What Is It? Game 63

Posted by Alex in What Is It on May 22, 2008 at 8:46 am


This week’s collaboration with What is it? blog brings us this strange contraption: do you know what it is for?

Place your guess in the comment section – no prize this week, you’re playing for bragging rights and fun only! For more clues, check out What is it? blog. Good luck!

Update 5/23/08 – the answer is:

A barrel maker’s hoop lifter, lever hook, or hoop dog, it was used for stretching or levering a hoop over the top of the staves.

No one got it right!


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27 comments to "What Is It? Game 63"

  1. Bret
    May 22nd, 2008 at 8:48 am

    It's a nail puller

  2. Andrew Woodbridge
    May 22nd, 2008 at 9:06 am

    Used for softening leather hides

  3. fisherdah
    May 22nd, 2008 at 9:31 am

    fixes fishing nets.

  4. Bocephus
    May 22nd, 2008 at 9:44 am

    Ice Block Carrier?

  5. idahogie
    May 22nd, 2008 at 9:55 am

    I agree with Andrew - it's a tool for working hides. I think I saw this tool on an episode of "Dirty Jobs."

  6. sm
    May 22nd, 2008 at 10:04 am

    I'm guessing ice block carrier too.

  7. Hezzawezza
    May 22nd, 2008 at 10:24 am

    A bucket or barrell lid remover

  8. plainswalker75
    May 22nd, 2008 at 10:59 am

    I'm guessing the first staple remover

  9. Miss Cellania
    May 22nd, 2008 at 11:08 am

    Instrument of torture.

  10. Jaxx
    May 22nd, 2008 at 11:24 am

    Used to carry wet hides in leathermaking.

  11. AJ
    May 22nd, 2008 at 11:38 am

    It's a handheld paper holder. Stick a sheet of paper under the clip and now it's portable.

  12. Craig Clayton
    May 22nd, 2008 at 11:41 am

    I believe it is a tool to pull or stretch wet canvas,or heavy cloth in the wool industry.

  13. PJ
    May 22nd, 2008 at 11:56 am

    So that's where my toe nail clippers went!

  14. itsmrQtoyou
    May 22nd, 2008 at 11:58 am

    Looks like a Log Jack?

  15. Randall
    May 22nd, 2008 at 12:02 pm

    A corpse scatchit. Long ago churchyard graves were not really owned, but rented from the church. If the family stopped attending the church or were short on tithes, the families deceased would be disinterred, usually in a rather casual manner. The threat of this would usually bring the offending members into line. Not to be too graphic, but the bent end of the scatchit would be inserted into the most convienent orifice of the corpse.

  16. Christophe
    May 22nd, 2008 at 12:27 pm

    a narwhal toothpick

  17. kurt
    May 22nd, 2008 at 12:54 pm

    looks like a tire lever for pulling tires onto rims.

  18. sam
    May 22nd, 2008 at 2:54 pm

    Is it a thing you use to fill out a shoe?

  19. CheeseDuck
    May 22nd, 2008 at 2:57 pm

    Backscratcher!

  20. technowarlock
    May 22nd, 2008 at 3:09 pm

    The part of a crossbow that holds the string/wire cocked.

  21. Meghan
    May 22nd, 2008 at 3:55 pm

    It's used to shoe horses.

  22. DOJ
    May 22nd, 2008 at 4:15 pm

    an early swiss army knife

  23. simon
    May 22nd, 2008 at 10:22 pm

    a nail clipper

  24. Woogie
    May 22nd, 2008 at 11:25 pm

    Looks like something you'd kill a seal with. Sure I've seen it in old footage, something like that.

    Whatever, it's a nasty looking bit of.. Whatever the hell it is.

  25. AJ
    May 23rd, 2008 at 2:28 am

    It's for manual extraction of walrus tusks. They call it the Googoogajoob.

  26. Ajan
    May 23rd, 2008 at 3:56 am

    oh maan! This is an Internal Hard Drive remover. See, when the HD gets stuck into the never opened rusted cabinet of our systems, we would need to pull it out with this. Our ancestors have known what the world would be in the next 500 years, so they made this as a precaution. I have written a journal about this too.

  27. John S.
    May 23rd, 2008 at 7:51 pm

    A brick carrier.


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