Comments on: What Is It? Game 78

By: Pat

Pat — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:47:23 +0000

a large saw poker

By: DOJ

DOJ — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:23:52 +0000

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?

By: missfidget.com

missfidget.com — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:31:04 +0000

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

By: Arjewtino

Arjewtino — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:56:36 +0000

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

By: wot:?

wot:? — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:18:38 +0000

Filmburner is correct!

By: Chris W

Chris W — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:59:36 +0000

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

By: e6c

e6c — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:51:49 +0000

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.

By: shadowfirebird

shadowfirebird — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:01:35 +0000

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

By: Ryan James B

Ryan James B — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:42:50 +0000

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

By: StuckeyJ

StuckeyJ — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:58:14 +0000

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.

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:38:41 +0000

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.

By: Ali S.

Ali S. — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:13:59 +0000

It looks like a clock gear.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 04:53:34 +0000

Hahahaha seekshelter! A whale’s toothbrush!

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 04:30:45 +0000

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).

By: Keetch

Keetch — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 04:30:25 +0000

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

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:58:25 +0000

IT’S A TRAP!

By: Christophe

Christophe — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:33:11 +0000

medieval lawnmover

By: ishisama

ishisama — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:30:54 +0000

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

By: rogan

rogan — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:23:05 +0000

water wheel?

By: Alasdair

Alasdair — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:34:34 +0000

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

By: Lauren

Lauren — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:33:09 +0000

seekshelter, that was way funny.

By: Jacoby87

Jacoby87 — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:20:30 +0000

It’s a prop from the movie Saw V.

By: Terry

Terry — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:20:06 +0000

It is for lifting hay in the barn.

By: Juan

Juan — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:59:07 +0000

It’s a water wheel.

By: Terry

Terry — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:58:57 +0000

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)

By: Jamie Grove - How Not To Write

Jamie Grove - How Not To Write — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:47:52 +0000

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

By: ernest

ernest — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:44:59 +0000

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

By: Terry

Terry — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:22:52 +0000

ratchet driven spanish windlass or windless

By: red

red — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:21:33 +0000

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.

By: naysway2002

naysway2002 — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:15:58 +0000

Used to lift bails of hay into a loft

By: utron

utron — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:11:37 +0000

looks like a lift for hay in a barn

By: iRcommenter

iRcommenter — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:05:25 +0000

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?

By: abc

abc — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:54:04 +0000

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

By: Foom

Foom — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:51:42 +0000

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).

By: SiPhuYoda

SiPhuYoda — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:38:17 +0000

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

By: rhesus pieces

rhesus pieces — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:31:05 +0000

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

By: filmburner

filmburner — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:30:06 +0000

An escapement for a clock tower style clock

By: seekshelter

seekshelter — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:24:20 +0000

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

By: seekshelter

seekshelter — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:23:37 +0000

kitty kat plaything

By: seekshelter

seekshelter — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:23:23 +0000

its a rope storage winder

By: seekshelter

seekshelter — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:23:00 +0000

its a whale’s toothbrush

By: seekshelter

seekshelter — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:22:21 +0000

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

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:20:30 +0000

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