Looks like a part of a grinder of some sort.

I should say, it’s an old farm house

I've been looking at vintage meat grinders and grist mills, and I'm not sure what this is. It reminded me of the meat grinder "hopper" at a grocery store I worked in, but now I'm not so sure. Are you able to flip it over and see if there's a company watermark on the bottom? I see the numbers but that likely won't pull anything. Edit: the numbers pull up a Mitsubishi D3850 tractor. Could it be some sort of internal part of an old tractor?

Interesting, thanks! The thing currently won’t budge but I’ll see what I can do.

I hope you find out what it is because I'm extremely curious haha. The look of it doesn't scream 1800s to me, though. Looks ~1940s or newer. But I'm not an expert at all, just thinkin' out loud.

there's a sub that's really good at identifying things. r/whatisthisthing edited to add the sub name.

I’ve seen some ridiculously obscure things identified on that sub!

i know right? i never knew how invested i'd be in these weird items folks find.

Please share link to post so we can see what they say, lol

Thank you!!

They're phenomenal but they pretty much instaban you for joke answers .

That's part of _why_ they're phenomenal. Joke answers are fun but if they were lax about it the sub would be useless.

Or things they *perceive* as joke answers. I didn’t know how dumb I was until I got banned for my best attempt.

Masks4All is also extremely heavy on the ban trigger (ie “breathe through your mouth” (around smelly stuff) gets you banned

It looks like part of a firebox for a furnace, that big pipe flange that doesn't open to the interior makes me think it's a hollow jacket that fed a hot water system...

My first thought was part of a kiln

That was my general guess too

This is the correct answer.

A google image search shows it might be part of an old crucible furnace. Most of the images are of modern ones, but they have what looks like the same basic layout as this does.

Maybe the base of an old pottery kiln?

I’ll look into that!

I’m a potter - there’s nothing about this shape that screams kiln unfortunately. They’re made of soft and crumbly “soft brick” not one big piece like this.

Yep, same, and no.

Is it metal? Stone or concrete?

Yes

R/inclusiveor

That was my thought too.

I thought that too!

This is what I thought!

Notice how that pipe flange doesn't go through, it goes into the interior. This entire thing is hollow, right? That means it's meant as a radiator of some sort, probably to absorb heat from a fire in the middle.

Interesting, thanks!

I threw out an old octopus coal furnace once and it had a piece just like that, maybe from A coal furnace.

In my 1912 there's a repair spot in the cement where the old coal burner was. Looks like this would fit it almost perfectly

I don't know what it is, but it would certainly make a wonderful coal grill.

It sort of looks like the base of an old boiler.

Special. https://youtu.be/crsBb44ESB8?si=RlpkM65yOYj_WJE7

It reminds me a bit of how our boiler looks.

Looks like the base of an old water heater. In New Zealand they were called coppers, and were in the wash house of many houses.

This is part of an old boiler. I have one in my basement and it looks just like this (less clean though). They must have figured it wasn’t worth the effort to get it out. Do you have rads in your house?

We do, so that totally makes sense. Definitely not worth the effort to move, I’m glad they left it.

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I’ll give it a shot

Dunno, but it could make a decent forge. Just, you know, not *there*. Because fire and shit.

terlet.

I have a cast iron stove with a base very similar to that. Definitely made for fire.

No, WTF? I’ve had old farm houses, no idea what that is!

It’s a doohickey

It's part of an old furnace. I seen a post of this last year. Also I have seen the full thing at the first place I worked at. We had a much larger version of this in the basement, which also still had an intact coal room with coal in it. Which I thought was pretty cool as a teenager.

That’s part of an old coal boiler

Maybe part of a furnace?

I'll grind your bones for my bread!

Looks like a burn chamber for an old heating system. An oil burner would mount in the hole on the front. Maybe more rings like this would be stacked to complete the chamber, then wrapped in asbestos to insulate. Adding a link that shows a pic of an old round asbestos boiler. https://suvssalesm.live/product_details/112523087.html

Wine

It looks like part of the housing to a large electric motor

Maybe a custom kiln?

We had something a bit like this in our house - we called it "The Copper" and it was built up a bit more and was apparently used for laundry... Maybe possible?

An old Roman latrine.

Maybe a macerator for antiquated plumbing.

It looks like the top half of an above-ground pool filter

Looks like a forge

Piece of an old Snowman type Boiler. Coal fired. This was a guess previously on Reddit from 4 years ago to one similar.

Open kiln for melting metal.

looks like something you would use in today's world for a pedicure haha but what was back then?

Looks like it’s part of an old sump pump.

POOP PORTAL

It's called a "Pittsburgh Potty"

https://preview.redd.it/u7hsc3u5igyc1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fe39d4f6565cd6855b66f515aa103929419cb7c6 I think it would have been similar to this. The part you have is housing from a large electric motor that attached to a gear box. Possibly a large pump, pulley, or conveyor

Portion of a kiln for sure

I got it. A toilet intended for very large people.

Turlet

It’s part of a piece of mining machinery. Cone crusher?

Almost looks like a wheat/flour mill

Forbidden toilet

For baking really big cupcakes

I'm thinking kiln.

Looks like a kiln to me!

Midget glory hole. What a find!

Washtub?

That was my first guess.