Pictures are from a FB Marketplace ad
Seller (NMNA) has no idea what it is.
Pictures are from a FB Marketplace ad
Seller (NMNA) has no idea what it is.
Mother of all EZ-Outs.
Looks not unlike a tool I saw being used to unwind a very heavy steel cable; driven in between the strands, with a cheater extension to help twist it to separate them. Not exactly like, though, and I don't have enough of a handle on the technique to say whether this would work the same.
Clearly something meant to be driven in somewhere, and twisted with a lot of force. Or at least that's what's been done with it at some point...
Oh dear... another one! 
Seller says it's between 3 and 4 feet long.
I'd say it's a broken handle for a curb key.
For turning valves located under a service cover in the ground.
Jesse Ransom (FFS) said:Looks not unlike a tool I saw being used to unwind a very heavy steel cable; driven in between the strands, with a cheater extension to help twist it to separate them. Not exactly like, though, and I don't have enough of a handle on the technique to say whether this would work the same.
Clearly something meant to be driven in somewhere, and twisted with a lot of force. Or at least that's what's been done with it at some point...
It does look like something along those lines, but my sole knowledge of that stuff is watching vids on YT of splicing chairlift cables, so I have no clue. Here's the process though:
When these won't get the job done?
Dracula's worst nightmare?
Peg for a big tent
Spike with a handle.
Lost the damn crank use this stuff lying around to make one?
DeadSkunk (Warren) said:Seller says it's between 3 and 4 feet long.
And no guy EVER lies about the size of anything
De-bowel obstruction-er?
Antihero (Forum Supporter) said:De-bowel obstruction-er?
It's known as "manual dis-impaction".
I learned this from an old roommate who was a nurse. If I am remembering correctly .... they used a spoon....
Anyone up for a nice bowl of meatball soup?
Looks like a manual boring tool for drilling holes in rock for dynamite. One guy rotates it via the handles while one or two other guys hit it with sledge hammers.
In reply to Ian F (Forum Supporter) :
^ I like that suggestion ^
Plus, it includes a depth gauge, which would lend itself to that use.
Ian F (Forum Supporter) said:Looks like a manual boring tool for drilling holes in rock for dynamite. One guy rotates it via the handles while one or two other guys hit it with sledge hammers.
This was my exact thought before scrolling down to see you had already posted it. 
Well, if it is a dynamite boring tool it would be kinda fitting since I put myself through college and went to work after graduation for an explosives, detonator, and primacord manufacturer.
Ian F (Forum Supporter) said:Looks like a manual boring tool for drilling holes in rock for dynamite. One guy rotates it via the handles while one or two other guys hit it with sledge hammers.
This was my first thought because I'm watching Hell on Wheels and they are using them as I watch.
If the show is accurate though they were straight rods. That would make sense for deflection when hit. This seems to be purposively flattened and curved
aircooled said:Antihero (Forum Supporter) said:De-bowel obstruction-er?
It's known as "manual dis-impaction".
I learned this from an old roommate who was a nurse. If I am remembering correctly .... they used a spoon....
Anyone up for a nice bowl of meatball soup?
Disturbing fact of the day right there
Antihero (Forum Supporter) said:This seems to be purposively flattened and curved
Don't forget, it's probably been around long enough that someone may have used it as a pry bar and bent it.
In reply to ShawnG :
You could be right, I mean it's a length of steel.
I haven't seen any with the extra bar for spinning it but the head has obviously been hammered on a lot too
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