Here's one more

[Bison]

It's not quite complete,but the one in the know should recognize it.

 

[JB4310]

It's not quite complete,but the one in the know should recognize it.

I just saw something almost exactly that shape today, smaller and made of plastic. It was a dial indicator of some type.

JB.

 

[Lightnsound]

Railroad spike hammer?

 

[JB4310]

Railroad spike hammer?

I don't think so, I have one of those, that would make a good what is it

I agree it does look like a striking tool but the handle hole is so tiny, don't see how it could be.

Maybe a punch to make a starter hole in a rail road tie?

JB

 

[Bison]

I'll give ya a clue, farming back in time.
Keep guessing

 

[Mace Canute]

Ok, my WAG is a tool used to form the holes in horse shoes where the nails went to hold it onto the hoof...a forepunch.

 

[Bison]

nope.

 

[Carl_NH]

Part of a horse drawn plow tongue to adjust the draft?

 

[BillBeyer]

puts hole in ground for seed

 

[jlsmith]

Looks like a hitch pin.

 

[Bison]

nope.
give ya other clue.
missing part is a strip of steel in a figure 8 shape trough the square hole(loop on each side of the pin).Still incomplete!.
There is another part yet needed to make use of it.

 

[Wacky]

Some-kind of a yoke for combine implement.

 

[Ductape]

I dunno.......... but if my wife kept one in her right hand I'd actually listen when she talked. :laughing:

 

[Carl_NH]

1. A brake with the square end acting as a "dog" in a gear?

2. A horse collar pin that joins the two pair of horses together?

3. Hasp / closure device that is put thru a set of pins to hold doors closed?

Close to giving up on this one - got that tendon clamp right but this is more challenging..

 

[JB4310]

Is there a magnet involved?

More hints at least

JB.

 

[Carl_NH]

I"t would be nice to have a more responsive buffalo..

 

[Bison]

Pulling hairs are ye:laughing:

OK, i'll let you sleep tonight.

Its an anvil used with a cresent shaped hammer to put a sharp cutting edge on a scythe back in the days when people mowed hay by hand.
The anvil was pushed in the ground,the figure 8 acted as a stop.
This one belonged to my grandpa,i got the hammer somewhere too.
I used it last summer on my scythe,yes i know how to use it.

Google "Haarspit" it'll show you how it was done.

 

[Bison]

I"t would be nice to have a more responsive buffalo..

I got plenty of them too

 

[czechsonofagun]

Pulling hairs are ye:laughing:

OK, i'll let you sleep tonight.

Its an anvil used with a cresent shaped hammer to put a sharp cutting edge on a scythe back in the days when people mowed hay by hand.
The anvil was pushed in the ground,the figure 8 acted as a stop.
This one belonged to my grandpa,i got the hammer somewhere too.
I used it last summer on my scythe,yes i know how to use it.

Google "Haarspit" it'll show you how it was done.

I would never guess it, seems like steel was cheap in America - see these pictures, that's what we use(d) overseas. In my original country, scythe is used daily almost everywhere and it is not an obscure art like in USA
When I was teenager, I cut several acres twice a month to keep the grass low, nothing like that - you get up before sunrise and bare foot in wet grass just start cutting and by the time it gets hot you are done.

Nowadays there are two ways to hammer scythe, either you know your way with the hammer and use just the anvil or you can cheat and use the second one.

The sound of hammering scythe is very typical for Czech villages in spring and summer.

 

[jayste]

I got plenty of them too

Bison, do you market your animals? How much land do you run them on and how much fence problems do you have?