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jacks


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Any ideas?

 

 

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To me it looks like a trenching device that then also closes in the trench. Probably drawn by a tractor, bu it appears to have at least one handle at the back.

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Ice cutter?

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A chain driven 0.001KB hard drive as per >60 year old fossils would be very familiar with in their heyday!



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Cable layer, maybe for telstra

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Maybe a part of a "Planter" for something like potatoes, beet, peanuts etc......



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A seed planter, my uncle had a similar that was pulled by a draught horse, planting corn.

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KJB wrote:

Maybe a part of a "Planter" for something like potatoes, beet, peanuts etc......

 Yes probably, the farmer dropped them down a scute in the middle there somewhere.  Even just for large seed. Possibly hand constructed by a handy farmer out of "selected" parts. 

Farmers in the bush with little money could be very inventive to improve their productivity.

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Appears to be a dog bait layer. Puts 1080 baits below the ground surface so birds don't pick them up

 

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looks like scrap metal destined for China to come back as shiny new electric vehicles !

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As my old man would say " its a wigwam for a gooses bridle"



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Or an oo ja kapivee

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Hendo wrote:

A seed planter, my uncle had a similar that was pulled by a draught horse, planting corn.




x2 cut a trench , seeds sorted by wheel on top dropped in trench two plough looking things pushed dirt back in trench to cover seed

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Thanks, some good thoughts there.
People were quite creative in the day when they had to be.

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Been doing some more research on this item.

It is a horse drawn corn planter.

Probably made in Warrick Qld, circa 1900/1910. In use back then before sheep farming took over.

The blade made the furrow and the wheels closed the furrows over.



-- Edited by jacks on Tuesday 2nd of January 2024 01:34:41 PM

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