What's it off of

grandpa Love · Jan 4, 2020

Saw this seat today. It's a bit different. Any idea what it came off?

SVcummins · Jan 4, 2020

Something horse drawn would be my guess 🙃🙃🤣

Bob M · Jan 4, 2020

From a Walter A Wood horse-drawn implement.

Wood made mowers, mower-binders, etc in eastern upstate NY from the late 1800's until about World War I.

fastfarmall · Jan 4, 2020

All i know is my seat wont fit !!

old · Jan 4, 2020

As the others have said some type of horse pulled machine and I bet ti is case iron and heavy

jeffcat · Jan 4, 2020

Suck in your breath!!

warbaby · Jan 4, 2020

A dreamer there. A good Walter A. Wood seat is worth about 40.oo these days

formerly ny bill · Jan 4, 2020

I hope you brought it home from the flea market. I have a Walter A Wood dump rake that was in a fence row here when we bought the place. needs rebuilding, but it still has the seat on it. maybe I should take the seat in, but I doubt anyone will find it.

jddrawbar · Jan 4, 2020

I know how this game is played. $40.00 if someone else has it.....priceless if it's yours.

Billy NY · Jan 4, 2020

Hoosick Falls is not far from here, the name is synomonous with the state road I live on, really ironic you posted this.
Not much comes up on the web, another seat did though.

Den N Ms · Jan 5, 2020

Walter A Wood Hoosick Falls NY Mower and
Binder Co.They made many different cast iron seats for their machines.I have never seen so many different seats with so many hole patterns.
Seats

Traditional Farmer · Jan 5, 2020

Yea those Walter Wood seats are everywhere and don't bring much $$$$ at auctions.

Billy NY · Jan 5, 2020

That explains it, Walter A Wood, not Walter Atwood, LOL.

farmerjohn · Jan 5, 2020

This discussion brings a question to mind, I?ve been to fleamarkets and have seen a lot of seats, and also know there are a lot of reproductions being made. Is there a sure-fire way to know the difference between an original and a reproduction?

warbaby · Jan 5, 2020

A real, 100+ year old seat will have some natural wear. That, and the casting will be dense high quality iron, well done without voids or poor pour blemishes. Those cheap cast reproduction ones will be of a vastly inferior quality metal with an uneven surface full of voids and seams with flashing and fresh grinder marks along the edges.

Old rust, polished by dust and dirt under dungarees one row at a time for a few generations looks far different than freshly cast iron sprayed flat black or dipped in salt water and left outside for a week to "age"!

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