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Miller big 20, and my slightly over the top chain storage
 

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I think that one is 75 pounds or so , nothing special, that's why it gets left outside sometimes. I have a well built 100# that needs re surfaced, my nephew had a nice 150# in nice shape.
 
I found a “new” toy today. The metal is in pretty good condition- surprisingly. It needs new handles which Lehman’s carries. Just have to wait until they are open Monday to order. I will condition the metal when I get the new handles and am ready to take it apart and reassemble it.
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LadyLocust said:
I found a “new” toy today. The metal is in pretty good condition- surprisingly. It needs new handles which Lehman’s carries. Just have to wait until they are open Monday to order. I will condition the metal when I get the new handles and am ready to take it apart and reassemble it.View attachment 84151View attachment 84152
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Nice!

I have a single wheel high wheel cultivator (also from Lehman's) that I yet to use. Not intended for the raised beds I have now but as insurance when we team up with the closest farm and no fuel is available for tractors.

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Hoss has these for $79.99.
Steam Bent Handles | Hoss Wheel Hoes | USA Made
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I looked and Lehman’s are much cheaper.
I have a Hoss tools two wheel cultivator with most of the attachments that I just don't use now.
I have gone to no till gardening and my garden area has been covered with ground cloth for 2 years.
Also I am not growing a large garden any more.
The first thing I did when I got mine was give the handles a good coating of boiled linseed oil. They still look brand new.
 
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LadyLocust said:
I found a “new” toy today. The metal is in pretty good condition- surprisingly. It needs new handles which Lehman’s carries. Just have to wait until they are open Monday to order. I will condition the metal when I get the new handles and am ready to take it apart and reassemble it.View attachment 84151View attachment 84152
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And the cat seems to like it, you go birthday girl!!
 
What am I used for ? Maybe some kind of gouge ? I'm clueless on this one .
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I've seen lots of spoon gouges but always handheld . Must have been a special purpose for this thing . Maybe someone will chime in with its purpose , maybe not . Maybe the hammer side is not for hammering ,it might be for hitting it with a hammer .
 
Never seen something like that with a scooped end on it. On the railroad there used to be a common tool that looked a lot like that. It was called a rail chisel or track chisel and it was used to score a line in a piece of rail. After scoring, the rail could be struck with a sledgehammer and it would break cleanly.
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Never saw one that had a handle like that. Looks like a bowl gouge to me. But one that gets struck. Maybe a production roughing gouge. Then used handheld to finish with. Or maybe for troughs or canoes??
 
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Never seen something like that with a scooped end on it. On the railroad there used to be a common tool that looked a lot like that. It was called a rail chisel or track chisel and it was used to score a line in a piece of rail. After scoring, the rail could be struck with a sledgehammer and it would break cleanly.
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Thats interesting , never knew how they cut them , railroad around here has been gone a long time , I'll be 73 next month and have never seen a working railroad in the Catskills. Theres still RR bed and one tunnel
 
Bacpacker said:
Never saw one that had a handle like that. Looks like a bowl gouge to me. But one that gets struck. Maybe a production roughing gouge. Then used handheld to finish with. Or maybe for troughs or canoes??
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kinda small ,only 31/4 "
 
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Thats interesting , never knew how they cut them , railroad around here has been gone a long time , I'll be 73 next month and have never seen a working railroad in the Catskills. Theres still RR bed and one tunnel
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The maintenance crews still have track chisels available, but I've never seen one in use. We use portable, hydraulic abrasive saws to cut rail now.
 
I have lots of tools. Here are some on the smaller side that I made for a project I did back in 2012. Any takers on what they are for?

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The purple piece is for sure a marking gauge. The 3 similar tools look to be some type of chisel. A sot of the bottoms would help. The straight one looks like maybe an awl of some type. A close up of the tip may help. All look to be nice older tools
 
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The head on many bowl tools are no more than 12". Some are even smaller. But none I'm aware of are used to be struck with a second tool
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Agreed.

Some bubba beat or with the back end. Judging by the mushrooming on the back end it was nit hardened to beat on.

Ben
 
I just had a thought...suppose it's used to put holes in wood beams? If it was sharp, it might work. Old wood structures were sometimes put together with pegs. It's my understanding that typically the holes were made by driving a hot steel rod through the wood, then letting the rod cool down enough to contract so you could remove it. Something like this would suck to use, but it would be quicker...
 
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