Weird tool - what's it for?

[mountainm]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ws/eBayIS...7&ssPageName=ADME:B:WNA:GB:1123#ht_500wt_1413

What's this then?

look's like a hammer/crowbar to me.

 

[oldtimer]

I'd guess a tiler's or slater's hammer.

 

[shaggystu]

i dunno, but i want one

 

[Robbi]

how about this for a wild guess...............

used by the water board.......the hooky bit is for prising the little hinged metal covers off the main stop cock in the street and the square end is the key to turn the water valve off ( using the wooden shaft to turn / twist it )

 

[Bundleman]

I'd use it to clean out mortices when timber framing but never seen anything like it before! Would be surprised if it was meant to be sharp on the back as there'd be a lot of flex there.

 

[juttle]

It's not something firemen would use to drag burning thatch off a roof, is it?

 

[sandsnakes]

Pretty sure its a thatching tool. Seen same/simlar when I was a lad when they worked on the ttach cottage roofs in Kent.

 

[mountainm]

i dunno, but i want one

I do too, but not for fifty two quid!

 

[Biker]

I'm agreeing with Bundleman a bit here, looks like something you'd rake the back of a deep mortice out with, perhaps like a swaneck chisel when morticing a lock into the endgrain of the middle rail of a 4 panalled door?

Haven't seen any tool like that when I used to be in the Fire Brigade and the tols used for pulling burning thatch off roof was called a rake, nothing too fancy really.

I await a more positive answer.

Interesting find though Mike

 

[shaggystu]

I do too, but not for fifty two quid!

£52.50 i think it went for in the end, not bad for an unknown tool, i think i might go and have a rummage in the shed and see what old tat i can't recognise

 

[mountainm]

how about this for a wild guess...............

used by the water board.......the hooky bit is for prising the little hinged metal covers off the main stop cock in the street and the square end is the key to turn the water valve off ( using the wooden shaft to turn / twist it )

That square end is indeed very square.

 

[Dreadhead]

dispatching troublesome zombies of course

 

[shaggystu]

dispatching troublesome zombies of course

don't be silly man, the handle's way too short, think of the blood spatter!

 

[Robbi]

That square end is indeed very square.

thats what got me thinking

 

[tombear]

It's a paviors' hammer, used for laying paving stones and sets.

See pages 24/25 of the Ken Hawley Experiance by Derek Bateson about the tools held at the Kelham Island Museum in Shef'

Atb

Tom