Can someone Identify this old piece of farm machinery please: We like to collect old farm items, but are stumped as to what this was or maybe still is used for. It is very heavy and...

Lorima Loc: Colorado

We like to collect old farm items, but are stumped as to what this was or maybe still is used for. It is very heavy and think is may have gone on a tractor or haying machine as it states "On Harvester do not use, for hay or grass".

What would it have gone on?

measures about 7 1/2" in diameter

PipesCJ7 Loc: Cordova, Alaska/Shoreline, WA/ Merritt, BC

Lorima wrote:

We like to collect old farm items, but are stumped as to what this was or maybe still is used for. It is very heavy and think is may have gone on a tractor or haying machine as it states "On Harvester do not use, for hay or grass".

What would it have gone on?

measures about 7 1/2" in diameter

It is a reduction sprocket for a drag harvester. That diameter sprocket was most likely for fluffing the rows of wheat and not slow enough for bailing.

Jblanke Loc: Metairie, LA

Lorima wrote:

We like to collect old farm items, but are stumped as to what this was or maybe still is used for. It is very heavy and think is may have gone on a tractor or haying machine as it states "On Harvester do not use, for hay or grass".

What would it have gone on?

measures about 7 1/2" in diameter

Looks like some sort of sprocket that was part of a reaper. Wild guess.

ksudad Loc: W Valley, PHX

no farmer here just a retired kansas boy,
looks like a chain drive sprock maybe used on a baler.
well I am done for the day spent my 2 cents

Lorima Loc: Colorado

PipesCJ7 wrote:

It is a reduction sprocket for a drag harvester. That diameter sprocket was most likely for fluffing the rows of wheat and not slow enough for bailing.

Thanks PipesCJ7, that makes sense.

Lorima Loc: Colorado

Jblanke wrote:

Looks like some sort of sprocket that was part of a reaper. Wild guess.

Thanks Jblanke

Lorima Loc: Colorado

ksudad wrote:

no farmer here just a retired kansas boy,
looks like a chain drive sprock maybe used on a baler.
well I am done for the day spent my 2 cents

Thanks ksudad, aint nothing wrong with a retired kansas boy.

Jblanke Loc: Metairie, LA

Lorima wrote:

Thanks Jblanke

You owe me nothing for my guess, right or wrong. Have a nice 4th!!

Lorima Loc: Colorado

Jblanke wrote:

You owe me nothing for my guess, right or wrong. Have a nice 4th!!

You to thanks again

Jblanke Loc: Metairie, LA

Lorima wrote:

You to thanks again

:) :-) :)

sleepy51 Loc: Makoshika Park--Montana

My 2 cents--could be a Drive Sprocket off a old Manure Spreader. They used the big square chain also.

alby Loc: very eastern pa.

looks like an idler sprocket as only half as many teeth as a drive sprocket. could be used on many different pieces but Pipes could have hit it right on.

Underwaterant

Lorima wrote:

We like to collect old farm items, but are stumped as to what this was or maybe still is used for. It is very heavy and think is may have gone on a tractor or haying machine as it states "On Harvester do not use, for hay or grass".

What would it have gone on?

measures about 7 1/2" in diameter

It's a Ding-ding, for a Thing-thing !

jackm1943 Loc: Omaha, Nebraska

It is an old chain sprocket as noted above, but it could have been used with any number of old farm implements.

Pepper Loc: Planet Earth Country USA

jackm1943 wrote:

It is an old chain sprocket as noted above, but it could have been used with any number of old farm implements.

Yepper, my father-in-law had several different sizes hanging in his machine shed he could change the speed of the driven equipment by simply changing the sprocket.