Challenge 4

Early ice climbing cleat.

The mind boggles......

Part of my bulldog's Ren Faire costume.

A distinctly off-putting chastity belt? No locks required??

It looks like something you would fit to your leg(?) to enable you to climb up a telegraph pole??

John.

My lost retainer! Wherever did you find it?!

Or perhaps ice cleat for a draft horse.

Summer wear!!

Crampon for an heffalump

One half of a pair Gladiators shoulder spikes

A log pulling saddle for a donkey!

Throat guard. It would be helpful to see the rest of the apparatus. The printing on the metal would be helpful.

This would guard the troat of a horse or something from a tearing dog, or, conversely, keep a dog or animal from turning it's head to bite or chew on itself.

I have a set of those!

It's one of a pair of knee "cleats" worn by friday night over-imbibers. It allows you to dig in while crawling home so you don't fall of the earth!

That's a nice specimen.

The spikes on mine are just about worn off.

Could be an antique dog collar, anyone in the UK visit the dog collar museum at Leeds Castle, they show similar things.

I don't think its for the feet or legs of man or beast, lest the "inside" spikes would injure the wearer.

I think instead it is indeed a collar, however the straps are heavy duty, so I think not for a human or small animal. The seeming application is for a steed either for defense against attackers, or offense in battle. Also, the longer straps might be reins or something similar.

Although there is no scale reference, the size seems rather small in radius, so I assume the neck is relatively small or thin.

Since the person posting is from Saudi Arabia, might the apparatus be a defensive or offensive collar for a camel?

I know what it is but only because it was on another "what is it site" I belong to.

But I'm not telling.

I'm kinda leaning to the protective collar now too.

OK, ..answer time.

This contraption was used by farmers.

This was tied on the forehead of a calf and that would make the cow walk away from the calf whenever it tried to suckle.

Not humane..but we are humans...

ya just couldn't wait two more minutes for me could ya? jack

I'll bet it worked

I remember a similar looking device that I saw in an old barn once and the farmer told me it was put on a calf to wean it . I imagine it would make the cow kick the crap out of a calf trying to suck with that thing on. jack

IT IS for older (cow)calves and some cows to keep them from stealing milk from other cow

I was going to say it looked like a hot night with the girlfriend, but you gave in with the answer too quickly!

Avery Montembeault

A muzzle they used to put on calves to ween them from their mother's milk in dairies.

There used to be a show on TV in the 1970's that had three celebrities describe an item. Only one celebrity was correct the other two were lying and the contestants had to guess which celebrity was correct.

That item is similar to one they had on that program and it was used for weening calves off the mother's milk in dairies.

In the UK we had a similar program called "Call my Bluff" which i believe ran for over 30 years.

It was based on two celebrity teams and a word which one team of three had to give a meaning for it, two were false the third correct.

An excellent programme I remember well as it only finished about ten years ago, with Frank Muir and many other well known people.

John.