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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

I've got another #WhatsThis for you.

This thing sat outside the garage. It's cast, open on the bottom, has a rectangular groove for sliding something into and three holes in the groove. It's somewhat heavy. There's also a flange at the bottom.

Obviously it has been used as anvil/cutting surface, but what is its original purpose? If it's a T-40 tractor part, I don't know where it goes on that.

A cast iron part, here viewed from above. Visible are three holes that go all the way through it and are wider than the groove. A glove is next to it for scale. The thing is about 40 cm long and maybe 25cm tall and 15cm wide.
Same item, viewed from the side, clearly showing a rectangular track inside for sliding something around in. Also visible are the flange on the bottom on both sides.
Turned around, view from the underside. The part is hollow but with a reinforcement across it, internally. It's more rusty on this side as it sat on the ground.
#Mystery#WhatIsThis#Wotsit
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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Fixing up the back gate in anticipation of getting that tractor.

Found a bunch of massive steel chunks around the loose gate post.

Maybe the local rebels made a Soviet tank disappear here. But more likely it's parts of an old bulldozer, as I've found some other track plates and bulldozer size sprockets.

But I'm not sure what these big round chunks are. They are really thick and massive, I can barely lift one.

A pile of junk from fixing a vehicle farm gate. There's long, thing steel plates with holes in them, several of different sizes, a part of an old door, a rubber floor mat from some machine, a couple steel rods and two very large half-circles with a radial grid on them, bolt holes, indents and a convex surface. A muddy boot is included for scale.
#Steel#Treasure#Farm
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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

SOLVED: See bottom of thread.

It's about 30cm wide, has two independently rotating ceramic rollers with electrical heating spirals inside. But the routing of the wires restricts the turning of the rollers severely, so they can only rotate about 30°.

There's some elaborate ceramic covers on the wires and a metal tray for catching something between the legs.

It's clean, doesn't look like it was used for food. Maybe #sewing? I have absolutely no idea!

The item described in the toot. It's frame is rusty and it has been stored a long time. The electrical plug is of the Soviet variety, without PE, which is the usual disdain for safety in that culture.
#WhatIsThis#Mystery#Identification
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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

SOLVED: Probably a grain sieve for an old machine similar to this youtube.com/watch?v=MTvOcU6z5_

What is this? Another thing from the bathroom clearout. A holed metal sheet with a frame and two handles. Size about 1.2 x 0.8 m.

Doesn't look self made. The sheet appears spot welded to the frame and the frame even has a recess for the sheet.

Sieving something perhaps, but what? Or a coarse air filter for some giant machine?

A large sheet of perforated metal with a steel frame and two steel handles on the long side. It stands leaning against a bunch of reclaimed planks.
Close-up of the rear of the same item. The perforation ends where it overlaps the frame and there are poorly visible spot welds. The frame appears to have a recess for the sheet.
#WhatIsThis#Mystery#Homestead
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Grandpa Don RIP World

#whatisthis

It seems like some kind of underwater vacuum attachment
Has a garden hose fitting on top, open screen on bottom, some sort of valve inside, probably restricts flow to one direction. Slightly raised on corners providing a very thin gap.
Found it in my shed. Seems familiar but I don't recall anything beyond that.

Ps: google image search struck out.

Black plastic thing bottom view.
Black plastic thing top view.
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Groschi
What's the deal with that f*xoxo website? Is this the fucking future of film "journalism" on the web? They seem to just churn out tons of either completely automated or extremely low-effort posts (over 70 already today), more often than not consisting of nothing more than a headline, a (probably AI-generated) image and the whole post body just consists of the headline being repeated, you know, like this fucking masterpiece here: https://www.fxoxo.com/51163/ I wonder what the motivation behind that thing is, as i don't see any ads or other means of monetization, (this can't truly be a work of passion, i think... or can it?) but that might be down to either my browser or the site actually being as broken as it appears to me at first glance, empty menus and all that... It has the superficial look of your average web magazine (a gripe i have even with some actually pretty good music blogs i follow) but its content seems clearly made to entirely fit in a single toot/tweet/fart/etc. Normally i would just shrug this thing off and move on with my life. The fact that the account regularly gets boosted by @movies and thus randomly appears in my federated timeline kinda exemplifies my view on algorithmic and otherwise fully automated content on the fediverse which is: I don't like it one bit! What i'd very much prefer would be actual human curation of quality things. Only knowledgeable humans can discern worthy stuff from time-killing low-quality drivel and anything algorithmic and automated can and will be gamed and flooded with garbage in no time. #WhatIsThis #Enshitternet #ContentFarms #Curation #Movies #Cinemastodon #Film @film
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