The rusty tool and machinery thread.

[490808]

Thats a daisy digger. Edit> Sorry Daisy Dibber is a better name.

Basically used for levering weeds out of the ground but also on daisies on lawns.

[765489]

Thats a daisy digger.

Basically used for levering weeds out of the ground but also on daisies on lawns.

Won't be used here, not on my lawns anyway.. ha.

Was that bucket used for collecting apples ?

[490808]

That right its a bushel measure. Often used for measuring apples (before they get burnt in a tart) but also grain and anything else that you want to measure by volume.

Edit> 1 Bushel = 8 gallons

You can make an approx bushel measure by making a box with internal dimensions of 22 inches x 10 inches x 10 inches. Can't remember why I did that once but I seem to remember I had an old compost recipe that I was trying out.

[CelticRambler]

Here's a nice old antique probably cost you a fortune to buy to put logs in by your fire but it had a specific use, agricultural if not farming, but probably not found on many farms. I had to pick this view as they normally state the name I'm looking for on the side. More rustic ones without all the metal hoops would have been in much more common use.

Tangentially related to something mentioned in this thread but not eels.

Straining seaweed after harvest?

Edit. Too late.

Double edit: I mistook those metal bands down the side for slots in the woodwork. I could do with a bucket like that - going out shortly to pick a load of green beans.

[490808]

No rust here - its all wood. Very specific use and one place it would be used would be synonymous with Ireland

[Osciiboscii]

That right its a bushel measure. Often used for measuring apples (before they get burnt in a tart) ...a scoop of icecream covers a multitude

[Osciiboscii]

No rust here - its all wood. Very specific use and one place it would be used would be synonymous with Ireland

Something for the bog

[490808]

No very much indoors

[765489]

Coal shovel ?

[490808]

While warmth is close to every Irishman's hart the use this is put to produces something some may say is even closer.

[765489]

Ash shovel ?

[CelticRambler]

Looks very much like the paddles they use around these parts for fishing loaves of bread out of a bread oven, but I've never seen a continental-style bread-oven in Ireland. However, as the handle is much shorter, I'd guess that it's still meant for taking bread (or maybe, just maybe, potatoes?) out of a shallower construction.

[490808]

Thought this would be an easy one in Ireland I've even walked on a few of the floors where it might be used.

Its a shovel that's for sure. It does look like a tool for putting a bread or pizza into an oven (think thats called a pizza peel) but its not that.

To be really cryptic its not "food" related (which means in some vague way it is).

[Osciiboscii]

[490808]

Maybe after a night after what it was used to make

[Osciiboscii]

Barley?

[Osciiboscii]

Tis hard to gauge the size of the implements. Is this a barley shovel, for malting maybe?

[490808]

Thats the most likely use. Malting Shovel.

[490808]

I have a few more lined up but I'll leave it till later tomorrow so if anyone else has any or anything that they want to identify particularly if its old rusty and found in a field somewhere.

[dawg]

I dont know but please someone tell me its not a 1st generation explosion area rated grain shovel

[765489]

I was nearly going to post something similar dawg

[Osciiboscii]

I've nothing anyway. The ancient mowing bar at home was finally consigned to a skip last week. I think it had been converted from horse-drawn.

[490808]

I've nothing anyway. The ancient mowing bar at home was finally consigned to a skip last week. I think it had been converted from horse-drawn.

I knocked down part of an old extension to the house a few years ago and a mowing bar had been used in the concrete lintel over the widow in place of rebar.

[490808]

Another one. Apologies in advance this is a very specialist tool that only has one use, there is a modern equivalent for bigger jobs but it fits on a crane or a digger.



I've used one occasionally, essentially its just a bar on the end of pole. I used it in a large ornamental garden and out in the fields. Its nothing to do with plants or crops, and is used with a variety of other tools to do a particular job. Nowadays most and sometimes the whole job would be done by machine.

[765489]

Is there a specific material it is used on ? Such as wood or stone ?