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What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: Sudsy on May 06, 2024, 05:16:23 PM

Title: Box lot auction item #2 & #3
Post by: Sudsy on May 06, 2024, 05:16:23 PM

The bladed tool is probably some specialty harvesting tool. Thin (ish) spring steel, very sharp.

The wooden fork with the paddle handle I've no idea at all, not even a guess

Title: Re: Box lot auction item #2 & #3
Post by: Yadda on May 06, 2024, 06:04:36 PM

The spring steel may be a luthier's froe?  The forked stick may be a push stick. 

Title: Re: Box lot auction item #2 & #3
Post by: Sudsy on May 06, 2024, 06:36:50 PM

Sharpened on the inside so not a froe

We just built a firepit in the backyard, I could used a froe. If this turn out to be noting of value, that's what it's going to become.

Title: Re: Box lot auction item #2 & #3
Post by: wvtools on May 19, 2024, 09:24:53 PM

It is a corn cutter, a type of field knife.

Title: Re: Box lot auction item #2 & #3
Post by: john k on May 29, 2024, 01:42:41 PM

The wooden fork could have been used to lift clothes from a very hot laundry tub.  My grandmother would boil sheets with just a small amount of soap, in a tub on top the wood stove.