What is it? Set 389

[Rob H.]

I need some help with the second one this week:

[Ed Huntress]

2249. Old-style hook disgorger

2250, Flare gun

[Michael Kenefick]

2245: Security box for shipping guns on an airplane? 2246: Dowel spoke shaver? 2247: Hay mover? 2248: the tongs separate, but what could you catch or clean up with it? 2249: used in a team of horses? 2250: Tears gas gun?

[Lee Michaels]

some cops at a gravel pit. Part of an intro to law enforcement program.

[Rich Grise]

2245: Suitcase bomb without the bomb? ;-) 2246: Looks like a thing I've seen hanging from "high-tension" lines near the insulators, but even if it is one of them, I have no idea what its function is.

Cheers! Rich

[willshak]

Rob H. wrote the following:

2250 - Someone else mentioned a flare gun, and it could be. My first impression was that it was used in the Navy for firing a line across to another ship which starts the highline process.

[Northe]

2250: I also vote for line throwing gun, per:

Northe

[Lloyd E. Sponenburgh]

Northe fired this volley in news:b26a7671-019d-4d14- [e-mail]:

looks to be 38-40mm.

LLoyd

[anorton]

2248 is a NASA moon rock retreiver

[anorton]

and 2245 is a moon rock sample return container.

[Rob H.]

Correct

Nope

[Rob H.]

Correct

[Rob H.]

No comment since it's in the Neatorama collaboration.

Correct

[Lee Michaels]

I knew it! I got a couple of these right in the last month or so. Yea!

Again, the reason I knew about this is I actually saw it in operation and got to fire a round from it. It had a kick to it. More so than a shotgun. The one pictured here looked a little different than the one I saw. But the case was almost exactly the same.

[Rob H.]

Since this is the only guess for 2247, I added a couple photos of a device that is used in conjunction with this tool:

[Ralph]

[Rob H.]

Yes, another name for it is a stretcher.

[Steve W.]

2250 looks a lot like the older single shot grenade launcher that predated the M-203. A lot of them were converted over to LTL and tear gas when they were taken out of military service.

[Steve W.]

[Steve W.]

Guess I need to read ahead.....