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.
Clark
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.
Craig Clayton
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.
ellanovak
i’m guessing it’s some sort of hand plow, though clark sounds like he knows what he’s talking about
Mel Phistopheles
Sword for fightin’ six guys at a time.
What else could it be?
big spender
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.
Far-Fetched Creations
Im guessing someone had lots of time to make a 6 spoked weinie roaster? A marshmellow roaster? Just a guess…
LisaL
Ditto what Clark said… least that’s the first thought that came to mind when I saw it
Christophe
I was thinking of a cotton holder of some sort.
the hay theory sounds good.
Alejo Hausner
Notice all the little mirror bits on the wooden spinning head? It’s a disco ball for Amish dances!
dragon tryst
its probably a…um…uh… a great trash-picker-upper for at least six boy-scouts!
Zorah
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.
tripleX
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?
leanbeans
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.
Tessa
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.
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