What The Hell Is That?!

[Chauncey Gardener]

Every once in a while we all come across something we have no idea what it is or what it's for.

Well, now we have a place where we can post a picture and ask - "What the hell is that?!"

I'll start -

 

[knucklegary]

Those are blacksmith tongs. Once red hot they're used during castration of farm animals to cauterize after the snipping. Ouch!

 

[Monocrom]

I also wanted to say some sort of specialized Blacksmith, maybe Bladesmith, tongs. Weight on the end to really help clamp down on whatever was being worked on.... But yeah, never would have guessed its intended purpose.

 

[Chauncey Gardener]

I also wanted to say some sort of specialized Blacksmith, maybe Bladesmith, tongs. Weight on the end to really help clamp down on whatever was being worked on.... But yeah, never would have guessed its intended purpose.

Those are blacksmith tongs. Once red hot they're used during castration of farm animals to cauterize after the snipping. Ouch!

:( ..... Glad I didn't put my lips on them.

 

[Monocrom]

Glad you own them, and they'll never be used properly again.

 

[IMA SOL MAN]

Are you sure they aren't for working molten glass?

 

[knucklegary]

Could be for glass makers. The castration thing I made up

 

[IMA SOL MAN]

Could be for glass makers. The castration thing I made up

Yeah, I kinda thought so! :crackup:

 

[Hooked on Fenix]

I thought those things were banned by the Geneva Convention as a torture device. That’s a P.O.W. Nose Stretcher. You use it to clamp down on a prisoner of war’s nose during an interrogation. The carabiner is clipped to a truck. Every time the prisoner lies, the guy in the truck steps on the gas a little. If the prisoner doesn’t tell the truth, they walk away looking like Pinocchio.

 

[KITROBASKIN]

Inserted into a cow or bull’s nostrils and cinched tight, this is used to control the animal. Could be used to treat an injury on the head. Bulls can be very uncooperative, as can cows. I’ve seen them used and implore compassion on anyone using such.

 

[raggie33]

your all wrong its a tape measure

 

[Chauncey Gardener]

A friend purchased it at a garage sale. Neither of us had/have any idea what its intended purpose was.

 

[orbital]

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The chain part of it creeps me out

 

[kerneldrop]

A friend purchased it at a garage sale. Neither of us had/have any idea what its intended purpose was.

it's a $25 bull lead.
you use it to walk around your livestock animals.

 

[thermal guy]

lol that’s exactly what it is.

 

[IMA SOL MAN]

https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/producers-pride-bull-lead-with-chain

 

[Hooked on Fenix]

Wow, I was close. Wrong victim to use it on, animal vs. person, but I was right on the nose.

 

[Chauncey Gardener]

The bull lead has been solved,

 

[scalpel_ninja]

Wow, I was close. Wrong victim to use it on, animal vs. person, but I was right on the nose.

I see what you did there…

 

[bykfixer]

The bull lead has been solved,

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Any gueses?