What is this?

[White Tiger]

While out and about this lunchtime my friend and I noticed this contraption. Anyone know what it is? Photographed it from 2 angles in case it helps with identification. My friend is also helpfully pointing out the device in one of the pics.

[pgrahmm]

Well - my 4x4 club would say it's the remains of a Land Rover after one trip to the seashore and it would be hard to disagree...

But the square wood blocks would tend to suggest the remains of a car parked in Brooklyn NY or Oakland CA or New Jersey for too long, (Los Angeles doesn't leave you the wooden blocks).......

But this thing - hard to say - meant to be stationary - and the motorcycle rims hold a barrel or half of one in place....Possibly an umbrella holder in the circle?......Not much else if there is nothing moving a from the half wheels.....Looks like ash around the base under the half wheels....Not sure about the horizontal shock/dampener in the front.....

Maybe a prototype for building a better mouse trap......or bbq them.....

Edited July 23, 2015 by pgrahmm

[boomerangutang]

Is that a sort-of trailer hitch on the sharp end? The threaded rod midway looks like it could accommodate one or a pair of wheels. If a guy has a particularly gordo g.f., he could strap her on and take her 'pai teeo' a few times around the block - behind his motocy.

[stoneyboy]

I would say it's a make shift trailer yes,you can see the spindle where wheels would go.

Used for transporting barrels or the like maybe ?

[slipperylobster]

perhaps the base trailer/mechanism for a small cement mixer ?

It turns on one end..and has some kind of chute clamps.

just guessing...

Edited July 23, 2015 by slipperylobster

[slipperylobster]

.....might make a nice gift for a sado/masochist.

I see some potential.

[pgrahmm]

perhaps the base trailer/mechanism for a cement mixer ?

Pretty clean for something that would have had concrete spilled all over it.....

It is an oddity.....

[slipperylobster]

yep.

Might be the remnants of the tower unit for the last space launch.

[NickJ]

Its a frame for something that does something.......But it cant do it now cause its missing something.

[pgrahmm]

Ring a ding ding ↑ we have a winner???????

yep.

Might be the remnants of the tower unit for the last space launch.

See above.....

[Beechboy]

Looks familiar.

Was it in a corner of that bondage club on Soi 33 (that I accidentally found myself in?)

Edited July 23, 2015 by Beechboy

[elgordo38]

Remnants of Team Thailand's bobsled left over from the winter Olympic games 30 years ago.

Edited July 23, 2015 by elgordo38

[Stan42]

Looks a lot like a medieval torture device.

[dashdashdot]

It is upside down, that's what it is

[Songhua]

An old fertiliser or seed spreader.

[dashdashdot]

It goes on an elephant

[slipperylobster]

Chasity belt....i.e. "Hoi Minder"....for those gals that have been around the block more than a few times.

[pgrahmm]

A TVF famous bicycler's tow cart so he can take his wife along?????

[Crazy chef 1]

Are your friend in the RTP ?nice finger point...

[Soutpeel]

Its a very early prototype of the TGAU

[Tonto21]

I recon its a seed thrower.

Thrown by a tractor, it had a horizontal hopper, (with seed in) and at the end, (the round bit) there is the seed thrower, this 'seed thrower' spins....... Or a land mine layer.....

Edited July 24, 2015 by Tonto21

[slipperylobster]

I recon its a seed thrower.

Towed by a tractor, it had a horizontal hopper, (with seed in) and at the end, (the round bit) there is the seed thrower, this 'seed thrower' spins....... Or a land mine layer.....

Just what we needed...another seed spitter on walking street....

[dashdashdot]

Jesus, it's being stored upside down (because it doesnt make sense to store it upright), it goes on a large animal, making a flat area and with a hitch.

[arunsakda]

Engine mount for longtail boat?

[Tywais]

As mentioned, appears to be a seed/fertilizer spreader.

[pgrahmm]

As mentioned, appears to be a seed/fertilizer spreader.

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We've already got WAY too many of those on here.....

[Happy Grumpy]

Lottery predicting machine.

[White Tiger]

Thanks for those suggestions. Of those seed spreader sounds best to us. We wondered if the cylindrical type thing in the background of one of my pictures might fit onto the contraption.

So we tried it out and found it was the wrong size.

We reckon the contraption may have started life as some kind of seed spreader. But think it may have been modified later so it could be used as a mobile BBQ - possibly with one of those cut-off half oil drum type BBQs attached to the brackets. The brackets by the way appear to be a bicycle wheel cut in half and then fastened to the seed spreader.

We also turned the device on its side for further clues but found none.

[pgrahmm]

Don't think it was ever a seeder....The back wheel does't spin....Probably some kind of vendors cart somewhere in it's lifetime.....The cut half rims look to be a second life addition.....Maybe some kind of box was fitted first.....The keyway in the fixed rounded wheel section is for something stationery possibly a big umbrella for shade and vending display....Who can guess how many reincarnations it's gone through.....The axle is for smallish wheels/no springs with all the weight on top field work is impractical while vending would fit with no big tires in the way.....Made to be mobile at slow speeds.....The hitch looks like it's made for those 2 wheel dolly things.....No sign of wiring or license display - probably lived in a market = my guess.....