What are these??

[Narragansett]

Looks like some kind of harness component

 

[andy52]

They're called hames.

 

[Narragansett]

They're called hames.

Thanks Andy!! I was on the right track

 

[tops]

Are the ends brass or iron? Either way they would make 2 nice walking canes unless you need them for the collar of your work horse. Larry

 

[JcMack]

Are the ends brass or iron? Either way they would make 2 nice walking canes unless you need them for the collar of your work horse. Larry

I have 2 "Bubba sticks" I picked up at flea mkts. Never used them as a cane. But if anyone asks me if I've got a Bubba Stick I can say yes I have one and of course a backup. There's even a "Lady Bubba" available. Great Christmas gift.

The Original Bubba Stick Brass 39 — Classy Walking Canes

 

[df06]

I recall seeing some of those in my great grandfathers barn, back in the 60s. They were hung in a room with horse collars, bridles etc. they used horses to farm.

 

[Old Arkansawyer]

The poorer farmers did not have brass hames, just iron band covered.

 

[JcMack]

The poorer farmers did not have brass hames, just iron band covered.

50's on Chicago's south side where I lived. There was a very old man that came weekly down the alleys with a horse and wagon picking up rags. He explained the harness to me and how he took care of his horse and daily traveled the whole area for a few dollars a day to feed his wife and himself. My grandma would give him a sandwich once in a while.

 

[Narragansett]

Are the ends brass or iron? Either way they would make 2 nice walking canes unless you need them for the collar of your work horse. Larry

The ends are iron

 

[Narragansett]

50's on Chicago's south side where I lived. There was a very old man that came weekly down the alleys with a horse and wagon picking up rags. He explained the harness to me and how he took care of his horse and daily traveled the whole area for a few dollars a day to feed his wife and himself. My grandma would give him a sandwich once in a while.

Up until about 1980 there was an old man that came in a horse drawn wagon looking for things to sharpen

 

[JcMack]

Up until about 1980 there was an old man that came in a horse drawn wagon looking for things to sharpen

There was a man who sharpened knives but he had a contraption that resembled a tall saw horse with a pedal or crank powered round stone. The whole assembly he packed on his back and he yelled out while walking down the alley proclaiming his profession. . There were guys who sold fruit off of carts that traveled the alleys in old flat beds. Add the fuller brush man and was sort of a summertime early Amazon type system of service provision.
There was no AC so everybodies doors and windows were open and you could hear the guys yelling out their individual services.

 

[Narragansett]

There was a man who sharpened knives but he had a contraption that resembled a tall saw horse with a pedal or crank powered round stone. The whole assembly he packed on his back and he yelled out while walking down the alley proclaiming his profession. . There were guys who sold fruit off of carts that traveled the alleys in old flat beds. Add the fuller brush man and was sort of a summertime early Amazon type system of service provision.
There was no AC so everybodies doors and windows were open and you could hear the guys yelling out their individual services.

We had the fuller brush man, and there were door to door insurance sales men, and the old stake body trucks that carried ice blocks from the ice house for people with ice boxes. We would chase the trucks for chunks of ice on hot summer days

 

[Kinman]

My dad's father ran a large farm in Minnesota during the depression. There were always "hired hands" working for bed and board. My dad told a story about one of the hired hands beating on one of grandpa's mules with a hames. My grandfather walked up to the man and took the hames from him and nearly beat him to death. The had to take him into town to the Mayo clinic to save his life. Years later I found out what a hames was and it made an impression on as I'm sure it did on the hired hand.