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Title: Maybe some kind of reamer
Post by: gibsontool on January 18, 2015, 11:32:04 PM

These two are not the same but are quite similar and both came from different places. My guess is some type of tapered reamer and  the gear on the top suggests it's power driven. Any body familiar with these ?

Title: Re: Maybe some kind of reamer
Post by: stanley62 on January 19, 2015, 11:21:55 AM

Looks like the spikes the use to hold a Christmas tree to the stand.

  Jim

Title: Re: Maybe some kind of reamer
Post by: lazyassforge on January 19, 2015, 12:09:50 PM

Those are cotton picker spindles!

http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-65405503/stock-photo-detail-of-cotton-harvester-spindle-machine.html

Hope this helps, Bill D.

Title: Re: Maybe some kind of reamer
Post by: EVILDR235 on January 19, 2015, 05:06:35 PM

Yes from a cotton picking machine. I saw one at the Habitat Restore several weeks ago that someone had made into a x-mas tree stand using rebar for legs.

Ho,ho,ho.

Title: Re: Maybe some kind of reamer
Post by: gibsontool on January 19, 2015, 07:54:42 PM

Thanks guys, living up here in northern British Columbia I have never seen a cotton plant or anything to do with harvesting the cotton. Mystery solved.

Title: Re: Maybe some kind of reamer
Post by: Chillylulu on January 19, 2015, 11:55:37 PM

I found one on a job (The Grand Junction Hilton) in 1983.  It was laying on the ground and I thought one of the sheetrockers had dropped it. I asked around and nobody knew who it belonged to or where it came from.  I kept it in my tool bucket for a couple of months. I used it to poke holes in cinderblock and center in sheetrock.

Every once and a while I used to find it around the garage, but I haven't seen it in years.

It is good to finally know what that almost tool looking thing was. Even 22 yrs later.

Chilly

Title: Re: Maybe some kind of reamer
Post by: J.Musgrove on January 20, 2015, 07:54:01 AM

They good welding hammers

Title: Re: Maybe some kind of reamer
Post by: slip knot on January 20, 2015, 10:36:21 PM

yep cotton picker spindles.I pick these up when I see them. They make good punches as they are extremely hard. I've never seen a bent or broken one just worn out in the threaded area out to the point.