What is this?

[Yves]

Hi everyone,

Is there someone out there who knows what this tool is? My brother found it a couple years ago while the farm land in the middle of what used to be a field was cleared for the passage of a hydroelectric transport line.

It is made of light cast iron. It seems to be made to be screwed to a wall or a supporting structure of some kind.

Yves

[Austen]

It looks like some kind of old torture device. (it's probably not though).

[Scott]

Looks like a log clamp for a drag saw to hold the saw steady while cutting.

[Jordan]

Hi Yves,

It may be a hay bale grabber of some sorts. Just a guess.

Jordan

[Yves]

Out of the 3 "ideas" so far, I think Austen is the closest. Seriously, this instrument or tool is built too light duty to be a log or bale grabber.

But, I just had an "idea"... Could it not be a sort of holding device for small wild animals while stripping them of their skin? This tool would be screwed down on a vertical surface and the pointed jaws would hold the dead animal by whatever part is convenient!

Any trappers out there?

Yves

[George & Helen Myers]

It appears to be the log holder from a saw built by the Folding Sawing Machine Company, Chicago, IL.

Some photos of the saw can be seen at:
http://community.webshots.com/album/512348236mRfRed

There is usually at least one for sale at Portland each year.

Helen

[Yves]

Wow,

I'm impressed. Thanks a lot, Helen and George. I did'nt think I would get an answer, with irrefutable proof, that quickly. I'm glad I joined your group.

Thanks again,

Yves

[George & Helen Myers]

This booklet also indicates 2 Canadian Patent numbers, 20,618 and 290,209 which I have to assume are valid....Helen

[Carl Wheeler]

Well, we know it isn't a torture devise. Carl

[Andrew Albrecht]

Thats one of those tools they used to hook on to the nostrels of hogs to move them around. there is a name for it but i forget the technical name

[Michael E. McCracken]

It looks like a beam clamp. The vets would use them. They would attach them to a beam in the barn and with block and tackle hoist up the animal he was working on. Should be a hook on draw chain.

[Gene O. Carpenter]

This is, according to the expert and the photo that he sent me, that I must have deleted it cause I can't find it, part of a "Cross Cut Saw"... It's attached to one end and folds over so the saw could be used by 1 man..


I found it:This is email from that site owner..

http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/

I had one of these on my site a while ago, it's part of a one man
bucksaw, scroll down to number 447 on this page to see it:

http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/200...y-objects.html