What is this item?

[John Fitzgerald]

What is this?
It was found in an old woodshed.

 

[Kenneth in Texas]

looks like some sort of tie down but could be wrong

 

[bcp]

Valve? spring compressor.

I don't think that is right, but it is what popped into my mind. I've seen that tool in several old farm shops, and almost feel I've used one, but it was so long ago I can't remember.

Bruce

 

[Wagtail]

A part of a scale is what I'm thinking.

 

[bcp]

Almost an hour looking with no luck. Very frustrating. My mind recognized the image at once, but lost the caption.

One of the "benefits" of getting old. You have to delete memory in order to make room for new downloads.
Bruce

 

[Egon]

Peavey.

 

[Wagtail]

Peavey.

What do you mean? :confused3:

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Never mind... found it. A logging tool.

 

[RandyT]

Valve? spring compressor.

I don't think that is right, but it is what popped into my mind. I've seen that tool in several old farm shops, and almost feel I've used one, but it was so long ago I can't remember.

Bruce

The was my first though also. the hook end hooks onto something and the oval hole is were the valve stem goes to compress the spring to remove the retainers on an OHV engine.

 

[1965]

My guess is it is a chain tensioner like you see on transports, feed the chain through the hole and insert the hook into a link and pull the handle down.

 

[Egon]

Put a wooden handle in the hole.

 

[oldpilgrim]

Valve spring compresser. I'd bet 10$ of your money on it.

 

[turnkey4099]

My guess is it is a chain tensioner like you see on transports, feed the chain through the hole and insert the hook into a link and pull the handle down.

That was my guess, rather primitive

 

[quicksandfarmer]

Peavey.

That was my thought as well. I don't think it's properly a Peavey because it doesn't have a spike in the end, but it's some sort of cant hook. A tool for gripping and rolling logs.

 

[Egon]

That was my thought as well. I don't think it's properly a Peavey because it doesn't have a spike in the end, but it's some sort of cant hook. A tool for gripping and rolling logs.

Peavey's seem to Come in many different configurations and have many different work definitions. That one may be a European type for a specialized job???

 

[Mace Canute]

I'm positive it's not a peavey or a chain tensioner.

 

[coldsteelva]

Looks like a tire mounting/dismounting tool - note the tapered end to the left

 

[square1]

It tis Excalibur!

 

[turnkey4099]

It's a covfefe!! Obvious at first glance.

 

[Xfaxman]

How big is it?

 

[ch1ch2]

How big is it?

That was my thought.
Would be nice to have something beside it to but it to scale.