Does Anybody Know What This Is???

[nmlclu]

Help! Looks like an international harvester special tool...but I don't know what it does and I am not even sure it's I.H.... Thank you!

 

[darkk]

Pasta maker?

 

[Erampu]

I don't know, but I wouldn't use it while naked...

 

[Bruce Lancaster]

It mechanized the formerly difficult process of neutering bulls...it only required one person to slide this under there and turn the crank.
Still required 25 people with chains wrapped around trees and fence posts to hold the bull down, though.

 

[bgott]

Can you find a patent number on it somewhere?

 

[garfunkle24]

Just looks like a tiny roller mill to me. Probably for crushing grain before testing the moisture content so you know when to go combining.

 

[btbsandman]

I think it is a grain grinder.

 

[geologist]

It's for crushing the fingers of thieving farm hands. I second the notion that it's for crushing grain/corn. Probably most likely corn.

 

[mitusa]

I don't know what it is.....I can't figure out what the wooden rollers on the outside would do on a grain grinder.

 

[jusridin]

I don't know, but I wouldn't use it while naked...

This is good advice

 

[rsanter]

lie dectector
you put the persons hand in it and if they start to lie you strat cranking
generally works pretty well at extracting the truth

bob

 

[Steevo]

That's a prototype garbage disposal from 1887.

 

[Wastedwagesracing]

I just saw one of those on that picker show. Years ago the collars on shirts we detachable. What you have there is the machine used to wring the water out and put a nice crease in the collar. Basically you wash the collar, fold in half and run them through the wringer and then let them dry. Then button the collar back on the shirt.

 

[Outlawmws]

Hot roller press for a small blacksmith shop Or was stolen from the Stassi after the fall of the wall...

Those rollers are adjustable for gap right?

 

[Outlawmws]

I just saw one of those on that picker show. Years ago the collars on shirts we detachable. What you have there is the machine used to wring the water out and put a nice crease in the collar. Basically you wash the collar, fold in half and run them through the wringer and then let them dry. Then button the collar back on the shirt.

Seems like an awful lot of bare iron for a wet process... Not saying your wrong, but I'd guess some rust stains might go along with it...

 

[nmlclu]

Great answers all of them.... Thought about the grain press idea, couldn't find anything like that on the web... Could you guys confirm it is International Harvester by the I H stamping? Thanks again!

 

[gunz]

sugar cane crusher?

 

[nmlclu]

I think the pasta maker is the closest thing I could find... The wooden rollers make most sense as guides for th pasta dough .... Thank you everybody

 

[darkk]

I think the pasta maker is the closest thing I could find... The wooden rollers make most sense as guides for th pasta dough .... Thank you everybody

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