old and antique tools discussion

[jedneck]

I'm guessing a pig scraper.

Yup you got it.

[wtfdskin]

Good scrapers are hard to find. The new ones are junk.

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[goose eye]

Use to be thanksgiving day was the first hog killin.
Make sure water ain't to hot or you gonna set the hair. Always throw a pine branch in the bottom so they ain't on bottom of vat. Gotta keep em rock in the hole time they in the vat. Them hog scrapers is over rated get you a old zinc mason jar lid. Tell when they ready be grabin a leg an see if it will come off . Once you roll em out have a bucket to get water in case it needs a nudge. Have two ropes around the hog.
Ole boys usually kill a couple a year. Have you a electric knife sharpener cause you gonna need it. We partial to old hickory


So I'm tole

[Truckinbutch]

Use to be thanksgiving day was the first hog killin.
Make sure water ain't to hot or you gonna set the hair. Always throw a pine branch in the bottom so they ain't on bottom of vat. Gotta keep em rock in the hole time they in the vat. Them hog scrapers is over rated get you a old zinc mason jar lid. Tell when they ready be grabin a leg an see if it will come off . Once you roll em out have a bucket to get water in case it needs a nudge. Have two ropes around the hog.
Ole boys usually kill a couple a year. Have you a electric knife sharpener cause you gonna need it. We partial to old hickory


So I'm tole

Thanksgiving was when we killed 8-10 hogs when I was a kid . Was a rite of passage to be allowed to put .22 short ball in the brain pan of the hog . You was in trouble with the grownups if you 'squealed' one .
We kept a fire off to the side to heat short sections of well casing to heat the water . Put some borax in the water to aid loosening hair . Not settin the hair was a big deal .

[goose eye]

Only thang the ole boys didn't use was the owink .
One year one of the ole boys got a tape recorder and saved the oink to. Have it to there pa. Some was butcherin some was runnin last year's cider.
Renderin lard an savin cracklins for corn bread an such. Didn't want to cook the lard to hot or it wouldn't be snow white it would be off white . Had to keep stirin it the hole while.
Round about evenin it would be done. Only time we pick em now if we saltin em down. If we makin sausage we have em skent. 30 dollar the slaughter house dose it. Kills em cleanings em out and skins em. Always make sure you stick em good cause that can be a mess.
Ole boys got a couple pot belly pigs and it won't worth the trouble unless you were lookin lard.
Ole boys that is left to old to rassle hogs like they use to. Still kill a couple 3 a year.
So I'm tole

[Truckinbutch]

Nephew takin up the banner here . Got 5 3-350# goin to slaughter next month . I help with curing and smoking . Ain't able to wrastle them no more .

[rad14701]

Nephew takin up the banner here . Got 5 3-350# goin to slaughter next month . I help with curing and smoking . Ain't able to wrastle them no more .

I've found that it's far easier to butcher after the livestock is dead...

Also, don't let the neighbor try out his new .32 revolver by popping the 500+ pound boar between the eyes with only one round on hand... That just pisses the boar off... A single .22 long rifle behind the ear calmed him down nicely, however... Was probably closer to 650 pounds... Should have castrated him because the meat was flat out non-edible... I'm sure the agitation caused by the .32 to the forehead didn't help matters...

[jedneck]

Brother found out the hard way to not shoot the pig at the farm and load it on the truck and drive it a half hour before scalding, shaving in his case.

[thecroweater]

Stanley

[pfshine]

Looks like a small drawknife. Or maybe spoke shave.

[cuginosgrizzo]

the handle for a safe?

[HDNB]

wood plane for the edge of a door?

[cob]

skiver

[rad14701]

Spoke Shave would be my guess...

[thecroweater]

Its a Stanley 67 universal spokeshave made from 1896 to 1941, handy tool for refurbishing barrels

[jedneck]

another tool for a stinky job. anybody know?

[shadylane]

looks like a small commercial chicken plucker

[FullySilenced]

yep thinks so...

[NZChris]

We use something very much like that for harvesting possum fur in NZ.

[HDNB]

We use something very much like that for harvesting possum fur in NZ.

Possum fur? I gotta ask-what do you do with possum fur?

do you make felt for filtering your whiskey? maybe collect lots and knit a cap and socks? or does it have just the right softness for woven jocks?

[jedneck]

looks like a small commercial chicken plucker

yup its a chicken plucker. i like good food and have the tools to get it

[Kareltje]

I'm guessing a pig scraper.

This is a USoA-game of course, but I like it.
I suppose a pig scraper is a tool to scrape the hair from killed pigs. I did not recognize it, for we used conical ones.
Too young to kill them myself, old enough to help my father.

[rager]

not really an antique but it had me stumped for a while.

[jedneck]

fixit link for a chain.

[rager]

fixit link for a chain.

ding ding. we have a winner. they sit on my desk. something about them i really like

[rad14701]

aka connecting link...

[rager]

aka connecting link...

apparently they could be welded together for a perminet fix.

[goose eye]

Get em cherry red an beat em together
. Aint never seen em wielded

So I'm tole

[rager]

Get em cherry red an beat em together
. Aint never seen em wielded

So I'm tole

i guess that would work as well

[emptyglass]

one is I think a late 1870s Disstun

I read that badly wrong, thought you were driving a late 1870's Datsun