Found on the bottom of the river

[riverdiver]

I found this in the spring of last year and with the help of some good friends, be brought it up a couple months later. It is 11' tall 6 and a half feet wide and weighs 10,000 pounds.
It was the biggest project we did this past Summer.
Ed

 

[Caver95]

Cool. Is it worth all the trouble? What are you going to do with it?

 

[JBRES1]

Ed,
Now that is one very big paper weight.
Great find, were you able to find a home for it ?
The scrap value alone is worth about $1,000.00, let alone the value to some shipping company.

Good hunting.

Jim breslin

 

[riverdiver]

It is for sale, they tend to sell at $1.00 a pound. and yes it is worth all the work.
Ed

 

[texdiveguy]

Looks like the way someone took the time to attach that big anchor to the scoop of that front loader they did not want you to recover that dang tractor!!

 

[DeepDiver36]

That is cool. I will buy it. Do you ship via fedex to the Utah high mountains?

 

[Chuck Tribolet]

That's a little anchor. How about this one: http://www.garlic.com/~triblet/swell/images/03cx14s.jpg.
The story is at GPS For the Monterey Diver and scroll down to Kawika's Anchor
Farm. It's still on the bottom of Monterey Bay, and will stay there.

 

[riverdiver]

No by weight I would say that the navy anchor that we brought up is bigger than that steel cross arm. We also brought one of them up this year also. It it 10' tall and the cross arm is 10' a cross and the balls on the cross arm are 12" wide. We cut through stud anchor chain,that is large than the one in your picture to get it up. And it would date about 1870.

Ed

 

[riverdiver]

This is the anchor out of the water and ready to go down the road, look how big it is compared to the tow truck drive. And this is a shot of it painted up.
Riverdiver

 

[Guess]

Thats impressively Large!

Nice job cleaning it up!

Is it worth more sold as an anchor? or is it the same value as scrap steel?