This week I need some help with the tool with the hooks on the end, number
A few months ago I posted a photo here on the newsgroups of a strap that someone was trying to identify, he finally figured out that it was meant to be bolted to the rear of a TV base and then screwed to the table or shelf to prevent it from toppling forward. The link below shows the strap, in case anyone didn't see the original post:
Rob
1577. Fireman's catch net. For people jumping from burning buildings. 1578. Air powered siren for a fire engine or police car. Karl
1577. Fireman's catch net. For people jumping from burning buildings. 1578. Air powered siren for a fire engine or police car. Karl 1574. Lawn edger. 1576. Not certain, but Grandfather used to have a virtually identical (It had a 1.5" long piece of rod perpendicular to, and just forward of, the "handle part" to hook your fingers around) home made tool to put strain on mesh type sheep fencing. Designed to pull at a junction of the mesh. Later, Uncle put a row of them on a bar with a curved lever attached, to strain the entire height of the fence at once.
1575 Bumper jack. Picks up one whole end of vehicle. Common in tire stores when vehicles had steel bumpers.
1576 Tool to grab something and hook it on something else? No idea what. Fencing?1577 Firemans "catcher". Popular in old cartoons.
1578 Siren.1573- counts out a crapload of something! 1574- separates concrete sections and applies the edge finish. On a sidewalk, for example, each 'section' isn't poured in it's own form, you run the tool to break the somewhat set concrete down to the depth of the big wheel, and then when the sidewalk cracks, that's where it will do it. 1575- bumper car lift (woe be to he who tries to use it on a modern car) 1576- hook it around some piece of wire you need to pull sideways out of the way... 1577- fireman's catcher 1578- siren
Dave
1573: Early Doomsday clock 1574: for making a slot in the soil for planting seeds
Wowsers, I actually have a reasonable idea on it!
1573 - Seems to be some sort of odd hybrid metric multi-city clock, perhaps (wildly guessing) of French revolution origins? Unless perhaps the decimal hand and the base-12 hand of the units are unrelated to each other...very strange. 1574 - Holder for wheeling out twine or tape along the ground, or possibly for handling a distance measuring wheel (the wheel part being obviously missing)? 1575 - Rather obviously a portable lift of some special use; maybe for motion picture cameras and cameramen. 1576 - I suspect this is a tool for forming splices on telephone/telegraph/electric mains overhead wires by twisting one wire around the other ("Western Union Splice"). I suppose it could also form a similar splice in wire fencing, although I suspect that most people wouldn't be bothered to go through the work to do it properly. 1577 - Catcher for persons jumping/dropping from heights, such as might be held by the fire brigade for the rescuing of persons, or perhaps by stuntmen. 1578 - This appears to be an early microphone, maybe condenser but far more likely ribbon or carbon. Looks a bit on the large side for that, but not impossibly so.Now to read other guesses....
Ooh, I think I know a few this week.
1574 is obviously part of an old shopping cart, as the round part at the bottom turns around just like a shopping cart wheel. :-)Either that, or it's a pizza wheel for Guinness-sized pizzas.
1577 looks to be a trampoline-style net with a target, which I think would be used for jumping out of a burning building.1578 looks like the head of a microphone or speaker, except that I don't see any place for a wire to come out.
I'm very curious to see what gets divided by 13 in #1573.
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1574 - Lawn edger
1575 - Hydraulic bumper lift. Not real usable today due to the lack of solid bumpers. However they do work well on P/U trucks and IF you can catch the frame rails. Also work good on small tractors.1576 -
1577 - Catch net OR circus target depending on era of use. Folds in the middle so you can move it easier.1578 - Good old mechanical siren. They are making a comeback on apparatus now because unlike the common electronic sirens you can actually hear them for a long distance and you cannot out drive the siren.
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1576 looks like a spring tool to me............for dealing with tension type springs. phil
My TV has a scratch on the screen from the time I knocked it over as I walked past.
1573: I think it's to time workers' hours. A day would have 1300 minutes instead of 12 60-minute periods in the morning and in the afternoon.If the clock were synced to midnight, 1300 minutes would take you to
9:40 PM, long after working hours. 1200 minutes would take you only to 8 PM, when some workers might still be on the job. 1577: Target for pitchers to practice hitting the strike zone and fielding bunts. Some would practice 1300 minutes a day. 1578: Special light for a sheriff's desk. When Family Values were in peril he'd shine it out the window, casting a shadow on the building across the alley. Only masked vigilantes would know what that pattern meant."Phil Kangas" wrote
I had a friend who put one of those horns in a VW bettle. He had a small tank of air that he would fill at the gas station. Between the horn and the tank, there wasn't much room left in that little trunk. It was an attention getter. Everytime he blew that thing, people wh\ ould frantically start looking around for a big truck, thinking they were in the way. And if somebody was loitering in a crosswalk, it scared them right out of the way!
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Several years ago I came across one of these sirens. It was an ambulance siren WWII vintage. That thing would keep winding up if you let it. So, I got the 'bright' idea to set it up for a doorbell in the shed with a large red button outside and a big 12v battery to drive it. Most people only got as far as a low whine but then the UPS gal got here and she is the brave sort. She hung on that button and didn't let go! Needless to say, that was the end of that!!! ;>)) Now I've got a couple of semi-truck air horns......hhhmmmm need a can of compressed air....;>))
phil
Posting from Rec.crafts.metalworking as always.
1573) I would say that it was a clock for showing the time in three different world locales -- except that there appear to be 100 "minutes" per hour, and 13 "hours" per "day"Hmm ... I think that I have seen something similar inside the doors of bank vaults -- perhaps for setting the time before the door may again be opened?
It looks as though it is designed for easy setting of the hands by gripping the knobs -- and the unusual feature of having the "hour" hand above the "minute" hand so the shorter hand will clear the knob on the longer hand and vice versa.
1574) For cutting fabric or carpet to match the edge of a platform? 1575) A jack for lifting an older car or truck by the bumper -- full width? Or maybe it reaches in from the side and lifts by the frame rail on that side?Hydraulic pumped jack of some sort anyway
1576) For gripping and hooking in place a heavy spring in a typewriter or TeleType? 1577) A "net" for catching jumpers from a house on fire? Supported by multiple firemen around the border, and the jumper tries to hit the central red dot. 1578) At first glance it looks like an old microphone, but the size and the mounting say no.So -- an external mount siren for a police or fire vehicle?
Now to see what others have suggested.
Enjoy, DoN.
1573: Not a clue. 1574: For trimming something, assuming the wheel has a sharp edge. Given the length, trimming something while walking. 1575: Bumper or motorcycle lift? 1576: For pulling wire or fencing? I'm not sure why the gap between the hooks is ther. Maybe for twisting wire together? If so, the handle looks like it's wrist pain incarnate. 1577: A target, obviously. For dwarf tossing? I thought about a firemen's net, but 10' seems small for that. 1578: Siren
"Dave Balderstone" wrote
Dwarf tossing?? LOL That is incredibly politically incorrect. But funny.
Doncha know?? Those are the "little people".
Very interesting. Here's one online
--riverman
I was fascinated a few years ago reading about guys putting train horns on their stuff. There was even one fella that rigged his Goldwing with a small compressor and some Nathans. Iggy could put some of his compressors to use and Steamboat Ed could add to his calliope.
1573 possibly a race timer maybe for yaght races. 1574 big tin opener ???? 1575 a vehicle lift maybe for trucks. 1576 a tool for pulling out springs to locate them over a lug. 1577 it looks a little like the trampoline my daughter has in the garden but i am going to guess its for catching people jumping from burning buildings. 1578 vehicle horn ????
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