and the name of the mystery object is.....

[fluffytail10]

We also found this object when removing our kitchen to have a new floor laid. What is it? Is it important? Does it need to be put back somewhere. If not I might paint it and use it as a curtain rail or something. It is about 40cm long and made of iron.





thanks

 

[Penners]

It looks as though both ends are roughly pointed, with different shaped barbs, but it's a bit difficult to see clearly in the pictures. Is that right? If so, I wonder whether it was some sort of strap with joining or reinforcing a joint between two pieces of timber.

I do have one other thought - does your area suffer from a high incidence of Boy Scouts getting stuck in horses' hooves?

 

[worms]

I wonder if it is a gambrel for hanging a sheep carcase?

Similar to this:

 

[Penners]

If it were a gambrel, wouldn't it having a hanging eye in the middle?

Anyway, worms, I reckon the object in your picture is actually this young lady's coat-hanger:

 

[worms]

If it were a gambrel, wouldn't it having a hanging eye in the middle?

Not necessarily, in fact, I think most don't but that was just the easiest to find on google images. I think a slight shape is normal so that the hook stays in the middle, but the sharpened ends would be good for piercing the skin/wool on an unskinned carcase and the flange would stop it slipping off if it wasn't hanging absolutely straight. Length is about right and location might fit, depending on age and history of the building.

 

[Penners]

I yield to your deeper knowledge on this matter. Although I find it difficult to take "a gambrel" seriously. It sounds like something that Rambling Syd Rumpo would have sung about.

Joe, he was a young cordwangler,
Munging greebles he did go,
And he loved a bogler's daughter
By the name of Chiswick Flo.

Vain she was and like a grusset
Though her gander parts were fine,
But she sneered at his cordwangle
As it hung upon the line.

So he stole a woggler's gambrel
For to make a wedding ring,
But the Bow Street Runners caught him
And the judge said "He will swing."

Oh, they hung him by the postern,
Nailed his mooly to the fence
For to warn all young cordwanglers
That it was a grave offence.

There's a moral to this story,
Though your cordwangle be poor,
Keep your hands off other's gambrels,
For it is against the law.

 

[LadyArowana]

It's obviously the runner from a very tiny sledge.

 

[fluffytail10]

Thanks worms, I just had a very stomach churning search on the internet and it does indeed look like some kind of gambel. That's put me right off it mind, so I may now consign it to the garden. :?

 

[worms]

Thanks worms, I just had a very stomach churning search on the internet and it does indeed look like some kind of gambel. That's put me right off it mind, so I may now consign it to the garden. :?

It was only a suggestion, I'm sure others will have equally likely and perhaps more pleasant suggestions! But is there a chance that your kitchen area was ever used for meat preparation?

 

[Flyfisher]

I do have one other thought - does your area suffer from a high incidence of Boy Scouts getting stuck in horses' hooves?

:lol: :lol: :lol:
A phenomenon set to return perhaps? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15350640