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Hi DMN, what does it weigh?.

hammered
 

hammered said:
Hi DMN, what does it weigh?.

hammered

Hammered: Don't have anything small enough to weigh it with. I will say it does have some heft to it. I'll try and get a weight when I go to work. I'll go to the mailroom...they'll set me up!
 

DMN said:
hammered said:
Hi DMN, what does it weigh?.

hammered

Hammered: Don't have anything small enough to weigh it with. I will say it does have some heft to it. I'll try and get a weight when I go to work. I'll go to the mailroom...they'll set me up!

And they'll over weigh it.
Kidding.
Maybe.
 

If it is lead, I have seen some small shaped ingots that were used to ballast shallow draft sailing skiffs. Handmade boats may have even had numbered weights that fit in a specific order to ballance the boat. I helped remove about 1,000# in 5# ingots from the bilges of a boat. The smallest pieces were about 2#.

Just a guess

Fathead
 

fathead said:
If it is lead, I have seen some small shaped ingots that were used to ballast shallow draft sailing skiffs. Handmade boats may have even had numbered weights that fit in a specific order to ballance the boat. I helped remove about 1,000# in 5# ingots from the bilges of a boat. The smallest pieces were about 2#.

Just a guess

Fathead

That is interesting. The place I found this weight at was near a cluster of ponds. It may be right. I'll do some surfing to see what they may look like. The area was a farm house with a barn. I've found a lot of horse shoe nails and building nails. The hope was to find other items but the chattering of iron was making it tough to spend more than an hour or so to dig all the iron signals and not get through the area in general. I did manage to isolate where the house is though.
 

CurbdiggerCarl57 said:
DMN said:
hammered said:
Hi DMN, what does it weigh?.

hammered

Hammered: Don't have anything small enough to weigh it with. I will say it does have some heft to it. I'll try and get a weight when I go to work. I'll go to the mailroom...they'll set me up!

Hehe fortunately I get to be the one to run the machine!

And they'll over weigh it.
Kidding.
Maybe.
 

hammered said:
Hi DMN, what does it weigh?.

hammered

Hammered: Finally got it weighed. It's .96 lb. Looks like it may have been a balance weight of some kind. Still would be interested in the age guesstimate. I'm figuring turn of the last century.
 

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