Random whatsit bucket

Kansas4010 · Dec 10, 2020

I was looking for something today in an
old storage shed. I can't even remember
the last time in was in there. I found a
couple random things I wasn't even looking
for. I'm drawing a blank on the bucket.
I know I should know what it is but can't
seem to remember. Anyone happen to know?

rustred · Dec 10, 2020

i remember them using a bucket like that for measuring when buying coal oil in bulk. i dont think its a milk bucket, but never know.

Goose · Dec 10, 2020

When I was a kid, my dad would buy gasoline and distillate off of a tank truck before they had pumps and hoses on the truck. Seems to me cans like that one were used to transfer the fuel from the tank truck to 55 gallon barrels.

oldsarge · Dec 10, 2020

My Grandpa would've called it a "coal oil can" !!

jal-SD · Dec 10, 2020

Yep, coal oil can, JD mower "swat board", probably for a horse mower. I think you can still buy "pull-more" belt dressing, I saw the threshing machine guys using some on a slipping belt on the straw blower of one of the machines a couple of years ago.

cool hand · Dec 10, 2020

You're exactly right. I remember vividly those cans which the fuel delivery man used to move fuels from the truck to our storage tanks.

paul · Dec 10, 2020

The hard bar of Pullmore was better than that liquid, but I guess getting your hand that close tot he moving belt and applying pressure wasn’t a good idea.

Paul

wore out · Dec 10, 2020

(quoted from post at 12:44:27 12/10/20)

""swat board", probably for a horse mower"

Why would you link the divider board to only horse mowers?

Looks to me like the one they used up into the 60's and even 70's or whenever exactly the steel dividers came into use.

Wheat47 · Dec 10, 2020

We call the boards, "wind boards".
I have a new unused Deere one. I needed one,
so i bought a piece of ash 1x6 traced around the old one.
I had another broken board, so I cut the metal parts off
and bolted them to the one I made. Works great!!!

Brian G. NY · Dec 10, 2020

The correct term as I remember is "swath" board. As the mower cuts the hay, the hay is left in a swath.

wore out · Dec 10, 2020

(quoted from post at 20:24:05 12/10/20) The correct term as I remember is "swath" board. As the mower cuts the hay, the hay is left in a swath.

Out of curiosity I just looked at several John Deere sickle mower parts catalogs, the "official" name is "grass board".

SVcummins · Dec 10, 2020

I could use that grass board !

SVcummins · Dec 10, 2020

Credysis · Dec 10, 2020

Wow! That is truly vintage. Sweet!

Kansas4010 · Dec 11, 2020

I've only heard them called grass boards. The only sickle mowers I know my dad ever had was a JD number 5 and a number 7. Both are sitting in the junk pile still. I remember him saying the no. 5 was jds best sickle mower. His opinion on the no. 7 was considerably lower. I don't remember why. I never saw either one in use. They were in the fence row quite a while before I came along.

Carlmac 369 · Dec 11, 2020

Swath board is what I have always heard them called. Probably like many other things, different manufacturers called the same things different names.

Walston · Dec 11, 2020

https://spencersales.hibid.com/lot/72122-113958-34901/vintage-5-gallon-standard-oil-co--oil-can/

Standard Oil Measuring can as mentioned.

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