URGENT POSSIBLE EXPLODING CANNON BALLS

[hmmm]

sorry about that, i was in a hurry, when i get home i will post the pictures of the rest of them.
a friend found a exploding cannon ball some years ago, its now in the museum, then another guy found the one in the first picture, he swares its a shot put. now i found out why, its because the old shcool had a box of them and the kids still use them as shot puts. you can see why i put urgent, they where seen tossing them around on the beach yesterday. as kid i rpobobly threw them, 40 years ago, apparently they where in the school from the beginning, 1920's, where they came from know one seems to know.

 

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[vthepresident]

We must keep the madness alive!!!!!!

 

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[thrillathahunt]

This has been more entertaining than watching Jerry Springer!

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Cannon balls for shots to be putted! Unforgivable.

Is this the same high school that was looking for a second-string catcher on the javelin team?


PS - the screw cap is because they are hollow. A solid iron shot that size would be mighty heavy indeed! And you don't want some kid getting his thumb stuck in an open hole at the toss. Ouch!

 

[traderoftreasures]

also so you can adjust the weight by adding more or less

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

We must keep the madness alive!!!!!!

This has been more entertaining than watching Jerry Springer!

hmmmm is entertaining. He comes up with some crazy stuff. Hmmm will always be remembered as a TN legend. Have you seen this one?
http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,236229.0.html

 

[DrGrip]

also so you can adjust the weight by adding more or less

Deleted my comment...

Grip

 

[Tnmountains]

Hmmmmmm

I would suggest you contact the FBI,CIA,ATF and homeland security if you are that concerned. I think they will want to know what you are doing around schools and talking about shot put bombs.
I would green check it before something explodes.
Thanks for another solved post.

 

[72cheyenne]

Good grief don't throw them shot puts anymore. They could explode just like this poor fellas dart


Or this guys arrow.

 

[hmmm]

OH how i get a kick out of getting a rise out of some of you guys and how i love to share my finds, with that said. i sent the photo of the itm in question to a expert on the ship the tonquin, this is his reply.
"It is certainly possible that it is a shrapnel cannonball (diagram attached) and it is possible also that the Tonquin carried some.
By 1810/11 they were in fairly common usage in naval actions."
we went to gather the balls and found a ninth one, tell me , how do you take this cap off to screw on the hammer handle. hmmmm

 

[hmmm]

SWR well done, thats whats called evidance to support the shot put theorie.

 

[Montana Jim]

This has already been INDENTIFIED as a shot put...

WTF do you keep going on about Hmmm?

http://www.pochefamily.org/books/SolidShotEssentialsMod.html

A Non-Authentic Example: The figure below shows a classic non-authentic ball actually put up for sale at a recent Civil War Relic Show. It appears to be about the correct size for a 12 Pdr. caliber cannonball, but it is not of Civil War vintage nor even a military cannonball. The metal of the ball is somewhat shiny; this points to steel rather than cast iron. Excavated cast iron will always have rust and visible pitting while excavated steel will have much less rust and little or no pitting.



The flat countersunk screw also points to non-authenticity. This screw could cover a filler hole for a Shot Put, or it could be covering a point of attachment of the ball to a larger structure like a fence or gatepost. None of these characteristics point to an authentic piece.

 

[BuckleBoy]

OH how i get a kick out of getting a rise out of some of you guys and how i love to share my finds, with that said. i sent the photo of the itm in question to a expert on the ship the tonquin, this is his reply.
"It is certainly possible that it is a shrapnel cannonball (diagram attached) and it is possible also that the Tonquin carried some.
By 1810/11 they were in fairly common usage in naval actions."
we went to gather the balls and found a ninth one, tell me , how do you take this cap off to screw on the hammer handle. hmmmm

It wouldn't be a hmmmmm thread without


1. your refusal to accept our accurate ID of an item

2. you contacting "experts" who tell you something different

and

3. you devising your own ID of the item, which is very specific--"Ancient Aztec Sun Medallion" or "Early Norse Spanish Explorer Shipwrecked off the Coast of Canada" or "a cannonball from 1810 from the Tonquin."


Hilarious.

 

[BuckleBoy]

SWR well done, thats whats called evidance to support the shot put theorie.

It's not a theory. It is an Identification!

 

[Montana Jim]

"It is certainly possible that it is a shrapnel cannonball (diagram attached) and it is possible also that the Tonquin carried some.
By 1810/11 they were in fairly common usage in naval actions."

Did your expert explain why that was the only ship in 1810 to carry steel ball instead of iron?

 

[Montana Jim]

 

[gleaner1]

This thread has gone 'KAPUT!'

 

[thrillathahunt]

Yep, turn out the lights, the party's over.

 

[DrGrip]

 

[kirkwannem]

This post is more interesting every moment. I can say I know nothing about cannon balls but I did throw a lot of shot put in school. I have never came across one with the standard screw slot, but many new ones have the two holes for the special tool. In the originall post hmmmm stated they were there in 1920, it appears that all I could find was iron shots in that time frame. The screw slot appears off center which throws me off a little. Maybe it's just the angle the pic was taken. If you follow the link I added, it says cannon balls were used as shot puts, so maybe all of you are correct

http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/athletics/story/2008/05/06/f-olympics-shotput-history.html

 

[hmmm]

its not over till the fat lady sings, i have not heard her sing yet.