Picked up some round balls today

[Frontier's]

400lbs worth

 

[Mulebrain]

Wholly crap, that's some lead! Whats it from?

 

[Archer 756]

Looks like plumbers lead

 

[tenngun]

Folks don’t oft photographh ball on the hoof.

 

[BullRunBear]

Love the round ball on the hoof line. I am so stealing it.

How do cut up the bigger pieces? That looks like some serious work.

Jeff

 

[Archer 756]

Sawzall

 

[Frontier's]

Yep sawzall. Mount the pieces in the vise and go at it. Took 2 hours to cut up.

This was lead pipe. I had some more in the shop so i bought that all cut up as well. Most likely around 700lbs in the shop now.

Just the raw stuff. I had a bunch of ingots made up as it is.

 

[Jaeger]

Atsa lotsa lotsa ballsa....

 

[hawkeye2]

I got a batch of lead like that 45 years ago, came out of the joints in 2 or 3 foot diameter pipe. I cut it up with a splitting maul and a hunk of firewood. Actually what you have there is a DIY round ball kit.

 

[Doc Ivory]

Holy smokes!
well, that gives you a hobby for a while!

 

[toot]

Love the round ball on the hoof line. I am so stealing it.

How do cut up the bigger pieces? That looks like some serious work.

Jeff

just use a hatchet or an axe. after all it is only lead!

 

[Carbon 6]

Wood splitter.
No swinging, chopping or sawing, just the fast unstoppable power of hydraulics, no waste either.

 

[mjpchief]

I use a band saw. Got a brother-in-law and a friend in the plumbing business.

 

[vintovka]

Inflation and panic plus reduced US production seems to have turned lead into gold!!! Congratsa (as mind your back!!)

 

[McClura]

Outstanding. I hit a gold mine on lead sheath cable in 1981 taking out an old power plant. All of the cables in the control ditches from plant to control room had lead on them. Cut it up with old axe, split cable with old cable workers knife and a small hammer tapping it along the cable opening it up. Cleaned all of crap off with steam cleaner and melted it down. Still using it for roundball, and conicals.
Good find.
Mike

 

[Cowboy]

Here’s some more round ball on the hoof.

Chimney flashing’s and lead pipe. Use a butane torch to cut my lead up into manageable pieces. Got another couple of trash can’s full not pictured of this stuff.

Respectfully, Cowboy

 

[Marc Adamchek]

You could make a lead shirt and lead leggings. I read somewhere that some mountain men favored lead over buckskin and found it handy; whenever ammo was needed they could run some ball round the campfire by just ripping off a piece, much like whangs off buckskin.
. Also they found it good for building up their muscles, especially when running traps in deep beaver streams.

 

[oldwood]

Rescue all the lead you can , and share if you can. These are troubled times we live in . You never have enough lead. .........oldwood

 

[toot]

Wood splitter.
No swinging, chopping or sawing, just the fast unstoppable power of hydraulics, no waste either.

I have a friend who uses a chain saw to cut the large chunks of lead & even sweeps up the lead / saw dust & puts it in the pot. waste not want not!

 

[toot]

isn't lead a wonderfully thing??? you can't have too much!!