Wagon hitch???

[asmerri]

My buddy found this today at late 1800’s site. Wagon hitch? Tool TIA!

 

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[firemanphob]

Hard to tell from the one angle but top part looks like a bearing housing half. I would guess it was just a bearing mount for a line shaft or something like that.

 

[asmerri]

Is that a part on a vehicle or piece of farm equipment? I’m not familiar with bearing mounts.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

My first thought was part of an antique Conestoga Wagon or truck jack leg.

Dave

 

[Tony in SC]

The half rounded end does mean that it mounted on a shaft of some type. Just some ideas, packer on a haypress, cutting head on a sycle mower, some other heavy oscillating piece?

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Maybe a coupling rod from a steam engine to convert back and forth piston motion into rotary motion (or vice-versa). Small for a locomotive but perhaps for a pump or sawmill?

 

[asmerri]

Thanks everyone!