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What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: dimwittedmoose51 on June 10, 2011, 03:49:10 AM

Title: Weird IH Piece(Canada-made)
Post by: dimwittedmoose51 on June 10, 2011, 03:49:10 AM

Has the IH logo and the number 3(or maybe 8)124A  and maybe 5-6" long.  Picked it up tonight at a tag sale in Waverly.

Thanks

DM&FS

Title: Re: Weird IH Piece(Canada-made)
Post by: Donny B. on June 10, 2011, 04:05:53 AM

It looks a bit like a step, doesn't it?

Title: Re: Weird IH Piece(Canada-made)
Post by: Fins/413 on June 10, 2011, 05:01:18 AM

I would guess its half of a chain tightener.

Title: Re: Weird IH Piece(Canada-made)
Post by: lazyassforge on June 10, 2011, 06:03:24 AM

I'm not sure but I think it is a piece for a high lift jack. I can't find one just like it but here is a simular one.

Title: Re: Weird IH Piece(Canada-made)
Post by: Bear on June 11, 2011, 06:39:52 AM

could be part of a check wire stake, missing the stake.

Title: Re: Weird IH Piece(Canada-made)
Post by: jimwrench on June 11, 2011, 12:47:34 PM

 Agree with Bear, thats what it reminds me of.

Title: Re: Weird IH Piece(Canada-made)
Post by: rusty on June 11, 2011, 02:03:46 PM

Seems like it, here is a picture of one(Sorry, it's a deere one)

http://ytforums.ytmag.com/ttforum/viewtopic.php?t=749311&view=previous&sid=68e5bee5c19b3521f7857a6ba731adc6
(scroll down a bit)

Clear resemblence, if you assume there is missing stuff...

Title: Re: Weird IH Piece(Canada-made)
Post by: dimwittedmoose51 on June 11, 2011, 07:59:31 PM

Not being a farmer, I don't have a clue what all these pieces do, but living Iowa, I guess I better learn!!

Thanks folks.  In search of the elusive Speed-Hed wrench tomoprrow.  HOpe it's still where I saw it last....

DM&FS

Title: Re: Weird IH Piece(Canada-made)
Post by: rusty on June 11, 2011, 11:29:21 PM

>Not being a farmer, I don't have a clue what all these pieces do

LOL, there aren't all that many farmers left that rememebr what these pieces do either...

A Check wire stake is just a stake you stick in the ground to hold the end of a check wire.

A Checkwire is what you streach across a field so your seed planter plants seeds nice and neat.

(The checkwire has little knots in it every yard or so that trip a lever in the seeder making it drop a seed...)

It has been half a century since anyone did it that way tho...