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Online skipskip

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Looks like a scraper?


AUG 184 by skipskip, on Flickr


a small pump??  coleman stove?


AUG 181 by skipskip, on Flickr

and a leather thing, about 6 inches ling


AUG 174 by skipskip, on Flickr



more pics here

http://www.flickr.com/photos/skipskip/sets/72157635010183103/


thanks

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Offline dowdstools

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Re: 3 odd things found on a farm, might be tools, but I'm a city kid
« Reply #1 on: August 10, 2013, 09:13:30 PM »
The first item is definitely a scraper. The hole on the underside may have been for a handle. The second item fits in a blow torch, I believe. I think the third item, the leather thing, would hang from your belt and hold a sharpening stone for a scythe.

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Re: 3 odd things found on a farm, might be tools, but I'm a city kid
« Reply #2 on: August 10, 2013, 10:07:05 PM »
+1 with dowdstool across the board on these. No. 1 would be uncomfortable to use without a handle, so I would agree it probably had one at some point. Whenever I see a scraper that came from a farm, I tend to think of hog butchering rather than cabinetry. This would not be the ideal tool for the job -- most hog scrapers have a belled blade and a straight handle - but it would fit with the "make it do or do without" philosophy of an old farmer. No. 2 is clearly a pressure pump from some sort of gas fueled device. Possibly a stove, but not a Coleman stove, the nut that holds it to the fuel reservoir doesn't look like a Coleman part. Pressure lamps generally used a seperate pump, so I'm thinking a blow torch is a good guess. My first thought looking at No. 3 was also that it was a holder for a scythe whetstone. Generally they were made of horn or wood (though now of plastic) as they held a little water to help keep metal from the blade from filling the pores of the stone, but I did find a posting from a fellow in England who gardens with traditional tools where he talks about the leather holder he made for his scythe stone. Just my two cents worth.

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Re: 3 odd things found on a farm, might be tools, but I'm a city kid
« Reply #3 on: August 10, 2013, 10:56:13 PM »
Second item is definitely from a blow torch, looks almost identical to the pump assembly on my Clayton and Lambert plumbers furnace, but the C&L ones have a little lock down feature to hold down the handle once done pumping. That may be a Turner or Bernz one.
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Re: 3 odd things found on a farm, might be tools, but I'm a city kid
« Reply #4 on: August 11, 2013, 03:52:25 AM »
Second item is definitely from a blow torch, looks almost identical to the pump assembly on my Clayton and Lambert plumbers furnace, but the C&L ones have a little lock down feature to hold down the handle once done pumping. That may be a Turner or Bernz one.

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Re: 3 odd things found on a farm, might be tools, but I'm a city kid
« Reply #5 on: August 14, 2013, 03:57:52 PM »
C.S. Osborne Co. still sells a bearing scraper similar to your No. 1 item. ( http://www.csosborne.com/brscrape_1.htm )   It goes to show that there still is a demand for babbitt  metal bearings I guess.

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Re: 3 odd things found on a farm, might be tools, but I'm a city kid
« Reply #6 on: August 14, 2013, 10:53:10 PM »
I believe the item on the Osbourne page is a block scraper, to scrape a butcher's block when cleaning it.

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Re: 3 odd things found on a farm, might be tools, but I'm a city kid
« Reply #7 on: August 15, 2013, 02:11:23 PM »
I'd go for a butcher's block scraper, but very similar are used by bakers for cutting dough. Wood scrapers of this type are also found, especially for cleaning paint stencils of wooden crates/packing cases for re-use... although they often have a handle at right angles to the blade, c.f. a veneer hammer...