What is it? Game 30

By Alex in What Is It on Jul 19, 2007 at 4:45 am

Today’s collaboration with What is it? Blog brings us this strange object: can you guess what it is?

Place your guess in the comment section (post no URL, please – let others play). No prize this week, you’re playing for bragging rights only. Check out What is it? blog for more guessing game.

Update 7/30/07 – Here’s the answer:

Hops pole carrier: the hops plant is a vine and to help them grow they put a large number of 15 foot poles in the ground and ran wires across the top; the holes on the end of this tool are for straps, which would then go around the neck and shoulders of the worker and allow him to carry the pole.


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  1. Craig Clayton
    Jul 19th, 2007 at 6:55 am

    This is a old style calf puller that is put around the hoof during calfing.

  2. fine
    Jul 19th, 2007 at 7:01 am

    Very important tool of barber: “scissors-comb”.

  3. Spirit
    Jul 19th, 2007 at 7:39 am

    It’s a jew tool for circumcision.

  4. Knitterman
    Jul 19th, 2007 at 7:51 am

    It appears to be a dental grip for pulling teeth. Or it could be a form of old-tyme ice tongs, from a time when delivery men would bring huge blocks of ice door to door.

  5. nancy
    Jul 19th, 2007 at 7:55 am

    Looks like ice tongs to me. My dad quit school in third grade to sell ice from a truck back in the Great Depression.

    Then again, I think someone used these on me when I was giving birth….some sort of primitive tool approved by my HMO.

  6. Marilyn Terrell
    Jul 19th, 2007 at 7:59 am

    I’ll bet they’re ice tongs too.

  7. Mel Phistopheles
    Jul 19th, 2007 at 8:14 am

    What is it? WHAT IS IT?
    It’s Grade A Nightmare Fuel, that’s what it is!
    I can’t imagine something that looks like that is used for something pleasant. No idea, actually.

  8. djkilabot
    Jul 19th, 2007 at 8:57 am

    A torture tool used in the early centuries to grip the male genitalias and stop the blood circulation. Eventually it will turn blue and will bring an unimaginable amount of pain.

  9. Mr S
    Jul 19th, 2007 at 9:05 am

    It’s an alligator!

  10. Ryan
    Jul 19th, 2007 at 9:49 am

    Pinking shears run over by a train.

  11. Joe Felice
    Jul 19th, 2007 at 11:09 am

    Those looped handles mean you’re pulling something. The curved teeth means it wraps around something curved. The extra hardy construction suggests you’re not lifting, but pulling in a direction where gravity can help you.

    Craig Clayton (#1) has the best guess. Yank those babies out.

  12. Leslie H.
    Jul 19th, 2007 at 11:20 am

    It’s a snipper used in glasswork (i.e., scissors for molten glass)

  13. Heather
    Jul 19th, 2007 at 1:27 pm

    some sort of tooth pulling tool the dentists used way back then.

  14. smurfalicious
    Jul 19th, 2007 at 2:13 pm

    oh wow – you found it! thank you so much!!! the boyfriend and i thought we lost it last saturday night about 1:30 in the morning when we were drunk and getting “freaky”, ifyouknowwhatimean.

  15. Trey
    Jul 19th, 2007 at 4:58 pm

    #1 is right ! ( but i like #16s answer ! )

  16. Larry
    Jul 19th, 2007 at 5:28 pm

    It is a tool for castrating Bulls.

  17. hayman
    Jul 19th, 2007 at 10:17 pm

    You dumb asses apparently can’t read. The desription clearly states that it’s not used with animals.

  18. jima-san!
    Jul 20th, 2007 at 8:59 am

    It looks like surgical scissors for those hard-to-reach places. By the looks of it, it looks like it was from the early 1900′s. Yeah, that’s probably it…

  19. William
    Jul 20th, 2007 at 9:19 am

    NIPPLE SQUEEZER!!!!!!!

  20. Rosi
    Jul 20th, 2007 at 12:00 pm

    It’s what is known as a “tongue loosener”.
    It was accurately depicted in the 1993 documentary “Robin Hood: Men in Tights” as an instrument of tortue common in Arabic prisons. It is used to pinch the tongue and stretch it, therefore loosening it ready to be used for betrayal of secrets.

  21. joe
    Jul 21st, 2007 at 1:20 am

    rips bull testicles

  22. Mr S
    Jul 21st, 2007 at 8:49 am

    Gaah! This is killing me… where is Jonno? Doesn’t he play anymore? Someone say “banana”!

  23. Randall
    Jul 23rd, 2007 at 10:30 am

    Its a Riccon Wrench. In the early 40′s oversized Blendal crunchers were used to chalup granite blocks for industrial mixes. Size was adjusted from scatia to rough froll and the Riccon nut needed to be adjusted to control size and mass displacement. The second world war disrupted the the granite chall industry when it was discovered that common beach sand could be substituted in all applications. The 42 ton blendal crunchers were soon melted down to make sherman tanks and the only surviving evidence that the industry ever existed is the odd Riccon Wrench, treasured by collectors and museums worldwide.

  24. Lily
    Jul 24th, 2007 at 1:52 pm

    it’s used to lift canning jars or tins up out of the boiling water when canning

  25. wvcomputer girl
    Jul 25th, 2007 at 12:00 pm

    Looks like a blacksmith tool for pulling items out of a fire – like horse shoes.

  26. Alex
    Jul 28th, 2007 at 8:12 am

    I don’t wanna know what you were doing, smurfalicious!

  27. Alex
    Jul 30th, 2007 at 5:49 pm

    Ah, this was a good one – no one got it. :) The answer is a hops pole carrier.


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