What Is It? Game 78

its a turny thingie used for lifting boats when they are making them

its a rope storage winder

that is clearly a pitchfork…. or are we concentrating on the thing in the foreground?

Hmmm, I think it’s possibly the winch contraption for lifting gates in forts or castles. Yeaher!

I’d say the big wheel type thing is a ratchet. Dunno what the whole thing’s used for (apart from lifting what is presumably heavy stuff).

Industrial piñata machine for mucho grande fiestas! Or maybe an engine hoist for pulling the engines out of non-horseless carriages?

Is it just me or does it look like the rope is wound the wrong direction for the ratchet mechanism to be of any use if a load was applied?

Used to lift bails of hay into a loft

ratchet driven spanish windlass or windless

I don’t know what it is, but I know Vincent Price is hanging around somewhere.

It’s a water wheel.

It’s a prop from the movie Saw V.

It’s the early form of the “Swinging Pendulum of Doom”, as seen in the movie “Loony Tunes: Back in Action”.

it’s obviously the primitive model for the large hadron collider!

IT’S A TRAP!

haha Justin!

I can’t believe you’ve actually done 78 of these things that are so amazingly without immediate definition.

It’s obviously a streetlight (had to).

It looks like a clock gear.

Ye olden style engine puller for tractor engines and what not. The ratchet part is to that engine doesn’t just fall if it gives way.

It’s a drillbit, part of the forerunner to our giant mining and tunelling machines. It’s for mining soft cheese.

It’s the drill piece they used to carve out the tunnel the Large Hadron Collider was built in!

It reminds me of a coffee plantation tour I took in Panama. It processes coffee beans?

but, isn’t that ratchet set up to allow the rope to unspool? which would not be helpful for lifting

am i having a brainfart?