Some Kind of Hitch I Think

[Yard Digger]

I found this a couple weeks ago and finally got around to cleaning it up.
It looks like an old hitch of some kind. It's iron and about 6 1/2 inches
long.

 

[Breezie]

Hello Yard Digger, yes, it does look like some kind of hitch, but I'm sorry I don't know what it is. Welcome to the forum! Breezie

 

[kenley]

Half of some kind of a clamp. Cable?

 

[GopherDaGold]

Lunette ring for a pintle hitch

 

[creskol]

Any markings or stampings present?

 

[Tony in SC]

Half of some kind of a clamp. Cable?

I think is half of a cable clamp not for steel cable but for heavy electrical cable. I've seen clamps kinda like that in an old "power house" that were used to fasten the huge wires to the alternators and transformers. The wire size would be in the 300/500CM range"BIG". Tony

 

[Yard Digger]

Thank you all for the replies. There appears to be some writing, but I couldn't read it.
I believe a lot of it came off with the rust during electrolysis. Large wire clamp sounds
logical, but I was thinking some sort of hitch part for a horse or mule drawn wagon or
farm implement. I found this on my place near where a barn used to be.

 

[silverswede]

The design seems similiar to a battery cable clamp only much larger. Thought provoking little bugger tho, ain't it.

 

[Yard Digger]

The design seems similiar to a battery cable clamp only much larger. Thought provoking little bugger tho, ain't it.

Yeah your right, it is similiar to a battery cable clamp and also thought provoking. Your thinking is along the line of Tony's. It could very well be a clamp for very large cable.

 

[Burnt Chimney]

Tony and Kenley are on this one ,,,Dead end cable strain clamp ,for the big cables.
BC

 

[sniffer]

it looks like it's made of cast iron, maybe an old cable stay