Ships Turnbuckle ?

[mojjax]

I found this 100 feet from the high water mark where the treeline starts . Could it be from an old ship ? or just part of a farm implement ( there is an old farm house about 1/2 mile away up on a hill )
Just the end was sticking out out of the ground at an angle .
It's 28 inches long . Heavy .
It seems to have some cloth rapping with a tar-like coating . Any ideas ?
mojjax

 

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[gldhntr]

looks like an old pto shaft from a 30-40 model tractor...

 

[Two Dogs]

I'd opt for the ships turnbuckle since it looks like a turnbuckle and has left hand threads on one end and right hand threads on the other. The tar covered canvas would have been used to protect the metal from the ravages of salt water. I saw lots of similar items while in the Navy. Two Dogs

 

[buscadero]

I may be off base here, but to me it looks like an adjuster for those wires that hold up Elec. Poles, etc.

 

[Tony in SC]

It's a leveler that goes from the tractor to the plow, etc. Tony

 

[dkw]

Tony has it right. I've used a hundred just like that one.

 

[abacopirate]

It's a sturnbuckle from a ship. Used to adjust rigging. It has tar and canvas to protect from the salt. The ones used on tractors had a ball join on each end to let them swing.

 

[Michelle]

yep....it's old...you got it 8)

 

[Monty]

Looks like part of the hook up for a 3 pt. tractor hitch set up to me. Monty

 

[Michelle]

makes sense.... 8)

 

[mojjax]

I'm hoping it's a ship part .
I was able to use some solvent and some pipe wrenches to break free one end . I found this picture in a library book today . It's kinda similar ?
mojjax

 

[River Rat]

It looks like both....I'm trying to picture the one on the tractor right now...I believe the tractor hitch would be much thicker. It does look like the ones on the electric poles too.

 

[cheese]

Even on the smaller tractors, they are heavier duty than that when used on a 3-pt hitch. The one on our 8N Ford tractor (smaller tractor) is probably 3 times thicker/heavier than that.

I'd say it's a turnbuckle for sure, but whether it was on a ship or not is hard to say. Looks like it could have been. Probably fairly modern though (within the past 50 years or so) judging by the corrosion and the fact that you got it broken loose. Most really old stuff I find in salt water is so rusted it's almost unidentifiable without knocking clods of corrosion off.

 

[Ant]

I can't tell what it went on but that is in fact a turnbuckle. As you already must know, turnbuckles are used on lots of machinery.

 

[Nail Digger]

It is not the "top link" for a tractor 3-point hitch. As mentioned by someone else, too slim. These also have ball joints on each end, as someone else also mentioned. I've lived on a farm all my life and have seen plenty of them, on new and old tractors. That doesn't mean that it couldn't be off some other piece of antique farm equipment, although I don't recall ever seeing a piece like this before. I don't know much about ship's rigging, but I think the tar certainly makes the ship turnbuckle a likely id. The last thing I would want on farm equipment is a sticky tar coating to collect dirt, clothing, fingers, etc.