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Metal Garden Object

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  • robairdmacraignilrobairdmacraignil Posts: 782
    Could it have been a decorative support for sweet peas or beans with the two prongs put in the ground and strings hung off the square frame for the climbers to grow up along?
    Another possibility I wondered about was if it could also act if set up in a similar way as a support for netting to keep birds off fruit or frost protection material at the appropriate time of year? Just guessing really.

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Maybe it was for holding up the sides of a sack.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    B3 said:
    Maybe it was for holding up the sides of a sack.
    I think you may have a point
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  • rowlandscastle444rowlandscastle444 Posts: 2,612
    It would seem that there are several possible uses for this contraption, and if it had been designed and made to an individual's specification, then the true use may never be known.

    But if you find a use for it, @tpqpprqj8z55103 do let us know.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Once the sack was full, you could lift off the contraption rather than trying to pull the sack up through the middle🤔
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited September 2023
    Now that does ring a bell … thinking back to the days of threshing machines, chaff cutters and the like … it might be worthwhile sending photos here 
    https://www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk/gressenhall-farm-and-workhouse/whats-here/farm
    or somewhere similar local to you. 

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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    It's rather ornate, though, for a tool
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    The spiral but could be the handle 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    There was a time when blacksmiths would make things a bit fancy because they could, or because someone was paying for it.
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  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    My FIL was a welder/metalworker and you should see the stuff he knocks up for simple projects where anyone else would just tie a bunch of bamboo canes together.
    The 'legs' on this are the same distance apart as the aperture of the square frame so that must be related somehow.

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