Rusty thing in the woods: What the heck is it?
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Milton
US Veteran
Withe the different sizes of wire cloth mounted this appears to be a rotary crushed stone or gravel separator.
She ran off with Ralphie Valladares.
DWalt
Member
Obviously it is a rotary screener. But what for, I couldn't say. Possibly for screening out cobs from shelled corn?
Wee Hooker
Member
Man, I could sort a years worth of brass in that baby!!
As an aside, my vote would be for some sort of crop separator /washing device. Maybe cleaning and sorting freshly harvested potatoes or cranberry's? Despite the rust, it is missing the tell tail signs of denting, bending and general hard use that sifting dirt/rocks would produce.
Lookup at the trees/land around it, the area seems to have been cleared not much more than 50 years or so ago.
As an aside, my vote would be for some sort of crop separator /washing device. Maybe cleaning and sorting freshly harvested potatoes or cranberry's? Despite the rust, it is missing the tell tail signs of denting, bending and general hard use that sifting dirt/rocks would produce.
Lookup at the trees/land around it, the area seems to have been cleared not much more than 50 years or so ago.
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kwselke
Member
That's where I've seen it before! Dried corn in the top, kernels fall through the grate, cobs, and chaff out the other end.
Does it say Popeil on it anywhere?
kwselke
Member
Ronco. Please.
Having screened my own sand for mortar and aggregate for concrete in a shaker over a wheelbarrow, this thing needs a patent. And I'll be the first in line to ... oh, wait. I don't do have to do that stuff no more. 
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Squirrel/Raccoon trap.
DeathGrip
US Veteran
BINGO!!! 
Send it to Texas , New Mexico or Oklahoma; it will be a Hatch Chili roaster by August.
It looks like an old receiving separator or "grain cleaner." They came in various configurations and that's definitely one of them. Similar to a trommel screen, like Mexican Kerry said, but has a large hopper on the end. But instead of shoveling dirt through them, you loaded wheat into the hopper, which was then cleaned prior to being made into flour. Just my two cents worth.
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Possibly a screener to de-hull walnuts - but looks a little large for the job?
crsides
US Veteran, SWCA Member, Absent Comrade
It's a rusty thing in the woods.
Charlie
Charlie
Take it to the Shark Tank, ask for ten million for development.
YeshuaIsa53
Member
History on that property would possibly tell you what it was used for. Near a quarry or stream? Any mines in the area. What crops were grown there?
amazingflapjack
US Veteran
An early New England loto numbered ball mixer/picker.
