What is it??
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Topic: What is it??
Posted By: ACinSC
Subject: What is it??
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2026 at 11:30am
| This was found yesterday around my Great Grandfathers long gone home place. Anyone have an idea? Thanks Pics soon |
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Posted By: WeisAC2
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2026 at 11:47am
  
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Posted By: ACinSC
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2026 at 12:39pm
| Favorite son came through again. This thing probably weighs 3-4 pounds. Thanks |
Posted By: Leon n/c AR.
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2026 at 2:47pm
| Looks like the dong for a old time dinnerbell. Leon |
Posted By: thendrix
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2026 at 3:12pm
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Grain scale weight maybe? ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2026 at 3:32pm
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small boar anchor ? buoy anchor ? penis extension device ? ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: ACinSC
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2026 at 3:33pm
| Thanks Leon and Tyler. Could be either one I guess? |
Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2026 at 3:44pm
Pear of anguish? Nah scratch that... Might also be a subsoiler mole, dragged behind a subsoiler by a short length of chain, to increase the effects of subsoiling. Of course it can be any of the above objects, re-purposed as a mole... How deep was it found? ------------- Source: Babylon Bee. Sponsored by BRAWNDO, its got what you need! |
Posted By: ACinSC
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2026 at 4:12pm
| On top of the ground where we've disced many times. |
Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2026 at 4:35pm
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Weight for an old balance type cotton scale. ------------- Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God. |
Posted By: ACinSC
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2026 at 5:19pm
| Thanks Hubert, another possibility |
Posted By: AllisFreak MN
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2026 at 8:05pm
------------- '49 A-C WD, '51 A-C WD, '63 A-C D17 Series III, 1968 A-C One-Seventy, '82 A-C 6060, '75 A-C 7040, A-C #3 sickle mower, 2 A-C 701 wagons, '78 Gleaner M2 |
jaybmiller wrote:Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2026 at 8:06pm
tobacco - cotton scale
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Posted By: im4racin
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2026 at 8:57pm
| Petrified pear |
Posted By: fjdrill
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2026 at 9:57pm
| I think I passed one of those as a kidney stone |
Posted By: truckerfarmer
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2026 at 10:18pm
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It's a weight for a scale. ------------- Looking at the past to see the future. '53 WD, '53 WD45, WD snap coupler field cultivator, #53 plow,'53 HD5B dozer Duct tape.... Can't fix stupidity. But will muffle the sound of it! |
Posted By: 55allis
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2026 at 11:17pm
How about a small church bell dong, like the one on Little House On The Prairie? ------------- 1955 AC WD45 diesel with D262 repower, 1949 AC WD, 1963 A-C D17 series 3, several Allis garden tractors
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Posted By: ACinSC
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2026 at 5:35am
| Favorite son found a picture of a old cotton scale with a weight like what we have. Pretty sure that's it. Thanks everyone |
Posted By: ACinSC
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2026 at 7:14am
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Very possible that where this was found used to be a cotton field Wonder if the cotton was weighed in the field after hand picked? Interesting find regardless Thanks again everyone |
Posted By: truckerfarmer
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2026 at 7:50am
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Google antique hanging beam scale. Dad had one that I believe used to belong to Grandpa. In our area they were used to weigh bagged grain. I believe you would be correct about weighing bagged cotton in your area. As I recall, cotton pickers were often paid by the pound. When they filled their bag, they would take it to the wagon or truck. It would be weighed and tallied. ------------- Looking at the past to see the future. '53 WD, '53 WD45, WD snap coupler field cultivator, #53 plow,'53 HD5B dozer Duct tape.... Can't fix stupidity. But will muffle the sound of it! |
Posted By: ACinSC
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2026 at 8:03am
| Thanks Darwin! |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 02 Feb 2026 at 12:31pm
| My dad had a scale he called a stillyard that used a weight like Steve(ill) has pictured as a cotton scale. Looking for pictures the spelling might be stilliard. But no pictures that will copy and paste with my very limited skill on confessors. |
Posted By: ACinSC
Date Posted: 02 Feb 2026 at 12:50pm
| Thanks Ray! I'll check it out |
Posted By: truckerfarmer
Date Posted: 02 Feb 2026 at 9:47pm
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Ray, you might be looking for steelyard. ------------- Looking at the past to see the future. '53 WD, '53 WD45, WD snap coupler field cultivator, #53 plow,'53 HD5B dozer Duct tape.... Can't fix stupidity. But will muffle the sound of it! |
Posted By: 8070nc
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2026 at 12:18am
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Yes cotton was weighed in the field. My daddy had a tripod made if poles. When set up it was about 7 feet tall. Suspended from the tripod was a pole with the fulcrum about 2feet from the end. They hung a beam scale that used weights at the end of the pole. They picked the pole up in the air hooked the sheet if cotton on the scale pulled down on the pole down to lift the cotton to be weighed. The reason is they only weighed at the end of the day. Each picker had their own sheet and they got paid then and there for their days work. A true merit based system. The more they picked the more they got paid. I was just a boy but i know those sheets were heavy ------------- 1984 80780 1957 D14 DES 300 with 25000 engine 616 tractor |
Posted By: 8070nc
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2026 at 12:27am
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This would have been 60 years ago. The people picking werent just hired people. My mother my grand mother my daddy when he could neighbors. Any body willing to work ------------- 1984 80780 1957 D14 DES 300 with 25000 engine 616 tractor |
Posted By: ACinSC
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2026 at 4:39am
| Thanks Donald, I remember seeing people picking cotton after the cotton picker had been through the field. It left a good bit, don't know how they were paid though. |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2026 at 12:20pm
Put steelyard scale in a search, looked at Wikipedia answer, first picture has the exact weight ACinSC started this topic for. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steelyard_balance#/media/File:Steelyard.jpg" rel="nofollow - Steelyard - Steelyard balance - Wikipedia A similar scale to what my dad had, but not the same. But the weight in Steve(ill) post about cotton scales and what I found with stilliard scale is what was here.
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Posted By: ACinSC
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2026 at 1:01pm
| Yeah that's it! Thanks everyone! |