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    sunday morning find and what is this?

    A friend said he wanted to get rid of some old tools, and he twisted my arm (honest he did) so I had to buy them all. An Osborne leather slitter, a Stanley #45, a Stanley #48, a Stanley Rule and Level compass plane dated 1876, a pair of pliers from the glove box of a 1906 Ford, some old wrenches, a couple of saws, a shingle splitter, hand forged hammers, etc etc.
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    And anyone know what these are??

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    Stand for something, or you'll fall for anything.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bill Carey View Post
    I believe the item above is a Bung reamer for cutting/enlarging a bung hole in a keg or barrel.
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    I pretty sure this is for knocking the horns off a dragon. The pointy ends is for poking him/ her in eye.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bill Carey View Post
    It is one of many designs of what is often called a box hammer.

    It is from the day when most shipping crates were made of wood.

    The pointed end is for prying the boards off the hammer end is for driving nails to attach boards.

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    Bill, not to side step this thread, but what did you decide to do to hold the baseball bats?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lee Schierer View Post
    I believe the item above is a Bung reamer for cutting/enlarging a bung hole in a keg or barrel.
    akes sense. there was a large bung hole reamer in the pile also
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    Hi Phil - I just updated the commission thread.
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    Whoa! That big crosscut saw front and center in the first pic-

    I have that exact saw! It was my grandfather's and came from their summer log cabin in Ohio and as a boy I watched the men (my dad and others) cut firewood with it.

    I'm 67 now and am so glad to have it as well as those memories. I actually used it a few years ago. I was dropping a large oak and after thinking the front and back chainsaw cuts would do the job, but didn't, I decided to finish it off with grandpa's saw. Just took maybe a dozen strokes.

    Thanks for the memories!

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    Also-
    That's a very cool pile of mostly useless stuff.

    A whole lotta history there...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Zellers View Post

    I have that exact saw! It was my grandfather's and came from their summer log cabin in Ohio and as a boy I watched the men (my dad and others) cut firewood with it.

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    Maybe it was an Ohio thing? We had several including one very similar to that. I spent many happy (not) hours on one end or the other of a saw like that. I was never happier than the day my dad finally bought a chainsaw. (An enormous Pioneer that weighed at least 40 lbs, but that's another story.)

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    maybe a corn husking knife, (and I think the reamer is for lead pipe rather than for wood barrels)

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    Congrats on a major haul.
    +1 on lead pipe reamer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim Koepke View Post
    It is one of many designs of what is often called a box hammer.

    It is from the day when most shipping crates were made of wood.

    The pointed end is for prying the boards off the hammer end is for driving nails to attach boards.

    jtk
    I was thinking the head looks like a farrier's hammer - but no clue about the pointy end of the handle.

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