What is it tool

rudeawakening55 · December 29, 2011, 06:10:55 AM

Odd old what is it ..........measures 28 long & 14 wide. Could be part of very old posthole digger? Need your input

Papaw · December 29, 2011, 06:31:22 AM

Are you sure it isn't an animal trap of some kind?

rudeawakening55 · December 29, 2011, 07:09:59 AM

I have no idea at all what this is, have had a lot of people look at it. Everyone seems to have a different idea. One idea of a gentleman that has a museum was to hang in old well with meat on it to keep cool. Just hoping someone will have seen one somewhere along the way in life.

amertrac · December 29, 2011, 07:32:16 AM

could it be some sort pf log handler or a hog lifter for soaking hogs when butchering just guessing bob w.

Neals · December 29, 2011, 02:45:42 PM

I never seen anything like it. My first guess is a post hole auger for power poles etc. I have a spoon with about an 8 ft handle that I am told is for digging holes for power poles. Something else would have had to have been used to loosen the dirt so it could be spooned out.
Second guess would be some kind of mixer like a giant mix master.

keykeeper · December 29, 2011, 06:51:33 PM

Does this thing move in any way??

I think if the "jaws" moved out/in, and the barbed part was a bait-holder that actuated those jaws, then it would make one heckuva catfish trap/catcher!!!

Just a WAG on my part.

rusty · December 29, 2011, 08:14:04 PM

I *think* it is a drain cleaner, but I sure have never seen one quite like it....

Branson · December 30, 2011, 07:17:24 AM

This is a real puzzler. No moving parts, no adjustments possible, and those barbs in the center shaft... Can't be a trap, and I can't believe anybody put a piece of meat into a well in a way it would be in direct contact with the water, and besides, the iron would rust away.

No need for the barbed shaft in digging post holes, but the barbs would hold something to be withdrawn.

Some kind of drain cleaner could use these elements, but 26 inches long won't follow many curves or angles. It won't reach very far either. It's usefulness would be limited to 14 inch plus or minus drains. There might have been an extension that fit over the square piece at the top, but it wouldn't take a lot of torque. Did it originally have a T handle?

Any way it could have worked with silage, cutting in to pull out a chunk?

Fins/413 · December 30, 2011, 09:11:27 AM

I was going to guess a fish spear.

fliffy42 · December 30, 2011, 03:00:27 PM

this one is driving me nuts lol. Barb stick into something round that is been held. Hmmm.... maybe a ham in the smokehouse? a turkey over a fire? a big corkscrew for the jolly green giant?

rusty · December 30, 2011, 03:06:29 PM

It always turns out to be a nut cracker....

Do nuts come 26" across?

crankshaftdan II · December 30, 2011, 03:13:24 PM

Quote from: rusty on December 30, 2011, 03:06:29 PM

It always turns out to be a nut cracker....

Do nuts come 26" across?

Maybe on the Jolly Green Giant!

lauver · December 30, 2011, 10:25:56 PM

I think it might be one of those probes aliens use. Perhaps JAFE could shed some light on this.

john k · December 31, 2011, 12:16:06 AM

A sod plug cutter! The outer shoes slice a round of sod, the barbs penetrate it and lift it out! Now why would someone need a round hole in sod?

Carl · December 31, 2011, 05:55:46 AM

Quote from: john k on December 31, 2011, 12:16:06 AM
A sod plug cutter! The outer shoes slice a round of sod, the barbs penetrate it and lift it out! Now why would someone need a round hole in sod?

That makes sense- it would be handy for irrigation system work. At work, we sell smaller plug cutters for greens cups.

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