🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Anybody know?

[Tesorodeoro]

Pretty heavy duty. Found in an area that likely dates to 1900 or maybe earlier. Perhaps mining related or logging? Could be early road construction related. Blacksmith shop not far away, but this IS cast. 5 miles from any ag related industry. Old telephone poles nearby that date to the early 1920’s. Definitely getting lag bolted to something in the future.

 

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[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

Looks designed to have something specific wedged into it.

 

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[Tesorodeoro]

Number 193 read from left or 651 read from right er what?

A three character embossment but I don’t dare to guess.

 

[Tesorodeoro]

Too small to be a boot scraper, but I liked that idea.

I’m wondering if it was a bracket of sorts that would have had a round wooden peg driven in for a glass insulator?

 

[tahomatom]

Pretty heavy duty. Found in an area that likely dates to 1900 or maybe earlier. Perhaps mining related or logging? Could be early road construction related. Blacksmith shop not far away, but this IS cast. 5 miles from any ag related industry. Old telephone poles nearby that date to the early 1920’s. Definitely getting lag bolted to something in the future.
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I’m thinking part to a chicken for logging?

 

[tahomatom]

I’m thinking part to a chicken for logging?

I met choker😊

 

[robertk]

I’m thinking part to a chicken for logging?

I met choker😊

Hmmm... Chicken choker? Could be, I guess.



It almost looks like a wall-mounted bottle opener.

 

[potsherd_creek]

After posting the second set of photos holding the iron piece, it looks a bit small to be used as a step. On the back, there are 2 ridges that would make no sense to be bolted to flat metal unless washers were between? So there may have been a channel this was bolted to and maybe in series. It kind of pisses me off to look at it, its one of those pieces that jumps out at you and think you aught to obviously know what it is, on the tip of your mind.
I can think of plenty of uses someone could use it for now, would be great or hanging a shovel, chokers etc.
There was so much early equipment, it amazed me when I was out west a few times, stuff that I did not know existed.
Everything was overbuilt, made to last a century.