Author Topic: Need help identifying this old tool (Read 4833 times)

billythekid55 · « **on:** September 04, 2012, 07:16:27 AM »

Would like help identifying this old tool. Saw it in a museum in Froelich Iowa.
Thanks, Billy

blind ear · « **Reply #1 on:** September 04, 2012, 08:59:50 AM »

How about a closeup of the wheels and a look at the other side for some intuative guesses? ear

billythekid55 · « **Reply #2 on:** September 04, 2012, 05:58:43 PM »

I think the 'wheel' is a long roller on the bottom side. I wish I had taken pictures from a different angle or looked for a name on the tool. It is in Froelich, IA and I am near Madison, WI. Maybe the next trip that way.

Thanks, Billy

hillbill · « **Reply #3 on:** January 26, 2013, 11:51:14 AM »

carpet fluffer?

mcbammer · « **Reply #4 on:** January 26, 2013, 12:26:57 PM »

Man ; you got me stumped on that.

Graybeard · « **Reply #5 on:** January 26, 2013, 06:30:40 PM »

Gotta admit I've never seen anything quite like it before.

The photo is fine as is and has good close up of the "teeth". Just click the image and it should open it in a new window. Click it again and it blows up nicely to show the detail that's there.

It appears to me that it is intended to be used in a side to side motion but to do what I have no idea.

GrassLakeRon · « **Reply #6 on:** January 27, 2013, 12:08:41 AM »

Spam can opener.

Ron

scratchmark · « **Reply #7 on:** January 27, 2013, 01:48:34 AM »

Maybe for raking cranberry bogs releasing the berries once they've flooded them?

blind ear · « **Reply #8 on:** January 27, 2013, 04:27:10 PM »

What is the handle made of? It appears that the small teeth/horns/ears on each end may index it in some way as may the two lugs sticking out above the rollers but they dont appear to show signs of wear as if they were following/sliding in any type of track.

RIF · « **Reply #9 on:** March 22, 2013, 01:41:02 PM »

I think you might be able to use a tool like that to cut bean or alfalfa sprouts too though.

james · « **Reply #10 on:** March 23, 2013, 05:45:42 AM »

Looks like it could be used for a push lawn mower... or harvesting a low crop.

charles p · « **Reply #11 on:** March 24, 2013, 07:38:04 AM »

Ken and Barbie doll house garden disk harrow.

45-70.gov · « **Reply #12 on:** March 24, 2013, 09:56:56 AM »

looks like it for killing weeds without disturbing the dirt

Ranger99 · « **Reply #13 on:** March 24, 2013, 12:06:05 PM »

a cotton gin tool or a textile
mill something $:-\$

Lloyd Smale · « **Reply #14 on:** March 27, 2013, 02:12:15 AM »

my guess is it could be for removing the grains from wheat stalks.

Dee · « **Reply #15 on:** March 27, 2013, 06:37:31 AM »

Back scratcher for a Rocky Mountain whiteback gorilla

RemingtonMagnum · « **Reply #16 on:** April 17, 2013, 10:25:49 AM »

What is the actual size. I saw a French cuff ironing tool a little like this.

Don Jackson Remington Magnum/Ultramag

SHOOTALL · « **Reply #17 on:** April 17, 2013, 10:33:49 AM »

maybe something to flesh out skins ,

SHOOTALL · « **Reply #18 on:** April 17, 2013, 10:34:36 AM »

or clean the blades of machines in paper mills

Bugflipper · « **Reply #19 on:** April 24, 2013, 09:18:46 AM »

How about a supersized I-tallian ravioli cutter?
I wish somebody would go to that museum and ask them.
To me it looks like a carding machine from an 1800's textile mill. They switched the water wheel mill about 100 miles away into a grist mill so I have no way of checking up on that.

SHOOTALL · « **Reply #20 on:** April 24, 2013, 09:25:11 AM »

Yea around here they use an 8 ga. shotgun to clean machines in the paper mill now.

45-70.gov · « **Reply #21 on:** April 24, 2013, 12:44:29 PM »

Quote from: 45-70.gov on March 24, 2013, 09:56:56 AM

looks like it for killing weeds without disturbing the dirt

or to harvest a plant without diturbing the roots or soil

Rex in OTZ · « **Reply #22 on:** May 30, 2013, 09:03:28 AM »

for some reason it looks like some sort of twine cutterfrom machinery used in bagging feed & grain in burlap bags