Alexandria Runestone Museum Whatzit?

Janicholson · Apr 4, 2021

The following two images are of a tinkered-up device that I have no clue about. The wheels are ~3 in dia. the tin spout is 24 long. Jim

cool hand · Apr 4, 2021

Somebody call Rube Goldburg!!

730virgil · Apr 4, 2021

Mr Haney's corn sheller

db4600 · Apr 4, 2021

I dont know why, but potato planter strikes me, but thats probably way off base. Does it look like it was pulled by something or pushed? The handles are obviously gone. It almost looks like a closing mechanism at the back.

used red MN · Apr 5, 2021

When I posted about an item I had seen posted on another forum SVcummins suggested to post it on Farm Collector Magazine. Dont know if they have a forum running over there or if you need to some how enter in it their printed publication? This site and another take up more of my time than I really should allocate to it, so wasnt out looking for another time eater. And the question I posed was eventually answered here. See link.
My What is it a while back

used red MN · Apr 5, 2021

Looking closer I see a what looks like a shaft going into or mounting the tin trough. If the frame part with the circles was mounted or supported so the shaft was vertical it would seem the trough could then swing. So if water was flowing down the trough ...see well pump in background... maybe the trough was controlled by a float or lever. Switching water flow away from a full barrel or tank to a second item to continue to be filled. Way left field guess. This leaves no explanation of the purpose of the heavy wire or spring mechanism in the frame work with the circles or wheels. Or the used of the circles for that matter. Or the purpose of the mechanism connected to it near the right side of the picture.

showcrop · Apr 5, 2021

It appears that the two upright straps held a wooden handle as well as the two strap pieces that are at 90 degrees to the trough.

DoubleO7 · Apr 5, 2021

Might help id we know what the label says!

showcrop · Apr 5, 2021

(quoted from post at 12:49:06 04/05/21)
Might help id we know what the label says!

Double07, I believe that the Dymo Label maker came out a few years after this whatzit was retired so we know that it was not original to the whatzit, and if it did have any useful information on it Janicholson would not have told us that he had no clue, right?

DoubleO7 · Apr 5, 2021

(quoted from post at 17:15:05 04/05/21)

(quoted from post at 12:49:06 04/05/21)
Might help id we know what the label says!

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Double07, I believe that the Dymo Label maker came out a few years after this whatzit was retired so we know that it was not original to the whatzit, and if it did have any useful information on it Janicholson would not have told us that he had no clue, right?

Response to your question is: maybe, maybe not, but it could be a clue. Or has a guess to age, etc. Thus maybe a clue.

DoubleO7 · Apr 5, 2021

A steel plate line welding trolley (maybe homemade) that holds an early gasless wire welding gun and is pushed along a toes-up channel track where the little wheels ride.
The chute deposits gravity fed flux or maybe dry sand to or over the weld to slow down the cooling.

But the above is just a wild guess based on what I have seen before.

Janicholson · Apr 5, 2021

Brilliant answer. I could not get closer than 10 feet due to a roped off area, so I could not get a better shot of the label in the trough. I will
choose to believe this because it meetsseveral design criterion, and that is enough. Jim

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