Mystery... Tool?
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Topic: Mystery... Tool?
Posted By: wjohn
Subject: Mystery... Tool?
Date Posted: 25 Jan 2025 at 11:16am
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I found this metal detecting one of my pastures. The top of it was maybe 6" below ground. I may have bent it up slightly getting it out of the ground. I have no idea what it is. It looks like something was attached to it through what are probably 3 rivet holes on the wider end. On the other narrower end, I originally thought a wood handle could have gone there (like a broom or hoe handle) but the end of the metal curves back around which would not allow a handle to be installed without cutting a slot into the pole/handle. Any ideas?    ------------- 1939 B, 1940 B, 1941 WC, 1951 WD, 1952 CA, 1956 WD-45 |
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Posted By: wjohn
Date Posted: 25 Jan 2025 at 11:17am
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My other thought is maybe a chair or stool leg? ------------- 1939 B, 1940 B, 1941 WC, 1951 WD, 1952 CA, 1956 WD-45 |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 25 Jan 2025 at 11:34am
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leg from small wood stove ? something that had 4 legs..... ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: DougG
Date Posted: 25 Jan 2025 at 11:49am
| Maybe something from a core house- back then, never know? |
Posted By: AllisFreak MN
Date Posted: 25 Jan 2025 at 11:59am
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I would say it was something to add a little bling to a dresser leg. Like a shiny (at one time) covering of some sort. ------------- '49 A-C WD, '51 A-C WD, '63 A-C D17 Series III, 1968 A-C One-Seventy, '82 A-C 6060, '75 A-C 7040, A-C #3 sickle mower, 2 A-C 701 wagons, '78 Gleaner M2 |
Posted By: ac hunter
Date Posted: 25 Jan 2025 at 12:31pm
| Hood ornament? |
Posted By: Les Kerf
Date Posted: 25 Jan 2025 at 1:27pm
My first thought was a stove leg also.
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jaybmiller wrote:Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 25 Jan 2025 at 3:18pm
Ditto... ------------- Source: Babylon Bee. Sponsored by BRAWNDO, its got what you need! |
Posted By: LouSWPA
Date Posted: 25 Jan 2025 at 4:00pm
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yep, leg from some sort of appliance stove, icebox, pantry ------------- I am still confident of this; I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. Ps 27 |
Posted By: Gary
Date Posted: 25 Jan 2025 at 4:15pm
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John Is this item made of a heavy forged steel, cast iron, or more like Sheet Metal / tin as it appears at the top 3 holes? G |
Posted By: AllisFreak MN
Date Posted: 25 Jan 2025 at 6:57pm
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It looks as if it was heavy tin to me, that's why I think it was a decorative piece on a wooden leg like a dresser or something. ------------- '49 A-C WD, '51 A-C WD, '63 A-C D17 Series III, 1968 A-C One-Seventy, '82 A-C 6060, '75 A-C 7040, A-C #3 sickle mower, 2 A-C 701 wagons, '78 Gleaner M2 |
Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 25 Jan 2025 at 8:12pm
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Cabriole style leg, lots of uses from gas stoves, clothes washers, washtubs, etc... ------------- Source: Babylon Bee. Sponsored by BRAWNDO, its got what you need! |
Posted By: Walker
Date Posted: 25 Jan 2025 at 10:39pm
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Artificial leg for rodent type dinosaur. I'm thinking a capable of flight carnivore, most likely candy apple red with gold metal flake in color. |
Posted By: wjohn
Date Posted: 25 Jan 2025 at 10:44pm
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It's stamped sheet metal, not a thick casting. I think the chair/stove/whatever leg makes the most sense. Thanks guys. I may have a few more of these random things to ID as I find more junk. Found a cleated horse shoe and a really neat very early 1900s Coca Cola bottle bottom today. ------------- 1939 B, 1940 B, 1941 WC, 1951 WD, 1952 CA, 1956 WD-45 |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 26 Jan 2025 at 6:34am
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cleated horse shoe ! My understanding is that's a Winter shoe for Mr. Ed., though I've never owned a farm or had a horse. I did make 'door knockers' with horseshoe and RR spike though....
------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: Walker
Date Posted: 27 Jan 2025 at 5:17pm
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Posted By: Scott B
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2025 at 1:45pm
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I continue to clean up an old farm house site that easily dates back to pre-depression. Amazing the stuff that comes up out of the ground and my biggest fear is the tractor tire finding it. I knew the couple who owned it before I did and they definitely didn't care much for banks....we found $10k in the freezer going into their auction. Big rumors around the area that they buried their money and I've had more than one metal detecting sleuths caught on the property! ------------- D17 Series 1 Allis B- 1939 Allis B- 1945 |
Posted By: BuckSkin
Date Posted: 06 Feb 2025 at 11:20am
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To the original question = what you have found is a leg that could possibly be off of dozens of possibilities already mentioned, such as old washing machine, etc. I had an old cheap sheet-iron stove, bought new in the 1980s, that had four legs exactly like what you have found.
The big thing around here a few years ago, so big that there were several national news features about it, was probing with a stout metal rod around old house places, with or without an old house, finding where the shirt-house used to be, and excavating the hole. The house got moved quite frequently over new holes; so, several treasure troves would be found on a single property. Many things came out of those holes that a metal detector would never find, especially valuable antique glass jars and bottles. It was also amazing what people would lose out of their pockets and off their person down those holes; it would have to be pretty valuable for anyone to retrieve it.
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