Aircraft carrier anchor

By Pat Scott; posted May 1, 2010
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Forget being a boat anchor, this thing could hold down a wayward iceberg. Jason Stevens and I did some utility scrounging, and this was found in a dumpster yesterday, along with five of its friends. The guys at the utility yard yanked them out with a forklift so we could piece a few together, then dumped the rest back in. Since they were dumped on top of each other initially, there were many casualties. These were stacked in four. The piece on the right was added on, while the other four are as is. There were Lapp, NGK, Ohio Brass, and one other on the same stack, probably because of various failures over the years. Putting five together, this thing stands taller than my 5' 11" stature, and probably weighs 350 pounds or so.

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