They aren't for sugar cane, but what I should have said was that they're for a particular type of plant, not a "particular plant" since the tool is used on different plants that have similar qualities.
Rob
It wouldn't be a turnip knife by any chance? Used for various root vegetables the hook pulls the vegetable out of the ground and the root and foliage is topped and tailed with the blade.
-- Dave Baker Puma Race Engines
Nope, it isn't a turnip knife.
Rob
(earlier answer called it a stringing plane, which I presume is the same thing)
800 Candle lamp (sit on table, hang from hook, or stab into the log cabin wall) 801: These look a lot like my bicycle chain breaker (for pressing rivets into/out of a chain); probably it's not that, though- the concave shape indicates it operates near a curved surface, and one is right-handed and the other left-handed
Any more information on this wrench? i think most of us figured out what it did. We just did not name it right. Is it something that is currently available to purchase?
A funny note. (I am always getting in trouble with people because i tend to read and hear things literally.) When I first read the above answer I went, " Snake wrench?? I did not know that snakes needed wrenches." I quickly surmised that this referred to the shape and did not have anything to do with long, slithering reptiles.
According to R.H. :
Hmm ... to go on the foot of a ladder, perhaps?
Enjoy, DoN.
According to R.H. :
Tobacco?
Enjoy, DoN.
How about a date knife. Used in palm tree's for dates and other palm = fruits. Puff
Didn't we go through this the last time you had a tobacco knife on? Gerry @ RCM Gerry :-)} London, Canada
According to the owner it's for the top of the ladder where it meets the building, but I guess it could have been used on the bottom depending on the ladder and the terrain. I've email it to a couple of fire museums but none of them had seen one before, so it was probably not mass produced, at least not country wide.
Rob
Don't be silly. It's obviously a euphemism for shaking hands with the one-eyed trouser python.
I think that it's old, I might see the owner of it next weekend, if so I'll ask more about it. I couldn't find anything on the web.
Yes, I didn't necessarily expect anyone to get the name, but included it because I hadn't seen one before and thought it looked interesting.
I'm guessing that it's not available, I'll ask the owner where he got it if I have a chance.
lol, reminds me of years ago when one of my brothers saw a sign next to a driveway that said Electric Plant, and he asked "There are plants that are electric?"
Rob
Yep, I think so; but I'm sure this one is a grafting froe, there's one that looks just like it in the Dictionary of American Hand Tools. I think the hook is for hanging it on your belt or on a tree limb.
Rob
That's because "No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!"
Well, it WAS on back order for so long that everyone forgot about it! ;-)
I don't think the toothed section is a saw blade. I think it's a ratchet of some sort, like you might see on an extending ladder. I think it's intended to be clamped to a wooden workpiece, then hooked onto something else.
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