Old cast iron lawn art identification please.

[acer66]

Hello,

I pulled these out from under bush.
House was build around 1900 and I was wondering what they were for.

The grill kinda looking think is open at the bottom

Thank you.

 

[The Cobbler]

wood or coal stove parts

 

[acer66]

Cool, I thought the long one almost looks like a downspout.

House was the club house of a golf club so it makes sense that had some serious cooking equipment.

 

[Leaflessshadetree]

Looks like a storm drain that would typically be set in concrete. The other I'm guessing was a downspout.

 

[four.cycle]

I think it would make a way cool hibachi grille.

 

[My Old Tools]

I think it would tear the hell out of a lawn mower.

 

[acer66]

Could be a downspout after all.

Downspout Boots, Cast Iron Downspout Boots

Downspout Boots are used as a transition piece for connecting exposed downspouts to underground cast soil piping in low areas that are subjected to vehicular traffic.

jrhoe.com

 

[four.cycle]

^ If you go way back, they weren't "rain gutters". They were "eave troughs". The nomenclature changed somewhere along the way.
I had a hell of a time trying to figure out a patent number on an "eave trough holder" because I couldn't figure out what they were talking about. Finally figured out it was a device to hold up a "rain gutter".

I would not find it surprising at all to discover that cast iron was employed for that purpose, particularly at the end of the 19th century.

 

[four.cycle]

^ no reason to make stuff out of wood! IRON was the future! this was just one random page out of one *.pdf file I picked at random:


1887 Carpentry and Building pp X

(hey that Stearn's piece looks like that thing @Private Lugnutz dragged home the other day!)