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What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: Aunt Phil on November 04, 2011, 11:12:06 PM

Title: Take your best guess
Post by: Aunt Phil on November 04, 2011, 11:12:06 PM
I do know, but let your imagination work.
Title: Re: Take your best guess
Post by: Neals on November 04, 2011, 11:37:34 PM
To orderly to be a sculpture so I guess for making rope. Does it have hooks on the back of each gear?
Title: Re: Take your best guess
Post by: Aunt Phil on November 04, 2011, 11:50:23 PM
No hooks
Not a sculpture
Labor saving - operated by one man
Title: Re: Take your best guess
Post by: Nebraska Cowman on November 05, 2011, 07:04:05 AM
My best guess would be a machine to make fence
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Post by: Branson on November 05, 2011, 08:15:49 AM
Best example of a nine spindle, mobile doozy-fluxit I've ever encountered!
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Post by: Papaw on November 05, 2011, 09:12:12 AM
For raising or spacing siding?
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Post by: amertrac on November 05, 2011, 09:57:23 AM
easy  it is for untangling the wires in back of your computer   bob w
Title: Re: Take your best guess
Post by: kxxr on November 05, 2011, 10:07:39 AM
Close, Bob. It is actually the device the gremlins use to tangle and knot any cord, cable, rope, wire or anything else you have coiled up and placed neatly on the shelf as soon as your back is turned.
Title: Re: Take your best guess
Post by: rusty on November 05, 2011, 12:06:28 PM

Kewl, a Segway from 1820.....

I'm thinking it's for braiding cables...

Or berhaps you attach 9 bubber bands and wind yourself up like a toy airplane..

Title: Re: Take your best guess
Post by: bonneyman on November 05, 2011, 12:33:33 PM
Quote from: amertrac on November 05, 2011, 09:57:23 AM
easy  it is for untangling the wires in back of your computer   bob w

lol!
Title: Re: Take your best guess
Post by: Aunt Phil on November 06, 2011, 09:13:00 PM
OK, I guess everybody is done guessing, so Cowman is close to right.

This tool allowed a pair of men to make what we call slat snowfence today.

One man operated the crank and maintained tension with the handle while the second placed slats between iron wires.  The machine twisted the wires between slats.