Barn demo, what are these?

[21willys]

I'm tearing this old barn down and found these wooden spear pieces. Anybody have any idea what they was used for? They was stored with a 4"x6" post that had a steel tractor style seat mounted on it.





They are roughly 8' long and appear to be warn very smooth like they constantly had something wearing on them sanding them down.

 

[GJunktionMike]

Vampires [ddd

 

[kkadams123]

They look like tines that go on a wide fork on the front of a tractor to pick up small square bales.

 

[Bamamav]

Look like a set of handles for a pair of post hole diggers.

Or maybe part of an old quilting frame?

 

[I-R-POPS]

Deer stand.

 

[Willowbilly3]

They are called sweep teeth. A hay sweep (or bucker) was a wide, mostly wooden tined affair that hay was bucked into piles and then brought to a stationary hay stacker.

http://www.farmcollector.com/~/medi...ly Lost to Farm History/FC-MA10sm-acme-09.jpg

 

[21willys]

Yep!

They are called sweep teeth. A hay sweep (or bucker) was a wide, mostly wooden tined affair that hay was bucked into piles and then brought to a stationary hay stacker.

http://www.farmcollector.com/~/medi...ly Lost to Farm History/FC-MA10sm-acme-09.jpg

That's it! The bottom left picture in the link would explain the seat on a post also. It was set up identical to that.

Thanks Willybilly!

 

[Willowbilly3]

My dad put one on an old stripped down 53 International pickup when I was a kid and I ran it. He flipped the rear end so the jalopy went backwards, thus the engine was in the rear. I finally blew it up from hotrodding it too much.
It brought hay into a contraption like this, called an overshot. We pulled it with a little case tractor, not horses.

http://glencoeprogress.info/images/farm.18.JPG

 

[Neverdone]

There was one at the farm I used to work for. Not used, just rotting away in the bottom of an old falling down barn we used for storage. Interesting how things were done vs how they are done now.

 

[Bamamav]

Wow, never seen anything like that around here. I guess farms in the midwest were so much larger they had to have larger equipment than was used here in the south.

 

[AZRodDave]

Vampires [ddd

Vlad the Impaler, farmer style!

 

[Willowbilly3]

This was how they mowed hay, 5 foot sickle bar.

http://museumvictoria.com.au/collections/itemimages/411/387/411387_large.jpg


And then raked like this, before using the sweep. The rake has a wheel driven trip that raises the tetth when you trip it so you can make a windrow.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Dp7WmxF22U8/ThHkc2hF_-I/AAAAAAAAAns/RKEGMlRbeGw/s640/7.jpg

 

[donsrods]

Tomato stakes.

Don

 

[OddRodsGarage]

Cool barn ... hate to see them come down ....

 

[21willys]

Cool barn ... hate to see them come down ....

This one was to far gone to be saved unfortunately. Both of the front corner post where rotted away. Along with the one above the doors and two in the loft. I am saving as much as the material as I can off of it tho. We ( 2 guys) have worked on it for three days now and it's down to just the skeleton. Saved about 60% of the siding, 80% of the loft planks, 30% of the rafters with a dove tail cut on them, and 90% of the floor joices. I plan on building a cabin with the recycled lumber near a pond that I built for my inlaws. I will have a few pics shortly.

 

[21willys]

Here's a few pics in various stages of demo.















It's currently just the skeleton standing. All the roofing and rafters are down.