OLD hand tools.

[Adam Helmer]

I just helped clean out a house full of stuff that the deceased former owner lived in all his 94 years as did his parents and grandparents before him. Most of the historically significant stuff went to our county historical society Farm, Mine and Lumber Museum.

If I get my digital camera for Christmas, I will be happy to show some of the darndest tools I ever saw. We also have stuff we cannot identify. Maybe we can make it a group effort to label what we have on establishment.

Anyway, Merry Christmas to all good folks here.

Adam

[skeeter@ccia.com]

A little slow on a response here but this is an interesting subject. When we moved in this house we found items that showed inventive minds were at work big time years ago...and is hard to believe some of these things actually sold...my wife was on a roll one day when I was not home and I came to find out lots of these things were just tossed into the trash...she said not want laying around..guess I should of moved a little faster in moving them to 'my' area..I did find an automobile thermostat that sat where the rad filler is that sat on top the hood so you can see the temp as drive..how about a corn stretcher for shoes?....It would be interesting to post some pictures of these items and put under a ...' guess what this is'...No body has ever guessed my corn stretcher tool....

[Adam Helmer]

skeeter,

I concur-there is lots of old stuff we are not familiar with. I drove an old vehicle once that had the thermometer on the radiator cap that told the water temperature.

The wife got a digital camera for Christmas and once I figure out how to connect it with the 'puter, I shall post photos and ask: Whatizit? Be advised this includes 3 pickup loads of stuff. Be well.

Adam

[wrenchman]

you know i seen this post a while ago and didnt think about it but being my grand father worked for henry ford and my family in ky have been liveing on the same farm for 4 generations i have seen lots of older tools and for all typs of things.
I have my great grand fathers carbide lamp for working in mines and spoke shaves i also have his 1917 bayonet he would youse to cut tobaco.
my great grand father was still youseing his horse drawn cart in the 70s

[multibeard]

Old tools can be mind bogling trying to figure out what some of them are used for.

My father gave me a hand full of yankee screw drivers. All of them had a forward and reverse on them except one. I figured that it was just an early yankee screw driver until I was cleaning up the brass on the thing.

It has the name of a casket company on it. That is why there was no reverse. Once they screwed the lid on the casket it was on there to stay so no need for a reverse to take the screws out.

[gumpokc]

both of my grandads had a wide variety of old tools, some of which took abit of figuring out. post your photos when you can, i'm fairly sure we can figureout most

[Wolfwoman]

Way cool! I have a friend that loaned me a book on old tools, some things would still be able to be used today easier than modern day tools. I look forward to pics!