A cannon collage... Cool cannon pictoral... SOME of my favs...

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The pic of crushed guy is a faux cannon joke.
Top right is an unused Hemp bound charge.

 

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[OldGringo]

As a kid we used to make small firecracker powered cannons from brass garden hose sprayers similar to what the pictured hand held shows. We'd take our little green army men down to the creek, then try to pick them off by igniting the fuse and hopin to get a hit close enough that the flying mud got them.
Thanks for the memory.
OG

 

[Hitndahed]

In a hamlet not far from where I live there was a cannon found in the "lake" (more of a pond actually) . (Boiling Springs Lake)

Seems it was found in the muck when they drained the lake for the first time to clean the bottom for weed control.
This was 30 years ago or more. If I remember right the cannon was sent to England for some obscure reason.

Maybe JEFF of PA can do some of his magical web searching and find more info on this.
Hit

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Here is a place we'd all love to go metal detecting. Bannermann's "castle" on Pollepel Island in the Hudson River.

He sold cannon from the Spanish-American War and older and had a castle (warehouse) full of military items.





Bannerman?s (Pollepel or Polopel) Island in or around 1959 (up to 1967) | Brian Altonen, MPH, MS

 

[OBN]

Some cool stuff ARRC

As a kid we used to make small firecracker powered cannons from brass garden hose sprayers similar to what the pictured hand held shows. We'd take our little green army men down to the creek, then try to pick them off by igniting the fuse and hopin to get a hit close enough that the flying mud got them.
Thanks for the memory.
OG

I remember spoke guns, match heads and a spoke from a bike then hold a lite match under till it explodes out

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Remember the bauxite ("Bangsite") cannon that had a water reservoir and a little pinch of the bauxite went it. That made acetylene gas when it hit the water. Then you pushed the little igniter to make a spark and a BIG bang! My Dad got me one but after we lit it off once in the driveway it was no longer appreciated that I used it in the neighborhood.



Later I found out if you put a whole lot of the powdered bauxite in the tank and fire it off the cast iron comes apart! Lucky to have made it with all my fingers and both eyes.

 

[Plumbata]

That 1862 Vietnamese reinforced wood cannon is wild, I love it! I think I recall reading that Gustavus Adolphus employed some expedient copper tubes reinforced with lots of rawhide/leather as cannons during the 30 years war in the 1600s, but a wooden cannon from the 1800s really takes the cake.

 

[digging440yrs]

Cool, that's when things were made to last

 

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[OBN]

Ouch!

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

This one's from a couple of local guys.

In 1963 Mr. Schum and Mr. Baker were employed to recover a second cannon from Carleton Island. The cannon, similar in size to the first, had different markings and a different Rose and Crown cypher.It was taken to Fort Ontario where both cannons were on display to the public.

The two cannon recovered in 1962 & 1963 by Jack Schum of Harpursville NY and Harold Baker, Jr., of Binghamton NY are technically Iron Guns of the Calverin type. This is a class of artillery with a bore of 5.2 inches and that fired an 18 pound ball. Each cannon has a Rose and Crown Cypher which dates to before 1714. The third cannon recovered in 1973 by Peter Perrault and the Syracuse Scuba Society Dive Club weighs about 3400 pounds and belongs to a type of artillery know as a Demi-Calverin that fired a 9 pound ball. This cannon had the Rose and Crown cypher of George II which would make its age between 1727 and 1760. (ref “Artillery Through the Ages” by A. Manucy

Fort Haldimand: Iron Guns

 

[hamiddetecting]

Cool find!!

 

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[CincinnatiKid]

Cool indeed!
I too favor the reinforced wood cannon.
Could you imagine firing it the first time. I'd be behind a brick wall with a 100ft fuse!
Peace ✌

 

[BosnMate]

Some cool stuff ARRC



I remember spoke guns, match heads and a spoke from a bike then hold a lite match under till it explodes out

Yes, and a number 7 bird shot would fit in the spoke hole perfectly.

 

[BosnMate]

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When I left the Navy, I did the GI bill thing and went to agriculture college. One class was on the history of the development of horses. The large work horses were developed originally
to carry the knights in shining armor. This picture reminds me of the Prof's words, "With the invention of gun powder, it behooved them to breed faster horses."

 

[pepperj]

I think I have let mine grow a few more centuries.

 

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Tis is sweet little bad arse there pepper.