My 80 year old father and his friends were sitting around the wood stove today having morning coffee.My father gets this off the work bench and asks the guys what it is? Nobody knows. When I come home he asks me, and I don’t have a clue, but I know where I can find the answer.
This is about 18 inches long, brass,spring loaded, with a leather like post at the bottom. Thanks greg in connecticut
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It looks like a tool to be used on the guy with whom your wife cuckolded you.
Don't try this at home.
Is that a hammerhead on a hinge that can swing into whatever those clamp hands will hold?
Rez
Hammerhead is stationary, adjacent sides move in and out.
Greg in Connecticut
Need a closer closeup
Don't they use that on bulls?
Its an AzzGrabba....very popular in the days before sexual harrassment suits.
J. D. Reynolds
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HAHAHAA....I like that one... but I think its a nutcracker, when you think you've just pulled them outta the fire...the ole lady comes up from behind. Oh, the thought...
I have no idea why the leather mallet is on the bottom.
But the clamps look like something use for canning operations.
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I think Luca is on to something, I was thinking the same thing. Home canning, some of those zinc jar covers were hard to remove, The hammer sort of loosened the cover and the grips allowed more torque to twist open the cover. But the size of the grips is hard to judge. Maybe to big for standard "Ball" jar. I can remember some lager, about 1 gallon size "pickle" jars it might have worked on.
Virginbuild
It does look like a jar lifter used for canning.http://members.fishingworks.com/bo444444/index.cfm
Yeah, could be a jar lifter. Or could be some sort of smithing or glassworking tool.
Not clear in the picture -- do the curved prongs kind of wrap around the post, or are they running 90 degrees to that, so they'll press on the ends of the post?
It's a de-ball-er for a bull.
When you pull on the trigger handles, the clamps start coming together, and the hammer starts to move in a sideways arc at the same time.
Before the grip has completed the slide, the clamps already have a firm grip on the balls.
And when the grip is completely pulled up, the hammer is let go, and swings down and whacks the balls into a waiting pail.
In Montana, this has the extra advantage of tenderizing the "mountain oysters".
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Luka the bull wont stand for that . as soon as the clamp things tap the jewel bag he'll kick the stuffin out of the deballer holder.
Technicalities...Spoilsport !
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Surely a WAG but I'm thinking it is a tool for holding a leather or canvas belt used to drive old machinery from a water wheel, steam engine or tractor.
A lot of these belts had to be threaded onto machinery and then the ends laced or stitched together. Seeing as these belts could be heavy material, leather or canvas, perhaps 6" wide and yards long it would be a pain to hold the ends in place while connecting them together to form a continuous loop.
Idea here is that you pull the two ends together and stuff the 'mallet' between them. When the tips look like they will meet over the top of the 'mallet' you release the handles and the tongs lock the belt ends in place. Once the tool is locked. Your hands are free to lace or stitch the ends together using the top of the 'mallet' as a working surface.
Once lashed together you remove the tool. And use the tension adjustment on the machinery to tighten the belt up. Open the sluice and your all set to run your saw, lathe or grindstones.
Did anyone get it anything close to right?