What is this, a farm tool?

https://photos.app.goo.gl/nFDYPDUrftE6cQUf9

The part at the top-right seems to be a triangular blade.

Thanks for looking!

 

in this day and age most members will not open a link from someone we don't yet know.....
try to post the photo directly on the thread..

 

I've never seen anything like it.....
but it looks like something Davey would BOP a criminal with !!

 

Wow, no answers? It's rare when that happens..........

 

maybe a couple more pics are in order...........

 

Sorry, I only had a chance to take this one picture.

The metal bulb at the bottom seems to be only for weight. There are no marks or wear that would indicate it was pounded, rubbed, or rolled.

The triangular blade at the top right was the business end. It is sharp and worn along the bottom edge of that blade.

Maybe it was used to carve grooves in wood. Nobody seems to have any idea.

It was found near Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.

That's all I know.

 

those guys in Saskwatch-awan, sure make some funny tools....

 

My guess: trenching tool. possibly for cleaning out a barn manure gutter system.

 

ooooowww,,,,, gross !!! ......Heehehehe!!!!!!!

 

Sometimes ya gotta git down & dirty on the farm.

 

Letterkenny !!!!!

 

Once more I've learned something new from you, Komokwa -

 

something you may have not wanted to know...............

 

Hi, it could be a grinder for grinding grain into flour.

 

It’s a turpentine hack.

 

@tmc I totally agree. Have seen similar here in a FL Seminole small museum, part of a state park. Turpentine hacks were used to cut holes in pine trees to harvest the sap to be made into turpentine. This sap gathering was a livelihood among Southerners, mostly rural African-Americans and Seminole natives.

When turpentine was no longer in much demand from the South, the practice diminished, now probably completely gone, at least around here. Pottery shards, from old clay flower pots, used in this practice are still found in the forests all over North and Central Florida.

 

Interesting. Had never heard or seen of it before. Here's a photo of it in use:

From a long web page with many photos.

 

You are proving very useful, @tmc. Thanks for joining!

 

@smallaxe Thank you for posting the photo and link to the history article about turpentine. I live in the middle of a long-leaf (aka long-needle) pine forest in North/Central Florida. The huge pines around here still sweat sap in the Spring but many of the oldest have now turned into socalled fatwood. It's a state of the tree when it has become tapped out and what's left cannot escape so it stays in the wood fibres as oily wood. When felled this fatwood is slit into thin pieces used as fire starter in fire places, festive bonfires and sold in hardware stores by the bundle.

Photo is of our property above the lake with hundred+-year-old long-needle pines all around. I took the photo to show the Sand Hill Cranes, six of them, vying for turf. Two groups of three antagonists tested the territorial patience of each other. That's the better half filming the action on the right.