Today's hiking adventure. Pownal & Yarmouth ME. LOTS OF PICS.

[ebinmaine 67,588]

We started on Lawrence rd in Pownal. 

Walked about a mile and a half around Tryon Mt. Explored a feldspar mine that we didn't know about. 

VERY interesting place. 

Video below and some pics mixed in. 

 

We walked over to Bradbury mountain State Park along the border trail and others. Then back to the parking lot. 

Total mileage just under 6. 

Elevation gain almost 900 feet. 

The humidity was high and doing its best to snot beat me. Nearly succeeded bit eventually I won. 

 

 

 

 

I wanted to make sure I called out this Pic first. 

Note the ring around this tree about 3 feet up. There was a cable tied to/around it in the distant past that was part of the mining operation. It was pointed directly at the tall post/crane/derrick in the video. 

 

More mine pics. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is a Pound for loose large animals from a couple hundred years ago. 

 

 

 

 

 

Super  cool van in the State Park lot. 

 

 

 

 

And the rest.....

 

 

 

[ebinmaine 67,588]

One more Pic. 

 

This is the track and also shows the Mine.  

 

 

 

[Ed Kennell 38,209]

Any idea what the mineral was used for?

[ebinmaine 67,588]

2 hours ago, Ed Kennell said:

Any idea what the mineral was used for?

 

Found this while poking about: 

 

According to the Maine Geological Survey for Bradbury Mountain compiled by Henry N. Berry IV, “Feldspar is the most abundant mineral in granite, and in pegmatite the individual feldspar crystals can be very large. Feldspar was mined from pegmatite bodies like this in many places across Maine in the early 1900s. The quarry itself, now overgrown with large trees, is about 150 feet long, 20 feet wide, and 10 feet deep. It was crushed and separated to be used in making ceramics or as an abrasive. By the mid-1900s, feldspar mining had moved to other parts of the country and the world.”

 

 

 

 

 

[Handy Don 12,235]

Fairly sure that the guyed pole is from a jib crane, the arm being attached at the base or between pairs of the angled brackets higher up.

[ebinmaine 67,588]

2 minutes ago, Handy Don said:

Fairly sure that the guyed pole is from a jib crane, the arm being attached at the base or between pairs of the angled brackets higher up.

 

 

Our friend had the same thought.  

 

There are piles of debris within a certain reach to that pole.  

 

 

[Ed Kennell 38,209]

                                                     Sure does Don.     Looks like a bearing at the top that would allow the pole and jib to rotate. 

    You can see the jib mounting bracket that would allow the jib to elevate and the angle brackets to mount winches for hoisting the load and to elevate the jib.  Would be interesting to see the base plate.

[Handy Don 12,235]

3 minutes ago, Ed Kennell said:

see the base plate.

 

Screen grab from the video...pretty sure it’s got a pivot!