It's a finger from an agricultural grass mowing machine. Circa 1940 to 1960. The knife was a series of pointed blades around 6 feet in length. It rode back and forth from a cam mechanism supported on a series of around about 20 of those finger guides. Albion were one of the main manufacturers.
It is a finger from either a combine or finger bar mower. As the Undertaker said, the knife goes back and forth in it to cut the corn or grass. Liken to a pair of scissors, it forms one half of the cutting blade, the moving knife is the other half. They are still in use today, there are about 3 of them to the foot, so a 20 foot cut combine would have about 60 of them on its cutterbar.
It's a Cumbrian weather station,
when it's wet it is raining,
when it's swinging it's windy,
when it disappears it's fogy,
when it's covered in ice it's cold .
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