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At the Mariner's Museum in Newport News. This is a replica based off high resolution imagery and 3D scanning of the gun turret of the Monitor ironclad ship that sunk. This cannon had pinned two sailors and their skeletons were still there. It was found upside-down on the bottom of the ocean near Nags Head.

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That was my favorite museum to visit when I lived in Virginia Beach. So many cool things to see. The actual turret was at the museum a while back while they were trying to restore it.
 
Yep they built a custom electrolysis tank to keep it in. Hard to see what is what but huge restoration effort.

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If you’re still at the museum, ask one of the curators where the Merrimack is. I’m curious as to what they are telling tourists now days.
 
Wish i could say this personified the weekend but was a bit stressful with a pooch in health limbo far from home. Still a good time stacking cairns and rock people as she calls them with my niece

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Man that’s cool. I love old machinery.

The inside was amazing. Like a machinery museum. All wired up sketchy AF but fully operational. The mouldung cutter was insane as was the sawdust conveyance sys. And everything so overbuilt.

A second barn has all agricultural equipment which was just as cool but didn’t know what half of it was. Except of course the cornhusking machine my uncle lost a middle finger in… Heard that story a few times. Funny thing is he kind a looks like Jerry too :lol:

Pretty cool when the driveway ends in a seldom seen FSR too. Love that place

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That’s one rig that works and works extremely well. I forgot what it used to look like. Must be an old pic as nowadays it resembles a crusher grape Fanta can.
 
Everyone knows how well it works yet on one has ever knocked it off.

Blows my mind.

alot of it has to do with that crazy mother trucking driver.....
 
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