Identify this cannon

[AussieTH]

Offer the owner $50 buck for it plus you will tow it away. Better that than being run in and fined for breeding white ants next to his apparently wood framed house!!!!!

 

[Jim K]

A better research project would be to find who made it and why*. If the non-English speaking folks are just renting (or squatting) the city/county land records should have the name and current address of the property owner. He/she might have more info or even be willing to sell the "cannon" if you are interested.

*A decorator for a veterans organization is one possibility.

Jim

 

[bonza]

I realize the cannon in question turned out to be a wooden replica, but JMaubin asked:

By the way who do you think makes a "round ball mold for it?

Just in case anyone is in the market for a cannonball mold, Jeff Tanner in England makes them in both solid & hollow varieties. The hollow balls are cast in two halves & then glued together.....the idea is to reduce the pressure when shooting the cannon. Here's a link to his website http://www.jt-bullet-moulds.co.uk/moulds.htm. He does excellent work & will make roundball molds in virtually an caliber for a very reasonable charge.

 

[Smokin_Gun]

Looks Like the '41 Mountain Howy...

 

[jmaubin]

bonza way cool molds, but I guess the next question would be; "anyone know anything about casting wooden cannon balls"?

 

[theotherwaldo]

Take two wooden bowls and glue the lips together - there's your wooden cannon ball.

-Or get some Canadian bowling balls. They're about the right size.

(Mmmm... Wooden dummy cannons. That's one that I haven't done.)

 

[4v50 Gary]

A real quaker gun. Now, take theotherwaldo's advice and make a pile quaker wood cannon balls for a wood barrel cannon. Some straw soldiers would make a good, temporary artillery crew (before they desert).

 

[kBob]

A few years back a local junk place had a fiberglass Nappy sized gun set on a set of metal plaow wheels and a 6x6 beam. They seemed tto think it was worth something. Can't say why.

I must look for some photos of the 3 inch rifle a guy has in our little town. It was used in moving some of the CSS Hunley first crew from the Citadel to where ever they are now.

On holidays he sometimes has his re enactor buddies set it up on the lawn. I played with some phoptoshopping on a picture or two to get rid of spigots and power lines and folks not in period dress. Now what file is it in?

-kBob

 

[Cannonball888]

Looks Like the '41 Mountain Howy...

Not even close.

The 1841 Mountain howitzer was a small 12-pounder with a small mule-packable carriage and a 3 foot barrel that weighed about 300lbs. If OPs 6-pounder were real the 5.5 foot barrel alone would weigh 900lbs.


1841 Mountain Howitzer

1841 Mountain Howitzer packed on mules.

 

[arcticap]

Coconuts are pretty close to being like round cannon balls.
As a matter of fact, some folks have actually used empty acorn shells to mold lead projectiles for their long rifles.
And just the thought of coconut cannon balls led me to think of a bamboo bazooka for some reason which sounds like something that only the Professor could have dreamed up making on the TV show Gilligan's Island!

 

[4v50 Gary]

There is a use for that wood barrel. Put it in sand and cast a bronze one!

 

[Olmontanaboy]

Ok Mystery Solved. Once i got out and went up to the cannon its mystery solved. The cannon is not OE. It has to be some type of hollywood movie prop as what was mentioned. The Whole entire barrel is made out of wood.

Ah crap,, I was gonna suggest you sneek over there after dark and load it up with 3 pounds of 3F, some wadded newsparer and 15 pounds of chain like someone here, who shall remain anonymous