Can a Hippie Out-Tool a Trucker in a Tyre Changing Contest?

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The discussion revolves around various hand tools, their designs, and applications, with participants engaging in a guessing game about specific tools. The conversation includes historical context, technical specifications, and personal experiences related to tool usage and construction.

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Main Points Raised

  • Some participants discuss the design of the adze, questioning the rationale behind the shape of its handle.
  • There is a suggestion that the square handle of the adze may help prevent rotation, although others note that similar tools do not typically feature a squared handle.
  • A participant mentions a "stitching horse," describing its use in leather crafting and its design variations.
  • Participants share images and links to tools, prompting discussions about their functions and historical significance.
  • There is a debate about the purpose of certain tools, including a discussion on combs used for processing fibers, with references to their use in making yarn from wool and hemp.
  • Some participants express uncertainty about the specific applications of certain tools, leading to further exploration and guesses.
  • Technical details about alignment telescopes are shared, with participants discussing their applications in measurement and alignment tasks.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants do not reach a consensus on the specific designs and functions of the tools discussed, with multiple competing views and interpretations remaining throughout the conversation.

Contextual Notes

Some claims about tool designs and functions are based on personal experiences and may lack comprehensive definitions or universally accepted explanations.

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Individuals interested in hand tools, historical tool design, leather crafting, and fiber arts may find the discussion relevant.

  • #31
What are these for?

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  • #32
Lace bobbins! For making bobbin lace with.
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  • #33
e.bar.goum said:
Lace bobbins! For making bobbin lace with.
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That's it! :):thumbup::star:
 
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  • #34
Moving away from fibre arts,
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  • #35
Looks too sciencey for this thread...no fair.

I'm calling a foul ball.
 
  • #36
houlahound said:
Looks too sciencey for this thread...no fair.

I'm calling a foul ball.
It's still a tool! If you look at the components, it's not too hard to work out the kind of thing it is.
 
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  • #38
For??
 
  • #39
OCR said:
It's an alignment telescopes manufactured by Taylor Hobson.
Bingo. I guess that means its your turn to provide a tool!
 
  • #40
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Hint, mostly worn as a waist belt.

No reverse engineering the images - new rule.
 
  • #41
houlahound said:
For??
The micro http://www.taylor-hobson.com/products/27/108.html#Micro-Alignment-Telescopes-with-built-in-optical-micrometers2 allows the user to set reference lines of sight for applications such as the alignment and measurement of bearings and bores.
 
  • #42
Gotcha, technically it's your go.
 
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  • #44
Your in the ball park as far equine related...and I meant human waist not horse waist in my hint.
 
  • #45
houlahound said:
and I meant human waist not horse waist in my hint.
Must be a Surcingle Belt, then...?
 
  • #46
Nope...getting colder.

Hint 2. Its mostly worn around a human waist but when its not it is worn on a horse but not around the horse's waist.
 
  • #47
houlahound said:
Nope...getting colder.
Lol... I don't know, unless it's some part of a safety harness ... :blushing:
 
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  • #49
Part of the belly band on a draught horse harness ?
 
  • #50
They are temporary/short duration hobbles to restrict a horses mobility while the rider is dismounted and wants his horse to graze and not get spooked and run off.

Usually while the rider is taking a break.
 
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houlahound said:
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Looks like hobbles, to me...?
 
  • #52
Correct, see above post.

Well done, I'm out for a while.
 
  • #53
houlahound said:
Its mostly worn around a human waist but when its not it is worn on a horse but not around the horse's waist.
Ah, the rider more or less stores the hobbles as a belt around his waist, and takes it off to use as hobbles...?
 
  • #54
I will have a go. I had to blur out what is cast into the tool as I am afraid it would give it away.

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  • #55
Some kind of toe jack?
 
  • #56
Well I don't think it would be a risk of giving it away if I say that it is in fact meant to move two items apart as a jack of course would. However, this device was engineered for a specific purpose and from experience I will say that it does it quite well. Its intended purpose was not to lift things.
 
  • #57
Pinch bar used for moving railway locomotives and trucks short distances during maintenance ?
 
  • #58
Nidum said:
Pinch bar used for moving railway locomotives and trucks short distances during maintenance ?
Nope. I will give another clue. I am sure someone on this forum has done the task that this tool is meant to do, only done it the hard way. I will tag my favorite member again. LOL. @jim hardy The tool in the very first image in this thread has likely been used many times to do what this tool is designed for. Not as a chopping operation though.
 
  • #59
Ahhh!...
...it is in fact meant to move two items apart...
I am sure someone on this forum has done the task that this tool is meant to do...
The tool in the very first image in this thread has likely been used many times to do what this tool is designed for.
It's a bead breaker! ?
 
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http://www.dlokka.hommboi.lokka.com/img/photos/1244962657-Beadcheater2.jpg​
 
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