[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Here are My parents Farm Memories; Pete & Leah Visiting a friends parents farm in Tomah WI in 1948.

Father on a Ford tractor.

Good looking chickens from before they bred the taste out of them and locked them away in cages!

(Anyone know what the 4 handled implement leaning against the shed is?)

[Qiviut]

Anyone know what the 4 handled implement leaning against the shed is?

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Just my thoughts .... the way the “handles” (all 4) are tapered, it looks to me like a rough sledge, just leaned up against the barn. This would be used for hauling wood, or other heavy items where you didn’t need a ‘fancy’ sled, just a frame on runners. In this case, the runners are 2 sides of the frame. Also, the size/weight ... doesn’t appear to me to be something one person could handle if using as an implement.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“Anyone know what the 4 handled implement leaning against the shed is?”

Hard to tell from this angle, but if the center is wire mesh, maybe it was used for ‘sifting’ things with a person on each end. Compost? Dried chicken manure? Dirt?

Those chickens (proud Rooster in front) are gorgeous! I’m getting Chicken Fever again; and it will only be worse by Spring! :)

[Qiviut]

Perhaps a 'stone boat' ... was the ground rocky?

[gloryblaze]

There is a stone boat parked in front of the shed with the sections of a field drag loaded on, so I suspect it is a tote for loading other things on the boat, such as lumber, more than one board at a time.

[Silentgypsy]

With mature eyesight, it looks like a washboard.

[gloryblaze]

I saw the other post about a compost screen and I think that is closer. If you see evidence of a mesh or slats having been attached, it is probably a grain sieve. We had a fanning mill for cleaning oats to use as seed and there was a similar contraption on top.

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