✅ SOLVED Antique tractor wheel? Gear from farm machinery?

[screamin4change]

Pulled this out of the ground on the site of an old farm that is now part of a city park. Thought it was a tractor wheel at first but it is fairly small at only 9" in diameter. A piece of the casing is broken off and there appears to be a gear inside. Any ideas?

 

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[Charlie P. (NY)]

Looks like the flywheel for something small that had an electric starter

 

[cudamark]

My first thought was a wheel off an old push lawn mower, but, it seems a bit heavy duty for that. Maybe I'm just too used to the flimsy junk they've made in the last 50 years.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

I think you got it! The inner drive teeth are for the blade spline. I shoulda remembered - I had to spend hours behind one of these as a kid.

 

[cudamark]

Yup, that was my thought. I guess I never had one old enough that had a nice heavy dutyness to it!

 

[screamin4change]

Nice job, guys. Thanks. That makes a lot of sense. It is heavy but the size would be right for that type of application. It has a bit of detail on it, so it would make sense that it would be used on something that was exposed (as opposed to an internal piece on a larger machine). This tells me that maybe the location was not used as a farm field but instead as a lawn and/or garden.