PAULB: This is a likely Military ITEM: but what is it part of?

[PAULB]

This piece is 3 inches high/4 inches long, with multiple [making it apparently adjustable in its length] bolt holes, and has broken off a longer piece; it was found in an area where federal Civil War troops had artillery/mortars. Has anyone seen anything like this previously? Part of a caisson perhaps?

 

[Mud Hut]

It is part of a clevis from a piece of old farm machinery.

 

[d2]

It's off a plow stock or some other horse drawn type farm equipment. Can't think of the name at this time...d2

 

[Mud Hut]

It's off a plow stock or some other horse drawn type farm equipment. Can't think of the name at this time...d2

Yup .. a clevis.

 

[d2]

That is it. Find gobs of stuff down here like that. Some things I should remember simply because we plowed and worked our garden with a horse up until about 15 years ago. Dad always did it, I just helped him get the horse hitched up and then would watch him...d2

 

[Tony in SC]

It is a type of clevis, but it is also used as an evener, that's why it has several holes. Tony

 

[sutphin]

Looks like a part to a grate adjuster of a wood stove?vanzutphen

 

[trdking]

Is it circumcised or uncircumcised? That is the question

 

[ivan salis]

it can be farm used or in the case of artillery --used for "height adjustment " --often CW artillery used a screw wheel type device to adjust for "height" ( trajectory / distance )

 

[sutphin]

I think circumcised !vanzutphen

 

[Mud Hut]

Is it circumcised or uncircumcised? That is the question

I think it was only a partial circumcision.

 

[PAULB]

Thank you!! That answer makes the most sense, based on the site it was found in!!! Is there, do you know,
a specific name for the part? I'll try to research it.... PAUL B

 

[PAULB]

I'm sorry for my ignorance, but what DO YOU MEAN "cIRC VS uNCIRC'?

pb