I forgot to measure them so 2-1/2" was my guess, they are probably closer to
2" long, I just changed the number on my web site to this shorter value, though according to the link below they are sold in lengths ranging from 41 - 80mm (1.6 - 3.1 inches).
The length varies depending on the horses hoof size and the type of shoe used as well as the location you're installing the nail. The idea is that you use a nail that is just long enough that it can be clinched and cut.
There's a big difference between a Shetland Pony's hoof and a Percheron's hoof...
Yes, I've known a few aged farriers too. Not having done a statistical study, I can't say how many reach advanced age still practicing. But I've known more who gave up the job before 40 too, usually because of injuries by fractious horses.
Most of the older ones I've known in 40+ years of being owned by horses won't work on a bad horse more than one or two times. Then they tell the owner to find somebody else or have a vet on site with tranquilizer - or carry some themselves.
My policy is three strikes. Less if the "Owner" tells me that the horse "never did that before" I can say that it is rewarding at times.
My cousin and his father were race-track farriers. My uncle lasted to 45 before his back gave out. My cousin died at age 36, so we never got to see how he would hold up.
-- Ed Huntress
Grandfather moved away from the trade around 1900 to more interesting work like converting the Ford 999 from tiller steering to a more motorcycle type of "handlebar" so that Barney Oldfield would accept the challenge of driving it. Junior was amazed to discover that "It's made of wood!" when we visited the Ford museum some years ago. Gerry :-)} London, Canada
Grandfather regularly made novelty rings from horseshoe nails which would require a nail longer than 2 1/2" Gerry :-)} London, Canada
Oh, that's interesting. I've seen photos of old 999.
-- Ed Huntress
Oh yeah, I used to make rings out of them too! The farrier would let me have a go at them, at a corner of the shop where he had a heavy metal table top to fine tune the horseshoes. Good fun and the rings looked very "macho" at school: I scored a few pecks from the girls as a result. They liked them as pendants in leather necklaces, as well! ;)
Dang, now I'm all reminiscent...
1651) An intersting thing -- and I would like to see it from a view at the big end.
My guess (and only a guess) is that it is a bobbin for thread, twine, string, or something similar which is designed to pay off the small end of the bobbin. (It is typically mounted with the big end down, and an eye loop dead center above it through which the string or whatever passes before it goes to where it is used.
If there is no hole in the big end for mounting it, I withdraw my guess. :-)
1652) Designed for measuring the distance between two points, and reading it out in one of the scales which make sense for the application. Looking at the scale designations at the left-hand end of the arcs of the scales, I would guess that it is for measuring distances on maps of different scales.And it looks as though it reads in two different measurement systems. The ratio of the markings on the nearest (and largest) arc suggests to me that it is not meters vs yards, as the ratio is too large. (That should be 1.093:1 and this looks more like 1.3:1)
It could be anything, including rather old units of distance measurement given that it appears to be from somewhere in Europe, where older systems hung on for a long time.
1653) Not sure. Perhaps for comparative measurement of things in the process of being machined. Perhaps for scribing lines in things to be machined. 1654) A manifold which accepts gasses or fluids in one set of connections, and passes them out through another based on the one-way valves on each. From the back view input is from the fitting at about 11:00 O'Clock, and it is filtered through the sintered bronze filter at about 2:00 on the inner area.Whatever is connected to the similar one-way valve at about 6:30 goes out from the bottom compartment. At a guess, the vertical cylinder molded in is a pressure regulator to limit the flow from the upper to the lower compartment.
There are at least two push-on fittings and one threaded fitting in the upper compartment, and one push-on in the lower compartment.
There must be a gasket between the visible face and the mounting plate, which might have other passages as well between the halves.
At a guess, I would suggest that it is part of an automobile's vacuum controller or perhaps to feed gasoline to two different carburetors.
1655) These look like tools for drawing on Mimeograph stencils. The wheels make dotted lines, the tiny ball end makes solid lines.Since these were from Yugoslavia, they probably were used with a similar machine made there.
They work by crushing a film which also can be crushed by a typewriter to allow the ink to bleed through to the paper being copied.
1656) Square (cut) nails -- very old designs, still used for some things to maintain period authenticity. These look as though they were more machine produced than the original hand cut ones were.Now to see what others have said.
Enjoy, DoN.
1652: My first guess would be used in navigation, but I'd expect two of the scales to be nautical miles & mile or nm & km, and they aren't. 1653: Seen it before, didn't know then either. Maybe for leatherworking? 1654: A strange mixing valve with 2 ins and 4 outs. Perhaps a heat exchanger also? 1655: Toilet paper perforators. The machinery wasn't reliable so they had people do it by hand. Different size wheels for different grades of paper. 1656: Nails for attaching wood to masonry?
1655 Tracing tools
Steve R.
This sounded correct to me but the owner of these tools had this reply:
"I don't think these are either embossing or pouncing tools. They are much too fine. The coarsest tool is 6/32" diameter with 18 teeth on the circumference. This would roll out to 32 dots per inch. The finest tool is
3/32" diameter with 50 teeth on the circumference. This would roll out to 200 dots per inch. It also doesn't explain how the .05 inch ball and the pointed instruments fit into this."I don't know anything about embossing, anyone agree or disagree with his response? One more thing, the tool with the pointed end was covered with an epoxy-like material, which may or may not be related to its actual purpose.
Rob
1652: Appears to be a military map calculator, converting distances into various numbers.
The "Austrian and Hungarian" patent number would presumably help date it.
"Vorposten" means "outposts". "Marsch" means "march". "Lager" means camp, or stores. "Colonnen-l=E4ngen" means "convoy length"
I still believe that they are tools for doing artwork on stencils for Mimeograph/Hectograph type machines. The toothed wheels draw dotted lines (and can be used to fill in texture in drawings on the stencils), while the 0.050" ball would make a large black area (or wide line) and the pointed one would make a narrow line.
Not sure about the epoxy-like material -- other than perhaps to protect the point against damage, or the user against perforation from the point. I would expect it to be stuck into an eraser instead, though the rubber of a really old eraser might turn into something which looks like epoxy over the number of years which have been involved. My work with the Memeograph/Hectograph tools was back around 1959-1960.
Enjoy, DoN.
When I was involved in a hobby shop, we brought them in as tracing tools. They could be used to trace parts on a drawing directly onto balsa wood. I think there are many other uses. I have one of the modern ones here.
Steve R.
This sounds like a tool used in sewing to transfer chalk dust to fabric by punching through a tissue paper plan.
Joe Gwinn
I haven't been able to verify any of the suggestions but I changed my answer to read:
Embossing tools, these could have been used on leather, cloth, paper or metal, to stencil, fold, transfer patterns, or create designs. They could also have been used as tracing tools and for doing artwork on stencils for Mimeograph/Hectograph type machines.
Thanks to all who replied.
Rob
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