Trying to date these plow chisels

[Exhuminator]

I've been hunting an old farmstead. It was a plantation in the 1800s, then a modern farm in the 1900s. I have found some plow chisel teeth, and I'm hoping someone here can help identify how old they are:




Any help is appreciated.

 

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[Fat]

They look like the shovels from a spring tooth harrow. I think modern. The ones I use today have a tool end on each end. Use up one end and than unbolt flip 180 and than tighten back up. They protect the spring steel shank ends from wearing away. The top right in the pic. has a little point left, all but warn out, the others are worn out.

 

[Exhuminator]

They look like the shovels from a spring tooth harrow.

Thanks for that information. After researching this terminology, I think these are detachable spring tooth harrow points. I still wish I could get a better date on them, insofar was what 1900s decade they are from. But at least now I have a good idea what they are. I appreciate your help.

 

[pepperj]

I really think Fat answered your query.
Though in your post you stated old farmstead, so what else have you managed to find. Reason being it might help date the site better. I've dug combine brushes off a recent 1850's farm-it basically getting rid of the iron on the field to see what lays beneath.
Looking forward seeing any other finds.

 

[Exhuminator]

what else have you managed to find

The 1800s stuff in this thread: http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/my-best-finds/649473-some-finds-old-plantation.html

Plus these things:









Edit: I also found a 5' long two man bucking saw blade with lance teeth. But I gave it to a relative before I took a picture of it.

 

[Fat]

You might be able to get a date from that cast Iron skillet. With a little electrolysis, you might be able to clean up and put into morning bacon frying rotation.

 

[Exhuminator]

You might be able to get a date from that cast Iron skillet. With a little electrolysis, you might be able to clean up and put into morning bacon frying rotation.

I was hoping the skillet was salvageable when I found it. Unfortunately it's got a massive crack through its middle (can't really see in the photo). I scoured the skillet for a date or any other text, no dice. One of those diagonal plow teeth with serrated edges has a manufacturer's logo on it though, so I can start searching from there on a date. Just didn't know if the tooth harrow points were from the same time period.

I'm finding all this stuff on my land, btw. I bought 16 acres or rural land back in 2016, then got a wild hair and decided it'd be interesting to start detecting my place. I reckon I've scanned about 1% of it so far. Thing is most the land is now forested, so the ground in all the woods is hard to dig in (roots galore). Also the dirt in general is highly mineralized red clay, so ground balancing is trickier too. Who knows though, there might be an old cache out here, or a 1800s coin spill somewhere.

 

[Fat]

I really hope you find it!! Any spill before the middle 1960s wouldn’t be bad, either.