Another what is this

Richard G.

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Found this on an old farm that had an old blacksmith shop at one time. I think someone had one of these on here a few weeks ago.
Any ideas?
Richard in NW SC
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It is a tool used when making wooden spoke buggy or wagon wheels. The spokes are driven in the hub then the curved wooden outer wheel. The outer wheel pieces are driven on the outer ends of the spokes. This tool is hooked over two adjacent spokes and used to pull them together so the spokes will start in the holes of the rim. It would be advanced one spoke at a time until the section of the wheel could be started on the end of the spokes. The wheel would be in sections, three or four spokes per section. After the wheel was assembled a steel rim would be fitted around the outside. My grandfather had one of these in his blacksmith shop I saw it used when I was very young. I realize this is a somewhat confusing explanation for a simple tool.
 
Another use would be to tension a barbed-wire gate in a fence line. You put the "paddle" end against the side of the large gate-post & place the hook on the small movable gate post that the barbed wire is fastened to, then pull tension using the large post as the fulcrum point so you can set the heel of the small post in its retainer ring & then drop the top retainer ring over the top of the small post.

I have used one just like that hundreds of times closing barbed wire gates.


Doc :>)
 
(quoted from post at 21:34:50 12/14/14) Another use would be to tension a barbed-wire gate in a fence line. You put the "paddle" end against the side of the large gate-post & place the hook on the small movable gate post that the barbed wire is fastened to, then pull tension using the large post as the fulcrum point so you can set the heel of the small post in its retainer ring & then drop the top retainer ring over the top of the small post.

I have used one just like that hundreds of times closing barbed wire gates.


Doc :>)

Thanks Doc, I could have used one of those growing up.
I always called those gates "$500 gates".
Richard
 

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