it to me for free! Some twisted 3/8" sq stock, 5' of 3/4" sucker rod with one termination, lug wrench, coil spring from farm equipment suitable for making scribes, couple of heavy duty tin cans, magnetic base for a whip antenna, 3 reflectors for my shop door, dome headed RR bolt, paint stirrer for my drill, horseshoe, gold ball, 9mm socket, and the bottom end for a pipe clamp---nice in that I have found several top ends but the sliding bottom ends seem to get lost. Just reading that George Armstrong Custer's father owned a forge (Blacksmith's shop). Then on to town only to find that none of the hardware places has the parts I need to redo the guest bathroom toilet. Sigh. Now one that didn't follow me home: BBQ sized propane bottle; looks like someone was going to build a forge! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 13, 2022 Share Posted July 13, 2022 Another visit but not much new; I did take out 3 more newish RR spikes, a claw hammer head and some small black pipe for chilies. They said that buying was running real slow due to a drop in price on the world market for scrap iron. Unfortunately they haven't dropped their selling price. Lots of RR rail there. 9# out. US$2 as I rounded up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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