We know what it is!

Everyone will be delighted that this huge mistery is solved!
We have finally worked out what this is for
It is a sweetcorn/maize sheller. See a new one at the top of this page

Hurrah we can stop worrying about it day and night.

We have done a little bit of work cleaning out the upstairs as well as investigating various holes in our rodent/snake investigations. During the course of this we found a LOT of very old looking sweetcorn husks. We are not sure if they were just left up there after the corn was removed or if they were being used as insulation (the electrician suggested this when he found them in the floor cavity during the temporary wiring work).