Name This Tool
By J.R. Bluett
I’m cheating — the owner of this tool told me what it was, but I had to ask. He said it was frozen stationary, but he finally managed to loosen it up. The stone on the right-hand side now spins and moves back and forth in an arc when you crank the handle. He mentioned it’s about a hundred years old, but I don’t have any more detail than that.
Post your guesses here before you check out the notes I posted on my Flickr account with an additional picture.
Toolmonger Photo Pool [Flickr]
June 18th, 2008 at 11:40 am
A line spooler?
June 18th, 2008 at 11:42 am
It’s sickle sharpener for mowers used to cut hay or grains crops. BTW, if you hover over the image the tooltip gives it away.
-Terry
June 18th, 2008 at 11:54 am
nipple tweaker
June 18th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Scythe sharpener
June 18th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
It’s a turn of the century Margarita mixer. Soon after it was developed someone thought of the idea to increase the size and make a cement mixer.
June 18th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Old school ice cream maker.
Get out the rock salt, and prepare to get ice cream elboy!
June 18th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
er… elbow.
June 18th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
A water powered engine?
June 18th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
It’s the first version of the Dremel.
June 18th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
It’s a sycle bar mower sharpener. Blades sections are triangular riveted on a bar. We still use one like this on the farm. It’s only 75 years old or so.
June 18th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
Oops. I though I renamed the picture before I attached it. Next time.
June 19th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Steampunk Ice cream maker
June 19th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
I think Stan would be a good name, or maybe George.
October 28th, 2008 at 1:42 am
Sickle bar mower, section grinder