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A new whatziss!

By The Armorer on December 21, 2009 | | Comments (18)
And yeah, I know we've still got one hanging. Tough noogies, I wanna have some fun.

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By Blake Kirk on December 21, 2009 9:02 AM
Looks a lot like the business end of a manure spreader.  But we haven't had those in the system since we got out of the horse cavalry business, have we?
 
By John (not the Armorer) on December 21, 2009 10:36 AM
Something used by Congressional Cr@pweasels when writing bills, or explaining to their constituents what is in them, or why they voted for them?

Alternate use- (hat tip to Saddam Hussein....) a tool to recycle said Cr@pweasels?
 
By Rivrdog on December 21, 2009 10:51 AM
Why are most of your whatzim corroded? No armorer I've even known has the slightest tolerance for rusty things. Now, the patina of rust can create some interesting textures for the photographer, but most of the whatzae are mechanical devices or parts therof, and having been a military mechanic, I have no appreciation of rust in the works.

Just askin'
 
By Sean Maloney on December 21, 2009 10:58 AM
 A torture implement in the Dungeon of Arrggghhhh? GITMO transferrees headed your way next????
 
By John of Argghhh! on December 21, 2009 11:17 AM
Rivrdog - what, I should turn away candidates for restoration because they were abused by previous owners?  Is that what you suggest?  ;^ )
 
By p on December 21, 2009 12:32 PM
Pully cylinder for a catapult
 
By Justthisguy on December 21, 2009 2:32 PM
Rivrdog is just that way, folks.  Always complaining. As one of his two or three remaining readers, I have learned to get along with his cranky grumpiness.  I do think it would be amusing to watch the results of his being sewn up in a sack with Kim DuToit.
 
By JamesLee on December 21, 2009 2:46 PM
My first thought was manure spreader as well, but IIRC, those teeth were usually longer, flatter, and pitched to various angles to throw the "payload" far and wide.
 
By Fishmugger on December 21, 2009 2:55 PM
A manure spreader??? It doesn't even closely look like the New York Times.
 
By RetRsvMike on December 21, 2009 5:56 PM
hmm...   field expedient  convenient spikey thingie upon which to assemble bundles of sticks in order to produce a fascine to drop into the next available trench...
 
By RetRsvMike on December 21, 2009 6:04 PM
(adapted from the original Belgian farm implement)
 
By Old Fat Sailor on December 21, 2009 6:43 PM
Unditching beam from early tank-Brit Mk V?
 
By Grumpy on December 21, 2009 7:07 PM
This is a side view of a  "Terrorist seat." Now, we wouldn't want any undisciplined 'wild hairs', would we?

@Riverdog, are you sure that's rust?
 
By og on December 21, 2009 8:46 PM
Those look like hex head bolts which put it sometime after 1900. The tips of the "Spikes" look very uniform- almost like bullets, and that doesn't happen by wear, they were probably manufactured to that shape. Without anything to give away scale, I have to assum it's a cellphone photograph, whcih means the overall width of the image is between 20 and 30" wide. The cross-bolt in the end of the one piece means it's wood, because you'd only put a bolt there if it were wood to prevent it from cracking. The shape suggests a drum with several such assemblies arranged in a cylinder. The "Spikes" are not in line, which I think is the critical bit. It seems like these are "fingers" that act as cams upon some mechanism as the "drum is revolved.

Or maybe I been sleeping in this catnip too long.
 
By Rick on December 21, 2009 8:58 PM
Inside reference-Something to do with mohair or angora, like a carding machine or something to prepare the wooly bits for spinning.
 
By skip on December 22, 2009 3:36 AM
OK, I got it.
Itsa new to the Castle ie; [rust], manure flingin', wool shreddin, torture thingy, chicken plucker, large brass cleanin', banjo pluckin', rewinder for 180lb test, piano roll readin', barb wire spreadin', mine clearin', thing. See, got it.
 
By skip on December 22, 2009 3:40 AM
P.S. Rivdog and Kim are my heeerows, kinda....almost. Well... a little.
 
By Colin on December 24, 2009 10:18 AM
Part of a very early combine.