What is It? Game 79

Posted by Alex in What Is It on October 30, 2008 at 7:37 am


Today’s collaboration with What is it? blog brings us this object. Can you guess what it is? (No, it’s not an axe!)

Place your guess in the comment section. No prize this week, so you’re playing for bragging rights only.

For more clues, including larger pics, check out the What is it? blog. Good luck!

Update 10/31/08 – the answer is:

A George Washington Door Stop, by Newton Mfg Co., Newton, Iowa, in use it was stood on its head with the wedge going under the door.

Congratulations to ALC who go it right!


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36 comments to "What is It? Game 79"

  1. anon
    October 30th, 2008 at 7:51 am

    Looks like a demolition hammer.

  2. Max Power
    October 30th, 2008 at 7:58 am

    An axe!

  3. Miss Cellania
    October 30th, 2008 at 7:59 am

    It sure looks like an axe. But it's really an instrument of torture.

  4. Jared
    October 30th, 2008 at 8:16 am

    Hmmm, possibly some kind of gardening implement, for edging borders perhaps, or digging up weed roots. something along those lines.

  5. oxyacetylene
    October 30th, 2008 at 8:26 am

    it's a wood splitter. you place it on a log and hit the heel(flat bit) with a small sledgehammer. it could also be used by the likes of lizzie borden when her arms gotten tired lol

  6. LisaL
    October 30th, 2008 at 8:28 am

    Wow, that's difficult... can't think of anything that it would be useful for.

    Maybe some kind of shovel that only moves the top of the soil or something?

  7. nalden
    October 30th, 2008 at 8:41 am

    A hatchet..?

  8. Ali S.
    October 30th, 2008 at 9:39 am

    I was about to say axe. However, the look of the handle and the size of the head to the handle looks like a hatchet. But a hatchet...for what!? O_o

  9. surfchef
    October 30th, 2008 at 9:45 am

    The piece featured is used to split kindling. The protrusion from the blade is used to make pieces manageable. Then they split the pieces further with the blade.

  10. Gail Pink
    October 30th, 2008 at 10:37 am

    I agree with the wood splitter guess, though my initial guess was that it is some kind of crowbar-like device, for prying something open or apart (I guess that function could be related to wood splitting?

  11. burninglily
    October 30th, 2008 at 10:39 am

    It's a roofing hammer!

  12. Jeff Lewis
    October 30th, 2008 at 10:49 am

    It's a ... wait for it... hatchet

  13. maria
    October 30th, 2008 at 11:12 am

    For me this object is an "Abre-latas".

    I dont know the word in english...

    (...) to open iron boxes...

    hugs

  14. jessica
    October 30th, 2008 at 11:12 am

    I was going to say a garden tool, but somebody beat me to it.

  15. iRcommenter
    October 30th, 2008 at 11:32 am

    It's a white piece of cloth, presumably for providing contrast to whatever object (an axe with a tumor, for example) you want to place on it for the purpose of taking a photograph of said object to post on the internetz.

  16. ALC
    October 30th, 2008 at 11:33 am

    It's a stupid souvenir doorstop, probably from Alaska. I know because my mother once thought that it was something I needed to have.

  17. floatingk
    October 30th, 2008 at 11:44 am

    Definitely a doorstop, of the coolest nature!

  18. Mthulhu
    October 30th, 2008 at 1:06 pm

    It's a tool for opening wooden shipping crates.

  19. CheeseDuck
    October 30th, 2008 at 1:56 pm

    Its a cake.

  20. Max Power
    October 30th, 2008 at 2:15 pm

    I LOVE YOU JAMES VAN DER BEEK!!!!!

  21. sushirama
    October 30th, 2008 at 2:51 pm

    bark stripper for making canoes

  22. tripleX
    October 30th, 2008 at 3:00 pm

    Maybe you can use it to take a floor apart, or boarding. Or hit knots out of wood or tree. Or use it to get rid of stones and objects in a road or mine.

  23. tripleX
    October 30th, 2008 at 3:29 pm

    Maybe it's for cutting wire or rope around something. Because of the pointy part you don't follow through when you hit.

  24. burninglily
    October 30th, 2008 at 3:52 pm

    and if it's not a roofing hammer...then a roofing hatchet

  25. ellrabin
    October 30th, 2008 at 4:35 pm

    That's an old power hatchet from back when they had a kickstarter. Nicely restored.

  26. Bobby the K
    October 30th, 2008 at 4:43 pm

    I think is a splitting maul. Used to split fire wood etc.

  27. DeLuxe
    October 30th, 2008 at 4:53 pm

    A Circular Saw That Won't Cut Off Your Fingers

  28. lewis
    October 30th, 2008 at 5:31 pm

    is it some sort of novelty door stop?

  29. Christophe
    October 31st, 2008 at 12:27 am

    It's a rhino hunting tomahawk.
    They were used by Native Americans before the great rhino extinction.

  30. tripleX
    October 31st, 2008 at 5:56 am

    It's a toenail clipper and cleaner in one. Probably part of a pedicure set.
    I've seen some big toenails, it's possible.

  31. Woke
    October 31st, 2008 at 9:21 am

    A toothpick? :-\

  32. Moebius
    October 31st, 2008 at 9:28 am

    It's a dilithium crystal articulation frame.
    A device that holds a dilithium crystal within a starship's matter/antimatter reaction chamber.

  33. Randalll
    October 31st, 2008 at 9:46 am

    Its not an axe or hatchet, or any kind of destructive cutting tool at all. It is a throngel, a specialized spatula for turning the delicate 'bismael' pancakes made ot Fesmaltin, an ancient Norweigian holiday celebrating the coming of Crodon, the pine bough maiden who brings tint to babies hair. Admittedly a rather minor and insignifigant goddess as pantheons go, but Norway is a cold and desolate place and the hardy Norse celebrate everything they can.

  34. Randalll
    October 31st, 2008 at 9:48 am

    Have I ever mentioned how much I love this game?

  35. cockgrinch
    October 31st, 2008 at 2:33 pm

    LEAVE BRITTNEY ALONE!!!!!!!!!!

  36. sonnyfidoo
    April 14th, 2009 at 4:40 pm

    Does any one have one they want to sell?
    I think I need one of those.

    jj


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