Be the first to correctly Identify and name this object, its use, and job title of the guy that would have used it to win a pair of FF hats.
It was used in logging.
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Well...................I don't have a clue! :-/
But................I like the looks of that box in the background. ;D
And what's up with the paper saw blades ??? I don't think you'll get to many bd ft out of them. ::) ;D
I was thinkin a saw vise, for holding saw blades while ya sharpen them. No idee what the guys name was, though ::) ::) ;D ;D
I tink his name was Joe. :D
I got it!
It was a paper weight used to keep dem paper saw blades from warping. ;D
:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
That's a GOOD one!!!!!
cross-cut saw vise for filing a saw ::) maybe
filing an ax, guage or holder of some kind?
You fellers are really really cold.
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Is there two angled plates on the inside, or just the one we can see ?
Paul Bunyon's shoe stretcher ??? ???
hint if you want to call it that. its 5 1/2 inches tall.
honing stone holder? the cook?
I tink we need a better hint. :-/
Is it for making the boy horse an it horse?
:o :o :o :o :o :o
stick shift for the horses ear :) :) :)
That reminds me of a thing my dad used to use to hold doors on edge while he planed (plained?) them to fit. It was shaped different on the bottom though.
No horses involved with this logging tool. Go west young man...
Easy! It´s an "adjustable inch"!
When you sell lumber you make the space 22,7mm. with the nuts and when you buy you make the inch up to 28,44 mm. for checking thickess.
Swede.
HEY! Thats a really good guess. But yer WRONG! :D
It's a Horace Greeley ;D
THis has nothing to do with the whatzit, its just a picture of the boxes in the background that Furby commented on. I use them to keep C.D.'s in.
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That's what I was thinkin' Noble. Maybe it's a nutcracker?
yer just whistling Dixie now...
Jeeze Jeff, your clues are tough.
That's the CD holder that Horace Greeley used to hold his music collection of tunes from the old south---------What's that got to do with logging?
???A Rafter Jig? Duh---Duane
Another wild guess, used to guage or in replacing the teeth in a circle saw?
Is the bottom portion cut off from something, or is that the complete item?
Geez I can't believe nobody's got this yet. Those are plainly earmuffs for those west coast fellers. ;D
Can I make a wild a** guess as to who used it? A teamster.
Paul Bunyons tweezers for pulling those big spilters or Babe the Blue Ox nose hair. :D
Maybe the rear sights of the portable log saw you bought jeff?
Got to line that thing up and on target before letting her go.
Still all nopes. Pumping Paul could help ya. Too bad he won't ;D
whatever it is, its doing an excellent job of driving me nuts!
looks like it may have been used on the top of a steel gin pole?
QuoteThat's what I was thinkin' Noble. Maybe it's a nutcracker?
Only if you use it wrong... ;D OOOWWW!!
otherwise I dont have a clue.
A visual clue...
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I got it now, that's the handbrake used by the brakeman on the sawmill. He'd reach out and grab the blade with that thing to bring it to a stop.
Do I wins?
Now I know who's nuts. :D You betcha brakeman. You win da 3 fingers freddy award. :D
My older brother Don might know what it is.He was a bit of a punk when he was a kid but only for a while.
He still has all of his fingers,but there was one in particular that he must of been proud of,cause he used to show it to me whenever we got our signals crossed :-/ ::)
Never said it was a good job. :o Don't think I ever met 3 finger Freddy, is he a forum member? ;D
Yea, but he never posts. Has trouble typing.
Dere is a cloo at da bottom of pagetoo :P
Shoot then, Freddy should learn shorthand.
Its a jig for cutting 22.5 angles for dem fancy logging camp buildins...da carpenter used um...
oh gezzz...the visual clue totally caught me off guard...the oridgionl pic made it look big....now its in Jeffs hands and looks like a tool to set and calibrate set .
I know...its a musical insterment...sorta like dem spoons..
WAIT WAIT...its fer puttin the proper angle on an axe???
ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)
These are some electrifying answers. Atlast, finally, somebody got it WRONGER. :D (is wronger a word?) ;D
Jeff,
I think its wrongerer?...wrongest? mostly wrong? wrongest of the wrong?
I wouldn't say wrongest of the wrong, it aint over yet.
Shopteacher,
Freddy already has short hands. He types with his nose. He can't see the keyboard from that close up. That's why he has so many words misspelled. :o :D
Ed says Grandad had one. Said it was for holding more than 1 set of check lines, for more than 1 pair of horses, mules, oxen, tractors??, for skidding or pulling a wagon, so one set of lines didn't slip through yer hands. ;D ;D
Ed says to send the hats to my address. ;D ;D :D :D :D
Ok I think maybe it is some kind of toothsetter?
Tell Ed not to hold his hand over his mule waiting for the hats :D
Was a good guess though
contact switch for dynamiting . for breaking up log jams .a river rat? or for removong tree stumps. called gopherman
It's a hand exerciser, for when the loggers got board!
I think stump_jumper is on the right track, some kind of selenoid, only thing I can think of that'd explain the offset wingnuts.
toothsetter for a crosscut saw ?
I'm pretty sure it's a switch. Something for signaling?
I feel a thaw
Homemade Remote Control, for winchin or sumpin???
contact for the whistle used by the whistlepunk on a highlead rig
??? ??? ??? ???
sawhead,
You Aced it! 8)
Well, he had to use a foreign language to 'splain it ::) ::) ::) ;D
The Punk was either a green kid or an oldtimer that took the job of punking whistles.He packed a coil of two strand wire from the yarder out to the bush where he was close enough to the crew to see and hear them.
They would yell to the punk what they needed and he wouold squeeze the "bug"(that Jeff has) and it would either honk a horn,or if they had air,it would activate a selinoid to blow the air horn.
My brother punked for a summer back in 1974.That was the last year my dad used the whistle wire.After that he had the radio controled "Bugs" that are still used today.
Here are some signals that I copied from a manual.Our signals were slightly different, eg- if we wanted the mainline or haulback to go ahead slow(easy) there would be a short whistle followed by 3 shorts for mainlaine, and 2 shorts and another 2 shorts for haulback.
high lead logging whistle signals - Means longer spacing between signals.
1 short
Stop all lines.
3 short-3 short
Ahead slow on mainline.
3 short
Ahead on mainline.
2 short
Ahead on haulback.
2 short-2 short
Ahead slow on haulback.
3 short-1 short
Ahead on strawline.
3 short-1 short-3 short
Ahead slow on strawline.
4 short or more
Slack mainline.
2 short-4 short
Slack haulback.
3 short-1 short-4 short
Slack strawline.
3 short-2 short
Standing tight line.
1 short-1 short
Tight line while lines are running, or break if running tight.
3 short
When rigging is in: Strawline back on haulback.
3 short / plus "X" number of shorts
When rigging is in: Indicates number of sections of strawline back on rigging.
3 short-1 short-2 short
Strawline back on rigging.
1 short
When rigging is in: Chaser inspect and repair rigging.
2 short
When rigging is in: No chokers back.
2 short-1 short / plus "X" number of shorts
Number of chokers back.
2 short-4 short
When rigging is in: Slack haulback-hold all lines until 2 short blown.
3 medium
Hooker.
3 medium-4 short
Hooker and crew.
I'm with Fla on this one, Dang trick question!!!! :) :) :)
Minnesota Boy: Get me Freddy's address. I'm going to whittle him one of them forehead sticks to type with.
8) very interesting 8) congrats sawhead.
Whiste Punk Pete by Buzz Martin
Whistle Punk Pete,he stood only five feet
He wasn't gonna get_any bigger
but his main ambition was to hold the position
of Hooktender and Headrigger
But everybody knew that unless he grew
he wasn't ever gonna make it
it takes a pretty big man,that's an all around man
there isn't any way you can fake it
You put a block and a strap on ta little Pete's back
he'd head in the wrooong direction
Makin new layouts and pullin haywire
he couldn't even pull one section
But he could climb alright,didn't mind the height
but when he got to the top,Oh golly
he was too small to tackle a guyline shackle
he couldn't even hook up a molly
Well he was runnin around with a gal downtown
she was fat,but kinda pretty
and we heard one day that they ran away
got married in a nearby city
well he was happy with his wife,she was the love of his life
she had such a sweet dis-position
but Whistle Punk Pete didn't know at the time
she'd help him realize his ambition
Cause his little wife Myrtle wore a full length girdle
and it had twenty three hooks and eyes
it took a full half hour to hook her up every morning
much to little Pete's surprize
he was hookin and a thinkin,his eyes began to blinkin
he jumped up and let out a squall
he said Myrtle holy cow,if the crew could see me now
I'm a Hooktender after all!
Link to Buzz Martin (http://www.oregongreengold.com/SOUNDS/BuzzMartin/buzzbio.html)
I had one of his records several years ago,and never knew until this morning that he passed away 21 years ago :'(
I just had hoped that he was enjoying retirement :-/
Way ta go sawhead! I figured one of the guys out in the Northwest would eventually get it. O.K., now ya gotta Tell us how you came up with the answer.
Send me your name and mailing address. You get a good hat for Sundays and one of those misfit hats for yer everyday sawhead. :)
DEN! You get honorable mention. You were right there but not quite.
thats great stuff! 8)
good call, sawhead, congrats.
great piece of history, there.
why was it called 'punking'?
is that the sound of a quick blip of the whistle?
redpowerd,
I don't know what the punk part of the name came from,unless it just means a "kid"
The whistle part comes from the days of steam donkeys when the whistle punk strung a jerk wire out to the bush and would pull or "jerk" (I don't like where this is heading) the line that would in turn pull the lever on the whistle back at the donkey.
That was too close :)
Jeff,
I knew it wasn't a key for Morse code :D but I have to admit that 'bug for a whistlepunk' wasn't on the tip of my tongue. :)
Den
"The hooker in the brush is calling the shots, but the whistle punk is making the whoo-hoop. He had carried a thousand feet of 8-gauge telephone wire out into the brush, the working area for yarding logs to the landing. There can be no kinks and no hang ups, and it must be tight at all times. The other end is tied to the steam whistle on Old Rosie, and the whistles tell the donkey puncher what is needed. The hooker tells the whistle punk the exact signal to make. If he doesn't, someone gets hurt or killed."
Jeff,
where did you find that info?It's easier to understand and far more clear that my explanation.
If ever you get a chance to buy this book,grab it!!
Now You're Logging (http://www.harbourpublishing.com/index.php?s=book&id=239)
I can't say enough about this classic.It is set in the dirty thirties in a coastal logging camp and the detail and practical information about highlead logging is incredible.It was written and illustrated by Bus Griffith and is in the form of a comic book.
A very fine website. I am there reading now. Good stuff.
http://www.sweet-home.or.us/history/index.htm
Thanks y'all for the congrats. Actually jeff a western guy did get it ;D I was orignally from Oregon now in ark. Paul H gave it away with his clue on page 2 so put 2and2 together and =NEW HAT 8) 8)And by the way used to saw on a cedar mill not far from sweet home where that link is about
Gee whizz, i am only a bridesmaide again. I knew right away what it was. I just never come to the contests cuz I never know until someone guess correctly. I would have never come to this site had Paul not suggested that I do so. But, alas, it was toooo late in the evening when I came on line. :'(
Here all along I thought it was a grappletubefistermount!
Congratulation sawhead! "The winner takes it all....." :)
But I still think that my guess was more usefull (^__^)
Swede.
About all I can add is that those are some cool boxes! ;D
Wait a minute..............Jeff you never told us what the deal is with the paper saws ??? ??? ???
I'm guessing they are for the pig roast.
Andy
The Paper saws are really really really important.
I doodle on them.
:PJeff, was cleaning out my old pack panards, and found my old draw knife, it says J.S. CANTELO on the blade, fold up handles. Dec, 18, 1883, all I can find on it, want it? Its yours, E-Mail me your P.O. Box. Duh---Duane
:D :D :D :D :D :D :D @ Jeff!