SOLVED!: Maybe a sombrero for a small Mexican robot?

[Roland58]

This showed up as a quarter on my F75 with no VDI and a weak signal, so, I knew it was deep. Dug for a while with a mattox, Lesche and plastic scoop in some very hard red clay. As far as I know, this was strictly farm land with a small lake nearby. I came back the next day armed with a sharpshooter and found this almost 2 feet down. Cleaning is not finished, it still has a considerable amount of red clay on it. The white arrows indicate the location of some small indentions, there is a very small hole in the very top of the dome and another hole at the bottom of the "rim."

Side view, approximately 3" in height:

Top view, approximately 9" wide:

Bottom view, white arrows marking small indentations that go all around the dome:

A gentleman on another forum suspected it may be a chicken feeder.......the hole in the rim for drainage and the dome in the middle to prevent the chicken from walking in the food and "pooping" in it.
A search of chicken feeders never revealed anything even similar.....so??

Roland

 

[Rasputin]

Re: Maybe a sombrero for a small Mexican robot?

I'm thinking old poultry feeder also.

 

[Rasputin]

Re: Maybe a sombrero for a small Mexican robot?

Or perhaps a form for a hat-maker. That's my best WAG for tonight.

 

[Roland58]

Re: Maybe a sombrero for a small Mexican robot?

Or perhaps a form for a hat-maker. That's my best WAG for tonight.

I'm more inclined to go with the poultry feeder than a hat form, unless the has was used as a sample or maybe a souvenir mini-sombrero......it would be odd to find that in northeast TX.

Thanks for the 'feeder' vote.....two out of two is a start!!

Roland

 

[creskol]

Re: Maybe a sombrero for a small Mexican robot?

I think it may be out of the bottom of a corn planter hopper, either the hopper that held fertilizer, or the hopper that held the corn. I know where there is an old converted horse-drawn one that I will go look at and let you know.

 

[d2]

Re: Maybe a sombrero for a small Mexican robot?

Chicken feeder is my guess also. Lord I have walked and shook a million of them things and adjusted the height of them as the chickens grew...d2

 

[Kevo_DFX]

Re: Maybe a sombrero for a small Mexican robot?

My Wag - Milk Can Lid:

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/QP3Ueb5l_djVHoEfO1UvZQ

- Kevo

 

[rginn]

Re: Maybe a sombrero for a small Mexican robot?

Looks exactly like what we used for chicken feeders. The ones we had were galvanized, though.

 

[Roland58]

Re: Maybe a sombrero for a small Mexican robot?

Kevo, there certainly is a marked resemblance to the milk can lid and I had actually thought of that. However, there is a small hole in the very center of the dome and the milk can lids have a rolled edge, do they not? The hole in the rim is in a different place, as well. Were the lids on a milk can a friction fit? I used to have one that had been converted into an ashtray (long since gone, along with the habit!)

RGINN and d2, do you have any pics of the feeders you are referring to? I did a number of searches and never found anything close. I guess it is possible this was galvanized at some point, but, if it was, it is all gone now!

 

[Kevo_DFX]

Re: Maybe a sombrero for a small Mexican robot?

Roland,

I'm no milk can expert. When I saw it, that's the first thing it reminded me, and the pic I posted is a pretty close match. As for the rolled edges, There's hundreds of designs, maybe some did and some did not.

If you could find a place on yours where the handle that stretched across the gap was attached, I think it would be a clincher.

It also reminds me of ashtrays that are are hung on a circular holder which is bolted to the walls outside of institutions. But I cannot find a good pic.

- Kevo

 

[Roland58]

Re: Maybe a sombrero for a small Mexican robot?

Roland,

If you could find a place on yours where the handle that stretched across the gap was attached, I think it would be a clincher.

- Kevo

After close inspection, no evidence of a handle ever being attached.

 

[Got_4by4]

Re: Maybe a sombrero for a small Mexican robot?

Maybe a watermelon juicer?

 

[daroofa]

Re: Maybe a sombrero for a small Mexican robot?

Even though I wanted it to be a robot sombrero, I'm gonna have to agree with the poultry feeder answers. Looks a lot this this....

Pat. 1,078,853

 

[Roland58]

Re: Maybe a sombrero for a small Mexican robot?

daroofa,
I am going to put a "check" on this one, thanks to you. Even though there is only one hole in the rim of what I found, I am now convinced this has to be the bottom portion of some model of poultry feeder. Really nice work on finding the patent!!!

Thank you!!!