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15th May 2016, 10:55 PM #1SENIOR MEMBER
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Help with identifying object
This object was bought by the husband of a colleague.
He is a builder but doesn't know what it is.
Anyone with any ideas?
Cheers
Frank
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17th May 2016, 04:32 PM #2SENIOR MEMBER
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I'm still hoping someone has an idea or two about what this is.
Cheers
Frank
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17th May 2016, 05:13 PM #3GOLD MEMBER
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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.Tom
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17th May 2016, 05:26 PM #4
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,
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17th May 2016, 05:51 PM #5
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?
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17th May 2016, 07:57 PM #6Woodworking mechanic
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Tool to breech a door?
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17th May 2016, 08:57 PM #7SENIOR MEMBER
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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
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17th May 2016, 09:20 PM #8
Looks like a feudal door opener.
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18th May 2016, 01:01 AM #9Intermediate Member
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Why buy it? Only leads to trouble, speaking from experience.
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18th May 2016, 09:35 AM #10
Looks like something off a ship .. Or something used by a wheelwright ..
Glenn Visca
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20th May 2016, 01:51 PM #11
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.
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John
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20th May 2016, 02:41 PM #12GOLD MEMBER
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I would go with a battering ram used by a fireman, to open doors etc.
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20th May 2016, 09:34 PM #13SENIOR MEMBER
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I think it's upside down
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21st May 2016, 06:29 PM #14
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.
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1st June 2016, 10:15 PM #15SENIOR MEMBER
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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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