Any idea what this is?

[Jim Oaks]

I unearthed this laying next to my shop.

It's about 11-feet long with a threaded end. There's a few loops on it about 30 inches apart, and a loop on the end.

 

[rusty ol ranger]

The threaded end looks like a CB whip like on the semi.

But obviously thats not what it is.

So...no real idea.

 

[Shran]

Some sort of flag pole maybe?

 

[RobbieD]

Is it (or was it) hollow?

A purely WAG, but maybe a part from a piece of ag equipment, like a sprayer bar?

 

[Curious Hound]

Without the loops, I might have thought it was part of a boring (horizontal drilling) bar.

 

[Jim Oaks]

It's 1/2" solid metal. The threaded end looks like it's about 3/4". The loops don't line up. The 2nd loop is about 24" from the 1st one and the 3rd loop is about 28" from the second.

From the tip to the threaded section us about 11'7" and base reminds me on an antenna. But I've never seen an antenna that was 1/2" thick steel with 3 loops attached to it.

 

[Curious Hound]

John Wayne's buggy whip.

 

[RobbieD]

John Wayne's buggy whip.

Chuck Norris's toothpick.

 

[rusty ol ranger]

Chuck Norris's toothpick.

Thats a bayonet

 

[pentode]

My old brain is trying to tell me something but my current brain isn't listening. I think the old brain is trying to say antenna. Or part of antenna.

 

[RobbieD]

Thats a bayonet

No, when Chuck is not using his bayonet it's stuck in the ground on the Mall in Washington, and they call it the Washington Monument.

I think the old brain is trying to say antenna. Or part of antenna.

Maybe a guy wire base, for an antenna tower?

 

[ElectraRider]

It's a sucker rod what's left of it was used on oil wells some one has welded loops on it.

 

[Jim Oaks]

It's a sucker rod what's left of it was used on oil wells some one has welded loops on it.

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I had to Google that to see what it was. That definitely looks like what I have. It really makes me wonder what they used it for that they welded loops onto it.

I'd like to repurpose it into something useful.

 

[Robertmangrum.rm]

Maybe they used it to hang parts to paint in the garage. Welded the loops to hang from ceiling. Just an idea.

 

[superj]

wow. thats crazy to find in the yard. i would have thought some weird version of a ground rod for a house because i have never heard of a sucker rod, either