Rusty Relics

[woolshed]

Most of the rusty cast iron relics I find are to corroded and left behind. But occasionally I bring a find home and clean it up. They look OK around the house and garden. A bit of a talking piont when ever vistor are around.

Heavy Lid from a water tank. 1900 - 1920`s







No idea what this was, but it now sits on an out side table with a pot plant in it.







Goldfields Finds.









Cheers, Woolshed.

 

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[CC Hunter]

Nice Steel & Iron!

The pick is an early one, and hammer welded from two separate pieces. Looking at the top, you may note evidence of a joint or seam, where the two halves were hammered together while red hot from the furnace. By the later 19th Century, advances in production led to casting of complete picks, rather than the earlier hammer weld construction. The style you have there dates to the 1850's.

CC Hunter

 

[vpnavy]

Outstanding woolshed.

 

[woolshed]

Hi CC Hunter. Thank you for your replies. I found this one today, and you can see that it has three layers of steel.



Cheers, Woolshed.
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Nice Steel & Iron!

The pick is an early one, and hammer welded from two separate pieces. Looking at the top, you may note evidence of a joint or seam, where the two halves were hammered together while red hot from the furnace. By the later 19th Century, advances in production led to casting of complete picks, rather than the earlier hammer weld construction. The style you have there dates to the 1850's.

CC Hunter

 

[CC Hunter]

That splitting wedge has been pounded quite hard a few times!

Was there any hardrock to break in your area?

The fancy decorative cast iron collar piece is quite stunning. My eyes and mind envision that as possibly the base to a column or supporting post, on the porch or portico of a commercial building.

Nice adze!!! (a fellow must take care with such words in some locales, as a slap might ensue if ladies are present and unknowing the referencing word is regarding rusty relics)

CC Hunter

 

[kuger]

Love the pot hanger too!!
Picks and axe's are a weak spot for me,I keep dragging em home to the dis-may of my wife!Keep an eye out for the makers "mark",stamped in tools

 

[goldnrelics]

great restorations. nice job

 

[kuger]

Nice Steel & Iron!

The pick is an early one, and hammer welded from two separate pieces. Looking at the top, you may note evidence of a joint or seam, where the two halves were hammered together while red hot from the furnace. By the later 19th Century, advances in production led to casting of complete picks, rather than the earlier hammer weld construction. The style you have there dates to the 1850's.

CC Hunter

...although we do see cast picks even during the mid 19 th Century as well

 

[Ironman!]

Lovin those iron relics you have there woolshed! Thanks for posting them up!! I too, like my friend kuger mentioned, have a love for iron artifacts and seem to at times bring more of them home than the other finds!! Thus the dubbing of Ironman from CC Hunter out in the field one day years ago!!!

Do you have many marked picks, shovels, axes, etc? Keep up the great posts! You have many others here who share your love for 1850's relics no matter where they are found. They all tell a story and actually intertwine once in awhile from different countries!!!

IM