Big Barn’s Retirement Farm Shop

[BackRoad]

The annual thread bump:

Photo of my $8 mystery box from an auction a week ago.

Saw the old wrenches and Mr. Terry immediately came to mind. "I don't care if the lot goes all the way up to 9 bucks...I'm gonna get it!"

I sure have missed seeing the fun content and the friendly banter from you guys.

Mr. Terry, DragonEggs, Mr. Ovrszd, and others...hope all the Big Barn regulars are doing well...

 

[goeduck]

I see a ball peen hammer in there.

 

[two_bit_score]

Photo of my $8 mystery box from an auction a week ago.

That looks like a body dolly on that handle there in the upper left. Never saw one on a handle like that.

 

[BackRoad]

That looks like a body dolly on that handle there in the upper left. Never saw one on a handle like that.

That's one of the tools that I didn't know it's purpose.

Thanks for that!

 

[BackRoad]

The box was one of my better $8 auction finds...

 

[j13smiley]

I've missed this thread. Glad to see it again

 

[gstrom99]

The annual thread bump:

Photo of my $8 mystery box from an auction a week ago.

Saw the old wrenches and Mr. Terry immediately came to mind. "I don't care if the lot goes all the way up to 9 bucks...I'm gonna get it!"

I sure have missed seeing the fun content and the friendly banter from you guys.

Mr. Terry, DragonEggs, Mr. Ovrszd, and others...hope all the Big Barn regulars are doing well...View attachment 864248

What's the ice cream scooper thing?

 

[the old grind]

A grostling iron, if you've never seen or used one.

 

[two_bit_score]

China is the largest car market in the world and they are the strongest EV market. But they've got about 90 EV makers and they've got to reduce that down. So that means 75 Chinese EV makers have to either close or merge with the major players so that is hurting the price point which is hurting Ford, Tesla and GM high level of profits from China.

Someone recently said China was building coal plants for themselves but selling solar panels to the USA.

 

[BackRoad]

A grostling iron, if you've never seen or used one.

I've a Grostling Iron that my Grandfather used, but it has a twist in it. I've not seen one like this...

 

[Scrambler82]

I don't know what a grostling iron is.

I see a Flattening Hammer !

 

[BnRidge]

It's a grostling iron only if you've never used one or seen one. Otherwise it's something else. There's a cherry pitter in there too.

 

[BackRoad]

I'll post photos of the "Grostling Iron" so you can draw your own conclusions...

I'm just a bit suspicious that a Grostling Iron may be more akin to a Snipe, sky hook or muffler bearing rather than an actual real tool .

I could only find 1 listing using Google when researching the term.

Not that I would ever doubt Mr. Old Grind!!!

 

[BackRoad]

"X-ray" should be a clue...but the first 10 Google search pages for X-RAY result in...yep...modern x-ray images and machines!

Actually, a Google image reverse search resulted in it being tagged as an old hand juicer for oranges or lemons, just missing a part.

But the stamped "X-RAY" seems like such a modern word to be found on an old cast iron tool like this...

Maybe it IS a Grostling Iron after all!

 

[BnRidge]

 

[dragoneggs]

Hey gang… long time no here. Hope all is well. Life has taken me a bit of a different direction but was thinking Terry today and sent him a note.

Then looked here and saw a few familiar handles. Cheers!