what in the world ?

[traderoftreasures]

found this old item and i am not sure what it was for. also found this other item that i am also unaware of. thanks

 

[DCMatt]

These items are used for the same thing... To indicate that the 'iron mask' on your MD is set too low.

DCMatt

 

[traderoftreasures]

These items are used for the same thing... To indicate that the 'iron mask' on your MD is set too low.

DCMatt

makes it easier when the "others" come dig after me

 

[IronSpike]

Maybe a hammer of sorts?

 

[relic lover]

The forked item is a broken pick ax head.

 

[IronSpike]

I think you got it relic lover

 

[Woodland Detectors]

The forked item is a broken pick ax head.

Agreed hammer. Or finishing hammer for(small) brads

 

[DCMatt]

The forked item is a broken pick ax head.

Agreed! Or finishing hammer for brads

Maybe a small hammer, but it seems too small and too blunt for a pickaxe.

Was this item found near RR tracks? House/farm? A mine?

DCMatt

 

[Woodland Detectors]

correction....Riveting hammer

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

I think you got it.

 

[traderoftreasures]

yes it was found in a field, but near a 1860's home site. here are some fresh day photo's

 

[johnnyi]

Rando, trouble is this thing looks had forged. There seems to be a shadow of the forging running from the 'eye" down the piece a ways. None of even the earliest sickle bar mowers had hand forged teeth. There is the remainder of a pin that went through the 'eye' though, and there is not a wider face, which pretty much elimiminate any kind of hammer, (as a wedge would have been used to secure it to a handle.) I'd bet twenty dollars to a doughnut on a hunch (say, how much are doughnuts these days?) that what ever it is, that pin was an after thought when the forged weld broke and the thing got shaky.

It looks like the kind of blunt pin that could have been mounted into something. A wild guess might be one of the two uprights off a certain style of early boot scraper.

 

[traderoftreasures]

my uneducated guess would have been a handle for old wood burning cook stove.

 

[mojjax]

How about a Raft Shackle ? Logging item ?

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

How about a Raft Shackle ? Logging item ?

Oh man.
I swear if i find another one of those things, blood is going to shoot from my eyes.
I do a lot of riverfront hunting in a place that was very prominent in the logging trade. Need I say more?
They are MY "pulltabs"

Do you think this could be a raft shackle?

 

[traderoftreasures]

it doesn't appear to be a raft shackle from the pictures i looked at