Thread: Something very different

Well Gents (and Ladies),
I certainly have a range of guns go through the workshop, but this has to take the biscuit for being the biggest. It is an 8-gauge industrial gun for cleaning (blasting) in kilns and man is it a beast. Came in for a service, clean up and sort out the sticky trigger, the first things was to get the hoist sorted as you can't lift this bugger by hand ha ha.

After a bit of work it now appears to function correctly though of course live function testing must be done.....its rules :-)

I have added a photo of a standard 12 round alongside the 8G round, yea its big !

Could be a great Possum gun, you just take the tree out and wander over hit the possum with stick ha ha

Nice
Pat was telling me about these today
Nice to see them and much better than his description

would look mean on the front of the side by side what for remains unclear- mobs of canadas with 4 shot ?? - but then why do hunters here have 458 magnums and we have no rhinos and they are not going overseas

So, not shoulder mounted then ?
Do you know where if was originally made ?

And, there's nothing wrong with overkill for possums !

Two men spend an eight hour shift blowing rounds into ball of coke inside furnace to break it up,then fire it back up again and back to work...Vs something like six days to cool furnace down,break up coke ball manually then more days to slowing reheat it back up to temperature again. It's a big round alright.

Sadly, like most industrial tasks, it looks like it is nowhere near as much fun as it sounds: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yWVdeA3tUnA

@Philipo - you need one of these, sure beats a 6.5 CM

From the cement works ay , when the gun at tarakohe broke down in the 70s they got army in who set up a browning 50 cal for a day and let rip at the clinker / slag blockage .

What kind of shot is it loaded with

Originally Posted by 30.06king

So, not shoulder mounted then ?
Do you know where if was originally made ?

And, there's nothing wrong with overkill for possums !

Its actually made by Winchester

Originally Posted by blip

What kind of shot is it loaded with

This came with buckshot rounds but I understand there were some Zinc solids as well

Seen one of these converted into a cannon. Haven't witnessed it being fired, but he regularly does at Antique arms shoots.

Thanks for sharing looks fun...

https://industrialcartridgesa.com/8-gauge-kiln-system/

Originally Posted by Fssprecision

Its actually made by Winchester

Are these still used for cement production? How would one go about purchasing such an item? Make a great little replica cannon!

Can you convert it to belt feed