how old is this stuff???

trevmma · Mar 24, 2011

a barn by my house that i got word they are tearing down to build houses, so i snuck in

wwwtimmcp · Mar 24, 2011

that bottom photo looks like a corn planter, look for a seat to see if it is horse drawn or tractor pulled.

Daedalus · Mar 24, 2011

They are iron banded wheels , that make them run a range of the 1800 hundreds through the early 1900 hundreds . As I can not find any data on equipment like this style back any further . The kind that is in the photos that is.

Without doing deeper research I would say they were built sometime after the Civil War .
Did you see any names on the stuff ? Any company marks ? If you did let us know as that will help quite a lot.

KOOTNEY KID · Mar 25, 2011

Looks like museum pieces to me!
Love the old stuff! :icon_sunny:

Rick (Nova Scotia) · Mar 25, 2011

The elevator in the first pic is pretty old, and probably hasn't been used for quite some time.

The wooden wheeled cart, very cool.

The planter or seeder, I have seen similar used not so long ago.

Agree with Deadlius, would be hard to put an exact date on any of it, even if you find a date on some of it, which would probably be a patend date, and could have been made then or substancially later.

Take the Bain (spoked wheel) wagon it could have been made 75 years ago, or much longer. Made by many different individuals. and similarly built for a long time. Then again maybe someone who knows more could narrow it down if looking at it.

Old stuff is cool, makes you think, life was different back then.

NOLA_Ken · Mar 25, 2011

I think I'd be trying to find permission to salvage all of it. People collect those things like maniacs, you could do pretty good on it.

White Shaddow · Mar 25, 2011

I see in photo #3

Theres a one lunger that looks like a 4 or 5 horse engine.You can see its ready to power something by a belt. you should try to save that its the best thing I can see in the photos and some likely runs something in the barn,

timekiller · Mar 25, 2011

Use this site I use quite often.I think you'll find most of the pieces in there.To many to bring over to the post so best to go to the site.
Take Care,
Pete, :hello:

http://www.gregssandbox.com/mcmurry/sec13/part1.htm

dimetime · Mar 25, 2011

early 20's

GL · Mar 25, 2011

Get that hit and miss! Those are very valuable and awesome to own and have. Fix it up(probably still works/hard to kill), paint it up and show it off.
I sold one I found here in the woods. I really should have kept that thing. LOVE it.
Here is a much larger similar running version:

plymouthian12 · Mar 25, 2011

awesome my dad collects one lungers aka hit or miss engines

Meatball · Mar 26, 2011

Unsure of the age but the first pic is of a hay loader. These are pulled behind a wagon that is being pulled by either a team of horses or a tractor. They are ground driven and the arms turn on a sort of crank shaft moving each arm upward and away from the deck. As it is pulled through a row of cut hay it continuously pushes hay up until it reaches the top where it then drops down onto a wagon allowing it to be piled quite high without hay to use forks to lift it.
The 5th picture is of a corn binder. They are also pulled by either horses or a tractor and a also ground driven. When they are hooked up they are off set to keep either the horses or the tractor out of the standing corn. As they are pulled a single row of corn is cut just above the ground and fed upright through the wooden guides on each side to a chamber at the rear. After a certain number of revolutions the binder will trip and using twine similar to baler twine it ties off a bundle of corn and drops it either out the rear or on to another attachment that lifts it up to wagon level so it can easily be loaded. The shocks as they are called are then either fed into a chopper and blown into a silo of are stacked into a teepee formation to allow the corn to dry.
The bottom picture is of a grain drill on the left side. The grain drill was used for planting grains such as oats, spelts, wheat, barley or hay. These are still in wide use today.
Very nice find. These implements were often pulled by either horses or the early tractors that didn't have a PTO. It is hard to tell but most in the pictures appear to have the long tongue wooden tongue that is used for horse drawn equipment. These implements are still in wide use by many Amish farmers. They were at one time state of the art farming equipment. I have personally used a hay loader, corn binder and grain drill. It is quite an experience to be able to farm the way our forefathers did and really makes you appreciate how easier it is with modern equipment.

ivan salis · Mar 26, 2011

by the looks of it stuff from the 1920's to 1880 time range -- adverage would be 1900 * dats some old goodies --try to see if you can get the "ok" to clean it out before they get wrecked.

jrsherman · Mar 26, 2011

Daedalus said:
They are iron banded wheels , that make them run a range of the 1800 hundreds through the early 1900 hundreds . As I can not find any data on equipment like this style back any further . The kind that is in the photos that is.

Without doing deeper research I would say they were built sometime after the Civil War .
Did you see any names on the stuff ? Any company marks ? If you did let us know as that will help quite a lot.

You would think that about iron banded wheels, but my grandfather was still helping my great-grandfather do the blacksmithing work on those same style of wheels during WW2 in Southern MO.

I'd contact a local museum about saving it all for display purposes, and I'd also damn the people for even considering tearing down a building with any form of history inside.