What is it? Set 301

[Rob H.]

This week's set has been posted:

[kfvorwerk]

1720. Old Smokey Beer Can Chicken Holder.

[Alexander Thesoso]

1719 Not even a good guess, but some rambling: Used to get truck tires on/off rims. I reason by analogy with the levers used to mount/dismount bicycle tires. Push the solid bar between tire and rim. Use the arm with the handle to widen the gap. Wedge the split arm against the solid arm to keep the displacement. Then use a similar tool somewhere further around to do the same operation.

[Lloyd E. Sponenburgh]

"Rob H." fired this volley in news:h8actv0ql3 @news3.newsguy.com:

1718 Sheet metal version of a "Hoosier Kitchen"

[Dave Balderstone]

1720: Beer can chicken stand.

That's all I got...

[RicodJour]

1717. A brick mold. R

[Nahmie]

Lloyd may be right on 1717, as ,my thought wouldn't need the embossed letters inside. However, my thought is a "skid brake" for old wood/ iron rim wagon wheels. We had somewthing very similar on the farm. I cant tell from the photo what is attached, but the one we had used a chain attached to the wagon frame. When hauling a heavy load with horses, you put this in front of the rear wheel, roll up onto it, then the chain holds it in place so the wheel skids down the hill instead of rolling. Once at the bottom of the hill, back up off the brake and hang it up on the frame.

Norm

[Roy Smith]

OK, I give up. What is a "beer can chicken stand"?

[Dave Balderstone]

You put an open can of beer in the center of the stand. Then you stick it up the chicken's ass so the chicken is verticle on the stand. The you roast the chicken.

[Ed Huntress]

In some states, chickens are allowed to make pin(feather) money by selling beer by the roadside. Since they're not very strong, they use stands to hold up the beer cans. This allows them to set the beer on top of a table, which raises the cans up higher so passers-by can see them.

It's a myth that this has anything to do with "drunken chicken" recipes. Those are based on urban chickens, which usually stick to white wine. Boneless chickens are more likely to be wine drinkers.

-- Ed Huntress

[Steve W.]

It's a great way to cook a chicken so it isn't dried out.

Open your favorite beer, drink a small amount so thermal expansion doesn't cause a problem.

Now the open beer goes in the center ring.

Take well cleaned whole chicken and slide it over the stand and beer.

Set entire thing on the grill (or in the oven). Beer heats up and the flavor of the beer and the moisture from it bastes the bird as it cooks.

Enjoy.

[Rich Grise]

I think brick. ;-)

I was going to say, "antique industrial coffee urn". ;-)

1720, I almost said a coffeepot warmer for a very small coffeepot; You'd set a votive-type candle on the lower small ring, and the coffeepot on top.

But I've found that that's not even close. "Beer can chicken stand," indeed! I heard of such a thing (beer can chicken, not the stand) just recently on TeeVee; the guy didn't use a stand, he just balanced the can/chicken assembly on the bottom of the can. He also used half the beer in some kind of basting sauce.

At first glance, it looks like a joke, and almost obscene. ;-)

Cheers! Rich

[Ed Rinehart]

1720 Gas "lecture bottle" stand

[Rob H.]

Excellent, looks like you nailed it! I did a search on tire breakers and found one almost just like it:

[Rob H.]

Yes, brick mold is correct.

Rob

[Rob H.]

You've got the right idea but the one in my photo goes by a different name, based on where and when it was used.

Rob

[Matthew Russotto]

1718: Mailbox of some sort? 1719: Proof of alien inventors 1720: Artichoke stand 1721: Portable torture device 1722: Vent cover

[Rob H.]

On the web site I mentioned a door on the other side of this one, it's a scaled down model so at real size the door would have been large enough for a person.

It's not a vent cover but a clue that I will give is that it's from the

1860's.

Rob

[DoN. Nichols]

1717) That looks to me like a mold for making bricks -- one at a time. (And marking them "BIS" in the process.) 1718) Rodent-proof storage for various foodstuffs, and a dispenser for water in the top center? 1719) I'm sorry -- I don't even have a guess for this one. :-) 1720) A holder for a vase designed to keep it from being knocked over? Perhaps for something like flowers at a funeral? 1721) Is that an air hose going from it to the tire in the background?

If it were not apparent that it is mostly constructed from wood and canvas, I would think that it might be a heat-treating oven, with the apertures at the visible side for monitoring the temperature, but not with the visible wood grain as part of it, and not with the canvas cover. :-)

1722) Hmm ... a clamp-on end to a vertical exhaust pipe, with a wooden plug to prevent rain from getting into the engine through the exhaust system?

Now to see what others have suggested.

Enjoy, DoN.

[DoN. Nichols]

Hmm ... part of a "chuck wagon" for feeding cowboys on the trail?

Enjoy, DoN.