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npowell

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• Jun 17, 2020

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Anyone recognize this thing? Third or fourth hand, I've been told it is for a pineapple. Blade (?) looks like it could core a pineapple, but the handles seemingly would get in the way. Sorry for the oddball post, but it's rather perplexing, and you folks have a wealth of knowledge.

Thanks,

Neil

 

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Billy Shafer

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• Jun 17, 2020

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Looks like something I could hurt. My self with.

I have no idea.

 

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JDUBYA

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• Jun 17, 2020

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Grandma had one, it was used to cut cooked sweet corn from the cob to ready for freezing or canning.

 

Janicholson

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• Jun 17, 2020

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Yup. That is what it is. Way fast. Jim

 

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npowell

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• Jun 17, 2020

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See, I knew you all would know Thanks!

 

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gmccool

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• Jun 17, 2020

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Sweet corn cutter

 

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Billy Shafer

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• Jun 17, 2020

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I am an idiot. So how does it work.

 

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npowell

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• Jun 17, 2020

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Knowing what it is, I guess you insert the end of the ear into the blade, then rotate and advance the blade along the ear to cut the kernels off.

 

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Billy Shafer

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• Jun 17, 2020

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That make sense. I have always wanted to know how things worked. I learned you don't grab an electric fence. Plus some other things you don't do.

 

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npowell

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• Jun 17, 2020

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(quoted from post at 10:37:03 06/17/20) That make sense. I have always wanted to know how things worked. I learned you don't grab an electric fence. Plus some other things you don't do.

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Glen SW Wi

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• Jun 17, 2020

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Put it on the small end of the cob, Pull the open ends together and push down. Sure beats cutting the corn off the cob with a knife. Safer and faster.

 

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Glen SW Wi

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• Jun 17, 2020

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Used to just grab the fence to see if it was working. Now I don't try it with a pacemaker.

 

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miangus

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• Jun 17, 2020

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It was surprising how young of a child was allowed to run such a dangerous device. I can remember running a similar device for my mother and grandmother. I was not overly happy to be assigned that job. That and cutting endless green beans. Unfortunately for me my mother believed children were just the thing for picking green beans, it seemed like those plants would never run out. i also got to spend some time running the Foley Food Mill a device designed to torture small children. I will say this, being marooned at home we would never have gone hungry, no food line for us. A basement wall full of selves of canned vegetables fruits and even some meat. After my grandmother passed my cousin and I dumped what was left of her canned goods when they sold the house. We salvaged the jars, there was a pretty good load for a 3/4 ton pickup, seemed like a shame but most were over ten years old. Some were canned in the 40s this was in the 80s. Ok, we did eat a couple cans of 20 year old peaches, still tasted wonderful.

 

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Charlie M

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• Jun 17, 2020

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Probably don't need to ask how you learned. Probably same way I did. LOL

 

Janicholson

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• Jun 17, 2020

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You are not an idiot, you just had an empty spot in the random access memory. Jim

 

Crazy Horse

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• Jun 17, 2020

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My wife recognized it, we don't have one. Looks adjustable for different sized corn diameters. So squeeze the arms in for smaller cobs, expand them out for bigger ones. And keep the size the same with the hand holding those arms so they don't move out or in when pushing down right?

 

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Billy Shafer

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• Jun 17, 2020

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You mean like putting out a stream of water. From a certain part of the body. That will wake you up.

 

RedMF40

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• Jun 17, 2020

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(quoted from post at 11:21:04 A

[b:c2ae2437bc]Ok, we did eat a couple cans of 20 year old peaches, still tasted wonderful.[/b:c2ae2437bc]

That's interesting. I've wondered how long home-canned food might still be good.

Gerrit

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onefarmer

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• Jun 17, 2020

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Youtube using with a drill

 

47fivewindow

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Davidsonville Md.

• Jun 17, 2020

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we use ours with a board with a nail through it to hold the cob. It keeps me from hitting my knuckles on the counter.

 

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Sam Womer (PA)

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• Jun 17, 2020

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Always shut the mixer off before you lick the beaters.....

 

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James Howell

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• Jun 18, 2020

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"[b:654c4848f0][i:654c4848f0]I learned you don't grab an electric fence[/i:654c4848f0][/b:654c4848f0]"

"[i:654c4848f0]There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.[/i:654c4848f0]"

Will Rogers

 

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coshoo

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• Jun 18, 2020

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I drive a fence staple through a board, so you've got two points instead of one- will hold the ear from twisting. We don't can corn (or much of anything else) anymore, now that the "human vacuum cleaner" kids have long since grown and moved away- canned vegetables are pretty cheap on sale, if you can keep the volume down.

 

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Mike Henry

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• Jun 18, 2020

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older cousins were always trying to get me to grab the fence. I mentioned to grandpa what they were saying. He said 1st off when walking with the boys start carrying a walking stick.Then he tutored me 1. If they want me to grab fence and they are not near by stake the walking stick to the ground and grab. You are grounded with the stick. 2, If they are close by get as close as I can and grab them and fence at same time or fence after them. I get a tingle but they get the shock. Took a few lessons those big kids werent as smart as I had thought but they did stop asking me to touch fences.