This guy really made nice monuments, 2-1/2" x 3' iron pipe filled with concrete with a lead cap. Very nice-found a bunch of them, he has another version that is the same material but 4" in diameter. Those are very heavy to lift into the back of the truck. LOL
Stop! Thief!
Someone call the State Board!
Have monument, will travel, Palladin's the name.
Stop! Thief!
I just can't stand it when one of those nice old monuments are left in some out of the way spots stuck in the ground where no one can see them
How many of you "older" gents have found one of these?
...and knew what it was?
Better yet, what did the guys on the crew call it in the notes?
I can recall "solid bar" and "pinched 1 1/2" pipe"...I'm sure there's more. I saw a couple of them in the back of one the trucks the other day.
How many of you "older" gents have found one of these?
Mighty,
Did you find that out in the coal patch or oil patch?
Pablo B-)
How many of you "older" gents have found one of these?
Window weight?
How many of you "older" gents have found one of these?
Never as a monument, but found many of them in my residential construction/remodel days. I always tried to throw them out, but the old man kept 'em.
We now use them to help my 60-80lb children run equipment with sensors in the seat so they ain't light on the cheek so to speak.
BTW- just about any equipment produced today: a 200hp John Deere tractor, CAT D6, Excavator, riding lawn mower has one of those pesky shut-offs in the seat. Without these or a bag of bird shot (or two) it's hard to train 8 to 12 year olds to run heavy equipment.
Steve
get the man a quepie doll
A window sash weight. Probably seen four or five as corners over the years. It always takes me a second to realize what they are.
Dang, Steve
You need to grow some huskier younguns. I was nearly 5 feet tall and over 100 pounds at age 9.:-O
Dang, Steve
Food is expensive. They need to earn it. 😛
My 5'-0" 80 lb 7th grader, second smallest kid on the team, had to play left guard this year ta' boot. Maybe they're thinking he'll eventually resemble his 6-2 220lb dad.
Steve
How many of you "older" gents have found one of these?
Hmm, I think it is more a coal monument; but it could go either way. Dang thing was replaced by a newer GLO cap and never mentioned in the notes. But I have the old drawings from the surveyor who set it and he found the original stone there, set his and the GLO came along and set theirs a decade later. This one was laying on the ground some feet from the GLO cap. Still in good condition with holes drilled in the side near the top so the concrete could fill up the pipe.
How many of you "older" gents have found one of these?
Grade A trotline weights
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