Can anyone identify these?

RBnSC · Dec 10, 2014

Found these on the job today. That's wood on the inside.

Dick2 · Dec 10, 2014

Can't quite make out the details, but they look like they may be stantions for calve or goats. Look to be a little too small for full grown cows, but the photo may be a bit deceiving.

Fergienewbee · Dec 10, 2014

Look like stanchions to me.

Larry

Glenn F. · Dec 10, 2014

What brand of stanchion I don't know.

Glenn F.

Mike(NEOhio) · Dec 10, 2014

Stanchions.

RBnSC · Dec 10, 2014

What is a stantion?
Ron

Bob Bancroft · Dec 10, 2014

They are suspended by a chain, in a row, where cows walk into an old style cow barn, and then you close the stanchion on them. I have a barn full of them if anyone is interested. The little barn on the home place had them all home- made from boards. I don't know if they were built before manufactured ones were available, or if my forefathers were too frugal to spend the money.

Dan in North Houston · Dec 10, 2014

These are head-gates to hold cows while milking. Attached to the manger by the chains at top and bottom, with enough slack to let cow eat comfortably.

John_PA · Dec 10, 2014

Those are the exact type we had in the dairy barn. I still have a pile of them in the barn. Rats chewing on the wood for 40 years now. Last milk was shipped from here to Isaly's Dairy in Pittsburgh, PA in 1974. Just think. Our milk created the very first Klondike bars. I'm proud to say that.

jon f mn · Dec 10, 2014

Definately cow stantions used to hold cows in the barn for milking. They look to be sitting upside down, they should open at the top. Closed a good many of those round cow's necks as a lad. Found this pic online.

john in la · Dec 10, 2014

Nebraska Cowman · Dec 10, 2014

Dad said that the wood was to insulate the cow from lightning strikes. I don't know but I have seen cows go down on their knees when lightning would strike the barn when we were milking. Never saw a cow killed in the barn but plenty outside.

rrlund · Dec 10, 2014

Possibly Starline?

Ultradog MN · Dec 10, 2014

I always wanted to take a couple of those and make hand rails out of them. Remove the wood and sandblast/paint the metal. Then refinish the wood or replace it with maple.
Leave the curves on and point them down and attach to the wall.
Not everyone would know what they originally were but but folks who did know would be pleased with your repurposing effort.

Donald Lehman · Dec 10, 2014

The upper half of our barn (the oldest section) had wooden stantions in it when I was a kid. Around 1960. The milk inspectors decided they weren't kosher anymore and we had to tear them out and Pop put in tie stalls. 1964 Pop bought another farm and that barn had the steel stantions in it. The old wooden ones worked better as far as I'm concerned.

Adirondack case guy · Dec 10, 2014

They sure look like JAMESWAY brand stansions to me

RandyB(MI) · Dec 10, 2014

When we sold Grandpa's farm/yard sale back in the '90,s , we couldn't give them away. They were already out of barn in pile too.

CenTex Farmall · Dec 10, 2014

My gawwwwd!!! I hope she's not ornery!

That's a tight spread on those points!

bison · Dec 10, 2014

Back in HoIIand we had 2" pipes 4' apart with a short chain riding on each pipe and hooked to a neck beIt on the cow.
The cows had pIenty room to move around and Iick them seIves.

I find these north American stanchions way to restrictive to a cow's comfort.

greg oliver · Dec 11, 2014

Loren, my dad put Jamesway stantions in our barn back in 1969. I worked part time from about 1979 to 1994 for my neighbor who was a Jamesway dealer. I was just wondering if you were also a Jamesway dealer. One thing I will never forget about those stantions was a cow getting her front leg caught and breaking it. Just another memory of life on the farm. Greg

Dr. Walt · Dec 12, 2014

Stanchions (as others have said) . . . . but for MILK GOATS; they appear to be too narrow for a Cow. When I had my Goat herd (over 600 Nubian Mix) , I used similar ones but without the wood liners (Goats would chew on the wood).

Doc :>)

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