Forwarding for Steve Dunklee.
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:53:07 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: >Hi: > I just remembered a story told by my grandfather who was Born in 1900. I > think it may be of interest to the list, and may be a source of possible new > finds all over the world. > ever since I could remember there was always a large Half sphere around 12 > inches in diameter being used as a doorstop by the front door in the summers. > It was Iron and very heavy. with a ring welded to the top and a chain > attached to the ring. My great Uncle John Voith was said to have used it to > tie up his horse on his many trips from Saginaw to Detroit around 1812 and > later. He would stop his horse for the night and pull the sphere from his > saddle horn then put it on the ground chained up to his horse. When the horse > pulled on the sphere and felt the weight it thought it was tied to a post and > would stay where it was even in an open field. and after carrying it all day. > My Grandfather said the half sphere was made of pig iron that had been > turned up by a plow in the fields, and that when they found iron in the early > years of settlement like that they would take it to a local blacksmith and > trade it for tools because the high nickle content of the pig iron made very > good tools. and iron was hard to come by in the 1800's. > in places like Michigan. If you needed some you had to send all the way to > Detroit for it which could take months. The log book made by my uncle records > many trips to Detroit by wagon which took around two weeks to get there and > longer back because if the heavy burden on the horses of all the sugar flour > and goods. > At times the iron would not melt properly and made it to the slag heap. > tossed aside as unusable. I wonder how many Iron meteorites now lay rusting > in such old slag heaps mixed up and not noticed ? overlooked ? And how many > early tools of the settlers and nails bolts and other things are actually > meteoric iron? > > For some reason I can't post to the list. feel free to pass this on if you > like. I think its my mmorpg game server > Have a great day > Steve Dunklee > > >--------------------------------- >Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
