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19th November 2008, 04:03 AM
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Wooden Canon
Saw this very intresting piece in the Armory in Malta. Enjoy the pics
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19th November 2008, 04:18 AM
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Wow. Talk about a rarity.
Amazing that it survived. |
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20th November 2008, 07:45 PM
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Perhaps this was a fake cannon ...to fool the enemy into believing you had more armaments . I believe that this tactic was used during the American Civil War and were call Quaker guns. Rgards David |
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21st November 2008, 12:40 AM
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The Conquistadores used wooden canons, reinforced with iron belts...
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21st November 2008, 02:32 AM
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 ,yes ..and others, however there seems to be no iron re-inforcing on the wooden cannon posted by Clockwork. There does seem to be a rope wrapped 're-enforcement' ...but it seems to be originally coated with something like clay or resin. So it is possible the rope was used to give the cannon shape and was not a strenghening 'aid'. On 'Mythbusters' an American 'Discovery Channel' production, they constructed a cannon from a 'bored' tree trunk which had steel banding re-inforcement.. which actualy worked well. They eventually greatly overloaded it with an 'exaggerated' charge of gunpowder and blocked the barrel. Needless to say it exploded violently   Kind Regards David |
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21st November 2008, 07:14 PM
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Trying to focus on the muzzle; not all layers are in wood. First you have a 'shirt' in the bore and next to it, could be a (nother) metalic section ?
 I wouldn't know about wooden cannons, but leather ones actually existed; i hace pictures somewhere around. Still David's aproach is quite a pertinent one .Fernando |
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