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What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: wvtools on January 14, 2014, 08:58:35 AM

Title: Odd Chisel Tool
Post by: wvtools on January 14, 2014, 08:58:35 AM

Here is another one where I do not have much of a clue.  It has been hammered on like a chisel, and the tips are rounded and worn like a stone mason's tool.  But there is a barb on one of the tines ??

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Title: Re: Odd Chisel Tool
Post by: leg17 on January 14, 2014, 09:57:46 AM

Looks like it was made from a file or rasp.

Title: Re: Odd Chisel Tool
Post by: scottg on January 14, 2014, 11:39:10 AM

This was obviously used, a lot!
 I am going to take a WAG and say..............
Pulling oakum from ship seams or large iron drain pipes.
 
 Pound it in and use the plain side to lever against to pull the oakum with the hook.
If both sides were barbed you couldn't get the tool back out
   yours Scott

Title: Re: Odd Chisel Tool
Post by: Billman49 on January 14, 2014, 12:33:47 PM

They'd be very wide seams - and the barb looks sharpened on the inside, it would cut through the thing/substance/object being pulled....

Title: Re: Odd Chisel Tool
Post by: wvtools on January 14, 2014, 12:34:38 PM

Quote from: leg17 on January 14, 2014, 09:57:46 AM

Looks like it was made from a file or rasp.

Yes, it was made from a horse rasp (rasp on one side, coarse file on the other).  You see a lot of those repurposed into other tools.  I sold a real nice scorp last month that was made from one.