I found this amongst my "stuff" I can't remember/think of its use and/or where it belongs, any help?

To help with changing steel conveyor belts.  Like on a corn elivator.  it holds the links.

Saw one painted red and with a few more fingers.

Search ebay for "Vintage Steel Chain and Roller Detcher"

 

Which would back up Matto with changing conveyor belts

Thanks for the replies  guys, yes it now rings the bell bit of a hollow sound though , used to have a conveyor on a maize hammer crusher back in the days when we had a pig farm.

Could make a half-decent bending jig perhaps?

Breaker for detachable chain...barely used these days.  Used to be that every farm had one of those or several.  Often you can find them branded with things like John Deere because they came as part of the tool kit on the farm equipment.  Many also had several slots for different sizes of chain.

Detachable chain is this style:

 

 

Edited August 24, 201510 yr by Kozzy

I just bought two of these from an Amish man and he told me they were called chain breakers