Estimate the weight!

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The is a spot on my family's land in SC where grist mill wheels used to be made. There is a whole one and a broken half of one. The gun on the rock is for reference. It is a Springfield xd so its not a tiny gun. Anybody want to take a guess on the weight of the wheels?
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If the radius is 1.75 feet and the height is 2 feet, the volume would be about 19.25 CF and granite is about 165lbs/CF so about 3200lbs for the full one.
the half one I would say is a quarter of the full one.
 
I'm guessing the full one to be anywhere from 1800 to 2400 ibs
 
Van-go said:
If the radius is 1.75 feet and the height is 2 feet, the volume would be about 19.25 CF and granite is about 165lbs/CF so about 3200lbs for the full one.
the half one I would say is a quarter of the full one.
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Yep. I did 2'r x 2.5' tall @175#. I'm likely a little big. :)
 
rockcity said:
Yep. I did 2'r x 2.5' tall @175#. I'm likely a little big. :)
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Springfield is about 6 inches, but from a small phone pic who knows how far off we all are!


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I'll say 3k and up here in va people pay crazy money for those wheels for landscaping I put one in that was 2.5' radius and the homeowners paid $2000 was only 8"thick... Wtf!?
 
I didnt have a tape measure with me today. I will take one next time i am down. The other side to the broken wheel used to sit right next to the other half but I gave it to an old man who lived on the adjoining property to put at his driveway. He was born and raised there and worked on the farm for my great grandfather. He moved the half by taking two allis chalmers tractors with loader buckets and scooping each side. One tractor backed while the other drove forward. For almost a mile over hills and rocks and never dropped it once. Quite a sight. The land has been in my family for at least 150 years (thats as far back as paper records go) but im sure it has been much longer than that. I have done some light digging in the past and and found that Lancaster counties grist mills began operating around 1820.


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That's pretty cool. Neat piece of history there. One of my favorite stomping grounds is in Great falls just across the Catawba from Lancaster. It is likely that the stone was mined out of Winnsboro SC and if it does turn out to be official Winnsboro blue granite you've got something.
 
SO are we ever gonna know what they weigh or is that one of those open ended questions that will never get answered???:smokin:
 
The stones were mined where they sit. If you look in the last pic that is not a parking lot that im on, that is a 1/2 acre granite slab. There is a trough cut out of the middle where the stones were blasted from. (Im assuming they were blasted). Every foot or so along the edge of the trough, there is a hole bored into the granite. If granite was worth its weight in gold i would be a billionaire. I will try to dig up some pics of the rocks along the creek. Larger than houses.


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I am envious of this plot of land and the play time that surely takes place.
 
3841lbs. I bet we could flip it up and roll it.

I always forget about that place. We need to take the dozer down there and build some jeep/4wheeler trails.
 
XJsavage said:
Did an image of Lions den pop into your head as well?
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Yeah that big rock pic got me with the seemingly tiny person. Like whoa... I wish I had some land like that.
 
XJfreakHO said:
Yeah that big rock pic got me with the seemingly tiny person. Like whoa... I wish I had some land like that.
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That area is like that everywhere. I've been eyeing property to purchase for a while now.
 
XJsavage said:
Did an image of Lions den pop into your head as well?
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Not soo much lions den but KY in general.Ive spent a lot of time in KY and lots of places on that side of the state look like that.
 
jeepinmatt said:
3841lbs. I bet we could flip it up and roll it.

I always forget about that place. We need to take the dozer down there and build some jeep/4wheeler trails.
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Id be down for some trail mapping
 
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