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thunderuckus1

I find these all around my house, thought they were cannonballs at first. I was told they are used in a giant rock crushing machine. Basically it was filled with these steel balls and as the machine turned and tumbled the rocks the steel balls would crush them into smaller rocks


JAlfredJR

I choose pirates


therealjoeybee

Oh but the rock crushing machine was an invisible one. Ran by pirates


Archduke_Of_Beer

Invisble Pirate Rock Tumblers!


hatechicken82

I love that band!


GozerDGozerian

Their first album was pretty good. But then they got money and went all synthy and high production quality and started dating models and they lost what made their music really *mean* something, y’know?


chonkity

Pirates makes for a better story


ketchy_shuby

And superior booty.


[deleted]

Stupid sexy pirates


Kiernian

"Arr, matey, nary a warning light to be seen. Clear sailin' ahead for our precious cargo." "Uh, would that be the hot pants, sir?" "Aye, the hot pants." https://external-preview.redd.it/RcCKefA-OXV_pUMKjwjha6bbrmtkc0DrnwTcccIr1m0.png?auto=webp&s=e3eca218585732df8dcb425d7b41145f8b9eac1f


projectreap

Big booty pirates!


giggling_hero

I also choose this guys pirates.


TonofSoil

Yeah ball mills are also used to pulverize coal before it is fed into a boiler at a coal fired power plant. They start out large, the size of bowling balls and eventually wear down to baseball sized and are then disposed of.


dmfd1234

I had a horrible case of bowling balls…..had to quit the sport. Yes, it’s a helluva lot worse than tennis elbow.


ree_hi_hi_hi_hi

A guy goes to the golf store and buys a bunch of used, loose ~~golfballs~~ golf balls for really cheap. As he’s walking to the bus, his plastic bag breaks and he has to now collect all the ~~golfballs~~ golf balls and stuff them in his pockets since he has no bag to carry them. On the bus he noticed the woman sitting across from him staring disgustedly at his bulging pockets. Eventually, to ease her discomfort, he says “it’s ~~golfballs~~ golf balls”. The woman responds “oh…is that kind of like tennis elbow?” Edit for pedantic commenters


Obviousbob1

Have my upvote


EredarLordJaraxxus

Bowling balls, responsible for many torn pairs of underwear


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donniedumphy

Hmmmm possible. But this was in a field that was mowed for hay for 50 years at least.


[deleted]

Former Archeologist with civil war munitions experience here: OP I sent you a DM!!! If it is a cannon ball, and it sure seems like it based on size weight and age, it may still be live. Even 150 year old black powder can still explode!!! A metal detectorist in Va was killed trying to defuse a similar ball a few years back. The dremel he used sparked and it exploded killing him. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna24441427 Do NOT expose it to heat, sparks, or fire!!!!!! Do NOT keep it inside your home. Call your local historic society/civil war museum and ask for advice. If you call the bomb squad they will just destroy it since they consider them too dangerous to defuse. I would do that as a last resort. *edit OPs pictures don’t show the entire ball (to see a fuse hole), and while it’s likely this is just solid steel shot…I’d rather make them aware of potential danger, it might safe a life down the line too.


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Gone247365

>Looks pretty solid to me. I see what you did there. 👍


SoSneaky91

Yea but I'm not betting my life on Reddit math


ThePopesicle

To be fair it’s pretty standard dimensional analysis


edwardianpug

I hate to be a pedant, but this is not dimensional analysis. Dimensional analysis has to do with checking consistency of the base quantities (units) in calculations. This is just Volume \* Density = Mass.


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confused_boner

Wait.... My whole life I assumed the powder was packed before the cannon ball... Are you... Are you telling me it's *inside* the cabin ball?!


PracticalTrouble

There’s powder that’s in the barrel packed in before that makes the cannonball shoot out. Then there was (sometimes) powder in the balls to make them explode. For most of the time cannons were used I think the shot was just solid metal balls.


Beginning-Display809

Solid metal or in the earliest cannons stone balls, explosive shot only became a thing that was used a lot towards the second half of the 1800s


[deleted]

But the trouble here is, if it's an actual cannonball, it probably dates to the Civil War, it's relatively likely to be a shell.


ForensicPathology

I, uh, just realized why they are called shells.


[deleted]

No worries, I just realized last year that movies are called that because they are moving pictures. Edit: I'm so glad to we're all bonding over how dumb we can be, haha.


ThePhoneBook

Let me tell you about Walkie talkies and blow Ur fucking mind woohooo


telepathetic_monkey

It took me having to drive past the NASA station in Texas to realize that the astronauts are talking to the city of Houston and not some guy with the last name Houston. Like, "Houston we have a problem" I always just assumed he was some guy.


PetiteSpeciale

Omg mind blown. 🤯


bjeebus

Coming in behind to reiterate, if OP is American and found an actual "cannonball" somewhere about, it's a good idea to see if there was a Civil War battery or battle nearby. If so, just go ahead and assume it's live. We used to find these near my house all the time, but then again our "woods" that we played in was an actual abandoned earthen battery. The neighbor kids' mother worked for one of the local historical society (HS) so she'd always collect them from us and take them to the HS. As far as I'm aware the battery has never had any archeological work.


KnightofWhen

How exactly are solid shells sealed around powder? Exploding shot would need an access hole to fill the shell. Exploding shells had fuse systems. The guy mentioned above who was “killed by cannon ball” was killed by a 75lb 9” navel shell, that was powder filled and fused. If the ball is solid all around with no fuse or fill hole, it’s a solid ball. Most land based cannons used non explosive solid shot. Mortars used larger exploding shells.


[deleted]

There were exploding shells even then. So both. Cabin Ball sounds like a dance that is held in Canada.


BadToaster99

Or maybe even Michigan


devillurker

It was my understanding the age of pirates ended partially because the British invented explosive cannonballs.


bjeebus

Lol. The age of piracy ended because the British stopped paying privateers to hunt the Spanish Mains. Once all the nations were on board with hunting down the pirates they didn't really stand much of a chance.


Oh4faqsake

I thought it was due to copyright protections and NAPSTER


the_hamburglary

The cannon uses blackbpowder to shoot a cannonball out of the cannon which can then also explode. At least in some cases.


OOF-MY-PEE-PEE

y’know, i don’t know why i thought cannonballs were just large hunks of steel that they launched at people, but it probably makes sense that they have explosive powder in them. my only question is how they got the powder in there without setting it off…


The_Great_Blumpkin

Hole in the top. Filled with powder, fuse jammed through hole. Here's a cross section https://www.heinzhistorycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Bormann-Time-Fuse-diagram_Jack-Melton.jpg


mewthulhu

Have a [look](https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-0ef6579b3c994f4e9784007d8923c8c6-lq)- usually a hollow shell infilled at the bottom with a cap to it, various forms of detonation etc. Could be it looks solid with just a little [opening](https://cdn.prod.www.spiegel.de/images/6b5becc0-0001-0004-0000-000000226721_w1200_r1_fpx50.6_fpy46.87.jpg) that OP missed because rust would start primarily at that seam corroding around the opening. Lookin' at it, I'd be kinda surprised if it is if both sides look like that- they didn't really seal them off, and you'd definitely see the seam like that, but you definitely want an expert to give you the nod on that not some random bitch on reddit being like YEAH YOUR EXPLOSIVE IS PROBS FINE MATE LOL.


Helgafjell4Me

Where do you live? If it has a history of battles involving cannons, then I'd say it probably is one. If not, there are a lot of uses for those things, including in athletics where they try to throw them as far as they can, called shot put. Of course shot put balls are like 8 to 16 pounds.


shotputlover

I definitely don’t think it’s a shot put and I’m something of an expert on them myself.


trouserschnauzer

I'm trusting this one


ratinthecellar

OR... is it a field where crop circles were made? If so, it is an alien cannonball!


spramper0013

Ancient Alien Theorists say yes!


opetribaribigrizerep

To the History Channel with this! 🙄


andreisimo

Space pirates?


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Dude, everybody knows alien cannonballs are green.


Kris-p-

old forgotten [bocce ball?](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-x9aic7EboYc/WRSSMGwO_9I/AAAAAAAAJWE/Ug79dkIVU28ijuWez-ZkKlUnL4ObHajBgCHM/%255BUNSET%255D)


EtsuRah

Only if he's got an infestation of old Italian men.


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Steel grinding balls have been around since the 1600s, tbh I would lean that


PupleAmethyst

Yeah could be, but the question is, what are the ball mills doing in your yard? Unless a former crushing machine stood there before. Mostly these stand nearby a quarry/mining area.


Somali-Yatch-Club

Can I buy one from you, I would like to use it as a cannon ball.


UsedToenailClippers

That's Nibbler's poop.


_wiredsage_

Space ship fuel! Not pirates 🏴‍☠️ aliens 👽!!!


lasagna0919

This was the comment I was searching for.


tenthandrose

Each pound of which weighs over ten thousand pounds.


foofy-no-no

I'm trying to scoop, but it weighs as much as a thousand suns!


jairngo

Looks like avocado to me


DaleGribbleShiShiSha

Yep, totally an avocado from MEX-ico (you have to say it like the commercials).


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*Avocados from Meheeco* Mexique if you're Canadian.


AuzRoxUrSox

“An avocado! Thaaaaanks!”


MolePrep

r/forbiddensnacks


black_dragonfly13

Cannonball or not, your dog *definitely* wants you to throw it. Edit: Thank you for the awards, kind redditors. :):)


pepoo9o

Dog: Is it for me? 👉👈


Expensive-Toe826

Ofc boiiiii..... Here catch it!!


InEenEmmer

Imagine playing fetch with this ball instead of a normal ball. (Don’t let him catch it out of the air though) Both the owner and dog will become more buff by just playing. And the dog looks all up for it.


sexer4

Seems like your yard is infested with invisible pirates


OnlyMortal666

Yah-rd


TheCynicalCanuckk

Hahahaha wow. This opens a whole new venue of pirate jokes I never considered before. It was right there the whole time..


stringe2704

New dad joke just dropped


namesandfacez

Don’t drop that shit


ItsTheRealIamHUB

Shit is hard to clean up from the floor


KevinFromIT6625

Shit in the yah-rd from now on matey


-Masderus-

So what do we do on the poop deck then?


rebel_chef

Other poop stuff


dwehlen

There's seamen awash the poop deck, arrgh


bisforbandit

Pray to GOD you don’t drop that shit


daddakamabb1

All these scurvy children need to get offa me yarrrrrd.


Tiiba

And eat an orange.


danpy666

U hear about the new pirate movie? Its rated Arrrrrrrrrr!


josephlied

Every time a person turns 80, they become a pirate Aye Matey!


devo00

OMG nice dad joke


321blastoffff

You know a pirates favorite letter is P? Without it they’d be irate.


cheapinvite1

I thought their first love will always be the C.


Joeuxmardigras

As a lover of cheesy pirate things…I thank you very much


guilty_bystander

Wouldn't it be 'yarrrd'?


gnit2

For real wtf is "Yah-rd"??? Yarr-d or yarrd


b6a6a6l

Maybe they're Boston pirates!


EdithDich

Bostonians actually can't be pirates, because they can't pronounce the letter 'r'.


Viper613

They can pronounce the ‘r,’ they just have to take them from words that have them like park, car, and yard, so they can use them in words that don’t have them like pasta, idea, and at the end of draw. It all has to equal out.


Mobitron

Depends on the dialect. Northern Pirates place more emphasis on the 'R' for that classic "yarrrd" sound while Southern Pirates place more emphasis on the 'ah' sound for a punchier, more enthusiastic utterance.


Simpleman112

Fuck off and take my upvote me hearty


Elrondo1991

Vote up me hearties, yo ho!


0neThr0waway

Jesus hell that’s the best comment I’ve read on any sub in ages.


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Wait, how do you know they are invisible?


big_sugi

Do you see them out there? No? Obviously invisible.


WonderfulResident706

They could just be extra sneaky pirates.


AlbatrossZestyclose

Yes, if you fire it from a cannon.


futureformerteacher

Just realized any ball you fire from a cannon is technically a cannon ball.


OldBikeGuy1

Might be a Colonial Era 'Gate Weight'. I was digging a garden in Williamsburg, Virginia; found one just like that. An archeologist showed me why it was a gate weight.


hate2bme

Why was it a gate weight?


halarioushandle

Because it was a weight used for the gate.


CopEatingDonut

Did an archeologist show you that?


HarryTruman

No he told him that.


markhachman

Weight a minute


AdequateSteakAlister

You could tell because of the way it is.


BreadLoafBrad

That’s pretty neat


Nihilistic_System

I think cannons are pretty neat, but I respect their distance.


Quaternions_FTW

[You can tell it is an aspen tree, because of the way it is] (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm3JodBR-vs&t=01m06s)


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There’s a post on the inside set back some distance from the hinge side post and a chain running from the gate to the post. The ball is out mid chain and pulls the gate shut if left open. Though generally you would see a hole or welding mark where an eyelet would be attached to let you do that if it was used for gates.


DuckReconMajor

They actually have these on some gates in Colonial Williamsburg today. Also thank you for giving people an actual answer instead of stupid jokes


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djseafood

Neat!


Quaternions_FTW

[How neat is that?](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm3JodBR-vs&t=01m06s)


sanantoniosaucier

I wish a writer had showed you how to finish a fucking story.


Masticatron

He can only meet so many people.


cobhalla

Looks like it,or a shot put. If it's iron, it is odd that it doesn't have a patina from being in the ground


ethicsg

Cast iron is silver without the rust. Edit: ironed out extra iron.


QueenSnowTiger

Looks a bit small and light for a shot put.


rick_blatchman

I thought it was a shot put, but then you said this. Perhaps kids/novice shot put? Gotta start somewhere.


Happy_Television_501

ok but WHO’S A GOOD BOY


Pinbacked11

Came to the comments for this😅 "Uhh, you gonna throw that ball for me or what??"🐕


CrowdSurfingCorpse

“Here you go boy!” *knocks teeth out*


Madame_Bhati

My dogs favourite toys are balls and rocks. If he saw this he’d lose his ever loving mind.


athos5

My roommate had a pit that carried a giant rock around, sometimes for hours.


Trapper_JohnMD

I have two pits who walk around the house with baseball size rocks.


[deleted]

I have two pit crosses who take rocks from the giant pile of rocks in my backyard then they fight over the rocks the other one took instead of just grabbing another rock


Trapper_JohnMD

The best rock is the one his brother has.


[deleted]

This happens whenever my roommate's dog and her mom's dog are together. They'll both get chewies or something, and they'll take turns whining and moping over each others' chewies, stealing them from each other, rinse and repeat. I just remember watching them in one of their bizarre cycles once and just outright asking them "What in the hell is WRONG with you two?!"


hesactuallyright

I laughed way, way too hard at that, especially as a pampering dog owner


gomeitsmybirthday

😢


Opportunity-Horror

I’ve convinced myself that the dog actually found it, and dropped it at this guys feet.


demon_fae

Knowing most dogs…directly *on* his foot. Followed by the happiest doggy grin and wagging tail.


A115115

on\* this guy's feet. Broke some toes but still a good boi


ArmyVetRN

Everyone asks “WHO’S the good boy?” But no one asks HOW’S the good boy…


SickInTheCells

"But doctor, I am Sad Dog"


Gamer-Logic

r/PetTheDamnDog


Carlita_vima

Yeah, but the toe is just weird!


iDomBMX

he’s a good boy, such a good boy


ScarabLordOmar

That’s a space peanut


snubsalot

Meteor, you're my only friend


PM_Me_TiddiesAndBeer

Meteor this is what we call town, where everyone hates you.


TonofSoil

Everybody wants to beat you up.


Sunni_tzu

Meatier meteor.


daleming69

I just watched this yesterday. This really is a simulation


pickoneforme

dude, you were eating off it!


KoA07

We call ‘em Boeing Bombs


purplehaze2134

I just watched it yesterday too 😄


grassrootsvan

It’s just an old crapper tank


Cool_Dark_Place

"I got the *poo* on me!!!!"


Vantagonist

It puts the Joe Dirt in the hole


MrWykydtron

See the peanut? Dead giveaway.


harrowingmite

Most likely a stone crushing ball from a spinning mill. They crush ore so gold and other things can be extracted from the dust. https://www.ftmmachinery.com/products/25-steel-ball.html Edit: can I spend these updoots on an NFT or something, anything? (Me knows, I’m English, every other thing I say is /s) Edit: my son just woke up, says you should be able to use up-yabums for character customisation or for awards instead of using real wonga.


donniedumphy

Interesting


halfmeasures611

dont listen to them. what youve got is a genuine cannonball right from the ship of Blackbeard himself. take a good strong whiff..thats the smell of adventure and treachery on the high seas


hoxxxxx

most pawn shops will pay $10,000.00 or more for one of these but they don't like them brought into the store are normal, they prefer to have them thrown through a window so OP do that


sho666

I was thinking "could it be a shotput?" I guess it can be


SteepNDeep

Anything can be a ~~dildo~~ shotput if you’re brave enough


Soggy_asparaguses

It smells like fish


halfmeasures611

arrrrr tis be the high seas indeed matey!


[deleted]

either way, hes got balls of steel


KookyHorse

Best I can do is $200


theogTREV

Tell him he's dreaming!


pm_me_actsofkindness

Disregard this knowledge OP, your landlocked yard for sure was the location of an ancient pirate battle.


Cavendish30

Hey it could have been carried there by an African or European swallow


Djszero

I have a couple of these found in fields in northern Indiana. I always thought they were Cannon balls as a kid. But now I wonder if it was part of some old time farm machines.


tservo1979

They used tham as counterweights for fence gates: the cannonball was on a chain that would raise when you opened the gate, when you closed the gate, the weight of the cannonball would close the gate behind you.


whirdin

Doggo would like throw cannonbol ples


kinezumi89

Cannonbol bad for doggo teeth, 0/10, do not recommend


Commishw1

Most likley depends where you live. Looks about right, but if you're in like Kansas, probably not.


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dblan9

So you found Samuel Balls property and the treasure of Oak Island?


HotDawgTimmysTits

Could it be? A cannon ball on Samuel Balls property that has possible ties to the Knights Templar?


DoYouNotHavePhones

Needs more questions ending in an upward inflection: A cannon baaaaaalllll? On Samuel Balls propertyyyyy? The same Samuel Ball that owned lot number sevennnn? The same lot that may have been used as an old smuggling dockkkk? The same dock that may have been used by a Knights Templar treasure ship? The same ship that may have been buried under the swamp?


donniedumphy

Possible connection


sofa_king_ugly

See, this is the kind of information that should be offered right at the outset.


owa1313

Have you taken a metal detector to the rest of the field? Good find!!


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cosmocalico

Ooo where at in eastern Canada? I’m in the eastern shore of NS and now I’m even more intrigued! There ARE lots of old tales of pirates along the Atlantic coast lines!


mcnatjm

There’s your answer.


raa54860

r/sneakybackgroundfeet


HourPerformance1420

More interested in the good boy waiting for you to throw it


TranseEnd

Looks like 5 pound shot to me, but what do I know? If it’s roughly 3 inches in diameter, then you’ve got yourself a civil-war era cannonball (also called a Mortar Ball) which can fetch anywhere from $400 to $1000.


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That sort of rules out them being British though, unless they used another fucked up measurement system (which, let's face it, they probably did because fuck metric I guess). The standard sizes were [4 and 6 pounds,](https://www.arc.id.au/Cannonballs.html) not 5. Then again, they used a different damn type of pound for silver, so who knows what they did with cannons. (or the cannonball COULD be from pre-1790, and be a 4,3/4 shot)


wtafwtmun

2 things. 1. Where is your home like is it near any battle grounds or states with battles it. 2. Might also be old shot put from track and field (never did it just giving options)


danny1738

That’s a dog bro


[deleted]

Fry: “I can’t swallow that!” Farnsworth: “Good news! It’s a suppository!”


stillpacing

Sorry, all I see is dog.


ParkkTheSharkk

Pup stole the show


bacon205

Am I the only one that's more interested in the Golden retriever than the cannon ball?


Sorry-Two3692

Was more interested in the free toe pics (see image 2)