Help identifying tools

[hwri]

Hi

I have made a few acquisitions lately. I wonder if you fellows can help me identify

these items. Is the shovel an old coal or cinder shovel ? How old might it be ?

The other tools are interesting.Any help would be appreciated. Age etc.

 

[DadsTools]

Looks to me like the shovel is an old mucking shovel for pitching manure. The hammer looks to be a sheet metal tool, the middle tool looks like an old fencing tool, the photo of the bar at the right doesn't give sufficient closeup of detail to render opinions. I think they're all from a working farm, pre-ww2.

 

[2oolhound]

Agreed the hammer is a sheet metal or "body hammer" for shaping dents out of car bodies. The numbers on the side will give more info. The small tool has the exact shape as a simple can opener/bottle cap opener but it's much thicker and I don't know why the handle is shaped like that so I'm stumped on that one. The long bar appears to be an alignment bar (because of the taper) although they usually come to more of a point.

Here's the style can opener it reminds me of although that one might do oil cans but it's a little too robust for canned goods.

 

[30-30remchester]

The shovel is a potato shovel also known as a potato fork. A plow up-earths the potatoes, then in the loose dirt, you take a scoop of dirt and spuds. The dirt falls through the cracks and the spuds are pitched into a wagon driving slowly by. About every farmer has a few of those hanging on the wall. Of course modern farming methods makes these just barn art now days.

 

[bill300d]

agree on the body hammer the second one is a lid lifter for a stove the third your guess is as good as mine.

 

[jimreed2160]

Nice finds. The last item looks like a saw set for a large sawmill blade.

 

[Stadger]

The long one looks like a bent punch or alignment tool. The last one looks to be a lid lifter for a wood-burning stove.

 

[DadsTools]

The idea of a potato shovel has my vote! Still not entirely sold on the hooked tool as a stove lid lifter, though you might use it that way.

 

[Farmer J.]

The bent pry bar on the right may be one of the special ones to slide tractor rear wheels on the axles to alter the track setting. I have 2 similar ones and were told that's what they were for but don't know what model or make they came from, maybe an IH?
The potato fork (very familiar tool!) suggests these items came from a farm where potatoes were grown so maybe the farmer had to alter wheel track widths for different crops..

 

[hwri]

Thanks for the help guys.

I hope to challenge you will some new finds soon

Thanks

 

[Larryjones]

Might be a potato fork but we always had a couple to "shovel" ear corn.

 

[gungatim]

that shovel also works to clear rocks out of the garden...the wooded D handle makes it pretty old. coal/cinder shovels were much narrower to fit in the fire door and usually solid.

 

[Michael_in_DE]

I thought the hammer and tool next to it were for making/working on shoes.

 

[wrenchguy]

Might be a potato fork but we always had a couple to "shovel" ear corn.

this.

 

[twertsy]

this.

Potato forks have much thicker and wider tines.

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[wrenchguy]

Potato forks have much thicker and wider tines.

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right! its a cob shovel like mr. jones states the reason by having a couple.