Antique farm equipment or weapon?

[conkauctions]

Found outside a corn field near civil war trails. It is iron, the top is threaded and the curls are pounded as if a blacksmith forged it. The paper towels are full size for reference. Please help

Thanks

 

[NOLA_Ken]

Some sort of adjustable plowshare?

 

[conkauctions]

Interesting. Poor horses! This thing weighs a lot

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Just a WAG but it resembles what is used now for a trenching plow or maybe a sub-soiler?





Never seen any farm implement with a ram-nut ("Ram-horn nut"). That's pretty old tech.

Not poor horse - dumb ox.

 

[sutphin]

It is blacksmith made and it looks as if it was adjustable due to the threads below the scroll head or rams head I have found something similar but this looks to be maybe a plow share that was inserted so that it could be either tighten or loosed. Plowshare maybe but I think it has to do with more of an adjuster for more pressure to some type of item.

 

[conkauctions]

Interesting! so we have a farmer/blacksmith. Or the McGuyver of the corn world!

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Not adjustable - tightenable.

IMHO

 

[Tony in SC]

I think Charlie is right about the plows. The wing nut on top was not smith made. It's called a double heal nut. Could be bought at hardware stores. They are usually used with chains, but I still think this is a plow of some sort. Tony

 

[FreeBirdTim]

My father had a rototiller with a row maker plow in the back. It dug into the ground to make a straight row so you could easily plant the seeds after you were done tilling. The one on my father's tiller was thinner and more pointed, but I'll bet that's what your part was designed to do.