Whatzit?

[Jeff]

Member Autocar gave this to me at the Bunyan show to put in the Forestry Forum "Museum". I had never saw one before. He knew what it was and it made perfect sense to me after he told me.   I'm very happy to have it to display with the other "stuff" here.



  

 

[thompsontimber]

Obviously that's a doomaflochy.  Everybody knows that. You use it on the hickamajig in order to whatchamacallit.

[Jeff]

Closest guess so far!  :D

[Weekend_Sawyer]

I was going to say tiddly wink launcher but it really looks like a door stop.

[Kcwoodbutcher]

I'm thinking some kind of marking gauge.

[LaneC]

That is an easy one. It is an: eyecatcher for meddlers :D :D :D. Not really. It is a blueberry flipper. you put a blueberry on the low end, flip the high end down real quick and launch the blueberry across the table into the air so your spouse doesn't have to get up to get the blueberries :D :D :D :D

[Texas Ranger]

would be useful to lift sheet rock on a wall for nailing

[Jeff]

See if this gives some clues



 

[hackberry jake]

Thats what we called a 5P back in the fourties. It stands for Ping Pong Paddle Potato Peeler!

[Holmes]

 My first thought was for scraping crap off the bottom of shoes, and the metal blade is for getting between?

[Jeff]

So far the first guess was the closest.

[fishpharmer]

Don't really know.  Since Autocar donated it, must have something to do with forestry, milling or lumber, I would think.  Maybe something to measure, scale or grade lumber or logs?

[beenthere]

Looks like it could be a special jig for making a repeated tool setting for a machine in a sawmill or woodworking operation, or ??
Maybe something to do with moving a circular sawblade around... but not quite sure on that either.

[Jeff]

There was some movement in the right direction there...

[Mooseherder]

Those pieces of metal are magnetized so it's the world's first metal detector.

[isawlogs]

blade lifter

[pigman]

Pitch remover for circular saw blades.

[Brian_Rhoad]

Use it to dress the saw teeth after they are swaged.

[WmFritz]

That device looks very similar to what the Nun's used to warm my backside with.   ;D ;D ;D

[thecfarm]

a saw gauge.

[Jeff]

a saw gauge.

Please elaborate.

[thecfarm]

It's held against the saw blade for a guide to get the angle correct when the teeth are sharpened.

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

It's held against the saw blade for a guide to get the angle correct when the teeth are sharpened.

Yea.......you work in a hardware store.....that's cheating!  ;D

[Jeff]

It's held against the saw blade for a guide to get the angle correct when the teeth are sharpened.

I've gotta say close but no cigar.

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

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