This came off a dairy farm, if that helps any.
The metal part is spring loaded and "teeth" go into the "T" at the end. The hoop pivots freely around the pin.
Background is standard chain link fence for scale.
Any ideas?
"Vintage" farm tool - What Izit?
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"Vintage" farm tool - What Izit?
OK guys, we have an edjumacated group here, my uncle found this in an old family barn and has no clue what it is, and I'm lost too.
This came off a dairy farm, if that helps any.
The metal part is spring loaded and "teeth" go into the "T" at the end. The hoop pivots freely around the pin.
Background is standard chain link fence for scale.
Any ideas?
This came off a dairy farm, if that helps any.
The metal part is spring loaded and "teeth" go into the "T" at the end. The hoop pivots freely around the pin.
Background is standard chain link fence for scale.
Any ideas?
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Re: "Vintage" farm tool - What Izit?
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Re: "Vintage" farm tool - What Izit?
Well, that didn't take long at all. Thanks IM
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You get two gold stars if you can tell us it's purpose.
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Re: "Vintage" farm tool - What Izit?
"It is placed over the animals neck and provided with spurs, whereby the animal is pricked
when he attempts to pass a fence or other barrier."
.....so says this Improvement Patent.....http://www.google.com/patents?id=8ONJAA ... &q&f=false
IM
when he attempts to pass a fence or other barrier."
.....so says this Improvement Patent.....http://www.google.com/patents?id=8ONJAA ... &q&f=false
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Oh. I thought it may have been to prevent animals from breeding until they wanted then to.
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"The #72 pattern has got to be pretty close to the perfect knife."
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Re: "Vintage" farm tool - What Izit?
jerryd6818 wrote:Oh. I thought it may have been to prevent animals from breeding until they wanted then to.
Jerry the "breeding" takes place at the other end.
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Uh-har, uh-har, uh-har. Wise acre. 
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Just tryin to help. 
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Forged on the anvil of discipline.
The Few. The Proud.
Jerry D.
This country has become more about sub-groups than about it's unity as a nation.
"The #72 pattern has got to be pretty close to the perfect knife."
--T.J. Murphy 2012
The Few. The Proud.
Jerry D.
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Phil, ya gotta remember he IS from Illinois....they do things a bit different over there. 
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Are you tryin' to tell me that down thar in Caintucky, your bulls don't mount your cows from the back and your stallions don't mount your mares from the back? What a strange place. No wonder they put the Ohio River in between Caintuck and the civilized world. 
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All joking aside, I thought maybe they used it to keep livestock from mating until they were ready. Maybe so they didn't have to keep them in separate pastures. Turns out the device is to keep them in their own pasture so maybe that's one of it's uses in a round about way.
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Sounds good to me. Multipurpose 
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Re: "Vintage" farm tool - What Izit?
Thanks phil , that made me LOL.philco wrote:jerryd6818 wrote:Oh. I thought it may have been to prevent animals from breeding until they wanted then to.
Jerry the "breeding" takes place at the other end.
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