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	this is a weird find, any ideas? « on: May 05, 2010, 09:39:04 pm »

I was metal detecting at the ruins of an old flour mill that was in Echo Canyon, Utah in the mid to late 1800's. the mill was still used all the way up to the 1960's. i have know idea what this is....anyone have any ideas? there's almost nothing of this place, just a couple pieces of wood, i found it by looking a plaque stating where it was that was on the side of the road, and on the plaque there was a picture of it back in the day, so i used the picture to place it with the unchanged terrain, and found it

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	Re: this is a weird find, any ideas? « Reply #1 on: May 05, 2010, 10:22:06 pm »

Hello,
It looks kind of like an old fish stringer, maybe ? Undecided

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	Re: this is a weird find, any ideas? « Reply #2 on: May 06, 2010, 11:35:20 am »

your guess is as good as mine anyone else have any ideas?
these hook things are in fact coiled and can move and bend like springs. each hook thing is also allowed to slide freely on the chain....they're not fixed....anyone have any other ideas?

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	Re: this is a weird find, any ideas? « Reply #3 on: May 06, 2010, 11:38:30 am »

My best guess would be they are something special for a mill maybe the hooks were used to place sacks on them the chain could have been on a conveyor system so you put the sack and pushed it down where someone else picked it up? Thats just an idea.

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	Re: this is a weird find, any ideas? « Reply #4 on: May 06, 2010, 11:46:33 am »

i like the idea...i honestly don't have the foggiest. going of the type of "springs" used and the chain i don't think it could have supported anything to heavy without distorting it...even in it's earlier "new state" this thing isn't that big...i should have taken some pics with a size comparison to something.

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	Re: this is a weird find, any ideas? « Reply #5 on: May 06, 2010, 12:05:45 pm »

my guess is that they used for suspending sacks of flour during the loading and weighing process. Having multiple hooks through the sack cloth reduces the chances of the sack ripping by reducing the number of pounds per inch at the point the hook attaches. In other words, with this rig, the force exerted at any one hook would be approximately 1/5th of the total. It wouldn't effect the total scale weight of the bag because the whole rig would be hooked to the scales at a single point opposite the center of these hooks. (should be easy enough to find out with a little research)

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	Re: this is a weird find, any ideas? « Reply #6 on: May 06, 2010, 01:02:53 pm »

aww...BA...your theory to me seems most probable, i've been googling around looking for anything that i can to find out what this is, but have had no luck...but with your idea, i'll narrow my search, thank you very much....i hope all is well with you
here's a picture of the old mill where i found this thing

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	Re: this is a weird find, any ideas? « Reply #7 on: May 06, 2010, 01:11:18 pm »

Nice......maybe you'll find remnants of the waterwheel also.

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	Re: this is a weird find, any ideas? « Reply #8 on: May 06, 2010, 01:18:43 pm »

yeah, apparently there were two water wheels...i think i found the area of the creek where the lower one actually went. i have been researching this place and have found a bunch of pictures and have been looking in them for this tool I've found, hoping that maybe I'll see something similar hanging on the wall in the background. it sounds like most of the machinery id in a museum about an hour North of where I'm living now, I'll have to check it out. it also said that the wheels used for crushing and grinding the wheat were imported from France...any ideas as to why that would have been? stronger lasting rock?

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	Re: this is a weird find, any ideas? « Reply #9 on: May 06, 2010, 01:23:14 pm »

It was actually pretty common to import the wheels. I'm not 100% sure, but I think it had something to do with the craftmanship involved and the tolerances required. That's a question that I'm sure the folks at the first url I pm'd you can answer (I'm pretty sure they addressed it when I took my tour there a couple of years ago).

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