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Title: found under the BED!
Post by: a-fordable on January 09, 2013, 07:49:37 PM
new to this great site* while digging through one or two of my junk piles, found this ATKINS saw isssued by the US quartermaster corp- under the bed^
(http://i1022.photobucket.com/albums/af346/nealford/tools/tools001.jpg)
(http://i1022.photobucket.com/albums/af346/nealford/tools/tools003.jpg)
thanks for looking!
Title: Re: found under the BED!
Post by: Papaw on January 09, 2013, 07:52:37 PM
Guess someone was "Sawing Logs"!!!
Title: Re: found under the BED!
Post by: a-fordable on January 09, 2013, 07:57:27 PM
YEP! PAWPA* either that or they were SCREW+++

(http://i1022.photobucket.com/albums/af346/nealford/tools/tools007.jpg)

I mean drilling!--never mind me --I am just an old dirt farmer-who doesn't know much about TOOLS!

Title: Re: found under the BED!
Post by: a-fordable on January 09, 2013, 08:02:12 PM
On a
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of 1to10. The BED is about a 2&a 1/2****
Title: Re: found under the BED!
Post by: scottg on January 09, 2013, 08:38:59 PM
That is a bone saw. For butchering duty.
 Nice small portable size, and I like that handle!
 
 They get bigger from here. Some of them have 30" blades!
  yours Scott
Title: Re: found under the BED!
Post by: john k on January 09, 2013, 09:02:01 PM
Ah yes, a butchers saw, good name on it too.   Delighted to see someone recognizes those initials, there is an old steel bench at work with the same ones, the young guys had made up all kinds of weird names from them, yes I straightened them out. 
Title: Re: found under the BED!
Post by: a-fordable on January 10, 2013, 05:49:00 AM
Thanks!-Scott for your ID. insight-I had no clue. This was my uncles. I have had it since the early 60's. I used it a time or 2 back then for a HACK-saw(LOL). John you are the man*
keep the guys straight. Thanks for looking!
(http://i1022.photobucket.com/albums/af346/nealford/tools/tools004.jpg)
brass, copper ? it was my dads.
Title: Re: found under the BED!
Post by: Branson on January 10, 2013, 08:14:29 AM
new to this great site* while digging through one or two of my junk piles, found this ATKINS saw isssued by the US quartermaster corp- under the bed^

thanks for looking!

Thanks for showing!  Great saw, and with the Quarter Master marking... Well, that's the finishing touch for sure.
Title: Re: found under the BED!
Post by: amertrac on January 10, 2013, 09:14:53 AM
info on the scale   please   bob w.
Title: Re: found under the BED!
Post by: a-fordable on January 10, 2013, 10:41:20 AM
Mr. BRANSON----U-R- Toooooo  kind. Glad to be on here with GENTS like you. THANKS-

BOB-my good man--I will look for the info on the scale.. It was used by my family many years ago to weigh cotton. I will look under the BED for more info!
Title: Re: found under the BED!
Post by: Papaw on January 10, 2013, 01:56:04 PM
That scale looks like a Hanson Cotton scale. I have one somewhere around here, but no picture. Looks like this one-
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Title: Re: found under the BED!
Post by: a-fordable on January 10, 2013, 04:31:30 PM
PAW!-you are the cats ME-OW!--you are dead right. It is a hanson texas cotton scale with 160lbs. weight.
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Title: Re: found under the BED!
Post by: scottg on January 10, 2013, 07:16:15 PM
 The scoop is a coal shovel.
 Could have been used to shovel out the ashes of a fireplace or woodstove as well.
But coal is what they had in mind when they made them.
    Check it with a magnet. Most were brass plated iron or steel.

 Hanson scale huh? I would have bet Chatillion.
   Shows to go ya. heh
  yours Scott
 
Title: Re: found under the BED!
Post by: a-fordable on January 10, 2013, 07:33:01 PM
Scott my good fellow* the shovel is brass plate on iron. Never thought to check it. My grands used it to shovel ash from the fire place. made by my grand father. Most of the old iron from under the bed are just pieces that I have had passed down. Rarely have I scowered for pieces to collect. Most of them have a connection from the past. My family has been a hands on lot for many generations. My father and I turned wrenches at our garage starting in the 50's.

(http://i1022.photobucket.com/albums/af346/nealford/tools/tools006.jpg)
Title: Re: found under the BED!
Post by: rusty on January 13, 2013, 10:03:25 AM
Hmm....
Title: Re: found under the BED!
Post by: OilyRascal on January 13, 2013, 01:24:23 PM
Hmm....

How in the world do you do this, consistently and repeatedly?
Title: Re: found under the BED!
Post by: rusty on January 13, 2013, 01:29:49 PM

Well, in this case, random chance. Just happened to be reading an old Motor World, and there it was...

Now , as to why someone would have it under their bed, I can not say.....

Title: Re: found under the BED!
Post by: OilyRascal on January 13, 2013, 04:25:12 PM
...............as to why someone would have it under their bed, I can not say.....

One COULD speculate!
Title: Re: found under the BED!
Post by: a-fordable on January 14, 2013, 11:50:54 AM
(http://i1022.photobucket.com/albums/af346/nealford/tools/tools009.jpg)
my entire(shop and GARAGE) are located under my BED!

if you pull up an add for this-then I'll know you have been under the BED!!!!!!
Title: Re: found under the BED!
Post by: oldtools on January 15, 2013, 02:51:11 AM
what does the top look like? is that a vent tube on top? looks homemade, like a can with tubes attached, what is the wording?
Title: Re: found under the BED!
Post by: a-fordable on January 15, 2013, 05:34:03 AM
THANKS! for looking: That is a shopmade funnel that I made in the 50's from a brake fluid can. At an early age dad would have me make what I needed. There was no auto-ZO-- handy. The name on the can is faded, but it is (RABESTOS) genuine parts brand.
(http://i1022.photobucket.com/albums/af346/nealford/tools/tools010.jpg)