What Is This Tool?
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larry4406
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Very odd tool.
For whatever reason I’m thinking it’s a tool to snag overhead wires/rope and then pull them down via the loop capture or push them up via the U-saddle.
For whatever reason I’m thinking it’s a tool to snag overhead wires/rope and then pull them down via the loop capture or push them up via the U-saddle.
RTM
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Wonder if it was for leading animals by a nose ring, but Larry’s thought sounds good too.
But why the second leg, for either thought? Is it broken?
But why the second leg, for either thought? Is it broken?
Thanks for advancing the ball here. Very likely a dual-use, if not multi-use tool; maybe for holding up and pulling down, as you say. That's more plausible then the only thing I could come up with (which was bending rebar - doubt it).Very odd tool.
For whatever reason I’m thinking it’s a tool to snag overhead wires/rope and then pull them down via the loop capture or push them up via the U-saddle.
Feralghoul88
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its definitely broken, i bet that other side would match the intact one.
Feralghoul88
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better pics or it didnt happen
4xdog
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There are sometimes pushy-pully things used in the paper industry too, as paper machine crews work to thread the guide ropes and wet web through the machine on startup.
That said, I've never seen one like that, and I've worked in some old mills over the years.
That said, I've never seen one like that, and I've worked in some old mills over the years.
one side is missing/ broken, it's a vintage dust mop handle
RTM
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My thoughts was a mop handle too, if it was symmetrical. But I didn't see anything like that in the first American Fork and Hoe catalog I found, so kept quiet on that idea.
Junkman
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It's a wadjamacallit!
Old Man Roger
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My first thought was a broken garden tool, but a broken mop sounds even more likely.
Old Man Roger
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Looks like Batcheller & Sons bought a company called American fork and hoe, so my previous guess that it was a broken garden tool may not be too far off the mark.
^^^ no, just a wild *** guess
Old Man Roger
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1927 Two Man Rake?
Old Man Roger for the win!
Old Man Roger
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After hundreds of wrong guesses I finally got one right..lol
What year is the catalog?1927 Two Man Rake?
RTM
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****, I overlooked it in the 1914 catalog. Good eye Roger. Guess I wasn’t looking close enough.
The American Fork & Hoe Company : Farm and Garden Tools : Catalog L : American Fork & Hoe Co. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
204 p., illus., 25.9 cm, trade catalog
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I think Am Fork & Hoe was a merger of six or eight small independents.
American Fork & Hoe Company
The American Fork & Hoe Company was founded on September 8, 1902 as a consolidation between Batcheller & Sons, L. Bolles Hoe & Tool Company, Utica Tool Company, Geneva Tool Company, Withington & Cooley Manufacturing Company, Iowa Farming Tool Company, Sheble & Klemm, Meyers Irvien Company and...
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slowtwitch73
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Nice Roger....
True Temper... interesting... and a two man rake! Whoda thunk.
True Temper... interesting... and a two man rake! Whoda thunk.
cowades206
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Never heard of such thing. I probably would never use it for raking anything. Probably would use it string Christmas lights. outdoors.
Old Man Roger
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I wish I could act like this was some random fact I recalled from inside my bank of stored knowledge, but the truth is I googled the brand name and happened to see an image of the catalog.
So ya, dumb luck..lol
So ya, dumb luck..lol
Good history of the Batcheller family here: http://www.yesteryearstools.com/Yesteryears Tools/American Fork & Hoe Co..html According to this there were 17 companies that merged to create AF&H in 1902. Later they acquired Kelly Axe & Tool. Changed their name to True Temper, then were bought by Ames.****, I overlooked it in the 1914 catalog. Good eye Roger. Guess I wasn’t looking close enough.
The American Fork & Hoe Company : Farm and Garden Tools : Catalog L : American Fork & Hoe Co. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
204 p., illus., 25.9 cm, trade catalogarchive.org
I think Am Fork & Hoe was a merger of six or eight small independents.
American Fork & Hoe Company
The American Fork & Hoe Company was founded on September 8, 1902 as a consolidation between Batcheller & Sons, L. Bolles Hoe & Tool Company, Utica Tool Company, Geneva Tool Company, Withington & Cooley Manufacturing Company, Iowa Farming Tool Company, Sheble & Klemm, Meyers Irvien Company and...
Private Lugnutz
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This is true, but it helps to know that it was a brand name first, and for many years, trademarked by AF&H in 1929. The brand name became so popular, and so much more well known than the name of the company itself, that AF&H changed their company name to True Temper in 1949. The reason I point that out is because it's very similar to the Champion DeArment story, better known as Channellock. Oddly though, through conglomeration, True Temper became a brand name again, when True Temper was bought by Ames, becoming Ames True Temper, later, The Ames Companies, then just Ames.
(Ask me how I know! Answer: AF&H was a huge supplier of picks, shovels, and axes during WWII, including those placed in brackets on vehicles, such as jeeps, and it became important to untangle the AF&H/Kelly/True Temper/Ames history to identify correct tools.)
Um, that would be Mr. LiUNA.
/// break ///
Somebody PM when they invent a No-Man Rake!
d42jeep
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Old Man Roger
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A robot mulching mower will take care of leaves on the lawn
Private Lugnutz
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I've seen them in use by the Garden State Parkway commission workers! Pretty cool actually. Also just saw my first robotic rug cleaner at an airport recently. It parked itself against a wall when the area got congested with people. If it's anything like autonomous projects in the Army, some of which I am involved in, the "party line" that it's not supposed to replace employees but create different classes of employees reminds me of recent tone-deaf politicians saying that various laborers losing their jobs should learn to code, but that's as far as I'm going to go on that subject.
Seriously, I was mainly joking, though. I actually enjoy raking and all other forms of year round yard maintenance. I've been doing it since I was a kid (when we could still burn leaves), which has a rewarding reifying quality all its own, and these days it's sometimes the best and only exercise I get.
Seriously, I was mainly joking, though. I actually enjoy raking and all other forms of year round yard maintenance. I've been doing it since I was a kid (when we could still burn leaves), which has a rewarding reifying quality all its own, and these days it's sometimes the best and only exercise I get.
RTM
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This 2 man one was for raking rocks, so a heavy duty robot required. Or a good man with an excavator. But would play hell with a lawnmower, and any nearby windows
1927 Two Man Rake?
Old Man Roger looks and nails it and finds this:
I search and I find this:
I need to improve my searching skills.