Random Tool

[ChristonianCoder]

Does anyone know what this tool is?

 

[ctjohnson]

Vasectomy pliers

 

[garfunkle24]

Old filter pliers?

 

[G_P]

For opening canning jars? Odd that they have scissor type handles instead of normal plier handles.

 

[shaggymutt1]

torture devise

 

[MAD]

I think it is a fish grabber/holder

 

[rockinacummins]

Vasectomy pliers

Dear god... I think I'll find a new doctor...

 

[Buster21]

my guess is for opening canning jars after they come out of the hot water. It seems my grandma had something similar.

 

[orca8589]

my guess is for opening canning jars after they come out of the hot water. It seems my grandma had something similar.

^This. I think it's called a "ring vise" or "ring tool", for canning.

When I was growing up in rural North Carolina, we had a similar tool for "ring turning" - getting the lid rings off of Mason jars after they had cooled a little from the canning process. (The rings had to be removed so the lids could "pop" if they hadn't sealed. Otherwise, with the ring on, the lid might not have sealed, and the food in the jar would go bad without us knowing it. If the ring is removed as the jar cools, the lids can depressurize quickly, and the "pop" is a warning that one is not sealed.)

There was the larger "Lloyd-mouth" style, and the narrower "small-mouth" jars. The tool in the pic adjusts to handle both sizes, and others too.

Also, the tool in the pic looks a lot nicer than the tool we had. Ours looked like it was made to torture livestock or something.

~Chris

 

[MAD]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ALUMINUM-FISH-LIPPER-GRIPPER-GRABBER-HOLDER-SHARK-/121424063645?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c45702c9d

 

[gus1962]

Mystery has been solved.

 

[orca8589]

Mystery has been solved.

It certainly has - and I'd never have thought it was a tool to hold fish. I sent an email to my mother in NC to see if she has our old one that we used for removing the lid rings. If she sends a pic I'll post it up for comparison.

Fish tool. Who'dathunkit?

~Chris