Large tool score and another what is it

[fourjeepin]

My aunt has been slowly hooking me up my grandfathers tools (he passed in 1989) and this Christmas was no different. I got some really good stuff and this large hunk of steel. It's about six inches long and my grandfather was a farmer/rancher in west Texas.

Any ideas what this thing is other than a paperweight?

Now for the pictures

 

[WWheeler]

Door stop?

 

[KTMrider]

Castoration block!


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[kctyphoon]

Is it a lead bar?

 

[Bcom]

an eraser? or old school poop emoji?

 

[Richard Cranium]

could it be a body tool?

 

[nickelmore]

wagon axle spacer

 

[Rkbuell]

Most likely a makeshift anvil.

 

[Superbec]

Castoration block!

you mean castration?

 

[fourjeepin]

Is it a lead bar?

No, it's steel

 

[fourjeepin]

wagon axle spacer

I can see this being the answer

Most likely a makeshift anvil.

This is what my aunt thought, but he had an actual anvil, so I didn't think she was correct

 

[fourjeepin]

could it be a body tool?

My grandfather was a farmer - I don't think he ever did body work.

 

[southalabama]

If he was a farmer he probably did bodywork and anything else that needed doing.

But. I don't think it's a body tool.

 

[Corndoggeh]

Well he was a farmer so.... crow slaying iron block that he would keep on a tractor? Looks like its got a hole in it to swing on a rope like a helicopter when the crows get a little ballsy.

 

[McFarmer]

Probably something he ran across that he used to hold stuff down that needed to be held down.

 

[MikeF2316]

My grandfather was a farmer - I don't think he ever did body work.

I thought bodywork too. But not bodywork in the sense of taking the dent out of a fender, but as a backer to straighten something bent, something he couldn't take to his real anvil.