Scott NC Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 I stopped at a strange garden center on the way to a doctor appointment today. It must have been either an old blacksmith shop or a collector that owned it. There were tools and implements scattered all over the place. The owner was gone and the lady behind the counter said some of it was for sale. Some had tags most didn't. They had a champion blower for $150 usd and a wagon wheel bender, which I have never heard of before for $450 usd. There was even a lineshaft on the ceiling but not hooked up to anything. I was in a hurry but I'm going back just to look around. wagon wheel bender: Blower Junk pile I don't know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 Looks like a good hunting ground! hopfully the owner will be there when you stop in next, ya Never know, sometimes when I find a place like that an get to yakking with the owner they invite to come look over the good stuff they got stashed somewhere else! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted April 14, 2022 Author Share Posted April 14, 2022 There were some fenced off areas.... Theres a post vise in one of those junk piles and I don't have one yet. It's probably all over priced but who knows. I'm going back today to find the owner, and I like to yack. Besides, I forgot to get what I went for once I started looking around, yesterday... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted April 14, 2022 Share Posted April 14, 2022 Looks to me like a wagon wheel upsetter used to shrink a tyre without cutting and re-forge welding. A Wagon Wheel Bender is more like a 3 bar roller. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted April 14, 2022 Author Share Posted April 14, 2022 Have you any idea what that thing in the last picture is? I thought an anchor of some kind but why the rusted out metal "shell"? Can't make it back today but will soon to ask. I'm going to find out about that wheel bender. They have cool stuff there that has no description tags or plaques. The owner has to be an interesting sort... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted April 14, 2022 Share Posted April 14, 2022 Not just fro that angle Scott. The lifting bale on one end made me think of a "drift" for cleaning / scraping well casing but they're usually a lot simpler in shape but some are actually mechanically complex so they'll go down the hole easily but expand to give the casing a good scraping on the way up. Like I say a really unlikely guess. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted April 14, 2022 Author Share Posted April 14, 2022 We are not that far from the ocean so I was wondering if it was the skeleton of a bouy. I know nothing of bouys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted April 14, 2022 Share Posted April 14, 2022 "That's meaning a buoy for the ships that sail /And not a boy that's a juvenile male." My first thought with that photo was that it looks like a mushroom anchor, which is used for permanent moorings in anchorages with muddy bottoms. Don't know that I've ever seen a double one, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted April 14, 2022 Share Posted April 14, 2022 JHCC, Maybe it’s an anchor for a big bouy buoy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 Buoy oh buoy Billy Buoy that's quite a stretch. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 In my 4 years of active service with the Coast Guard, I had seen a lot of buoy anchors but never one that looked like that. To me it looks like some sort of cable drum, a very rusted out one at that.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 Please remember that sometimes even museums get things "mislabeled". I remember Har-Ber Village had a pick with langets that the label said it predated the use of eyes for handles in tools. As eyes predate the use of metal tools they were totally wrong; but would not admit it when we mentioned it to a docent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 I got a ton of old rusty tools an junk hanging around the shop an sometimes I purposefully make up names for stuff just to mess with people for instance have y’all ever seen an outhouse plunger? Bahahahaha 17 hours ago, Frosty said: Buoy oh buoy Billy Buoy that's quite a stretch. Sorry I was drifting off, I’m not anchored well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted April 15, 2022 Author Share Posted April 15, 2022 I got a pick at the flea market today and made him throw in some extras. I'm honing my haggling skills. No langets on this one. I slung it over my shoulder in a verticle fashion to carry it to the car and the pick head slid down and hit me on the head. Trust but verify! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 I did something like that with my own pick. Picked it up and raised it to start picking some rocky ground. The head slid down and pinched the web between my thumb and index finger. Ouch that really hurts, another reason to wear gloves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted April 15, 2022 Author Share Posted April 15, 2022 I feel your pain. I have a knot on my head right now. I don't think anybody saw it though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted April 16, 2022 Share Posted April 16, 2022 I keep picking up pick heads and garden rake heads and am starting to get a pile of them. Time to start cutting the ends of the picks to make drifts and mounting the garden rakes to the walls to hold tools! I sometimes pick up old stuff, just because. The walls of my shop are slowly becoming covered. Since they are old roof panels I have lines of holes to hang stuff from. I hung a 1948 NM license plate up this last week Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted April 16, 2022 Author Share Posted April 16, 2022 18 hours ago, TWISTEDWILLOW said: for instance have y’all ever seen an outhouse plunger? Bahahahaha Lol. That's a good one billy! Believe it or not they had one at that garden center. It was nailed shut, I wanted to look inside. I'll take a pic when I go back. Thomas, I happen to know SOMEBODY that ran out of wall space and started hanging stuff from the ceiling on baling wire..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted April 16, 2022 Share Posted April 16, 2022 You’d be surprised at the people who actually believed me on that lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arkie Posted April 16, 2022 Share Posted April 16, 2022 21 hours ago, Irondragon ForgeClay Works said: I did something like that with my own pick. Picked it up and raised it to start picking some rocky ground. The head slid down and pinched the web between my thumb and index finger. Ouch that really hurts, another reason to wear gloves. Randy, put a large wood screw under the bottom edge of the pick head...keeps it from sliding down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted April 16, 2022 Share Posted April 16, 2022 Not a lot of folks recognize a "plunger" for washing clothes or a hog bristle scraper these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted April 17, 2022 Author Share Posted April 17, 2022 (edited) I thought it was a long range chicken plucker but was afraid to ask. Edited April 17, 2022 by Nodebt Fix a thing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 Scott lol, Thomas is right, it’s essentially an manual powered agitator, just like the motor driven one in a modern washing machine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted April 17, 2022 Author Share Posted April 17, 2022 I could have maybe used one of those plungers. The house we bought came with a washer that had no agitator! New technology. We got rid of it, it sounded like an industrial machine, grinding and humming and didn't clean worth a hoot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 On 4/15/2022 at 3:49 PM, Nodebt said: I don't think anybody saw it though. I like to be fair, since I've seen a lot of silly things like that and had a good laugh, I hope someone gets a chuckle out of my little silly moments. Scott, I bet that washing machine agitated you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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