Aren't these Model T Ford drive shafts?
They are firmly in the rock rim of a 200 feet deep river canyon near Rome, Oregon.
So, the most unusual stuff is posted, and people who know what the thing is reply and inform everyone.
Some stuff is utterly obscure, some is utterly absurd
because city people (and young people) don't know jack. See what I mean? Wheel weights, found in the driveway... someone has zero clue about tires, balanced tires, and is going to be feeling a vibration soon... can you freaking believe someone has no idea what wheel wights are?
I know you know what the above is. Another example of young people not knowing jack.
Here is another incredible find/example of amazing things on this WITT site:
someone found this airplane tire at a beach
https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/hlyfop/could_this_have_belonged_to_a_douglas_dc4_this_is/
Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501 was a DC-4 propliner operating its daily transcontinental service between New York City and Seattle when it disappeared on the night of June 23, 1950. The flight was carrying 55 passengers and three crew members; the loss of all 58 on board made it the deadliest commercial airliner accident in American history at the time.
The aircraft was at approximately 3,500 feet over Lake Michigan, 18 miles NNW of Benton Harbor, Michigan when flight controllers lost radio contact with it soon after the pilot had requested a descent to 2,500 feet. A widespread search was commenced including using sonar and dragging the bottom of Lake Michigan with trawlers, but to no avail. Considerable light debris, upholstery, and human body fragments were found floating on the surface, but divers were unable to locate the plane's wreckage. The disappearance was the deadliest aviation disaster since the Llandow air disaster earlier that year, which killed 80.
The missing airliner is the subject of an annual search by Michigan Shipwreck Research Associates (MSRA), a Michigan-based non-profit organization. The search effort began in 2004 as a joint venture between author and explorer Clive Cussler and the MSRA
In September 2008, MSRA affiliate Chriss Lyon, found an unmarked grave that contains the remains of some of the 58 victims from the June 1950 crash into Lake Michigan that washed ashore and were buried in a mass grave.
They were buried in a St. Joseph-area cemetery without the knowledge of the victims' families, and the grave was never marked. In a 2008 ceremony at the cemetery with 58 family members of Flight 2501, a large black granite marker, donated by Filbrandt Family Funeral Home, was placed in Riverview Cemetery that now lists the names of the 58 and the words "In Memory of Northwest Flight 2501, June 23, 1950. Gone but Never Forgotten."
Mind officially blown. Never heard of this plane crash, never knew that govt authorities would do a mass grave burial of human remains and NEVER tell the families.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Orient_Airlines_Flight_2501
Anyway, it's the most amazing site to scroll down, and I'm adding a quick link on my phone so the next time I'm in a 30 person long line for the checkout at the store, I'm looking through this site some more
https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/ and that is my recommended site for the day.
Interesting to note that I have found model T drive shafts pounded into the ground on our ranch, to be used to anchor wires, just like in the posted image.
ReplyDeleteLast year, I found the hood to a model T that had been used to block off an irrigation channel.
Wow! That's a crazy coicidence! I (omg, laughing here seriously) just posted about coicidences.
DeleteSeems someone who used to own that ranch used everything at least twice to get their moneys worth and to recycle!
Can you please send me a photo of the hood?! Jbohjkl@yahoo.com
especially photos of the hod in use, or where it was used... that's a cool re-use of a car hood!
DeleteI will be back at the ranch in a couple of weeks. If I can find the hood, I will send you some images. It is no longer in the irrigation ditch. I was cleaning the ditch out when I found it. The little ditches I am referring to are only about a foot deep and 10 inches wide. Most of them were dug by hand during the Spanish colonial era.
DeleteUp at that altitude, rust is a very slow process. It is not unusual to find the site of an old campfire, with 19th century cans scattered around it, marking where trappers or pioneers camped for the night.
Last summer, I had a gearbox failure on one of our old balers. My Dad remembered that a similar baler had been abandoned on a neighboring ranch. He is in his 80s, and the memory was from his childhood. We found the baler, so overgrown with brush that I would have never known it was there. The gearbox was fine, and it is on our baler right now.
Wow, to remember something that was abandoned... that's remarkable enough, to remember one that has parts you can use? Very very cool! I hope you keep that abandoned baler in mind if you need some other part in the future, and get a couple photos of it! Great story! Thanks!
DeleteAnd sure, I know the irrigation ditch is a small thing on a farm. I been places, seen things... lol. Heck, you've seen all the old tractors I've posted, that's cause I grew up with a grandpa that had an old Allis Chalmers small farm tractor. He showed me how to hand crank it if the battery ever failed.
That is a very interesting story about the DC4 crash. The burial of people who washed up on shore without telling the families is a bit of a strange thing to do, certainly begs the thought that something was being hidden. The inability to positively identify the remains doesn't justify leaving the next of kin in the dark. Even with modern underwater tech, the wreckage of the DC-4 will probably only be found by chance.
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