Antiques: What the heck is this stuff??
 

I picked up a 2 truckloads of stuff the other day, I have no idea what some of it is though..... Can you help identify it??
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http://i1214.photobucket.com/albums/...rastuff289.jpg this one says Beatty Canada on it, I know they made laundry stuff...
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well, watcha think???
Thanks guys!

top one is a sausage stuffer.

the second one looks like some variation of an old woodworker's (forgot the proper name). They sit on it and clamp wood down on it to work the wood.

3rd one was used pick up loose hay and put it in loft

the wooden thing was used for flax processing tool for spinners

The last one is a bottom of a milk separator.

Shaving horse.

thanks guys! now I have to figure out what to do with some of this stuff....
including a giant antique grain seperator.

Yep, but it's missing the legs under the seat. I was always gonna make myself one o' these. Great for making spokes and tool handles.

Big photo contains a couple washboards , a press for animal skin pressing, ox yoke.next to bottom looks like a haylift for putting loose hay in a barn with the forks and tripping aparatus...

Cabinfever.... I found two round peices of wood in a box.... legs! Thanks, I probably would have used them for kindling had you not pointed that out...

I built a sSH 2yrs ago. There good to have when/if you need one/

Whats a giant grain seperator??

Cool stuff, great haul!

Made one of these many years ago....used it for working willow. They are great to have if you do any hand crafted wood work. Good finds.

Cool stuff and looks in pretty good condition, not rusted to where the moving parts won't move.

You got some good stuff!!
Is that a scythe I see on the rocker? Someone noticed the rub boards, but what about the washtub with the ringer in it!
Yeah, Good Stuff.

SPIKE

the wringer looks like it is in working order, they are useful.

straw, if you ever think you are going to get into sausage making, save that sausage stuffer, because a good sausage stuffer can be expensive when bought new.

lucky haul

the 3rd. metal deal is a things to load hay into the loft of a barn. Dad had one when I was a child. THe thing was attached to a system of pulleys and ropes and some how fassens onto a large bunch of hay then the horses who were hooked to the other end of the rope pulled the wade of hay into the loft where it was droped then lowered to the hay on the wagon and more was picked up.

Looks like a fanning mill in the second picture.
I see a school desk with inkwell...James

It is called a hay fork.
Is the bowl and discs with the separator? It looks to have the bell so you know you are turning it at the right speed....James

1st picture, is that an ox yoke in the background to the right? Remnants of red paint on it? Cause behind it is what looks like the wheel to an old cast iron grain mill. You got some way cool stuff!

Can you see how green with envy I am? Very cool stuff, and just what I like to see at auctions.

WAY COOL stuff.....! The sausage stuffer was the only one I knew.....

One tip DW reminded me of regarding these, if you can find a patent number on any device, you can go to the U.S. patent office and there is a place to input the patent number. It will tell you what the item is, give schematic drawings (great for determining if everything is there). Also many items also have descriptions of the items intended use. Not sure how far back it goes, but we've been able to find stuff from the late 1880's

I was going to say that. I'd buy one of those, if I found one locally, in a heart beat.

Dunno about the other goodies, but you've got some kuhl stuff there! :)

We had one on our farm --- called it a "fanning mill".~
Had several different screens.
Worked by hand --- turning a crank that shook all the screens to sort out the different sized seeds from the shaff and dirt.

It was BIG and took lots of effort to turn that crank.

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I was happy when DH started buying his seed oats, rather than needing to "clean" last year's oats with that thing.

You got GOOD stuff.

yes, there is definitely some good stuff in there!
the fanning mill, or what I called the "giant grain seperator" I just don't know what I'm going to do with.... hopefully find someone that wants it, it's too big for me to put anywhere!

The sausage maker will go to waste here, we're veggies.

No other parts for the milk seperator.... boo. Don't know if it's still worth anything without the parts?

I like how you guys were spying all the stuff in the background too...
2 sythes, 2 old wooden rakes, a pitchfork, 2 bow saws, 2 ringer washer press thingies, 2 oil lanterns, 2 enamelware pots and pitcher, steel pitcher, tons of glass bottles, dairy crate, soap box, big copper pot, wash tub, 2 washboards.... that's the stuff I can remember!

I'm happy with this find for sure, thanks for helping me figure out some of it!

i've seen restaurants and homes that have just used items like those on the wall as art..also buildings with the "art" on the outside but if weather is a problem or theives that might ruin the art..

under a good porch overhang would be charming though

also there are "junk" type sites online where you can see ways to repurpose things into other things..you might try googling some words to see what you can find...check out:

www.junkmarketstyle.com

oh on the site above , go to Member junk and browse

Several HT'er's identified the second picture as a Shaving Bench. They are correct. The bench was used by Carpenters; Bodgers/chair makers; Coopers/barrel makers; Bowyers/bow makers. There is one in the Carpenter's Shoppe at Washington's Mount Vernon Estate. :cowboy:

Strawhouse,

It's a shame you're a vegetarian you could really prove your homesteading bona fides by using the pig's small intestines for the casings of the sausage you'd stuff with that sausage stuffer. The small intestines are called chittlin's here in the south, but some Yankee transplants call them chitterlings. You gotta love Yankees. Sometimes that act almost like real people!

Just kidding - -

Tom in TN