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Nice wheels! Who made them? Are they dished? How tall?

Thanks Rich44! I do love making this stuff. My shop, however, is always a disaster. It is a small sheet metal building 12' X 24'. I am space poor but equipment rich! I stay pretty busy.

I have a matched pair of 1/4 scale Napoleons finished. Consecutive barrel numbers.. Sweet! Here is a video of one of these things firing a blank load. Turn up the volume.

A Pack Parrott is a short stubby version of a Parrott Rifle. It was carried on a mule. Here is a picture of one from a 1996 South Bend Replica catalog. Second gun down. Here is a 1/2 scale Prairie carriage I made for one.

You would be very surprised at the very small size of my shop. It is a portable sheet metal building measuring 12' X 24'. I am very space poor but I'm equipment rich. There is a lot of things stuffed into that small space.🥸

Ii just finished one of my 1/4 scale field carriages for a new barrel that Brooks USA is making. It is a 1/4 scale 1841 Six Pounder with a 1.032" bore allowing it to fire 1" balls. I am making three carriages at the same tome. The first one finished is this one. The other two will mount the...

Rich44, Ballistics are out of my area of expertise but this was interesting. Thanks for posting.

Here is my old Parrott Rifle firing a blank round.

Thanks, I am in the process of making three more right now. There is a lot to be done. Don't mistake my quality of work with Rich44's. He is the finest craftsman I've ever come across.

Rich44, Thanks! I am currently in the process of building three more of the Napoleons. It is a large task. You are the only person I have ever heard about that can make a barrel with dolphins out of a block of steel. Now that is a true accomplishment!

Rich44, You are amazing!! I can't even come close to that skill level. Lack of knowledge and machines. Really nice!!

Just for the record, a 12" diameter Zinc ball weighs 218 lbs.

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Sean, Is one handle on each side of the mortar beds sufficient for lifting one of those things up?

They don't see inside the house but they see this on the front porch.

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Rich44, That looks so sad. Building the wheels was a challenge. I built that carriage a long time ago. It was one of my early attempts at carriage building . The wheels are not dished but still came out nice for a first try. This picture after I got my new front doors.

The gun is no longer mine. It belongs to the golf country club. I don't know what they did with it. They were jerks to deal with in the first place and ignored my maintenance advice. I don't want anything to do with them anymore.

This was one of my very early cannon carriages. I built it in 1998. It sat in my foyer for more than a decade. I mounted a South Bend Replica "swivel barrel" on it. The barrel was 36" long and weighed 175 lbs. It had a 1.5" bore. It had 36" wheels that I built. After building one pair of wheels...

Built from scratch.