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A Mystery  Yes I am a Cinderfella; One of the tasks I perform is to clean the ashes from our fireplace.  Today in the ashes remained this iron object. 3.75" across with an inner diameter of 3.25"  The piece is 1.665" across with one lip flat; the other rounded.  This is the type of split wood we are currently burning in the fireplace. Luckily we didn't hit it with the chain saw when cutting it |
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Just got home from dinner in town.... ALL YOU CAN EAT FISH FRY.... They loose money when I walk in the door. All JD and I can surmise on the iron piece is an inner spindle to an old farm wagon that fell into the dirt and grew up into the tree. The tree dies and we cut it for firewood. A one of a kind piece of old Iowa farm life. JD's family moved to Iowa in 1866 or 1867 after the War Between the States. So think Antebellum Texas.
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A very interesting artifact, Darter. It is certainly something I don't recognize. I like the possibility of what you and JD have surmised. It does appear to be from that era, and could easily have had the tree grow around it. There may have been a wagon wheel lying on the ground or leaning against the tree, and the tree engulfed it as it grew.
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It was a nice 56F here today, partly cloudy, SW wind 20 mph. More of the same on Saturday. I am going in the other room to look at my TV set.
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A very interesting artifact, Darter. It is certainly something I don't recognize. I like the possibility of what you and JD have surmised. It does appear to be from that era, and could easily have had the tree grow around it. There may have been a wagon wheel lying on the ground or leaning against the tree, and the tree engulfed it as it grew.
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It was a nice 56F here today, partly cloudy, SW wind 20 mph. More of the same on Saturday. I am going in the other room to look at my TV set.
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Just got home from dinner in town.... ALL YOU CAN EAT FISH FRY.... They loose money when I walk in the door. All JD and I can surmise on the iron piece is an inner spindle to an old farm wagon that fell into the dirt and grew up into the tree. The tree dies and we cut it for firewood. A one of a kind piece of old Iowa farm life. JD's family moved to Iowa in 1866 or 1867 after the War Between the States. So think Antebellum Texas.
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To quote a famous sergeant. Very interesting 😂😂
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That looks like Scarlett O'Hara
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That looks like Scarlett O'Hara
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Who knows what lurks.......... interesting!! Yes, it sure would have done a number on the chain saw!! 
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1/14/2023 8:20 am |
Darter the pictures look similar to spacers used today as insulators around heated vent pipes go through the roof or the second floor of a house. LOL I would inspect where the chimney pipe goes up through a second floor or the roof. Although the diameters seem to be a little small for stove pipe. But one never knows how things were constructed in the past. It might have been a collar fastening two stove pipes together inside a wall. If you recently cleaned the chimney ----be careful or you may burn the house down. LOL
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1/14/2023 8:31 am |
The two flanges on that one pipe would fit in the floor and serve as a spacer against the heat from an inner pipe. But with all being said the pipe thing does seem too small for a fireplace.
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Who knows what lurks.......... interesting!! Yes, it sure would have done a number on the chain saw!!
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Darter the pictures look similar to spacers used today as insulators around heated vent pipes go through the roof or the second floor of a house. LOL I would inspect where the chimney pipe goes up through a second floor or the roof. Although the diameters seem to be a little small for stove pipe. But one never knows how things were constructed in the past. It might have been a collar fastening two stove pipes together inside a wall. If you recently cleaned the chimney ----be careful or you may burn the house down. LOL
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The two flanges on that one pipe would fit in the floor and serve as a spacer against the heat from an inner pipe. But with all being said the pipe thing does seem too small for a fireplace.
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