Lifting Aid?

By gwac, member

This tool may have helped get a grip on old heavy trunks.

I found this in an old family farmhouse among ancient handtools. My great-uncle did handyman work between woodblock art projects.

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anchorptguy | Feb 25, 2010 09:26pm | #1
I believe you are holding it correctly in the lower left hand photo .My grandfather had a tool like it .His was a two handed paint scraper .The fingers of your right hand would wrap over on the protrusion on the top .
KasilofLeif | May 22, 2010 03:23am | #2
Scraper? Thought it was a lifting device. It looks much like a recently "invented" tool to lift heavy doors single-handedly when setting them on their hinges. You push it under the heavy door and step on it lift the door so you can mark hinges or slip in the hinge-pins. Check recent Fine Homebuilding or JLC issues for ad or testimonial.

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