(NGC) - Help me ID this please.

[Gliderjohn]

Found this on our non-paved country road while walking this afternoon. It is small. Only around two inches in length. The square hole is below the pick part with a tightening bolt. It is so corroded I can't really say if anything broke off opposite of the pick. Wouldn't have done a tire much good.






GliderJohn

[Turin]

Any legible markings? Could be a henway.

[Ncdan]

Looks like some sort of tie down piece for a tractor or piece of farm equipment????

[SmithSwede]

What’s a henway?  I think about three pounds

[RHAT]

I think it holds a rubber tire rim to a wooden spoke wheel.

[oldbike54]

I think it holds a rubber tire rim to a wooden spoke wheel.

 Dang , you are probably right Richard 

 Dusty

[slowmover]

While we’re at it, what’s this thing?

[StuCorpe]

Slowmover - It's a fire starter, the pot gets filled with oil and the ceramic part soaks in the oil.  Then when you want a fire in the fireplace you pile the wood and put the ceramic at the bottom edge, light the oil and by the time the oil is used up the fire is supposed to be burning.  Then put the ceramic back in the pot for next time.  We have been using one at  our vacation home for over 20 years now.

[slowmover]

Thank you StuCorpe.My wife brings home lots of objects that are pleasing to the eye but their function sometimes is a mystery.

[ccoli]

Okay I'll jump in on this too. Ive searched the internet and found 1, it was someone else asking what it was.
No answers. It's about 6" long opened up.

[slowmover]

Ha! A new thread!

[cloudbase]

Slowmover - It's a fire starter, the pot gets filled with oil and the ceramic part soaks in the oil.  Then when you want a fire in the fireplace you pile the wood and put the ceramic at the bottom edge, light the oil and by the time the oil is used up the fire is supposed to be burning.  Then put the ceramic back in the pot for next time.  We have been using one at  our vacation home for over 20 years now.

What kind of oil do you use in that thing?   

[Zoom Zoom]

Okay I'll jump in on this too. Ive searched the internet and found 1, it was someone else asking what it was.
No answers. It's about 6" long opened up.

Interesting. Never seen anything like it. It looks like there is writing on it in the first pic but I can't read it. Might help identify. Well, that or carbon dating.

I tried feeding the image into a reverse google image search and it thought it was decorative trim on wood. Obviously it is not. This looks ot be entertaining.

John Henry

[JJ]

Here's another mystery - A rusted, cast-iron, ornamental piece, found on our property when they re-did the landscaping 4 years ago.  We suspect from a 19th century bed frame or (???).   Back in 1900's, "Big Park", (now the Village of Oak Creek), was a huge cattle ranch....so maybe from a homestead on our property (???)

[jwinwi]

Okay I'll jump in on this too. Ive searched the internet and found 1, it was someone else asking what it was.
No answers. It's about 6" long opened up.

Is it for moving haybales or something else agricultural? The hook is the machine/product interface...

[StuCorpe]

Cloudbase - The same oil used in a wick lamp.  Lamp Oil.

[cliffrod]

Okay I'll jump in on this too. Ive searched the internet and found 1, it was someone else asking what it was.
No answers. It's about 6" long opened up.

This is the picture to reference.  It would make more sense if flipped top to bottom.  Looks like a pinch hook for hanging whatever will fit in the long bent hook (like the handle of a bucket, lantern or ? from a wooden beam, rafter, branch, etc. that is no wider than the spread of the two pikes.  when weight is applied to the arm with the long bent hook, the two sharp pikes/points will bite into the wood.  This is for temporarily hanging something in one place.   It's easy to quickly install and remove with little to no damage compared to a hook like this one that's designed to be driven into the same wooden member.  Looks like it would work very well for hanging a lantern from a round branch while camping.

This is the alternative to a pinch hook- just a plain piked hook made by a blacksmith. This one belonged to my grandfather and is part of his stonecutter's tool chest inventory.  He used it to hang his air hose from a convenient wooden beam when using pneumatic tools on granite.  It works good, but leaves a hole.   You could just as easily drive it into a tree trunk for the lantern.
 




Very cool thread.  I've got something I would like to post to ID, but have to find it first.

[RHAT]

Ive been trying to figure out what kind of birds these are. There were several in the trees next door last night . I went to investigate because of the crazy sounds they were making.  Maybe some kind of loon?  Lots of pics online but still haven't seen one looking the same to me.  Maybe a wild goose, but a strange duck anyway.


spiderman plot

[RHAT]

Well,  I'm pretty confident that the strange ducks have been identified as Black bellied whistling ducks.
Just wanted to let you know in case some of you investigative types spend any more time researching that.

[Gliderjohn]

Love the way this is morphing. Bring on the strange objects. Another way to work through strange times.
GliderJohn

[n3303j]

OK  I'll play...


Ran into this in Mississippi Industrial Heritage Museum. No one around who knew what it was for.

[rschrum]

Found this old ammeter going through some of step dad's stuff. Bottom post is isolated from the case, top is not. Any idea what its application was?



 

[rschrum]

OK  I'll play...


Ran into this in Mississippi Industrial Heritage Museum. No one around who knew what it was for.

Device to test tensile strength of material?

[ccoli]

Interesting. Never seen anything like it. It looks like there is writing on it in the first pic but I can't read it. Might help identify. Well, that or carbon dating.

I tried feeding the image into a reverse google image search and it thought it was decorative trim on wood. Obviously it is not. This looks ot be entertaining.

John Henry

It says, Pat Pend Black Panther No.65 Phila Pa USA
Came out of my wife's grandfather's place in Indiana. We think.

[trippah]

https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/199531-hanging-hook--black-panther-philapa

Interesting stuff.

[ccoli]

OK  I'll play...


Ran into this in Mississippi Industrial Heritage Museum. No one around who knew what it was for.

Riehl out of Philadelphia was in the textile industry,  looms etc.
https://www.workshopoftheworld.com/introduction/tours/kensington_tour.html
Made equipment to weave seatbelts and materials for stints. Also has a patent for an umbrella closing assembly.
No clue what this machine would do.

[Tom]

Rube Goldberg item to confuse Moto Guzzi Idiots.

[slowmover]

The Riehle Universal Testing Machine at the Smithsonian Institute was  manufactured in 1893 by Riehle Brothers Machine Company of Philadelphia. Apparently this company was also known in the industry as Riehle Cold Bend Co. as they did tensile testing, or the bending of steel until breaking in order to test its strength. Such a device is commonly referred to as a universal test machine or UTM.