What is it? Set 340

It's definitely a hoof trimmer, patented in 1894:

Rob

No good reason, I didn't want them too close together and somehow over time the spacing grew to where it is today. I've been using the same template for a couple years now and haven't recently paid any attention to the white spaces. I'll shorten them up some in the next post.

I haven't asked for any feedback in quite a while, if anyone else has some constructive criticisms or comments, pro or con, feel free to post them here or email them to me.

Rob

Here are a couple of similar devices via Google Patent. They claim to be Hoof Trimmers:

Must be some TOUGH hooves in your area. Never needed compound leverage around here.

John

as another poster said this week, thanks rob for continuing to do this. every week everyone has lots of fun with it. it's a bright spot on r.c.m..

b.w.

Hi Rob,

I agree, the spacing is a bit excessive... but even so, it's nit picking.

Thanks for the posts... it's the first thing I look for every Thursday morning! I even have a filter set making your posts stand out.

Erik

That's a new one on me. Thanks, And thanks for the weekly challenge. Most appreciated. Art

Gas sounds better. For water, I think it would be worthwhile to bore a bigger hole.

"Rob H." wrote >

That explains why you did not see it at the local tack shop!

Some of these old tools were very ingenious. It may have not worked that well for hooves, but compound leverage became common on other tools. Like my limb lopper.

We found wood water pipes when we dug the basement for my fathers place in 1975. Still flowing water from a spring about 1/2 mile away. Actually had to make a sump pit and a drain to stop the water from causing problems. Last I knew it was still flowing at a good rate.

The hole was about 1" or so and the "pipe" itself was maybe 3" across.

This is correct, and somehow was almost exactly what I had planned to use on the answer page.

They've all been answered correctly this week:

Rob

Didn't look like any I'd seen either. Karl

Wow! How long were the sections? I wonder how they guided and powered the bit. I wonder what kind of wood was preferred.

The sections we dug out were around 6-7 feet long.

My filters not only make it stand out -- but cancel out the filters which would normally keep me from seeing it because of the number of newsgroups in the cross-posting. In general, if anything is that heavily cross-posted, it is spam, trolling or political diatribes. This is the exception.

I see that there is one less newsgroup in the "Newsgroups: " header here -- rec.puzzles has been dropped for whatever reason.

Enjoy, DoN.

rec.puzzles showed up here.........

Yes -- I saw it later in the original headers. I'm not sure why I did not see it when I was typing.

Thanks, DoN.