Iron Bullet? SOLVED

[Bigcypresshunter]

Nothing interesting but I wonder what it is. Yesterday I dug what looks like a dime sized iron bullet alongside an abandoned railroad track grade going to a 1920's logging town now abandoned. I know its not a bullet but any guesses? Its domed on the top with a slightly concaved bottom.

 

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[Bigcypresshunter]

They would be deadly for slingshots. Thanks for the ID. I will have to go back again. The area was originaly owned by Sears. They needed lumber for their expanding siding business. We are deer/hog hunting there this coming weekend. Its a beautiful area and Im glad the State bought it from the timber company and preserved it. There is no metal detecting allowed in the Okaloacoochee Slough but the RR grade appears to be just outside of it.

 

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[TiredIron]

Something else I would assume....would be if these were residue produced on site, there would be more of them. If I only ever found one....it was foreign. "dang kids"

TiredIron

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Something else I would assume....would be if these were residue produced on site, there would be more of them. If I only ever found one....it was foreign. "dang kids"

TiredIron

I only spent about 10 minutes on site it was over 92 degrees- in the shade.

 

[traderoftreasures]

been between 40 and 65 here. here is more pressed steel info....

 

[taz42o]

I have scraped many tons of those, scrapyards call them plate punchings or sometimes mill bushlings. they were often used as ballast or counter weights in the back of heavy equipment such as drag lines they would fill the spaces between the I beams in the floor with them.
Since it was found along rr tracks it probably fell from train car going from scrapyard to steel mill.

 

[IronSpike]

How did you pick up the dead diamond rattler? Touch with stick to ensure it wouldn't bite?

The old mercury has a 'funny' cut piece missing.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

How did you pick up the dead diamond rattler? Touch with stick to ensure it wouldn't bite?

I let my friend touch it first.

I didnt find the old Sears town while out hunting this weekend, but I did find a huge pile of sawdust by accident, apparently from the old mill. Keep in mind that South Florida is completely flat. This is a pile of pine tree sawdust. I cannot find any other evidence of the old logging activity. There is not even a road going to it. Is this normal to find huge sawdust piles at sawmill locations? Should I search it?

 

[IronSpike]

Wise move on the snake. I just remembered you had mentioned you still had to be careful even with a dead snake

I guess the mountain of sawdust in a time before they realized it had a commercial value. Today it would likely end up as mulch, fuel or even used for fiberboards. Doubt there will be much to find in the mulch, but you never know.

 

[72cheyenne]

Is the mound actually sawdust from trees being sawn, or is it bark chips? If its bark chips, that is prolly the central location of clear cut operation where they debarked the logs before skidding them on to be loaded. Just a guess.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Wise move on the snake. I just remembered you had mentioned you still had to be careful even with a dead snake

I guess the mountain of sawdust in a time before they realized it had a commercial value. Today it would likely end up as mulch, fuel or even used for fiberboards. Doubt there will be much to find in the mulch, but you never know.

Yes I was careful not to touch the head. Its odd that it was just abandoned and not used for something. It may have been a portable sawmill. Its in the middle of a swamp on a large pine island.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Is the mound actually sawdust from trees being sawn, or is it bark chips? If its bark chips, that is prolly the central location of clear cut operation where they debarked the logs before skidding them on to be loaded. Just a guess.

Its all fine sawdust. No chips. It looks as if they tried to contain it at one time with old wood posts and railing. The date of the logging activity would be 1900- 1920.