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Heavy Metal - 6/21/2004 12:07:45 AM    Maine Digger   Posts: 823 Joined: 2/4/2004 From: Augusta, Maine Status: offline Here's some 'Heavy Metal' I came across while digging last week. In addition I have a great collection of hand wrought hinges, handles, irons and...... how about the rest of you? I guess I have the bug bad, I can't walk away from the 'Heavy Metal' when I'm supposed to be gathering glass! I found two matching cast brackets (?) they weigh about 40# each!, approx 18'' x 24'', the stove is a minuture, about 6x8x4 inches, I'm going back to see if I can find some of the missing parts! Attachment (1) < Message edited by Maine Digger -- 6/21/2004 12:15:10 AM > _____________________________ Norm Miller Post #: 1

RE: Heavy Metal - 6/21/2004 12:20:30 AM    Maine Digger   Posts: 823 Joined: 2/4/2004 From: Augusta, Maine Status: offline heres the stove, what's left of it Attachment (1) < Message edited by Maine Digger -- 6/21/2004 12:20:33 AM > _____________________________ Norm Miller (in reply to Maine Digger) Post #: 2

RE: Heavy Metal - 6/21/2004 12:53:40 AM    BRichardson5   Posts: 378 Joined: 8/29/2003 From: Pacific Northwest Status: offline It's always interesting and fun to come across the old metal pieces like that- it's like getting a bonus when you are out looking for glass. I dug out an old farm dump once, and you wouldn't believe all the old metal farm equipment. There was all the settup for horse plowing, along with metal wagon wheels, cowbells, and lots of old locks. Some were brass, so they cleaned up fairly nicely. I would assume that the keys were lost, which is why they tossed the perfectly good locks. I also pulled out an extremely heavy metal rope and hook (logging or farming)- the thing weighed a ton and took forever to dig out, considering the fact that it was about 7ft. And of course, I always come across the old hinges and doorknobs from the farmhouse- makes a cool wall decoration in my bottle asylum. Anyway, glad to hear that all is going well in Maine. Have fun diggin! -Brian (in reply to Maine Digger) Post #: 3

RE: Heavy Metal - 6/29/2004 6:43:31 PM    old digger   Posts: 65 Joined: 5/15/2004 Status: offline Hope your next dig turns up missing stove parts, most of the old stoves like yours were salesman samples, given to the children of the household where he sold or hoped to sale his wares. (in reply to Maine Digger) Post #: 4

RE: Heavy Metal - 7/2/2004 4:48:54 AM    David E Posts: 995 Joined: 5/24/2004 Status: offline Hi, those two metal pieces look like Fireplace (beleive they are called Andirons) come in pairs and quite pricey in Antique books. Unless you cleaned them up sure don't look like they are parts to the stove. I was digging a dump in the woods and came up with a sack full of bottles and a metal bed. Looked like from the twenties. The base was rusted away but the head was restoriable. I took bottles home and came back for the bed the next day and would u beleive someone took it. Way into woods how did he find it, must have been watching me (creepy). Also have traced loging railroads thru woods as they picked up rails but left spikes. Found a ground ancore(sp) to hold the oxen or horses in place in woods, old clocks and such from logging camps. The Indians used to put those big stove's across their war canoe's and carry them up river for the whites. Learn alot when bottle collecting and researching (Should teach it in school). Thanks for listening. Dave (in reply to Maine Digger) Post #: 5

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