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that seems to be a gouge like thing on the end, mabey a turning tool for a bowl?
Look ma, no jigs!!!
it is indeed gouge-like - not sharp - I don't think it's a turning tool -"there's enough for everyone"
It's a spoon - for feeding critters you'd rather not get too close to.
It's a really messy garage and a fire hazard.
easy now, wayne - it's not that bad - it's a shop that has a place to park a car - where's the ignition?"there's enough for everyone"
mabey a spoon drill. The gouge was probably once sharp. a bar would go through the fork or the hole depending on how deep you were.
kinda like this auger
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Edited 4/20/2008 11:00 pm ET by andyfew322
It's a two second hand from a really big clock.
It's half of a speculum for a female Brontosaurus.
Dinosaur
How now, Mighty Sauron, that thou art not brought
low by this? For thine evil pales before that which
foolish men call Justice....
Gate latching mechanism
I have finally seen a board stretcher.
I can now go to my grave in peace.
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That was funny. Bob's next test date: 12/10/07
My money would have to be on some kind of an old metal forge tool.
Dave
log mortising spoon/drill....
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Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
That's a rudder for a ducks butt. It can be used as a street shut off on old natural gas lines.
Beat it to fit / Paint it to match
"It can be used as a street shut off on old natural gas lines."I think we might have a winner - it used to be common, on this board, to award milkbones in recognition of outstanding effort - maybe it's time to ressurrect the tradition - so - 5 milkbones to hammer1"there's enough for everyone"
Sphere gets the bone. I found a picture of one: http://www.massrwa.org/files/NewsletterFall07.pdf scroll down to page 4.
They can't get your Goat if you don't tell them where it is hidden.
Five milkbones are way too generous for that question. He owes you a few for a kickback. Bob's next test date: 12/10/07
ya, but - his answer matched my best guess (a tool for reaching and operating buried valves)"there's enough for everyone"
I was going to say it's for shutting off curb stop's for water lines.
It's a shoehorn for the tallest man in the world.
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OK, I swear I didn't read the rest of the posts, but I'll tell ya it's a spoon auger for making water pipes out of logs. Really. it is.
edit. Marty was closest and Andy too..the forked end was the drive end and the hole near the spoon was for a lanyard/rope to help withdrawl it when plugged with shavings..sharpen it up and water that orchard.
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Edited 4/21/2008 7:16 am ET by Sphere
I don't know - That fork doesn't look very good for driving. Seems like there would have been provisions for a better handle to turn it with.
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The next rod engages with a like fork. That one may be worn down, they were heftier when unused, it was supposed to slip, so as to not get hopelessly buried by continued feeding in.Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
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O.K. - I guess I can trust that your wisdom is vast. Or at least half vast.(-:
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"That one may be worn down..."one thing this tool is not, is worn - I see very little evidence of wear - I do see evidence of eletrical welding, visible in the two closeups, which dates makes this a fairly new tool for the purpose you intend it - "there's enough for everyone"
Seems possible that it is a type of auger (pod auger) that originally had a "Tee" handle held on with a saddle clamp and someone lengthened it out for a special purpose. I had thought of the valve shut off possibility when I first looked at it and I guess the same thing about the lengthening could apply. Is one side of the "pod" ground sharper than the other? or is it more shovel like with both sides ground to the same edge and the tip being sharpened?
They can't get your Goat if you don't tell them where it is hidden.
ya - now that I examine it in daylight - despite what I told sphere a couple of posts ago, as you face the inside of the spoon, the right edge is more worn - and it has been a looonnng time since it was sharp enough to slice wood - I cannot draw any conclusions about one side being sharper or not - your observation about lengthening is spot on - the spoon and the clevis appear to have once been one, evidence being matching forge lines - prominate on one side, none on the other - "there's enough for everyone"
you have a real need for milkbones - - if dovetail's link ever loads on this dial-up, I may give you the whole box..."there's enough for everyone"
Pups are 10 weeks today. All average 20lbs. Up to 50 lbs of chow in 2.5 days..yeah, milk bones is something they have yet to get. don't know if I should get em started..Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
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I'm on satellite and its taking forever to load, I got page 1 , and thats it..maybe he can paste a copy of page 4, I hate PDF's for downloads..Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
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Thanks!
They can't get your Goat if you don't tell them where it is hidden.
It was a first. Never'd copied a pic off a pdf before.
be even a blind squirrel picks up an acorn now and then.
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I tried to make a copy of just the pic and can't. Looking at it though shows the shape is different. The tool in the picture has one side of the "spoon" with a definite lip as if it is made to catch shavings for withdrawal from the bore and the "spoon" is longer. Also the pic doesn't show the top end of the tool. Might or might not be what Doud's tool is. All in one shovel/valve handle for a buried water/gas meter does make some sense. Hole would have been for a separate handle and reversing the tool gets either the small shovel or valve handle into action. The welded length of what he is showing makes it tough to say .
They can't get your Goat if you don't tell them where it is hidden.
You got a point. I do know spoon augers were slow going.!Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
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