Please ID this Implement

[KlinkSanford]

Can someone please tell me what this implement is called and how it is used? It is 7.5" x 16.5", and the forks are 5/8" at the back and 7/16" at the tips. See attached picture

 

[scootergmc]

Do you have a profile pic as well?

 

[KlinkSanford]

Do you have a profile pic as well?

Here's the profile. Thank you.

 

[used red MN]

Can someone please tell me what this implement is called and how it is used?

Why are you calling it an implement? I doubt it is for the purposes of digging or cultivating soil by the prongs or “point” contacting it. It certainly looks like it is made of cast iron. If so and it was drug through soil like towards you in the first photo as if it were a rake tooth if the frame work it was connected to had much weight to it the first larger stone or tree root would snap the “finger or tooth” part right off. One other possibility could be that is some type of a lock or support for other pieces of a cast iron lining in a wood stove.

 

[scootergmc]

Why are you calling it an implement? I doubt it is for the purposes of digging or cultivating soil by the prongs or “point” contacting it. It certainly looks like it is made of cast iron. If so and it was drug through soil like towards you in the first photo as if it were a rake tooth if the frame work it was connected to had much weight to it the first larger stone or tree root would snap the “finger or tooth” part right off. One other possibility could be that is some type of a lock or support for other pieces of a cast iron lining in a wood stove.

C'mon now Mr. no fun at parties, let's not hold nomenclature against him. We're just trying to figure it out. So far, I'm at a loss as to what this implement is for....

 

[used red MN]

C'mon now Mr. no fun at parties, let's not hold nomenclature against him. We're just trying to figure it out. So far, I'm at a loss as to what this implement is for....

I didn’t get the feeling that he knows but just wants to see what people guess. Given a few barley pops I can be just as jovial as the next guy.

 

[Caryc]

I didn’t get the feeling that he knows but just wants to see what people guess. Given a few barley pops I can be just as jovial as the next guy.

Yeah! It's a wheematrackle!!! Those things are very rare these days.

 

[KlinkSanford]

I found this in my barn years ago, y place was a nursery, and before that they had cattle here. I assumed it was some kind of an apparatus for a tractor. My son in-law is a computer programmer, and he told me about ChatGPT, that you can send pictures, and it answers like a person. So, I remembered this part and thought let me try sending this question. I did that this morning and got the reply below, which is pretty good but does not answer my question. It occurred to me to then send it to YT, that I thought that a real human will recognize it and tell me what it is, better than the machine. THAT is why I posted this. Sooner or later someone will recognize what it is.

Here is what AI ChatGPT said:

With those dimensions and the barn context, this is very likely a forged or fabricated hitch/implement clevis bracket from old farm equipment.

The shape matches parts used on:

• horse-drawn implements,
• early tractor attachments,
• cultivators,
• plows,
• or hay equipment.

The two long tines (“forks”) would straddle another steel tongue or drawbar, and a pin or bolt would pass through to create a pivoting connection. The heavy wear and tapering suggest it handled pulling force.

A few details point away from it being just scrap:

• The forks are intentionally tapered and aligned.
• The semicircular cutout provides clearance for movement.
• The thick plate construction is typical of pre-1950s agricultural ironwork.
• The single side hole may have mounted a latch plate, retaining strap, or reinforcement.

Most likely identities:

1. Drawbar clevis/yoke
2. Harrow or plow hitch bracket
3. Tongue support from wagon equipment
4. Pivot bracket from a hay rake or cultivator

Visually, it resembles the fork portion of antique farm hitch hardware more than a building bracket or railroad part.

You could check for:

• traces of old red/green paint (farm implement colors),
• wear grooves from a steel pin between the forks,
• blacksmith hammer marks or forge welds,
• manufacturer stamps hidden under rust.

If you want, I can also help identify:

• the approximate era,
• whether it was horse-drawn or tractor-era,
• or which specific implement it may have come from.

 

[KlinkSanford]

My son (22) who has always had an incredible eye for these things, says he thinks it is some kind of counterweight for a tractor.

Well see.

 

[a49deere]

Looks like a scrapermajigger for a plowamigig! Sorry I don't have the slightest clue what it is!!

 

[Mark Poss]

My son (22) who has always had an incredible eye for these things, says he thinks it is some kind of counterweight for a tractor.

Well see.

Must be an awful small tractor

 

[Jim.ME]

I found this in my barn years ago, y place was a nursery, and before that they had cattle here. I assumed it was some kind of an apparatus for a tractor. My son in-law is a computer programmer, and he told me about ChatGPT, that you can send pictures, and it answers like a person. So, I remembered this part and thought let me try sending this question. I did that this morning and got the reply below, which is pretty good but does not answer my question. It occurred to me to then send it to YT, that I thought that a real human will recognize it and tell me what it is, better than the machine. THAT is why I posted this. Sooner or later someone will recognize what it is.

Here is what AI ChatGPT said:

With those dimensions and the barn context, this is very likely a forged or fabricated hitch/implement clevis bracket from old farm equipment.

The shape matches parts used on:

• horse-drawn implements,
• early tractor attachments,
• cultivators,
• plows,
• or hay equipment.

The two long tines (“forks”) would straddle another steel tongue or drawbar, and a pin or bolt would pass through to create a pivoting connection. The heavy wear and tapering suggest it handled pulling force.

A few details point away from it being just scrap:

• The forks are intentionally tapered and aligned.
• The semicircular cutout provides clearance for movement.
• The thick plate construction is typical of pre-1950s agricultural ironwork.
• The single side hole may have mounted a latch plate, retaining strap, or reinforcement.

Most likely identities:

1. Drawbar clevis/yoke
2. Harrow or plow hitch bracket
3. Tongue support from wagon equipment
4. Pivot bracket from a hay rake or cultivator

Visually, it resembles the fork portion of antique farm hitch hardware more than a building bracket or railroad part.

You could check for:

• traces of old red/green paint (farm implement colors),
• wear grooves from a steel pin between the forks,
• blacksmith hammer marks or forge welds,
• manufacturer stamps hidden under rust.

If you want, I can also help identify:

• the approximate era,
• whether it was horse-drawn or tractor-era,
• or which specific implement it may have come from.

Sorry AI, not right for a hitch clevis.

 

[MM-TX]

AI answers every question very convincingly whether it is right or wrong.

 

[joeysmith]

I lean towards an adjustment shim for something

 

[TheBartman47]

Forks for an antique toy fork-lift. Kids growing up back then had to be tough to be able to play with cast iron toys like that, not today's kids with cheap plastic toys.

 

[1948CaseVAI]

I agree with letting tech tell you the answer but I have had much better luck with Google Lens than anything. It will scan the whole internet to find a like object and report what that object is. ChatGPT is not capable of not giving an answer so it will simply make something up if it does not know the real answer. Unreliable. But Google Lens is a good tool

 

[scootergmc]

OK, now let's have a picture of the bottom....

 

[KlinkSanford]

OK, now let's have a picture of the bottom....

Here's the bottom picture.

(P.S.- in the original picture, of the top, it has a hole which does not go through, it is 2 1/8" deep, while the piece is 2 3/8" thick there.)

 

[KlinkSanford]

....I have had much better luck with Google Lens than anything. It will scan the whole internet to find a like object and report what that object is.

Didn't know about Google Lens, I just tried it and the response is much better, with pictures, but no final answer. Still a mystery.

 

[rrlund]

I don't know, but I'm pretty sure I drew it the first week of high school drafting class.