romeo-1
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I found this yesterday in a farmers field. The guy I was hunting with found the exact same thing in a different area of the field...any ideas?
Screwy thing...CASE CLOSED...or not...yes...CASE CLOSED!
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hi ya Michelle love: Yep just did, sigh, smoo--- err gracias. As for the conveintion, it is NOT like that, blushing, it is a serous meeting of vendors and miners or people with properties to sell etc.
Sheesh, why does an obvious Saint have to explain that ? I guess it is from your contamination from detectorists like PBK, Dekker, Gollum, Doc, and other similar degenerates in here.
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hi ya Michelle love: Yep just did, sigh, smoo--- err gracias. As for the conveintion, it is NOT like that, blushing, it is a serous meeting of vendors and miners or people with properties to sell etc.
Sheesh, why does an obvious Saint have to explain that ? I guess it is from your contamination from detectorists like PBK, Dekker, Gollum, Doc, and other similar degenerates in here.
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Re: Screwy thing...CASE CLOSED!
I now know what this is...I posted on another forum...sorry guys...and it has been identified as a such:
It is an ox horn cap. It would screw down onto the tip of an ox horn to prevent accidental gouging. The hole in the side is for a pin to secure the cap once it is screwed down!
I can sleep now...
I now know what this is...I posted on another forum...sorry guys...and it has been identified as a such:
It is an ox horn cap. It would screw down onto the tip of an ox horn to prevent accidental gouging. The hole in the side is for a pin to secure the cap once it is screwed down!
I can sleep now...
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We love TNET.....and we have answers.....sense of humor and PATIENCE......We love tnet!
I have to see that one...Who gives a dang if a bull has caps on it's horns in the middle of a battlefield?! Do you live in a brick house? I know someone who'll sell you some vinyl siding!!!romeo-1 said:I now know what this is...I posted on another forum...sorry guys...and it has been identified as a such:
It is an ox horn cap. It would screw down onto the tip of an ox horn to prevent accidental gouging. The hole in the side is for a pin to secure the cap once it is screwed down!
I can sleep now...
We love TNET.....and we have answers.....sense of humor and PATIENCE......We love tnet!
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LOL...easy everyone...easy...these are probably from later...early 1900's to 1930's...
Also remeber, the field I found this in was in Nova Scotia...there was only two skirmishes fought on this site and that was in 1711 and 1757. I really doubt that these would go back to those battles.
LOL...easy everyone...easy...these are probably from later...early 1900's to 1930's...
Also remeber, the field I found this in was in Nova Scotia...there was only two skirmishes fought on this site and that was in 1711 and 1757. I really doubt that these would go back to those battles.
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Blind.In.Texas
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Ever see a cow with broken horn? I have seen em with the horn off the mantle inside. It bleeds profusely.
Should you screw that onto a horn, first, to be effective you must cut the tip of the horn off and then the bleeding begins and possibly infection. Second, the threads inside to not look, to me, to be of a cone shape in design, which, is what would be needed to hold securely to the horn. Were it screwed on, as is, only the lower few threads would actually hold to the horn, which, would create a situation where the "cap" would become unstable. The fit would be horrible, but, you could screw it down until the tip of the horn protrudes, drive a screw through the side holes and then cut the tip of the horn off. The first little bit of the horn will not bleed.
I really don't see a horn cap as being the likely answer. It is a common practice to simply cut off the first inch or so of the horn and sear it if necessary. I am no expert, but, I just don't see it as a necessary invention. I could well be wrong. GL and HH
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Ever see a cow with broken horn? I have seen em with the horn off the mantle inside. It bleeds profusely.
Should you screw that onto a horn, first, to be effective you must cut the tip of the horn off and then the bleeding begins and possibly infection. Second, the threads inside to not look, to me, to be of a cone shape in design, which, is what would be needed to hold securely to the horn. Were it screwed on, as is, only the lower few threads would actually hold to the horn, which, would create a situation where the "cap" would become unstable. The fit would be horrible, but, you could screw it down until the tip of the horn protrudes, drive a screw through the side holes and then cut the tip of the horn off. The first little bit of the horn will not bleed.
I really don't see a horn cap as being the likely answer. It is a common practice to simply cut off the first inch or so of the horn and sear it if necessary. I am no expert, but, I just don't see it as a necessary invention. I could well be wrong. GL and HH
Laater...
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hmmmm.....you dont say.Your beginning to remind me of someone now. 'Consider this", How many bulls "with these kind of horns" can you unite into one field? We / farmers here try to separate their bulls in order to prevent injury....romeo-1 said:
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Okay, Michelle... time to to join me in a rousing chorus of, "Right you are, Romeo-1!"
BerryBrook Ox Supply
458 Meaderboro Rd.
Farmington, NH 03835
http://www.berrybrookoxsupply.com/100_0518.JPG
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Horn Knobs – tapered inside bore $19.50/pr
Okay, Michelle... time to to join me in a rousing chorus of, "Right you are, Romeo-1!"
BerryBrook Ox Supply
458 Meaderboro Rd.
Farmington, NH 03835
http://www.berrybrookoxsupply.com/100_0518.JPG
Description
Horn Knobs – tapered inside bore $19.50/pr
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romeo-1
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lol...thanks PBK...I've been scouring the internet for just that very picture! I just got back from my uncle in law's place, who is a 90 year old farmer and he told me the same thing...ox caps.
I didn't want to say anything because I got the impression people were getting frustrated with me
...Oh well, I guess we can offically close the door on this one. Again, thanks all for your assistance!
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lol...thanks PBK...I've been scouring the internet for just that very picture! I just got back from my uncle in law's place, who is a 90 year old farmer and he told me the same thing...ox caps.
I didn't want to say anything because I got the impression people were getting frustrated with me
...Oh well, I guess we can offically close the door on this one. Again, thanks all for your assistance!
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:P :P :P :Promeo-1 said:PBK said:
lol...thanks PBK...I've been scouring the internet for just that very picture! I just got back from my uncle in law's place, who is a 90 year old farmer and he told me the same thing...ox caps.
I didn't want to say anything because I got the impression people were getting frustrated with me
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Don't you stick your tongue out at me young lady... :P
Michelle said::P :P :P :Promeo-1 said:PBK said:
lol...thanks PBK...I've been scouring the internet for just that very picture! I just got back from my uncle in law's place, who is a 90 year old farmer and he told me the same thing...ox caps.
I didn't want to say anything because I got the impression people were getting frustrated with me
Don't you stick your tongue out at me young lady...
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