✅ SOLVED Metal gear found in creek?

[Jluv]

 

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[nsdq]

Shift shaft out of a tractor is my guess

 

[creskol]

Judging by the size of the one remaining tooth, I would say somebody tried to feed rocks through the corn husker.

 

[hvacker]

Transmission main shaft me thinks.

 

[Jluv]

Make sense since the creek is next to a highway and a farm, but i will check out more of the metal pieces tomorrow

 

[creskol]

Transmission main shaft me thinks.

Just for curiosity sake, does a transmission main shaft have teeth that looks like these?

 

[AU Seeker]

Just for curiosity sake, does a transmission main shaft have teeth that looks like these?

Most of the manual transmissions I have ever worked on had solid shafts and sliding gears on the shafts, none had teeth like those.

Typical transmission exploded view.

https://www.google.com/search?q=man...hUKEwjFtfG_wdjNAhUHNiYKHWfpCbUQsAQIGw#imgrc=_

 

[creskol]

I don't think those bulbous -ended teeth are designed to mesh with any other gear. They may ..may .. be designed for roller-link chains like a manure spreader has, but I think they are designed for mashing something.

 

[Jluv]

So I got a **** spreader <_>

 

[AU Seeker]

I don't think those bulbous -ended teeth are designed to mesh with any other gear. They may ..may .. be designed for roller-link chains like a manure spreader has, but I think they are designed for mashing something.

There is no way those teeth would mesh with other similar teeth except in a sliding fashion, they wouldn't mesh with a roller chain either, the bulbous teeth wouldn't have the space in between them for that to happen, those teeth could only mesh in rotation with a pointed tooth gear like a bicycle sprocket.

 

[Jluv]

Its junk so I'm throwing it away

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

Tractor P.T.O shaft.

 

[Jluv]

Oh.

 

[Bruce R]

It's called a snap roll, from a corn picker.