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Originally Posted by DickR

A few miles up the Sabbaday Brook Trail, off the Kancamagus Highway, I came upon some rusty metal things propped up against a tree alongside the trail. The 4-5" ends of the metal bands appear deliberately curved and remind me of the ends of an old car's bumpers, although the pieces themselves don't seem strong enough to have been much good as bumpers. There are good sized bolts and nuts still in place. These pieces are at the upper end of a part of the trail that may have been an old logging road, perhaps a century ago.
Does anyone know what these pieces are?

Could the pieces be re-assembled to make a "skid" for oxen to drag logs?