Is that your wife?
I believe you put grain or straw or corn stocks in it to hold them to make something.
Could be......
Craig Clayton
It could be, I guess....Brooms?
In my dreamsIs that your wife?
I was thinking the same thing wow !
Sorry I do not have any input on the Tool, interesting though.
Thanks for the ideas....for making brooms sounds promising.....My thought also.
JB
It's a grain thrasher and if the table is angled towards the single leg it would be for making cheese. They tumbled the octagonal handle across the cheese curd to remove the whey which would run out the end into a bucket.