What is it? Game 71 - Neatorama

Yay! It's time for our collaboration with the What is it? blog. Can you guess what this gruesome tool is used for?

Place your guess in the comment section - No prize (that's next week!) you're playing for fame and glory today.

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Update 8/1/08 - it's a muskrat den spear! No one got it exactly right, but I think LizPaul is the closest first guess.

Its used to air out hay or straw! You spin it as you work it through hay or straw to keep it from sticking together.

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I click on it and get a different pic?

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Ok, scroll down...der.

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Yes I agree with Clark.

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By looking at the handle it has been used many times, I belive it is used to harvest a vine like plant crop from small bushes.Herbs or fragrent flower heads.

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i'm guessing it's some sort of hand plow, though clark sounds like he knows what he's talking about

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We used those for tilling soil when planting in the home garden.

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It's a scalp massager.

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I'm with Clark.

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Sword for fightin' six guys at a time.

What else could it be?

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I think I've seen those used to throw around hay bales.

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It's a medieval version of the Orgasmatron

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used for airing out hay or poking it in a pile/roll of hay.

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It's a very efficient marshmallow roaster for a crowd.

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stabulator

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It's for practicing phrenology on people you don't care for.

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It's a prototype for recycling garbage bags. Flip over gadget so prongs face up. Rinse the large black plastic bag and hang it to dry over the prongs. Future models didn't require user to hold it and rubber tipped the ends so bags weren't pierced.

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It's a ground mole trap

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Used to dispatch gophers/groundhogs

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It's an instrument of torture.

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Im guessing someone had lots of time to make a 6 spoked weinie roaster? A marshmellow roaster? Just a guess...

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It's a hay turner, isn't it?

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Ditto what Clark said... least that's the first thought that came to mind when I saw it

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I was thinking of a cotton holder of some sort.

the hay theory sounds good.

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a medieval rectal thermometer.

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Notice all the little mirror bits on the wooden spinning head? It's a disco ball for Amish dances!

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its probably a...um...uh... a great trash-picker-upper for at least six boy-scouts!

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It's an eel spear!

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This is indeed used for hay: for searching hay wagons trying to smuggle people in or out. Most smugglers knew enough to put the cargo down low enough so a regular pitch fork couldn't reach, so they invented this. It is of course German.

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Simple, tt is one of those contraptions that massages your scalp.

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A frozen octopus... missing two legs.

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World's largest spaghetti fork.

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On the picture behind the tool a farmer(?!) is using it in a field of sunflowers it seems. It looks like he is using it as a dowsing-rod, looking for water. Or maybe he's measuring? Or planting seeds? Or killing something, like moles, or rabbits, rats, mice, and their holes?

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Easy, it's a six-pronged skewer for medieval-style shishkebabs that you cook over a fire like a spit. You put the meat on each stick or you could jam a whole pig in there. Mmmm.

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is it a button holer for a mattress?

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It's a casy iron kebab skewer for a family

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I meant cast

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a weenie roaster for really large weenies

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It definately is a tool for hay. My grandparents had one sticking in a hay bale at all times it seems. I am pretty sure it is used to break up the hay bales.

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It´s used to make barbecue.

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A phrenology examination tool?

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