🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Unknown barn find

[GaryH]

Cast iron, part of a hanging scale, hay sling, or something else? Found near barn in Iowa.

 

[RelicFinder77]

Cast iron, part of a hanging scale, hay sling, or something else? Found near barn in Iowa.

Old fence wire stretcher im sure

 

[Blackfoot58]

Old fence wire stretcher im sure

I can see that application now. I wouldn’t have thought of it. 👍🏼

 

[RelicFinder77]

I can see that application now. I wouldn’t have thought of it. 👍🏼

I use a modern one a lot, lol, too much in this heat

 

[GaryH]

I can see that application now. I wouldn’t have thought of it. 👍🏼

How would it have worked? Maybe a lever or other parts missing.

 

[Blackfoot58]

You start by fastening your wire to a corner post, then you would hook the fence roll to the double hooks and a come-a-long to the opposite loop. You then pull to tighten the wire. When tight, you fasten wire to the next post, and so on. Doesn’t have to be a come-a-long. Could be a horse, tractor, 4-wheeler etc hooked to a rope/chain.

 

[creskol]

How would it have worked? Maybe a lever or other parts missing.

I agree that the mechanics of this is rather bizarre. And, being just over 8 inches long, I have doubts about it being a fence stretcher.

 

[dognose]

Nice find. I think it's a fence wire stretcher also.

 

[creskol]

Nice find. I think it's a fence wire stretcher also.

Kinda small for that, isn't it?

 

[Blackfoot58]

We need to remember not all wire was in woven rolls. My neighbor still runs 2 strands of barbed wire above the woven wire. It needs stretched also. You loop the leading end and pull it tight. This tool could be for single strand.