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Privy dug cannonball - 12/4/2006 7:44:49 PM    appliedlips Posts: 1681 Joined: 1/30/2005 Status: offline       Thought some of you guys would be interested in seeing a cannonball my son and I dug from a mid 1800's era privy a few weeks ago.It was fused together with some other rusty metal and only had a hunch what was in the mess because of the weight.This is the first I have dug.Makes a great doorstop.Happy hunting,Doug Post #: 1

RE: Privy dug cannonball - 12/4/2006 7:45:50 PM    appliedlips Posts: 1681 Joined: 1/30/2005 Status: offline  Oh yeah,the picture.I knew I forgot something! Attachment (1) (in reply to appliedlips) Post #: 2

RE: Privy dug cannonball - 12/4/2006 9:28:23 PM    acls   Posts: 305 Joined: 6/2/2005 Status: offline Gotta love those Civil War cannonballs.  Nice find Doug.  (in reply to appliedlips) Post #: 3

RE: Privy dug cannonball - 12/4/2006 10:53:18 PM    Gunsmoke47 Posts: 1160 Joined: 12/29/2003 From: TEXAS Status: offline Way too cool! Congrats! (in reply to acls) Post #: 4

RE: Privy dug cannonball - 12/4/2006 11:17:12 PM    cc6pack   Posts: 537 Joined: 7/12/2003 From: Mableton, Ga. Status: offline Doug, Nice find  those go for about $150.00  at a Civil War Show cleaned. I can send you the formula to clean it if you're interested. It should be close to 4.62 inches diameter for the 12 lb. solid. It was the most common shell used in the CW. Both North and South used them.  Here is a site for CW Artillery. http://civilwarartillery.com/ < Message edited by cc6pack -- 12/4/2006 11:20:36 PM > (in reply to Gunsmoke47) Post #: 5

RE: Privy dug cannonball - 12/5/2006 11:39:43 AM    swizzle   Posts: 1325 Joined: 3/2/2005 From: Upstate NY Status: offline Privy dug cannonball?!? LMAO The first thing I thought of was great granpa musta had a diet high in iron. Nice find by the way.  Swizzle (in reply to cc6pack) Post #: 6

RE: Privy dug cannonball - 12/6/2006 3:49:22 AM    zanes_antiques Posts: 2027 Joined: 9/3/2006 From: Steubenville, Ohio Status: offline Well, I might as well put up what I think is a cannon ball too. Maybe someone here can confirm or deny my conclusion. This thing is about 5" in dia. and over 20lbs for sure. It had a ground sprue(seam). I don't mean to use your thread Doug but the oppurtunity has presented itself. If you have trouble with yours rolling around on display maybe a shot of the wood holder I made for mine will be of a benefit to you. I drilled a flat bottomed hole with a forsner bit in the center of a piece of wood and it looks great sitting next to my fireplace iron. Attachment (1) _____________________________ I buy, sell, barter, and beg....Zane (in reply to swizzle) Post #: 7

RE: Privy dug cannonball - 12/6/2006 3:51:15 AM    zanes_antiques Posts: 2027 Joined: 9/3/2006 From: Steubenville, Ohio Status: offline one of the holder. By the way what are the dimensions and the weight of your ball? Attachment (1) _____________________________ I buy, sell, barter, and beg....Zane (in reply to zanes_antiques) Post #: 8

RE: Privy dug cannonball - 12/6/2006 7:22:26 AM    appliedlips Posts: 1681 Joined: 1/30/2005 Status: offline    Zane,Cool stand you made!Did you dig that one in a privy?The one I have is really pitted and rusted from being in privy with other iron rather than being in the ground by itself.Mine is a 12 lb.ball I think and is about 4 1/2" in diameter.How did you guys fare in that yard you were digging,did you get anything good after that first day?I know Meech was coming into town to dig,hope you guys did well.Doug (in reply to appliedlips) Post #: 9

RE: Privy dug cannonball - 12/6/2006 10:25:41 AM    zanes_antiques Posts: 2027 Joined: 9/3/2006 From: Steubenville, Ohio Status: offline I'm still in there Doug and I am still finding stuff there. Believe it or not I did find a cannon ball there but it was in the shed I took apart and buried. I gave it to a digger friend of mine from Wheeling. This one in the thread though I got from a nice old lady because she knew I liked old stuff. _____________________________ I buy, sell, barter, and beg....Zane (in reply to appliedlips) Post #: 10

RE: Privy dug cannonball - 12/6/2006 1:47:46 PM    cc6pack   Posts: 537 Joined: 7/12/2003 From: Mableton, Ga. Status: offline Zane It's not a cannon ball, you will never see a seam on a real cannon ball. You see a lot this type thing on ebay, a lot of them are used to crush rock in a tumbler. I've never seen an ball in the size and weight you describe. Your's seemed to have an attachement for a counter balance for a crane or something along those lines. Check out the link in my other post to explore CW shells. (in reply to zanes_antiques) Post #: 11

RE: Privy dug cannonball - 12/6/2006 10:45:48 PM    bottlenutboy Posts: 2137 Joined: 10/10/2006 From: Bordensprings, Ala. or Esom Hill, Ga. Status: offline it may be a shotfoot for track and field _____________________________ bottles for sale on my website! go check it out! http://www.geocities.com/cleburneslim/index.html?1170417418125 also check out the same bottles on my freewebs site!: http://www.freewebs.com/bottlenutboy/forsale.htm Spencer (in reply to cc6pack) Post #: 12

RE: Privy dug cannonball - 12/6/2006 11:16:13 PM    capsoda Posts: 7869 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline Naaaa, Shoot puts weight 12 or 16 pounds. You would only put a 20lb shoot once. Then they would call you lefty or righty depending on which arm was left. It aint easy to push 16lbs. Any of you out of shape types or old geesers like me tries it and I'm gonna say I told ya so. It will pull things you forgot you had. 5in 20 pounder is a standard size cannon ball. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ (in reply to bottlenutboy) Post #: 13

RE: Privy dug cannonball - 12/7/2006 8:05:09 AM    cobaltbot Posts: 1688 Joined: 4/7/2006 From: Delta, PA Status: offline I have an old shotput it has the 12 for 12 lbs. weight stamped on it.  There were also weights like this for closing gates but I think they would have something welded on to hook a chain to. _____________________________ My tombstone will read: He went out for a walk and never came back.... (in reply to capsoda) Post #: 14

RE: Privy dug cannonball - 12/7/2006 8:39:06 AM    tazmainiendigger Posts: 973 Joined: 11/21/2003 From: State O Maine Status: offline  Hey folks I just gotta put my 2 cents in...Here's a mouse that fell in a iron filled privy....haha rrrrrrrright! It is cast iron kinda looks like a cannon ball any clues on this one??? Attachment (1) (in reply to cobaltbot) Post #: 15

RE: Privy dug cannonball - 12/7/2006 8:41:20 AM    tazmainiendigger Posts: 973 Joined: 11/21/2003 From: State O Maine Status: offline Petrified mouse on steroids? Attachment (1) (in reply to tazmainiendigger) Post #: 16

RE: Privy dug cannonball - 12/7/2006 8:45:02 AM    tazmainiendigger Posts: 973 Joined: 11/21/2003 From: State O Maine Status: offline This thing is oooooooold Attachment (1) (in reply to tazmainiendigger) Post #: 17

RE: Privy dug cannonball - 12/7/2006 7:52:20 PM    southern Maine diver Posts: 1436 Joined: 8/13/2005 From: South Berwick, Maine USA Status: offline Hey Taz... That is almost as odd looking as an "Obi-Wan" covered in lobsters... Good to see that you get on to the forum once in a while...  That sure is an odd piece you picked up... found anything else lately? Wayne It never rains underwater (in reply to tazmainiendigger) Post #: 18

RE: Privy dug cannonball - 12/8/2006 11:51:21 AM    swizzle   Posts: 1325 Joined: 3/2/2005 From: Upstate NY Status: offline It looks a bit big for a paperweight so I'm guess its a cutsy looking doorstop. Swizzle (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 19

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