What is this?

[Chris krasnai]

Anybody know what this is.? I was detecting a farm field and this was about 5 inches down.

 

[Mud Hut]

Is it threaded?

 

[Chris krasnai]

Yes looks like it is threaded. Here's a better pic.

 

[Blak bart]

Its called an eye bolt.

 

[Mud Hut]

When I was a kid on the farm we had an old horse drawn sickle mower that had been converted to a tractor pull-behind mower that we pulled with an old John Deere MT tractor. At any rate; the sickle bar had to be manually put in the upright position when you were done mowing and it was secured by a long rod that had a hook on one end and was threaded on the other. The hook was inserted into a beefy eye-bolt that looked exactly like the one you posted which was bolted to the mower's frame. The other end went through a hole in the sickle bar itself and was secured by a beefy wing-nut of sorts. When I saw the item you posted it immediately reminded me of the the eye-bolt I mentioned and seeing that it is threaded solidifies my theory.

 

[Chris krasnai]

Thank you for the great explanation!

 

[13dolphins1]

When I was a kid on the farm we had an old horse drawn sickle mower that had been converted to a tractor pull-behind mower that we pulled with an old John Deere MT tractor. At any rate; the sickle bar had to be manually put in the upright position when you were done mowing and it was secured by a long rod that had a hook on one end and was threaded on the other. The hook was inserted into a beefy eye-bolt that looked exactly like the one you posted which was bolted to the mower's frame. The other end went through a hole in the sickle bar itself and was secured by a beefy wing-nut of sorts. When I saw the item you posted it immediately reminded me of the the eye-bolt I mentioned and seeing that it is threaded solidifies my theory.

You are awesome to take the time to write that....great job and I.D.

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[smokeythecat]

I concur with a threaded eye bolt. They have been made for over a century. You can still buy them at the hardware store.

 

[coinman123]

There is a giant 6 foot tall, 10 foot long, glacier rock in my front yard next to the driveway (two of them actually, next to each other). Each rock has a couple of those drilled in to it, with a big iron ring connected to it for hitching the horses back when horses were the main form of transportation. I will try to take photos soon.