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    Posted: 31 Jan 2026 at 11:30am
This was found yesterday around my Great Grandfathers long gone home place. Anyone have an idea? Thanks Pics soon

Edited by ACinSC - 31 Jan 2026 at 11:31am
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Favorite son came through again. This thing probably weighs 3-4 pounds. Thanks
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Looks like the dong for a old time dinnerbell.  Leon
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Grain scale weight maybe?
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small boar anchor ?
 buoy anchor ?
penis extension device ?
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Thanks Leon and Tyler. Could be either one I guess?
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Pear of anguish?  Nah scratch that...  Might also be a subsoiler mole, dragged behind a subsoiler by a short length of chain, to increase the effects of subsoiling.  Of course it can be any of the above objects, re-purposed as a mole...  How deep was it found?Wink
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On top of the ground where we've disced many times.
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Weight for an old balance type cotton scale. 
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Thanks Hubert, another possibility
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Originally posted by jaybmiller jaybmiller wrote:

small boar anchor ?
 buoy anchor ?
penis extension device ?
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tobacco - cotton scale
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Petrified pear
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I think I passed one of those as a kidney stone
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It's a weight for a scale.
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Originally posted by Leon n/c AR. Leon n/c AR. wrote:

Looks like the dong for an old time dinnerbell.  Leon

How about a small church bell dong, like the one on Little House On The Prairie?
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Favorite son found a picture of a old cotton scale with a weight like what we have. Pretty sure that's it. Thanks everyone
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Very possible that where this was found used to be a cotton field
Wonder if the cotton was weighed in the field after hand picked? Interesting find regardless
Thanks again everyone
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Google antique hanging beam scale. Dad had one that I believe used to belong to Grandpa. In our area they were used to weigh bagged grain.
I believe you would be correct about weighing bagged cotton in your area. As I recall, cotton pickers were often paid by the pound. When they filled their bag, they would take it to the wagon or truck. It would be weighed and tallied.
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Thanks Darwin!
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My dad had a scale he called a stillyard that used a weight like Steve(ill) has pictured as a cotton scale. Looking for pictures the spelling might be stilliard. But no pictures that will copy and paste with my very limited skill on confessors. 
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Thanks Ray! I'll check it out
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Ray, you might be looking for steelyard.
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Yes cotton was weighed in the field. My daddy had a tripod made if poles. When set up it was about 7 feet tall. Suspended from the tripod was a pole with the fulcrum about 2feet from the end. They hung a beam scale that used weights at the end of the pole. They picked the pole up in the air hooked the sheet if cotton on the scale pulled down on the pole down to lift the cotton to be weighed. The reason is they only weighed at the end of the day. Each picker had their own sheet and they got paid then and there for their days work. A true merit based system. The more they picked the more they got paid. I was just a boy but i know those sheets were heavy
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This would have been 60 years ago. The people picking werent just hired people. My mother my grand mother my daddy when he could neighbors. Any body willing to work
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Thanks Donald, I remember seeing people picking cotton after the cotton picker had been through the field. It left a good bit, don't know how they were paid though.
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Originally posted by truckerfarmer truckerfarmer wrote:

Ray, you might be looking for steelyard.

Put steelyard scale in a search, looked at Wikipedia answer, first picture has the exact weight ACinSC started this topic for.

A similar scale to what my dad had, but not the same. But the weight in Steve(ill) post about cotton scales and what I found with stilliard scale is what was here.
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Yeah that's it! Thanks everyone!
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