Anyone have an idea of what this heavy piece of iron/steel is.

FrommerStop · Jul 2, 2019

I found this embedded in soil in disturbed land behind my fence line with a neighbor. It likely weighs 200 lbs or so. Someone thought due to the large hole it was off an old mill. I am wondering if it could have been part of a wheel from the narrow gauge rail line that ran from pace out to Jay, FL. James Pace owned a logging and turpentine enterprise here into at least the 1920's.
I was thinking of a rail wheel that is missing the rim. I am just guessing.

Anyone else have an idea or actually know?

MauserLarry · Jul 2, 2019

rail wheel sounds as good as anything, could be an old brake drum of some sort. Been nice it it'd be made of gold whatever it is!

FrommerStop · Jul 2, 2019

I sent the picture over to the UWF people at the Arcadia Mill site and perhaps the Archeologists might know and if it is historical I will give it to them.

Murfpcola · Jul 2, 2019

Any better pics and possibly some rough dimensions?

Zeroed in · Jul 2, 2019

IDK, hard to tell bc that picture sure is blurred.

SAWMAN · Jul 2, 2019

Something to attach to a roll barrel so the hogs wont drag it off ??
Huh Frank ?? --- SAWMAN

Murfpcola · Jul 2, 2019

Does it have find in between the discs like a squirrel cage? Maybe some kind of "flywheel" from an old implement or tractor.

FrommerStop · Jul 2, 2019

I do need to get more pictures. Very different from the fly wheels one use to see on the old john deere tractors that were made in the 1930s. The hole for the shaft is more than 3 inches.

FrommerStop · Jul 3, 2019

the measurements are 25 inches x 7 inches. The hole on side is 11 inches. I has 4 slanted vanes like structures about the rim. Of side has set up to affix it to a shaft.

16gauge · Jul 3, 2019

Looks like an impeller for a pump.

Zeroed in · Jul 3, 2019

That's exactly what it is. A impeller used for dredging.

FrommerStop · Jul 3, 2019

I am on a dredging committee for one of the major Bayous and I can ask some of the people from AEC that do dredging when I see them. But yes the great wt of that could be consistent with such a purpose.
Does anyone know how long those have been in existence. Could it have been used to dredge parts of Barnett Mill Creek when they used to float logs down it many years ago. There is a basin on that creek behind an old dam. I assume it was dug either with mule and scraper or perhaps with a stream powered drag line because it is not that deep.
It is sort of mysterious as to how that big piece of steel got there.
Another possibility that it was used to build the old bridge that used to be there and got left behind for some reason.

https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/centrifugal-large-flow-impeller-for-dredging_60070209384.html

centrifugal-large-flow-impeller-for-dredging-river.jpg_350x350.jpg

Zeroed in · Jul 3, 2019

IDK, but quikrete in bagdad still uses a dredging system for their sugar white sand.

FrommerStop · Jul 3, 2019

Zeroed in said:
IDK, but quikrete in bagdad still uses a dredging system for their sugar white sand.

I was told that there was clay pit about where sweet bay drive and forest creek drive meet in woodbine hills in pace ,fl. There are some ponds there now days. but white sand mining, I do not know.
I really do not know the history of that place prior to the late '80's.

Thinking deeper there was mining for gravel on the property now owned by the Pace Water System, but that is not super near. They could have used a dredge for that.
Photo of what I believe were the old gravel pits.

MauserLarry · Jul 3, 2019

I think you guys are right on about the impeller. It probably wore out and they put in a new one and threw the old one over the side. I've dug up a good bit of odd stuff down through the years including skeletons from a 1800's era graveyard.

FrommerStop · Jul 3, 2019

Some of the impeller blades appear worn and perhaps as you say MLarry it was discarded. If so it was being used maybe nearby. I will look around that creek this winter see if there are any indication it was used around here. There could be gravel deposits in that creek they were looking for.

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