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« on: August 31, 2011, 10:01:14 AM » |
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While hand digging out the new foundation for the Shed, (see "Restoration Oak Frame barn/shed") I found this lot. Suggestions?  |
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« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2011, 10:24:38 AM » |
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The bill hook is either a thatchers one, or from a baler. The latter, I suspect, because the Y-shaped thing with a point is from a hay-grab.
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MR GUS
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« Reply #2 on: August 31, 2011, 10:26:35 AM » |
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Well you have a lovely hayfork endpiece, & if the double edged billhook is good to go (after cleaning) they are an invaluable item that every home ought to not be without.
i'd hazard a guess that the billhook was a long reach clearance tool rather than a short handle, dual use from both directional strokes.
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« Reply #3 on: August 31, 2011, 12:36:53 PM » |
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the thing in the glove i believe is the knob on the top of the bed posts,sometimes brass, you know the old iron bedsteads,??
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« Reply #4 on: August 31, 2011, 01:02:28 PM » |
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hmm, here is another pic of the round thing.
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« Reply #5 on: August 31, 2011, 01:05:58 PM » |
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Oh yes, its iron and on the top there is a steel round pin that you can pull, and the base has some sort of solid screw in base??.
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« Reply #6 on: August 31, 2011, 01:15:38 PM » |
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Oh yes, its iron and on the top there is a steel round pin that you can pull, and the base has some sort of solid screw in base??.
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« Reply #7 on: August 31, 2011, 01:30:53 PM » |
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That is an un-hatched Dodo egg.
It was an evolutionary failing that Dodo's progressively ate more and more iron in their diet, this munching of iron rich food stuffs was an attempt to make their egg shells tougher and protect the eggs from scavengers due to the breed dwindling in numbers. However, there came a point when the eggs became to strong for the young chicks to hatch out. The rest is history as they say.
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« Reply #8 on: August 31, 2011, 01:34:43 PM » |
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No idea on the round thing.
But there is a bill hook, horse shoes, splitting wedge, rabbit trap, file, end of a brush stale or something similar, a bent pitch fork and a piece of horse bridle ware.
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« Reply #9 on: August 31, 2011, 01:35:12 PM » |
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Heinz, award yourself a cookie, you are spot on.
This is, as i have been told, a blast grenade used in confined spaces to send a shock wave to knock folk down.
I keep finding these all over the farm. Local story says that an ammunition lorry caught fire on the small road adjoining our field and they just through all the contents into our ditch, hedge and field.
At first we got the bomb folk in, who would cordon off an area of about a meter, wait a few months and then either blow it up in situ or take it away.
Now when i find them i place them in the hedge well away from anything, and then during the winter hedging work toss it on one of the bonfires and run, "makes pretty colours", (quote from oddball in Kelly Heroes). This procedure recommended by a MOD friend who knows about these things!!
Anyway, does anyone know anything more about these grenades, ours, enemy's or what??
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« Reply #10 on: August 31, 2011, 01:41:29 PM » |
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The way you described it made it sound like one. But I was hoping it wouldn't be. Could be dangerous.
At least you should be safe from Metal detector thieves.
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« Reply #11 on: August 31, 2011, 01:52:16 PM » |
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« Reply #12 on: August 31, 2011, 01:55:40 PM » |
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hi martin, sorry, doesn't look like any of the french jobs.
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« Reply #13 on: August 31, 2011, 02:00:02 PM » |
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« Reply #14 on: August 31, 2011, 02:12:05 PM » |
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Thanks, getting closer.
Pin pull is okay, but my bases are serrated edged and more substantial.
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