WHAT IS IT?

Norma Canuel

of Vernon, B.C., writes, “My husband Alphonse found this item under our deck, covered in mud and grime. I cleaned it up, but no one can identify it, including the curator at the museum and the local jewellers. Can anyone help us?”

ROLLING RIGHT ALONG

We were inundated with responses to last issue’s mystery item submitted by Ashley Plaine of Petrolia, Ont. As Roy Erickson of Strasbourg, Sask., explains,”it‘s part of a farm implement called a land packer that was used to pack down the tilled soil that was seeded. These wheel-like pieces were mounted on a shaft that was attached to a frame. There were enough wheels to make four, five or sixfoot units that became the width of the seeder they were attached to when seeding the field. The farmers all used them. As a farm implement dealer, we sold them.”

Go to ourcanada.ca/what-is-it to identify this issue’s mystery item. Do you have a thingamajig of your own you can’t identify? Send it along and it may appear on this page! See page at left for our address.