Re: Seeking name and use for unknown iron object

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M & E Harvey (eva.mattharvey@gmail.com)
Tue, 21 Oct 2014 16:02:32 -0500



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Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 16:02:32 -0500
From: M & E Harvey <eva.mattharvey@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Seeking name and use for unknown iron object

these are for rope hay slings.

Be yourself, everyone else is taken. Oscar Wilde

On 10/18/2014 8:58 AM, Karen Baumgartner wrote:
> The attached photos are of two metal objects that look like brass
> knuckles, but aren't. They are used in farming. Our best guess is
> rope guides. The size would fit in the palm of your hand, about 3
> inches across. LOUDEN is the manufacturing company.
> The Louden Machinery Company had operations in Fairfield, Iowa.
> In 1867, William Louden invented a patented hay carrier that made
> two-story barns practical. According to one description, Louden's hay
> carrier "utilized the already existing hay fork tool but broadened its
> use by attaching it to an overhead monorail along which the hay fork
> and hay could be moved within a barn."
> Source: Wikipedia.org/wiki/Louden_Machinery_Company
> There is a Louden catalog online, but this small piece didn't seem to
> be in it.
> Any help you can give us to name and describe these objects will be
> appreciated.
> Karen Baumgartner
> German Settlement History, Inc
> Ogema, Wisconsin



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