✅ SOLVED Old Florida Ghost Town Finds

[Black Skull]

Found several interesting pieces at an old Florida Ghost town dating back to 1850's. Other than the obvious, any ideas?

 

[Mich. Wolverine]

The two relics in the 3rd picture with the rings in the flat pieces of iron are log dogs. They hammered the wedges into the end of logs and put a chain through the rings to tie them together. Here in Mi. they used them alot in rivers and lakes. They would make a outer ring of chained logs (dogged) with loose logs in the middle and hold them until needed. Nice finds.
wolverine.

 

[Black Skull]

Thanks for the info. Very cool.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Your second pic has been posted here before but I forget what it is. Timekiller probably knows.

 

[YankeeDownSouthAdv.]

Welcome and glad to see some other FL ghost town finds....plan on hitting some of our sites soon in our neck of the woods...

 

[Black Skull]

Thanks for the help guys. It's cool trying to figure all this stuff out.

 

[ivan salis]

yep its a batch of old relic iron logging equiptment - the wedge and ring thing--the wedge was pounded into the logs --so that the ring could be hitched up for dragging the logs out of the woods by ox teams

 

[timekiller]

It's a antique turpentine tool for scraping trees to get turpentine.
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Pete,
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[timekiller]

Here you Go......................yours would be called the puller in pic. below.

 

[ivan salis]

my bad was told the pine tree scraper was used to move logs about with * but the wedge and rings --I know for sure thats what they were used for

old jug might be a "catch jug" -- to catch pine sap from the hacked trees

 

[Black Skull]

Incredible. Awesome info guys.

 

[YankeeDownSouthAdv.]

love the folks here at Tnet, always help figure out your finds.....sweet finds

 

[pumice]

some oxalic acid would clean the beer can up...won't hurt the paint.........
some cool finds there......