✅ SOLVED Pointy Iron Chunk????

[jaybird10e]

Ok...found this along the shore of a river. The water is down so its been fun finding stuff.
Not sure what this is...possible something decorative or part of a tool. It looks like it was possibly broke off oppisite of the point. It was pretty corroded...i wire wheeled it and clear coated it.
Also...the stuff i have been finding in this area has been from the late 1800's...not sure if that helps.
Thanks in advance for your input.

 

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[ANTIQUARIAN]

I'm thinking it might have something to do with the logging industry?


David

 

[jaybird10e]

ok...i think i figured it out...thank you Google. Heres what i copy/pasted....
"These are super old log boom spikes. They are made of steel. They measure about 5 inches long and 2 inches wide. They used these by driving them into the logs and then ran chains through each spike to hold the log boom together."

 

[taz42o]

Yep beavertail logdog.

 

[digger460]

Nice relic! Hit that area some more Might be a good place to do a little magnet fishing.

 

[BosnMate]

The mill where I worked, shut down in 2002, and we were using those for rafting logs in the pond at that time. It's been a long time since logs have been rafted down a river, so that would help date your find. Walt Disney (I think) did a movie on rafting logs on the Clear Water River in Idaho back when I was a kid, probably in the 40's, and as I recollect, that was supposed to be one of the last times it was done.

 

[tamrock]

The mill where I worked, shut down in 2002, and we were using those for rafting logs in the pond at that time. It's been a long time since logs have been rafted down a river, so that would help date your find. Walt Disney (I think) did a movie on rafting logs on the Clear Water River in Idaho back when I was a kid, probably in the 40's, and as I recollect, that was supposed to be one of the last times it was done.

I liked those old Disney documentary and nature films they did back in those days. Left me with the idea of "I can't wait to grow up and explore this world" Now we can just check it all out on a phone, tablet or one of those new virtual reality goggles. My daughter brought one of those over when she came for Christmas. Wow! I watched a dinosaur wake up and look me right in the eye.

 

[BosnMate]

I liked those old Disney documentaries and nature films they did back in those days.

Yes, weren't they great. Like the one where the cougar was chasing the rabbit. How many millions of feet of film did they have to shoot of different cougars chasing different rabbits in order for them to get all those camera angles and close up shots to splice together for the story. Never thought about it when I was a kid, but now I really have to admire the guys that were running the cameras. Dang they were good.

 

[tamrock]

Yes, weren't they great. Like the one where the cougar was chasing the rabbit. How many millions of feet of film did they have to shoot of different cougars chasing different rabbits in order for them to get all those camera angles and close up shots to splice together for the story. Never thought about it when I was a kid, but now I really have to admire the guys that were running the cameras. Dang they were good.

I saw once in an antique store on the road an old wildlife film camera mounted on a rife style stock. It was an expensive at the time German made 16mm film camera that held a large film reel, but had a $1200. price on it. Could have been worth more then that for all I know to a collector? Looked like something from the late 1940's to early 1950's.

 

[BosnMate]

Now you got me wanting to watch some of those old Disney films. Don't remember the name of the movie about the log drive on the Clear Water river, but I bet it's on the internet somewhere. Guess I'll have to try and find it.

 

[BosnMate]

I've been looking for the Disney movie, but so far haven't found it. However I did come across this one, and found out that the last log drive on the Clearwater was in 1971. The drives started on that river in 1928, and ended when the Dworshak dam was completed. This was in the day when men were men, and the bull of the woods was boss, and if need be, he'd tune up any non believer.