ROBBYBOBBY64
Well-Known Member
Okay here is a little history. The palisades cliffs along the hudson river was at one time in the early 1900s threatened with total annihilation. They were drilling and blasting the cliffs for the stone. It was stopped when the womans club moved to have the cliffs made into protected area called the palisades interstate park. It extands from New Jersey just below the George washington bridge north into New York State. I was walking around the river banks and saw this rusty thing peeking out. I looked at it and after some googling and detective work i figured out what it is. The item i found is a drill tip for drilling rock so they could blast the rock with dynamite. I found rocks drilled out by a bigger but similar bit. The drill bit tip i found goes on the end of a rod and into a drilling machine usually hydraulic man operated. I dont know if it is from the destuction or the construction of the park. They built stone stairs retaining walls and buildings during the Great depression. I cleaned it up a little i like a rustic look. It may not be a bottle but it is a cool tooltop! LOL! ROBBYBOBBY64