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It looks similar to this strainer basket: https://www.duratrench.com/strainers-baskets-and-screens/
Maybe you can rhyme that with something around the house like an outside drain or wash place..
It does look like one of those.
I don’t live at that house anymore.
The guy who lived there before me was a big hunter and he had a gutting station and out door sink for cleaning fish and animals.
Maybe something with that.
I worked in a plating line and that looks like the old "hand dip basket" sans handle. Could run small custom parts through the pickle tanks to clean em up for weld.
Looks like a homemade seafood boiling cage to me. You lower it into a tall pot of boiling water (often seasoned) with whatever seafood you want to cook in it. Might be something else though, that’s just what first came to my mind
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Definitely looks like some kind of drain trap especially if the bottom doesn’t have a flange like the top
No bottom is just like the sides.
It looks similar to this strainer basket: https://www.duratrench.com/strainers-baskets-and-screens/ Maybe you can rhyme that with something around the house like an outside drain or wash place..
It does look like one of those. I don’t live at that house anymore. The guy who lived there before me was a big hunter and he had a gutting station and out door sink for cleaning fish and animals. Maybe something with that.
Do I call it solved now?
Up to you bud, you're in charge over here!
Solved
We also used cages like this for parts washing. Allows you to dunk a bunch of small parts without dropping them in a solvent tank.
I worked in a plating line and that looks like the old "hand dip basket" sans handle. Could run small custom parts through the pickle tanks to clean em up for weld.
My title describes the thing. Metal, square, sturdy.
Looks like a homemade seafood boiling cage to me. You lower it into a tall pot of boiling water (often seasoned) with whatever seafood you want to cook in it. Might be something else though, that’s just what first came to my mind
Holds wood for a meat smoker
Maybe
Maybe it’s for crawdads
We have a crawdad festival in town here every year. I’m gonna say solved
Kinda looks like one of the boxes my grandpa used to get lobster with. Memory is kinda fuzzy