What’s It #2
I can tell you straight away that it is not a cage for HOES - Hamsters of Enormous Size.
Does anyone want to make a guess?
I actually know what these are, but it wouldn’t be any fun to tell you right now.
THE BIG REVEAL!
It is time for the big reveal: Rob Davies Watchman and Roland Bogush are the closest. Rob Davies gets #1. It is for growing oysters. Between the two wheels is a mesh barrel in which you place the spats or oysters. There is a PVC pipe in the water which anchors each oyster float. The tide is supposed to automatically rotate the drum to keep the silt and algae off of the oysters. Most people have rectangular oyster floats attached to their dock. Every couple of weeks you are suppose to turn and clean off the oysters.
Special award ( the Booby Prize) goes to paul wylde for saying it was the remains of Skylab.
THE BIG PROBLEM:
It didn’t work - they didn’t turn. Our neighbor bought 25 of these and it took him and a helper three days to put them together, working from a small boat ...to anchor them to the bottom and to fill them with oysters. They held up pretty well in storms - only a couple floated away ... one of which we found in our marsh. It is speculated that the tide in the river did not reach the high and low extremes needed to turn them. Also, the barnacles may have hindered the wheelsfrom turning and/or cut the ropes. Taking the oysters out of these drums to clean and turn the oysters was more difficult than before so the oysters were put back in regular floats and these drums will now be recycled!
What’s It #2
I can tell you straight away that it is not a cage for HOES - Hamsters of Enormous Size.
Does anyone want to make a guess?
I actually know what these are, but it wouldn’t be any fun to tell you right now.
THE BIG REVEAL!
It is time for the big reveal: Rob Davies Watchman and Roland Bogush are the closest. Rob Davies gets #1. It is for growing oysters. Between the two wheels is a mesh barrel in which you place the spats or oysters. There is a PVC pipe in the water which anchors each oyster float. The tide is supposed to automatically rotate the drum to keep the silt and algae off of the oysters. Most people have rectangular oyster floats attached to their dock. Every couple of weeks you are suppose to turn and clean off the oysters.
Special award ( the Booby Prize) goes to paul wylde for saying it was the remains of Skylab.
THE BIG PROBLEM:
It didn’t work - they didn’t turn. Our neighbor bought 25 of these and it took him and a helper three days to put them together, working from a small boat ...to anchor them to the bottom and to fill them with oysters. They held up pretty well in storms - only a couple floated away ... one of which we found in our marsh. It is speculated that the tide in the river did not reach the high and low extremes needed to turn them. Also, the barnacles may have hindered the wheelsfrom turning and/or cut the ropes. Taking the oysters out of these drums to clean and turn the oysters was more difficult than before so the oysters were put back in regular floats and these drums will now be recycled!