Tool Challenge Barn Find

guido

Well-known Member
Hello,

This is the first tool challenge that depicts a tool that I don't own. I tough it might not be a very popular one. Any one know what it is?

Guido.
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Looks like a travelling crane. The left "wagon wheel" on the other end makes it move up and down the tracks, depending on which way you turn it, and the right "wagon wheel" turns a lift in the center of the mechanism.
 
What type building is it in, barn, warehouse, etc.? It looks like it could be an early version of a gantry crane or trolley to simply move heavy objects from one end of the building to the other.
 
Hello ShadetreeRet,

Just happen to have a picture of the barn, although you may have a hard time believing it is a barn. The crane is inside the building where you see the clock tower. The other picture is the other side of the barn. If you look real close you see a chicken walk up ladder. There are 2 more sections just like the one in the pictures. They form a horse shoe building/barn

Guido.
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It surely doesn't look like it was capable of lifting much weight.

The only structure that I can see spanning between the rails are the axle rods for the wheels, and the axles don't look that big.

I'd say 500 lbs. maximum.

What is the chute extending from the floor above...with the feed sack on the bottom ?
 
I think you've got it.

It could be a device for distributing feed along a linear feed trough.

Dean
 
I see sumthing that looks like a grain chute with the end covered up.
It might be a feed cart trolley to feed the chickens or whatever they raised there.
 
Hello J Schwibert,

If you would not mind waiting until the challenge is over, I'll post the info then.

Guido.
 
Hello retired farmer,

Chickens, sheep, goats, cows,.................. its a working farm,

Guido.
 
My father inlaw had two of them in a two story chicken coop back in the 1950's. It was built onto a large barn that had feed bens high up. Bulk feed bens were truck filled and gravity filled dumping tubs somewhere around four to five feet long with round bottoms under the trolley. The feed was bucketed out and into the feeders. When the chickens were sold it was then used to carry the manure out the end and dumped into a manure spreader. The coop had doors along one side to load out chickens and most of the time it did not get used for manure as it was easier to pitch it out the doors into the spreader.
 
Hello DiYdave,

That would be a seasonal tool. This one was used year round,

Guido.
 
Seeing as how we all don't see any lifting chains or ropes on it for lifting a load, maybe it is just a counterbalance to keep the barn from falling over. Evidentally it is not solar powered from all the panels on the roof. Probably doesn't have anything to do with the clock tower. Nice looking barn tho. Love the clock tower.
 

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