Posted 8 years ago
J.X
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A friend found this. Anyone know what it is? Found on her parents farm I think. Wooden handles and a mechanism that goes up and down when you open up the handles.
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I believe the tool above with the two wooden handles and showing the jaws open and closed, to be for breaking out slats in a wooden snow fence that have been damaged. I have two of them would be curious to know their value
Colin
V-J: I can see how it would work for that purpose but it doesn't seem likely to me. What is the reason for the "hooks" on the frame piece? They aren't in the plane of the "cutting" bar as your use suggests so they don't work with it in any way. Also, in my experience tools built like this cut by bringing the handles together (consider a bolt cutter); cutting by opening the handles would be extremely awkward. Cutting snow fence could be accomplished more easily using a standard tree pruner.
Uncle Ron an J.X. any one else interested.
The way That I understand this to be used is to open the handles and place the hooks over the wires, then closing the handles and forcing the bar against the slat to break it. If this was done at each pair of wires the damaged slats can be easily removed and a new slat could be inserted by opening up the loop a little. I could send pictures but I don' see a place to enter pics.
woul
V-J, That's an awfully complicated way to do a job that can easily be done with an ordinary pair of pruners (the removal part). Also, the way snow fence is made - with a machine that lays in the slats and automatically forms the wire around them - the wire crushes down the corners of each slat as it tightens, making the hole a bit smaller than the size of the slat. Inserting a new slat in that hole would be nearly impossible even if you could "<open> up the loop a little." Besides, how often does anybody actually repair snow fence to justify such a complicated job & tool? I just don't find that explanation logical. I'd like to see the patent. Regards. Ron
I showed the pics to several of the real old-time tool collectors around here (Lancaster County, Pa.). None of them had ever seen one but the consensus of opinion was that various shaped tools sat in the hole in the rack and were used to form metal in conjunction with the hooks on the frame.