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Cut down a dead Post Oak that was roughly 130 years old. Lower portion of the trunk was hollow but I counted 130 rings up higher in the trunk. Anyway, my chainsaw found a lot of metal in the tree, but this one caught my eye.
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That looks like a chisel off a drag harrow.N.E Colorado, Nebraska panhandle -
The cross section is triangular in shape.South CarolinaComment
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Nice....there are triangular files...maybe?SW ConnecticutComment
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The head on it looks like a rail road spike head, but rail road spikes have a rectangular cross section.South CarolinaComment
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I'm thinking it's a piece of an old triangular bayonet. There were plenty of them around after the Civil War, and unlike a file it was soft enough to bend and fold where it was hit with a hammer.
If the women don\'t find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.Comment
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I call drag harrow. Look up “vintage Spike Tooth Harrow. Im sure its a tooth.
In high school, we made welding slag hammers out of them.
when sun comes up Ill take a few pics of a couple I have.N.E Colorado, Nebraska panhandleComment
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Please do, Fat. I can post some more pictures of what ever it is that I found.South CarolinaComment
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Could also have been a early surveyors spike. Have often seen them put in trees to set an elevation for a building.Searching the fields of NW Indiana and SW MichiganComment
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N.E Colorado, Nebraska panhandleComment
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I have a “zigzag” “pie” shaped that you walkbehind and “guide” as one horse, or me, pulls it threw the field.
Its In my building in town and I cant find the dang key.N.E Colorado, Nebraska panhandleComment
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Did you looksee at this yet?N.E Colorado, Nebraska panhandleComment
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I'm thinking about hammering it into a piece of wood and making a coat hook out of it.South CarolinaComment
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Gosh thanks, that moon glow reflecting shine in the middle of America is just me and my foreheadN.E Colorado, Nebraska panhandleComment
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