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More wagon/buggy parts and a maple syrup tap??? - 6/7/2010 9:39:17 AM    woodswalker   Posts: 1048 Joined: 4/13/2010 From: South Haven, Michigan Status: offline Here's a few odd things I pulled from the foundation yesterday.... There's a few broken pieces of china with a fish on it...thought that was pretty neat... Then a old lock and a key...that doesn't fit the lock,  The rabbit it plastic and says Cracker Jack on the bottom, The thing with holes I really don't know what it is...maybe a lid to a shaker thing, A really long nail...and then the Tap?? At first I thought it was a old type of faucet but when I cleaned it wood came out of it so I'm thinking this was either a barrel tap or maybe maple syrup? Attachment (1) _____________________________ Always enjoy nature to the fullest....what more could we want...birds singing and fresh air....AND Lots of neat stuff to always be found...One mans junk may be someone elses treasure :) Post #: 1

RE: More wagon/buggy parts and a maple syrup tap??? - 6/7/2010 9:40:14 AM    woodswalker   Posts: 1048 Joined: 4/13/2010 From: South Haven, Michigan Status: offline I'm thinking a old shovel... Attachment (1) _____________________________ Always enjoy nature to the fullest....what more could we want...birds singing and fresh air....AND Lots of neat stuff to always be found...One mans junk may be someone elses treasure :) (in reply to woodswalker) Post #: 2

RE: More wagon/buggy parts and a maple syrup tap??? - 6/7/2010 9:42:03 AM    woodswalker   Posts: 1048 Joined: 4/13/2010 From: South Haven, Michigan Status: offline Buggy or wagon part......was this possibly where the reins were used to steer? Also still has some leather sticking to it.... Attachment (1) _____________________________ Always enjoy nature to the fullest....what more could we want...birds singing and fresh air....AND Lots of neat stuff to always be found...One mans junk may be someone elses treasure :) (in reply to woodswalker) Post #: 3

RE: More wagon/buggy parts and a maple syrup tap??? - 6/7/2010 9:42:33 AM    woodswalker   Posts: 1048 Joined: 4/13/2010 From: South Haven, Michigan Status: offline Side view Attachment (1) _____________________________ Always enjoy nature to the fullest....what more could we want...birds singing and fresh air....AND Lots of neat stuff to always be found...One mans junk may be someone elses treasure :) (in reply to woodswalker) Post #: 4

RE: More wagon/buggy parts and a maple syrup tap??? - 6/7/2010 9:43:07 AM    woodswalker   Posts: 1048 Joined: 4/13/2010 From: South Haven, Michigan Status: offline Top view.... Attachment (1) _____________________________ Always enjoy nature to the fullest....what more could we want...birds singing and fresh air....AND Lots of neat stuff to always be found...One mans junk may be someone elses treasure :) (in reply to woodswalker) Post #: 5

RE: More wagon/buggy parts and a maple syrup tap??? - 6/7/2010 9:44:42 AM    woodswalker   Posts: 1048 Joined: 4/13/2010 From: South Haven, Michigan Status: offline Here's the tap....when at first I thought it was a old faucet I thought it would look neat if it were somewhere in with my plants...so I put it in the window with my cuttings I'm trying to get to root.... < Message edited by woodswalker -- 6/7/2010 9:45:41 AM > _____________________________ Always enjoy nature to the fullest....what more could we want...birds singing and fresh air....AND Lots of neat stuff to always be found...One mans junk may be someone elses treasure :) (in reply to woodswalker) Post #: 6

RE: More wagon/buggy parts and a maple syrup tap??? - 6/7/2010 9:46:09 AM    woodswalker   Posts: 1048 Joined: 4/13/2010 From: South Haven, Michigan Status: offline Sorry here's the pic....don't know what happened there in my last post... Attachment (1) _____________________________ Always enjoy nature to the fullest....what more could we want...birds singing and fresh air....AND Lots of neat stuff to always be found...One mans junk may be someone elses treasure :) (in reply to woodswalker) Post #: 7

RE: More wagon/buggy parts and a maple syrup tap??? - 6/7/2010 9:46:53 AM    woodswalker   Posts: 1048 Joined: 4/13/2010 From: South Haven, Michigan Status: offline Close up..... So what do ya think...is it a tap?  Attachment (1) _____________________________ Always enjoy nature to the fullest....what more could we want...birds singing and fresh air....AND Lots of neat stuff to always be found...One mans junk may be someone elses treasure :) (in reply to woodswalker) Post #: 8

RE: More wagon/buggy parts and a maple syrup tap??? - 6/7/2010 12:01:59 PM    ombudsman   Posts: 240 Joined: 1/25/2009 From: Oklahoma Status: offline oops. < Message edited by ombudsman -- 6/7/2010 12:04:02 PM > (in reply to woodswalker) Post #: 9

RE: More wagon/buggy parts and a maple syrup tap??? - 6/7/2010 12:16:32 PM    swizzle Posts: 3596 Joined: 3/2/2005 From: Upstate NY Status: offline I'm guessing barrel tap of some sort. Are you sure it was wood and not cork? It might have been a water cooler tap or something like that as well. That "shovel" is most likely upside down and I believe was used to keep a piece of equipment from digging in too deep. They have the same thing only smaller attached to the bottom of snow plows. It helps to keep them from ripping up pavement and whatnot. Jason (in reply to ombudsman) Post #: 10

RE: More wagon/buggy parts and a maple syrup tap??? - 6/7/2010 12:35:57 PM    woodswalker   Posts: 1048 Joined: 4/13/2010 From: South Haven, Michigan Status: offline Ooops what?  Hey swizz....It was wood I'm sure of that....and as for the "shovel" I had top and bottom pics and only posted one.....I think it was actually a cultivator shoe or shovel.....here's a link...I couldn't veiw the pics because I'm at work and were blocked from shopping networks and photobucket and so on..... http://www.heavyequipmentshop.info/category/cultivators Like I need to shop for tractor parts at work when we make the darn things here anyway!!! Nothing runs like a Deere...(I'm partial to John Deere...we make drive shafts for them) _____________________________ Always enjoy nature to the fullest....what more could we want...birds singing and fresh air....AND Lots of neat stuff to always be found...One mans junk may be someone elses treasure :) (in reply to swizzle) Post #: 11

RE: More wagon/buggy parts and a maple syrup tap??? - 6/7/2010 1:09:13 PM    swizzle Posts: 3596 Joined: 3/2/2005 From: Upstate NY Status: offline That was my first thought when I looked at it but it doesn't seem pointy enough or deep enough to me. It looks more like a float then something meant to dig in. Another pic might help. Another opinion would probably be better. Swiz (in reply to woodswalker) Post #: 12

RE: More wagon/buggy parts and a maple syrup tap??? - 6/7/2010 1:27:35 PM    GuntherHess Posts: 11470 Joined: 12/13/2004 From: Frederick Maryland Status: offline quote: I'm thinking this was either a barrel tap or maybe maple syrup? Its an early barrel tap.It was common for the handles to break off then they were discarded. I have found a bunch as early as the later 18th century. _____________________________ FREE Online Medicine Guide - http://www.antiquemedicines.com/MedicineNexus/Nexus.htm Web Site - http://antiquemedicines.com Email : mknapp@antiquemedicines.com (in reply to woodswalker) Post #: 13

RE: More wagon/buggy parts and a maple syrup tap??? - 6/7/2010 1:28:59 PM    woodswalker   Posts: 1048 Joined: 4/13/2010 From: South Haven, Michigan Status: offline Here's a pic of the other side....Those are the only 2 I took.....I think pretty soon I'll have enough parts to build a wagon or tractor if I keep going back to that foundation.....only problem is I been trespassing on the one that has all the wagon/buggy stuff on it.... Thats not the same foundation I posted the pics of this morning....I don't know if you recall a post of mine awhile back about how I missed the barn foundation...the one with the silo... anyway most the land in that area is owned by one person who lives out of state and leases sections to the farmers... So my curious nature gets the best of me a lot of times and I go back and figure...whats the worst that could happen?? By the way I think I found a privy spot when I stopped by there yesterday....its a sunken in spot and has old boards in a square around it...like there used to be a outhouse there.... < Message edited by woodswalker -- 6/7/2010 1:29:33 PM > _____________________________ Always enjoy nature to the fullest....what more could we want...birds singing and fresh air....AND Lots of neat stuff to always be found...One mans junk may be someone elses treasure :) (in reply to swizzle) Post #: 14

RE: More wagon/buggy parts and a maple syrup tap??? - 6/7/2010 1:30:00 PM    woodswalker   Posts: 1048 Joined: 4/13/2010 From: South Haven, Michigan Status: offline Geez I have computer issues today with these pics... Sorry heres the pic Attachment (1) _____________________________ Always enjoy nature to the fullest....what more could we want...birds singing and fresh air....AND Lots of neat stuff to always be found...One mans junk may be someone elses treasure :) (in reply to woodswalker) Post #: 15

RE: More wagon/buggy parts and a maple syrup tap??? - 6/7/2010 7:17:06 PM    toddrandolph   Posts: 295 Joined: 1/29/2010 From: Randolph, Ohio (near Akron) Status: offline The shovel thing is a blade for a cultivator or plow that would have bolted onto the frame. Sap spouts are called spiles, and have a tapered end for pounding into the hole,there are different types of them, but that's definitely a spout from something else...I just got a stoneware water cooler that has a very similar spout on it (in reply to woodswalker) Post #: 16

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