✅ SOLVED Oar lock or something else?

[villagenut]

A friend just dug this and he was thinking oar lock, but I thought it too small and not quite right. What do you all think? It looks like a rounded,tapered handle as if it were a specific hand tool. I have dug oar locks before, and they were not this involved looking. The hole looks tapered but we have not cleaned it yet.

 

Amazon Forum Fav 👍

Agony and Death on a Gold Rush Steamer: The Disastrous Sinking of the Side-Wheeler Yankee Blade - Grab it through Amazon!

[DCMatt]

It looks heavy duty. Maybe a folding crank handle? Like from a "hit and miss" engine?

 

[niffler]

Maybe a fixture for anchoring electrical lines?

 

[Tony in SC]

Linkage adjuster from an old draw bar, My tractor has one.

 

[Tony in SC]

That flywheel is from a John Deere Model "E" hit & miss engine.

It looks heavy duty. Maybe a folding crank handle? Like from a "hit and miss" engine?

 

[villagenut]

Maybe a fixture for anchoring electrical lines?

As a long time sparky, I can rule that one out...but thanks for the reply, it all helps

 

[villagenut]

Not sure how such wrench would work without some type of lug hole or cog. This seems to be a round hole at the wrenching end. It does look like a wrench type tool though, kinda like the old socket handled wrench I had as a kid.

 

[villagenut]

But with such a short handle on a stout tool like this, there wou.d not be much leverage unless you applied a piece of pipe over the handle.

 

[Tony in SC]

It wasn't a wrench. It was a part of the linkage, not hard to turn.

 

[villagenut]

It wasn't a wrench. It was a part of the linkage, not hard to turn.

Thanks Tony, I will look for an image of one to see how it works.....I am obviously a city boy