What Is It? Game 108

And Ice hammer/pick for polar explorers.

It’s a prosthetic device for a woodpecker that lost it’s beak.

Pick for mountain climbers?

Why thats Bullet on a stick! The new taste sensation! try one, its the way to go!

This is not a hammer. It may have been used as a hammer by mistake, but it is actually a precise scientific instrument. The proper name is a Tibolicistic Chronosmithic Pistometer, but its usually called a fruit spike. These are placed beside a fruit bearing tree at the long handles length from the trunk and when a fruit falls from the tree and is impaled upon the sharp spike, precise measurments are taken of the penatration and juice color using etched markings not visible in the picture. This data is used by the National Fructose Board to determine crop yields and values and is instrumental in forfending world nutrional collapse.

I love this game, I always know the answer.

Isn’t that a hammer to lay slate on roof ? You use the pointy end to make a hole in the slate and then nail it with the other end…

You guys are totally off. It’s a sex toy from the medevil times! I got this in the bag.

I’m almost sure it’s a hammer….or a pick……or a bananna.

Was this the hammer that drove the last (golden) spike in the first Transcontinental Railroad? Maybe?

It’s a welder’s hammer.

Its an instrument of torture!

It’s a peppermint-seeking ice pick, used by intrepid Yukon prospectors. You simply toss the tool into the air, allowing it impale itself in the snow. You then detect the presence of peppermint by tasting the tip containing snow or ice using your tongue.

Could it be an emergency ice axe for if you fall through the ice, you use it to pull yourself out. so the swivel head will catch at any angle.

An instrument for cracking ribs during surgery or an autopsy?

It’s a hammer, duh.
;p

its an ice pick thats used to help mountain climbers climb up.

its used on oyster boats to clean and break apart oysters. not sure of the name though.

It’s a toffee-hammer, surely?

The Hammer of Justice!!! To be used in combination with the Bell of Freedom!

Its a brain hammer. Back in the day, when cows would come up for slaughter, a guy at the end of the line would “whack” the cow in the brain with the hammer and kill it.
Brain Hammer!

Looks like a tool I saw in a very upsetting medical illustration. (Which reassuringly hangs at the University of Delaware Student Health Center). I believe this type of hammer was used to poke holes in human skulls to relieve pressure or what have you. Clearly, I was a liberal arts major, but I think it’s called trepination (sp?)

Looks alot like a cobblers hammer thought I’ve never seen one with that pivot on the head

It is a blacksmiths hot punch, for drifting round holes in hot metal. If it had a rectangular point it would be a farriers pritchel chisel, but the round makes me think it is more for blacksmithing than farrier work. If it was for cold work it wouldn’t need the handle, but for hot work it would get too hot to hold so the handle is attached.

If it were ordinary it would not be here. It has to be something unheard of. My guess is that it’s a medieval medical instrument for giving labotomies.