What is it? Set 411

2380 is a strap wrench for removing oil filters or similar items.

No. 2377 might be a grip/handle with trigger for a .50 Browning Machinegun

No. 2381 is easy, its a rusty bucket *smile*

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2380 And a very nicely made old strap wrench at that... Nowadays they are a polymer handle-stick and strap. 2377 Sure looks like the trigger mechanism of an M2 Browning .50 caliber machine gun. 2378 A gasoline burner/torch. I can't help with the specific application.

might be so, but i think the flat, ageled part in the upper right of the tool is to force it against a surface for leverage power. This seems not necessary for a oilfilterwrench.

2377. Trigger for Vickers machine gun

2378. Fire lighter. Used in paddocks / bush. Usually fueled with kerosene

2379. Dunno. Brand template?

2389. Adjustable strap wrench. Used for undoing oil filters or similar.

2381. Billy can? Perhaps for brewing tea / coffee over a campfire.

2382. Dunno

2377: Old periscope? 2378: fire extinguisher? 2379: air diverted? 2380: used to tighten a ??? ? 2381: ? 2382: Microsc> This week's items have been posted:

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They're called "drip torches". We use them all the time down here for pasture burns.

LLoyd

2379. Router Plane. Fireless cooker. Karl

2377- machine gun handle/trigger (thumb trigger)

2378- fire spreader for lighting back-fires

2380- strap wrench for...

2382- early microscope with... net frame, net used to capture pond critters?

Dave

Strap wrench is correct though it's not for oil filters.

Yes, it's a trigger with spadegrips.

Correct, it's a drip torch for use by firemen.

Nope

Do firemen burn the pastures or do farmers start their own fires?

This device is from the Civil War, you're right about it being a frame, it

*is* missing something but not a net.

Like 'most everything on the farm/ranch, it's a part of the job. Generally is done cooperatively w/ neighbors w/ or w/o help of "custom" crews that travel the areas that have significant burn areas every spring, particularly out here in the Flint and Red Hill areas.

Farther west where there's much CRP (Conservation Reserve Program) grass that has replaced formerly tilled highly erodible (think wind, sandy, dirty-30's) ground in large areas, burning is one of the alternative maintenance practices. Several quarters (160A/quarter) or sections of one or several owners/landlords may be burned in a single burn. Begin w/ a disc'ed buffer around edges of some distance for a break then a backburn downwind and the main burn set upwind the other side.

Folks here have setups of a drip torch mounted on an old 4x4 or use

4-wheelers and head off across the burn target area at a heady clip trailing the fire behind.

It is required to file burn plans and coordinate w/ County Emergency Management organization whatever that is locally--generally there's a County Fire Department who's in charge.

It's a real challenge when one gets started on hot, dry, windy days by carelessness or accident Train hotboxes are a great source as well as windblown power line coming down or the tossed cigarette butt along the highway. One of worst around here last summer was a fool welding outside in windy weather w/o protection and set his yard going which got away into adjacent fields. Ended up w/ a 20-mile long by 5-7 mile stretch and several houses.

2377 - ANM Spadegrip backplate off a Browning M2 set up for aircraft use.

2378 - Drip torch. Used to light controlled burns.

2379 - Looks like an early version of a combination tool. One piece serves to draw circles and arcs while the other allow you to cut mortice's.

2380 - Some form of strap wrench. Looks to be a special purpose one for gas company use?

2381 - Ye Olde lunch pail

2382 - Well there's a microscope but the other item ????

2379: router plane, broken and missing handles

2380: wrench

Have any of those grass fires been started by dry lightning?

Thanks, Rich