✅ SOLVED Iron item

[njrelicgairl]

Hey mete
Found this piece of iron back in the summer, just cant think of the name of it?

PS Found behind a cemetery.

 

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[creskol]

I think that says "RATCHET".

:P

It could well be a personalized part to Nurse Ratched's chastity belt. 😱

 

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[pepperj]

There's the question if a ratchet strap, what was the function of the hole.
Rope/wire?
If an implement off a piece of equipment what function would it serve?

 

[ARC]

There's the question if a ratchet strap, what was the function of the hole.
Rope/wire?
If an implement off a piece of equipment what function would it serve?

IMO... this is a wire tensioner... pole mounted.
Probably for fence wires...
Dozer Dan hit on this in the begining.... only his guess / picture is of a hand one.

 

[creskol]

IMO... this is a wire tensioner... pole mounted.
Probably for fence wires...
Dozer Dan hit on this in the begining.... only his guess / picture is of a hand one.

I don't think so 😇

 

[ARC]

Mounted like this....

 

[ARC]

 

[creskol]

View attachment 2063330

hmm.. directional teeth ..

 

[ARC]

hmm.. directional teeth ..

Sprocket like a told you .....

:P

 

[pepperj]

I don't think so 😇

You keep claiming it's a chain sprocket.
Yes that has merit
Though the cog is really close to the bracket for any free travel
What purpose would this have played on equipment.

I think a query into direction/sprocket teeth has to be looked into. (invented)

 

[pepperj]

Just some mind fodder for those that didn't know the difference.
A cogwheel is any wheel with teeth.
A gear is a cogwheel used mesh with another cogwheel.
And a sprocket is a cogwheel that links to another cogwheel by means of a chain.

 

[ARC]

Just some mind fodder for those that didn't know the difference.
A cogwheel is any wheel with teeth.
A gear is a cogwheel used mesh with another cogwheel.
And a sprocket is a cogwheel that links to another cogwheel by means of a chain.

Check out the big brain on Pep.

:P

 

[creskol]

Looks like Eureka.....View attachment 2063319

Could well be .. The Eureka Mower Company, established 1867 and incorporated in 1905, made a lot of agricultural / farm equipment well into the late 1940's .. and maybe later.

 

[dirstscratcher]

Is there an old well or windmill close by? It looks like the crank/ratchet mechanism that was on our old windmill to adjust the fin in relation to the blade to compensate for wind speed or to stop it all together. It used a cable and didn't need to take up or release much cable for the adjustment. I think it may have had a thumb operated lever to lock it in place. I'll see if I can find what's left of ours from our windmill and get a pic.

 

[pepperj]

Is there an old well or windmill close by? It looks like the crank/ratchet mechanism that was on our old windmill to adjust the fin in relation to the blade to compensate for wind speed or to stop it all together. It used a cable and didn't need to take up or release much cable for the adjustment. I think it may have had a thumb operated lever to lock it in place. I'll see if I can find what's left of ours from our windmill and get a pic.

Ok another fly in the soup.

 

[pepperj]

Check out the big brain on Pep.

:P

Well you just needed to know that, so I obliged.

 

[njrelicgairl]

IMO... this is a wire tensioner... pole mounted.
Probably for fence wires...
Dozer Dan hit on this in the begining.... only his guess / picture is of a hand one.

It looks like something you would have to hand crank.

 

[njrelicgairl]

Is there an old well or windmill close by? It looks like the crank/ratchet mechanism that was on our old windmill to adjust the fin in relation to the blade to compensate for wind speed or to stop it all together. It used a cable and didn't need to take up or release much cable for the adjustment. I think it may have had a thumb operated lever to lock it in place. I'll see if I can find what's left of ours from our windmill and get a pic.

No well, or windmill that I know of, it was found behind an old cemetery. That dates back to mid-1700s. There is, or once was a corn field behind the cemetery, but it's now wooded area.. It was also the same spot where I found the pocket watch that I posted here on treasure net. And a mung other items, button, dog tag, glass fragments, extra. There could have been a old home, or just a dumping ground. It's hard to say.

 

[ARC]

It looks like something you would have to hand crank.

yes it is... what i meant was... "hand held" as opposed to a mounted version.
Dozer Dan posted a picture of the handheld version.
Yours is a mounted version.
Both versions are "wound" by hand.

 

[creskol]

yes it is... what i meant was... "hand held" as opposed to a mounted version.
Dozer Dan posted a picture of the handheld version.
Yours is a mounted version.
Both versions are "wound" by hand.

 

[ARC]

Drink more coffee.