✅ SOLVED farm tool or prototype ray gun?

[stevengugas]

Found this today at a CW farm/hospital site. Have no idea what it could be? It is iron and 4" high and the base is 2 1/2" wide.Any ideas?

 

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[luke_00]

Top of a shock absorber.

 

[Tony in SC]

It's a burr from an old hand grinder.

 

[relic nut]

It's a burr from an old hand grinder.

I agree. I found one from a coffee grinder in a Confederate breast works once.

HH, RN