What is it? Game 71

Posted by Alex in What Is It on July 31, 2008 at 8:19 am


Yay! It’s time for our collaboration with the What is it? blog. Can you guess what this gruesome tool is used for?

Place your guess in the comment section - No prize (that’s next week!) you’re playing for fame and glory today.

For bigger picture, check out What is it? blog.

Update 8/1/08 - it’s a muskrat den spear! No one got it exactly right, but I think LizPaul is the closest first guess.




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41 comments to "What is it? Game 71"

  1. Clark
    July 31st, 2008 at 8:22 am

    Its used to air out hay or straw! You spin it as you work it through hay or straw to keep it from sticking together.

  2. Larfin Jackarse
    July 31st, 2008 at 8:22 am

    I click on it and get a different pic?

  3. Larfin Jackarse
    July 31st, 2008 at 8:23 am

    Ok, scroll down…der.

  4. Larfin Jackarse
    July 31st, 2008 at 8:24 am

    Yes I agree with Clark.

  5. Craig Clayton
    July 31st, 2008 at 8:35 am

    By looking at the handle it has been used many times, I belive it is used to harvest a vine like plant crop from small bushes.Herbs or fragrent flower heads.

  6. ellanovak
    July 31st, 2008 at 8:36 am

    i’m guessing it’s some sort of hand plow, though clark sounds like he knows what he’s talking about

  7. egoiste
    July 31st, 2008 at 8:41 am

    We used those for tilling soil when planting in the home garden.

  8. Mindy Peek
    July 31st, 2008 at 8:47 am

    It’s a scalp massager.

  9. thembi
    July 31st, 2008 at 8:54 am

    I’m with Clark.

  10. Mel Phistopheles
    July 31st, 2008 at 9:10 am

    Sword for fightin’ six guys at a time.

    What else could it be?

  11. Jenna
    July 31st, 2008 at 9:19 am

    I think I’ve seen those used to throw around hay bales.

  12. Mario
    July 31st, 2008 at 9:20 am

    It’s a medieval version of the Orgasmatron

  13. annthony
    July 31st, 2008 at 9:20 am

    used for airing out hay or poking it in a pile/roll of hay.

  14. Lauren
    July 31st, 2008 at 9:35 am

    It’s a very efficient marshmallow roaster for a crowd.

  15. SenorMysterioso
    July 31st, 2008 at 10:00 am

    stabulator

  16. Lenore
    July 31st, 2008 at 10:27 am

    It’s for practicing phrenology on people you don’t care for.

  17. big spender
    July 31st, 2008 at 10:52 am

    It’s a prototype for recycling garbage bags. Flip over gadget so prongs face up. Rinse the large black plastic bag and hang it to dry over the prongs. Future models didn’t require user to hold it and rubber tipped the ends so bags weren’t pierced.

  18. LizPaul
    July 31st, 2008 at 11:24 am

    It’s a ground mole trap

  19. ArtR
    July 31st, 2008 at 11:40 am

    Used to dispatch gophers/groundhogs

  20. Miss Cellania
    July 31st, 2008 at 11:46 am

    It’s an instrument of torture.

  21. Far-Fetched Creations
    July 31st, 2008 at 12:00 pm

    Im guessing someone had lots of time to make a 6 spoked weinie roaster? A marshmellow roaster? Just a guess…

  22. Jana
    July 31st, 2008 at 12:49 pm

    It’s a hay turner, isn’t it?

  23. LisaL
    July 31st, 2008 at 1:12 pm

    Ditto what Clark said… least that’s the first thought that came to mind when I saw it

  24. Christophe
    July 31st, 2008 at 1:18 pm

    I was thinking of a cotton holder of some sort.

    the hay theory sounds good.

  25. neatoramafan
    July 31st, 2008 at 1:56 pm

    a medieval rectal thermometer.

  26. Alejo Hausner
    July 31st, 2008 at 2:11 pm

    Notice all the little mirror bits on the wooden spinning head? It’s a disco ball for Amish dances!

  27. dragon tryst
    July 31st, 2008 at 2:12 pm

    its probably a…um…uh… a great trash-picker-upper for at least six boy-scouts!

  28. Bilo
    July 31st, 2008 at 2:27 pm

    It’s an eel spear!

  29. Zorah
    July 31st, 2008 at 2:35 pm

    This is indeed used for hay: for searching hay wagons trying to smuggle people in or out. Most smugglers knew enough to put the cargo down low enough so a regular pitch fork couldn’t reach, so they invented this. It is of course German.

  30. Theo
    July 31st, 2008 at 3:06 pm

    Simple, tt is one of those contraptions that massages your scalp.

  31. Abbey
    July 31st, 2008 at 5:59 pm

    A frozen octopus… missing two legs.

  32. Lady C
    July 31st, 2008 at 6:35 pm

    World’s largest spaghetti fork.

  33. tripleX
    July 31st, 2008 at 7:11 pm

    On the picture behind the tool a farmer(?!) is using it in a field of sunflowers it seems. It looks like he is using it as a dowsing-rod, looking for water. Or maybe he’s measuring? Or planting seeds? Or killing something, like moles, or rabbits, rats, mice, and their holes?

  34. leanbeans
    July 31st, 2008 at 10:00 pm

    Easy, it’s a six-pronged skewer for medieval-style shishkebabs that you cook over a fire like a spit. You put the meat on each stick or you could jam a whole pig in there. Mmmm.

  35. Ahtilla
    July 31st, 2008 at 10:41 pm

    is it a button holer for a mattress?

  36. les gilfoyle
    August 1st, 2008 at 5:55 am

    It’s a casy iron kebab skewer for a family

  37. les gilfoyle
    August 1st, 2008 at 5:56 am

    I meant cast

  38. alexf
    August 1st, 2008 at 7:45 am

    a weenie roaster for really large weenies

  39. Tessa
    August 1st, 2008 at 11:52 am

    It definately is a tool for hay. My grandparents had one sticking in a hay bale at all times it seems. I am pretty sure it is used to break up the hay bales.

  40. LH
    August 1st, 2008 at 11:54 am

    It´s used to make barbecue.

  41. Lotta
    August 5th, 2008 at 3:58 pm

    A phrenology examination tool?


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