What Is It? Game 78

1. Thomas
   October 16th, 2008 at 7:20 pm

   I'd love to say it belongs to a catapult but the winch is a bit big. I'll stick with catapult winch anyway.

2. seekshelter
   October 16th, 2008 at 7:22 pm

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

3. seekshelter
   October 16th, 2008 at 7:23 pm

   its a whale's toothbrush

4. seekshelter
   October 16th, 2008 at 7:23 pm

   its a rope storage winder

5. seekshelter
   October 16th, 2008 at 7:23 pm

   kitty kat plaything

6. seekshelter
   October 16th, 2008 at 7:24 pm

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

7. filmburner
   October 16th, 2008 at 7:30 pm

   An escapement for a clock tower style clock

8. rhesus pieces
   October 16th, 2008 at 7:31 pm

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

9. SiPhuYoda
   October 16th, 2008 at 7:38 pm

   It looks like an ancient torture device. Possibly an automatic spanking machine!

10. Foom
    October 16th, 2008 at 7:51 pm

    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).

11. abc
    October 16th, 2008 at 7:54 pm

    Looks like a giant gear that turns by pulling on the rope.

12. iRcommenter
    October 16th, 2008 at 8:05 pm

    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?

13. utron
    October 16th, 2008 at 8:11 pm

    looks like a lift for hay in a barn

14. naysway2002
    October 16th, 2008 at 8:15 pm

    Used to lift bails of hay into a loft

15. red
    October 16th, 2008 at 8:21 pm

    It looks like that it's on it's side and that it's that big jobby that goes up the centre of a wind or water mill. I think that cog may be above or below the grinding surface.

16. Terry
    October 16th, 2008 at 8:22 pm

    ratchet driven spanish windlass or windless

17. ernest
    October 16th, 2008 at 8:44 pm

    It's a wood saw for cutting the soft stuff.

18. Jamie Grove - How Not To Write
    October 16th, 2008 at 8:47 pm

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

19. Terry
    October 16th, 2008 at 8:58 pm

    I have no idea what the name is, but it's for working with animal skins, in a tanning or leather works factory (my vocabulary sucks)

20. Juan
    October 16th, 2008 at 8:59 pm

    It's a water wheel.

21. Terry
    October 16th, 2008 at 9:20 pm

    It is for lifting hay in the barn.

22. Jacoby87
    October 16th, 2008 at 9:20 pm

    It's a prop from the movie Saw V.

23. Lauren
    October 16th, 2008 at 9:33 pm

    seekshelter, that was way funny.

24. Alasdair
    October 16th, 2008 at 9:34 pm

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

25. rogan
    October 16th, 2008 at 10:23 pm

    water wheel?

26. ishisama
    October 16th, 2008 at 10:30 pm

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

27. Christophe
    October 16th, 2008 at 10:33 pm

    medieval lawnmover

28. Justin
    October 16th, 2008 at 10:58 pm

    IT'S A TRAP!

29. Keetch
    October 16th, 2008 at 11:30 pm

    I'm guessing it's used to raise an anchor.

30. Johnny Cat
    October 16th, 2008 at 11:30 pm

    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).

31. Alex
    October 16th, 2008 at 11:53 pm

    Hahahaha seekshelter! A whale's toothbrush!

32. Ali S.
    October 17th, 2008 at 12:13 am

    It looks like a clock gear.

33. Johnny Cat
    October 17th, 2008 at 12:38 am

    didn't anyone guess hay bale cutter? I used to bale hay as a kid, and I'm sure wherever they went needed some way to break them up.

34. StuckeyJ
    October 17th, 2008 at 12:58 am

    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.

35. Ryan James B
    October 17th, 2008 at 2:42 am

    Bob Barker's original version of The Price of Right's Wheel of DEATH!

36. shadowfirebird
    October 17th, 2008 at 3:01 am

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

37. e6c
    October 17th, 2008 at 5:51 am

    The other equipment in the room shows that it is some sort of farm equipment... the pitch forks for hay stacks make me think it is speciffically used to pick up and move blocks of hay.

38. Chris W
    October 17th, 2008 at 5:59 am

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

39. wot:?
    October 17th, 2008 at 9:18 am

    Filmburner is correct!

40. Arjewtino
    October 17th, 2008 at 10:56 am

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

41. missfidget.com
    October 17th, 2008 at 3:31 pm

    its part of a windmill, the sails turn all sorts of wheels cogs and rachety things, and thats one of them

42. DOJ
    October 17th, 2008 at 5:23 pm

    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?

43. Pat
    October 17th, 2008 at 10:47 pm

    a large saw poker

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