Shot Tower

This is the only shot tower in the world which allows visitors to climb up the wooden circular staircase to the very top. It was built in the late 1800's and used to produce shot gun pellets. The lead ingots were carried to the very top, melted in a furnace and then poured through a colander to produce molten drops. The drops fell through the height of the tower and solidified into a trough of water at the bottom. This photo was taken at about the half way point, looking down.

[Joanna kate]

Your information is so interesting, all that work to produce pellets, pretty ingenious for the time. Great shot looking down

[Sarah]

Great shot. Although it makes me feel a bit sick looking down!!

[FBailey]

Very impressive! My knees don't want to know:)

[Chris K]

fantastic shot but I dont think I could cope with it.. Thanks for doing it for me and telling us how it worked.

[Batya]

extraordinary

[Delwyn Barnett]

So interesting!

[Rob Z]

@joannakate You're right Joanna - great technology for the age!!

[Rob Z]

@sarahlth Hi Sarah _ I know how you feel - I tried not to look down too much - especially from the top!

[Rob Z]

@fbailey Hi F.B. - Going up wasn't too bad for the knees - going down was awful! It was worth it to see the top though. :)Cheers Rob

[Rob Z]

@cruiser Thanks Chris - What was a worry was that some of the steps were quite thin boards!! :) Thanks for your nice comment!

[Rob Z]

@shilohmom Thanks Batya!

[Rob Z]

@dkbarnett Hi Delwyn - Tassie seems to have lots of interesting things to investigate - this was great. Cheers Rob

[Ann H. LeFevre]

Great perspective! That was some climb.

[Rob Z]

@olivetreeann Thanks Ann - going up was OK, coming down was harder? Weird hey?