Thread: Help with identifying object

I'm still hoping someone has an idea or two about what this is.
Cheers

Frank

Is it made of wood?

I seem to remember seeing something like that being used many years ago to tamp down earth, etc after plumbers or the like had opened the road and were back-filling the hole.
Obviously before mechanical tampers came on the scene which means that I am showing my age.
Of course, I could be completely wrong.

Originally Posted by mattocks

I'm still hoping someone has an idea or two about what this is.
Cheers

Frank

Hi Frank,
what really helps with this type of question is information you give. If none is given .. often nothing will come back.

Since I have a website with some old tools featured, I continually get sent frustrating questions like yours,
What I find is that the questioners almost always offer no information that could easily be sent.
Tell us EVERYTHING you know about that item .... try and think of every question I might ask about it to help me identify it ... then give me that info in the first place without me needing to type questions back at you.
Where was it found, what is it made from, do any of the parts move, any history .. family etc.
If, for instance I was to say .. it looks like a ships jack to me, ... and you send back an answer ... the top doesn't screw or rotate the housing around the shaft .. I would have loved to have known that info before I started even thinking about it.

Please, pleeeeeeeze help us, we might then help.

Cheers,
Peter

Id guess its some sort of transmission part - say from a windmill, watermill or wagon.

The iron bands are for restricting a considerable amount of stress from fracturing the timber. The top most part reminds me of LEGO where these plug onto wheels. The way that part has a crossed socket and the shaft underneath it is reminiscent of an old wooden bearing.

The side handle is to lift the device to either engage or disengage the drive. If it were turned upwards, Id wager there will be a square drive socket.

Anchor raising mechanism from a tall ship?

Tool to breech a door?

Fair call Peter,
The picture was the only thing I had as it belongs to a colleagues husband.
I will see what I can find out and post all info I can.
I guess i was hoping it would be obvious to someone.
Thanks a lot for your input
Cheers

Frank

Looks like a feudal door opener.

Why buy it? Only leads to trouble, speaking from experience.

Looks like something off a ship .. Or something used by a wheelwright ..

Originally Posted by Glenn.Visca

Looks like something off a ship .. Or something used by a wheelwright ..

You may be on to it with something off a ship or perhaps an old riggers shed. I have seen very large fids(wood marline spike like tool) with a metal collar and handle for splicing very large rope. They have to be hammered into the rope. A bit like that but the metal head put me off at first. Now thinking that head may be to bash in metal eyes in heavy canvass. Anyhoo that's my stab at it.
Regards
John

I would go with a battering ram used by a fireman, to open doors etc.

I think it's upside down

It is a tool for compacting soil or sand. If you, for example, must make a fence, it is used for tamping soil or sand firmly around fence posts after you have placed them in the dug holes.

The picture show a modern form.

I don' know the english word for it, in danish it's called brolaeggerjomfru - pavers virgin.

I finally got some more pics of this object.
It is all wood apart from the two iron hoops, the owner thinks it is probably redgum
I hope these help, thanks for your input.

Frank


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