What is this?

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Chase
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What is this?

Post by Chase » August 26th, 2013, 9:16 am

unknown oregon thingy 1.jpg

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Re: What is this?

Post by payslee » August 26th, 2013, 9:45 am

Looks like a fishwheel

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Re: What is this?

Post by Peder » August 26th, 2013, 11:35 am

payslee wrote:Looks like a fishwheel
The fishwheels mostly looked quite different but I'm sure that this device was also intended to catch fish!

It is a good time to remind people that you can visit remnants of old fish wheels on Ives Island in September and October when the Columbia River levels are low. See the Curious Gorge Guide by Scott Cook for details. The Cascade Fort loop just upstream is also warmly recommended!
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Re: What is this?

Post by CuriousGorgeGuide » August 29th, 2013, 11:24 am

Good one Chase, and thanks for the shout-out Peder. Chase, I dunno what that contraption is. Those coast folks were always up to some new tricks I guess. Could it be WWII??

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Re: What is this?

Post by K.Wagner » September 3rd, 2013, 9:42 pm

Chase,

Three of us senior types, with various backgrounds (1 manufacturing / mechanical, 1 electronics engineer, 1 atmospheric / oceanographer) beat this thing to death, and for the life of us, couldn't come up with anything different than anyone else had, and I don't think that anyone's gotten it right yet.
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Re: What is this?

Post by Lurch » September 4th, 2013, 2:55 pm

I would lean towards this being an in progress construction shot of a salmon weir...

Ultimately that 'fence' would get dropped down on an angle into the water, and the fish would run into/onto it.

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They would either use them to catch the fish outright, of funnel them into a fish wheel or some other collection method

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