On Sat, 07 Mar 2020 11:01:42 -0800, pyotr filipivich
wrote:

ads on Sat, 07 Mar 2020 05:34:12 -0500 typed in rec.woodworking the
following:
On Sat, 07 Mar 2020 05:28:38 -0500, ads wrote:

On Sat, 07 Mar 2020 04:16:22 -0500, Clare Snyder
wrote:

On Fri, 6 Mar 2020 20:03:36 -0800 (PST), Sonny
wrote:

5 tress are sprouting leaves. 3 other trees look like they are alive, but no sprouting leaves, yet. Couldn't find 2 other trees... cows probably trampled them.

What is it? State surplus auction has a "something" they labeled as woodworking equipment. Looks similar to an old school desk.... top image on page 117. Not uncommon for them to mislabel stuff. I'm curious as to what it actually is.
https://www.doa.la.gov/lpaa/auction/...rch%202020.pdf

Sonny
Looks like a nice Browne and Boggs shear with infeed and outfeed
tables. Might not be a B&B - but definitely a sheet metal shear - foot
operated.

I had decided it was more likely sheet metal related than wood related
because I couldn't see foot pressure doing much to a sheet of wood -
but I really want to see the backside and under the deck ;-)

On second thought, the wood decks make it more likely to be a paper
cutter than a sheet metal tool.

My thinking as well. Sheet metal will gouge up that wood -
eventually.
My STRONG suspicion is it was used for cutting lithiograph plates
for printing - the infeed and outfeed tables would prevent buckling
of the plate