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

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The discussion focuses on the design and use of various hand tools, particularly emphasizing the adze and its handle design. Participants explore the reasons for the square or oval shape of handles, noting that these shapes help prevent tool rotation in the user's hands. The conversation shifts to identifying a tool featured in an image, leading to a deeper exploration of tools used in leather crafting, specifically a stitching horse. The dialogue continues with participants guessing the functions of various tools, including hand combs for fiber processing and lace bobbins for making lace. The thread also touches on the significance of these tools in historical contexts, such as their roles in weaving and crafting. The conversation concludes with a light-hearted exchange about a bead breaker tool, showcasing the camaraderie and shared knowledge among participants regarding traditional and modern tool usage.
  • #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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