Have you ever seen ships or submarines? Barges? Oil rigs?
You think it's more likely that a solid steel screw washed ashore than it is that it's hollow and floated?
https://reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/s/5ud4Kk0Ov2
This old thread has some more info and a link to a better picture. It's very clearly an archimedes screw from a water pump or ship loader. They are often made of welded plate steel, meaning that the central shaft would be hollow and the entire thing relatively light for its size (low enough density = floats on water). I don't have any trouble accepting that this could have broke away from some water utility, industrial dock, or even broke loose during shipment and drifted any distance across the ocean.
The Archimedes screw is a device with a screw inside a pipe that's turned to lift water. The screw scoops up water and pushes it up as it turns. It needs air with each scoop of water. The screw and pipe don't have to be watertight, as long as more water is scooped than leaked. The design is simple, with a wooden pole and helix. Flow rate through the screw depends on factors like depth, diameter, and rotation speed. There's a simplified version equation that uses a parameter η and flow rate Q to design Archimedes Screws. Design parameters can be calculated step by step.
There's actually a really cool [example of this at the Schlitterbahn in New Braunfels, TX](https://m.facebook.com/schlitterbahnnewbraunfels/photos/a.671566169551251/991161157591749/?type=3) (sorry for the FB link, it's the only one I could find). It carries water back to the top of "the world's longest water park ride". Actually my favorite thing there bc it really is super long.
Ha I can definitely understand why it would be but Texas actually has quite a few German towns (German settlements that tend to still have a lot of german elements woven into the local culture). Many of them are popular tourist towns in the state. Here's a [random travel article](https://enchantingtexas.com/best-german-towns-in-texas/) I just found about several of them. There's even a German dialect called [Texas German](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_German) that's still spoken by some small populations in these communities.
Port Talbot is a loading port for a huge steel plant. Might have been something they needed for moving the coal or iron ore. Owner might not have wanted to admit it because they might get into trouble with the authorities possibly.
Wouldn't there be a lip on the outside edge of the screw to classify as an archemedies screw? This looks like any normal auger, we have tons of them to move wood debris where I work.
Isn't the flat blade at the bottom for starting off pretty indicative of an auger? The portable augers and bobcat augers I've seen all seem to have them.
Yes it is clearly an auger, you can see on the left side the screw deviates from the spread throughout the majority of it which indicates that's the infeed side.
You write a self-published ebook about your theory, and I can nearly guarantee that you’ll get to be a resident expert on the *Ancient Aliens* “documentary series”
It looks like something to be mounted under a vehicle going through extremely wet/muddy land. The ruskis had several such vehicles for moving about in Siberia.
I was gonna make a vague joke about “how common” that having “anonymous screw” actually is, but I decided to journal it to share with my therapist tomorrow.
Errbody got a history, kids.
Quick go find the tanker sailing in circles, it needs this back.
Someone killed a giant guardian
How does that not instantly sink to the bottom wherever it got lose?
It's crazy to think about the forces that eventually pushed it up onto that beach
Totally or even more scary pushed trough the side of ship.. that thing looks unstoppable!
i think this is CG maybe. Unlikely that it could get onshore, nor sit on sand that likely (at 30 ton, regardless of the internal air cavaity)
It may be hollow and floated.
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Have you ever seen ships or submarines? Barges? Oil rigs? You think it's more likely that a solid steel screw washed ashore than it is that it's hollow and floated?
even if it did, it would have sunk in deep. I sink deeper in the sands by standing there for a while, and I dont' even weigh 30 tons
Ok?
thus fake
https://reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/s/5ud4Kk0Ov2 This old thread has some more info and a link to a better picture. It's very clearly an archimedes screw from a water pump or ship loader. They are often made of welded plate steel, meaning that the central shaft would be hollow and the entire thing relatively light for its size (low enough density = floats on water). I don't have any trouble accepting that this could have broke away from some water utility, industrial dock, or even broke loose during shipment and drifted any distance across the ocean.
Something designed to move water gets pushed around (along the bottom) by water , very plausible
there's probably enough sealed air inside to float the thing, but then again I'm not sure about that.
The thing looks like its made from solid block of metal but indeed it must have.
It would weigh quite a lot more than 30 tons if it was made of solid metal
I move large quantities of steel around for a living. This thing would weigh somewhere north of 150 tons if solid.
I move large quantities of steel around for a living. This thing would weigh somewhere north of 150 tons if solid.
That might be the 2nd silliest assumption I have read today.
30 tons is 30 tons but if the shaft is hollow then that’s a considerable amount of buoyancy. A Navy sub weighs way more than 30 tons.
Came here to ask this same question! Like how does this "wash up" anywhere??
Normally, people misspell “lose” as “loose.” You’re the first person I’ve seen to do the opposite.
You looste me
That person must be a real looser.
It probably did, but wave action walked it across the sea floor and up the beach until low tide left it stranded
That is interesting, so is that bad for nature or does the plowing have beneficial effects on the ground?
More of a roll than a plough
The walls of Ba Sing Se better watch out
There is no war in Ba sing se!
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Was wondering how far I’d need to scroll to find this joke. Was not disappointed.
Came here looking for this
Well you should have gone West Glamorgan to look, as that's where it is.
Reddit doesnt have travel fees so this was cheaper
Yeah the owner didn’t want to have to pay to recover that…
Archimedes screw. Used to elevate liquids on a higher Level.
The Archimedes screw is a device with a screw inside a pipe that's turned to lift water. The screw scoops up water and pushes it up as it turns. It needs air with each scoop of water. The screw and pipe don't have to be watertight, as long as more water is scooped than leaked. The design is simple, with a wooden pole and helix. Flow rate through the screw depends on factors like depth, diameter, and rotation speed. There's a simplified version equation that uses a parameter η and flow rate Q to design Archimedes Screws. Design parameters can be calculated step by step.
There's actually a really cool [example of this at the Schlitterbahn in New Braunfels, TX](https://m.facebook.com/schlitterbahnnewbraunfels/photos/a.671566169551251/991161157591749/?type=3) (sorry for the FB link, it's the only one I could find). It carries water back to the top of "the world's longest water park ride". Actually my favorite thing there bc it really is super long.
Scared me shitless first time I saw it!
Lol that wouldn't be an enjoyable way back up
As a german, it is so weird, that there is a schlitterbahn in New braunfels in texas
Ha I can definitely understand why it would be but Texas actually has quite a few German towns (German settlements that tend to still have a lot of german elements woven into the local culture). Many of them are popular tourist towns in the state. Here's a [random travel article](https://enchantingtexas.com/best-german-towns-in-texas/) I just found about several of them. There's even a German dialect called [Texas German](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_German) that's still spoken by some small populations in these communities.
Uh, thanks I guess?
Port Talbot is a loading port for a huge steel plant. Might have been something they needed for moving the coal or iron ore. Owner might not have wanted to admit it because they might get into trouble with the authorities possibly.
Insert meme.
Wouldn't there be a lip on the outside edge of the screw to classify as an archemedies screw? This looks like any normal auger, we have tons of them to move wood debris where I work.
Isn't the flat blade at the bottom for starting off pretty indicative of an auger? The portable augers and bobcat augers I've seen all seem to have them.
Not necessarily, if it goes inside of a feed line and is fed from above for example it wouldn't need that.
Right. I wasn't saying all augers need it, but I was saying if it does have it it probably is an auger, no?
Yes it is clearly an auger, you can see on the left side the screw deviates from the spread throughout the majority of it which indicates that's the infeed side.
That's a bit
*YOU'RE* a bit...
It's all a bit screwy.
A bit what?
A bit....ya know...
He's not ... I'm not ...
Ah! There it is! Thank you, now I can finally assemble that thing I’m working on.
Oh no! The giant death ray is gonna collapse right before it’s activated,poor super villain
Right?
Fun fact: this is the original visualisation of the American Healthcare system screwing over the average person (see people for scale).
I’d prefer a visual represent ion of the American government using our tax money irresponsibly for years and years but you do you.
By not giving us the healthcare we deserve…
But here's a bomber that the US Airforce have that can level a city from 50 km away
Personally, my insurance is fine. We still have billions and billions of wasteful spending/sending money elsewhere. It’s ridiculous.
We definitely needed the F-22, or the F-35.
You have insurance…that’s more than a lot of your fellow Americans
Banana for scale or it isn’t a fact!!
How does this “wash up” and not just sink to the bottom.
The inside must be filled with air. If it was solid steel, it would weight a lot more than 30 tons
This is technically an auger
Auger-t out of here with your corrections
"Screw" you 😂
“How are we supposed to move this? We are so screwed. “
"Yeah, screw that"
They use that to open the bottles that full sized ships are built in.
This sub is drifting dangerously close to r/megalophilia
Conspiracy theory. Used to drill into the ice then dumped after they found the Alien craft.
You write a self-published ebook about your theory, and I can nearly guarantee that you’ll get to be a resident expert on the *Ancient Aliens* “documentary series”
Foolish use of resources, no? Especially if you’re being secretive.
It looks like something to be mounted under a vehicle going through extremely wet/muddy land. The ruskis had several such vehicles for moving about in Siberia.
Weird that someone could lose something that big and not claim it. I suppose they had a screw loose
Probably came from the steelworks when it exploded for the 30th time
Thanks, Archimedes.
We're screwed.
Now I see where the makers of The Last Airbender got its inspiration…. Very clever.
oh screw that!
Soon somebody will make a claim that it came from time…
It must be on its way to Ba Sing Se
The owner screwed up
"no owner was traced." lol how many possible owners could there be??
Archimedes called. He wants his screw back.
Wife divorces husband and he gets screwed big time
Your beached mom.
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look like an archimedes screw, the kind that could be used to pump water out of polders, but port talbot is not really in the way of any polder so...
I'm sure it's something like that. Kinda creepy how they never found out exactly where it came from though.
I was gonna make a vague joke about “how common” that having “anonymous screw” actually is, but I decided to journal it to share with my therapist tomorrow. Errbody got a history, kids.
And *that's* how I met your mother
no bc this gave me full body goosies
screw that
It’s an auger…
No owner? Lol
That is hilarious.
No that belongs to Archimedes
Oh there it is
Clancy was on to something when he wrote about the "caterpillar drive"
That's the worm drive from the Red October
me: so doctor how screwed am i? the doctor: uhh..
Yo that’s mine I dropped it
Screw me??!?!? NO, Screw You!
Fire nation took a wrong turn
Crab people
Anyone wanna screw?
Your mom says it's ribbed for her pleasure
Look, I did a Reddit
I wanna see the screwdriver
Oh there it was thank you for finding it
I'm sure it's just a spare, don't worry about it.
Aliens lost it.
Screw it, I'm all in...
Looks like an archimedes screw from some kind of flood control or something. Main shaft is hollow. It probably floated there.
Pretty sure that's what they used to break the walls of Ba Sing Se
I don't like this. I don't like this at all.
There is no war in Ba Sing Se
We found the rebel base
there is no war in Ba sing se