What is this?

[DAN YEHL]

What is this?

 

[NDIHC]

I have one very similar that came from the railroad. I have no idea what it was used for.

 

[Phill Tibbetts]

I think It may have been used to splice in a section of train rail.

 

[38 Sears Roebuck]

I'll take a stab at suggesting it could be a counter weight for a railroad track switch lever??

 

[Mule Meat]

If it was used as a counter weight on a railroad crossing gate. It should weight about 25 pounds.

 

[Brian G. NY]

What is this?

Sure looks like it might make a handy anvil!

 

[drsportster]

Elevator test weight ?

 

[Ray,IN]

whatchmacalit for sure.

 

[a49deere]

What is this?

heavy!

 

[plattman]

Elevator test weight ?

my guess. Uncle had a few of them

 

[showcrop]

Horse block? I have a round one that has a similar small bar for hitching.

 

[Dusty MI]

I grew-up farming, my dad had a chunk of rail road rail 1.5 to 2 feet long, that we used for an anvil. Worked good for riveting mower sections.
Dusty

 

[showcrop]

I grew-up farming, my dad had a chunk of rail road rail 1.5 to 2 feet long, that we used for an anvil. Worked good for riveting mower sections.
Dusty

I have one slid under my workbench.

 

[Ozlander]

Me too.

 

[Caryc]

Whatever they are, there must be plenty of them. I also have one. Don't know how or where I obtained it either.
It is Very Heavy and it is highly magnetic. The two holes you see go all the way through it seemingly to mount it to something.

 

[Hemmjo]

Sure looks like it might make a handy anvil!

Have to be careful pounding hunks of steel of unknown type. It can fracture and send off chips like a bullet.

 

[HFP]

Possibly a custom swage block? Not sure what that pin would be for. Maybe a stop for the material?

 

[Caryc]

I'm not an electrician by any means but don't large electric motors have3 magnets in them?

 

[Hemmjo]

I'm not an electrician by any means but don't large electric motors have3 magnets in them?

LARGE electric motors typically contain zero permanent magnets. They are mostly like induction motors and generate magnetic fields through electromagnetic induction instead.electromagnets.

There are some permanent magnet motors, but most are induction.

 

[Ray,IN]

That looks like the rub-block used with an old tubing bender, except for the cross pin.