As also mentioned on my site, I'll be out of town for a couple days and
won't be able to post the answer page until Saturday.

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Rob

On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 04:02:01 -0500, R.H. wrote:

As also mentioned on my site, I'll be out of town for a couple days and
won't be able to post the answer page until Saturday.

http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/

Rob

941 looks like it could be a Fire station smoke room, that is a training
room set up to do blacked out rescue training in smoke fill environments.




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942. A fireplace jack. For adjusting the height of a cooking pot over
an open fire or fire in a fire place.
945. I'm guessing a hammer to give beter leverage as you pull nails.
You change up to the next puller teeth as the nail gets further out of
the wood.
Thanks
Karl






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won't be able to post the answer page until Saturday.

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Rob

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Rob

943. Pencil sharpener.

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Rob

942 is a Pot Trammel, used for setting a cooking pot's height above a
fire to control the heat. I've made dozens of them.

In article .com,
" wrote:

942. A fireplace jack. For adjusting the height of a cooking pot over
an open fire or fire in a fire place.
945. I'm guessing a hammer to give beter leverage as you pull nails.
You change up to the next puller teeth as the nail gets further out of
the wood.
Thanks
Karl

Isn't the jack is the part the trammel hangs from, or is that the crane?

Anyhoo, I always called them trammels. I think I still have one hanging
in the smithy.

I've made a lot of campfire tripods, grates, and crossbar standards,
fireplace equipment, (but, oddly, no andirons) cranes, spit setups,
chains, and more "S" hooks than I ever care to remember, but I seem to
have forgotten some terminology since it's been a while ago.

Going to have to go back and look at all those books, I guess.

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941. These look a lot like the buildings used to train firefighters. But
they look too clean for that sort of thing.

945. A hammer with three extra claws to pull out nails of different height
above the wood??

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Rob



940 -

941 - Fire training facilities. One for normal structures and one for
high rise/silo and high level rescue use. Looks like they are new.

942 - Ice saw with helper handle.

943 -

944 - Old leather skiveing tool?

945 - Hammer with a jack style nail puller. Designed to remove the nail
with the least amount of bending so it can be reused easier.

--
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Now that claw hammer is "RIGHT ON" Wish I had one like that.
Would'n need to keep looking around for a small block of wood.
...lew...

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941. These look a lot like the buildings used to train firefighters. But
they look too clean for that sort of thing.

I believe you have the correct answer but not all of the buildings are
burned. Many are used for training the firemen to scale or enter
buildings. They add fire later to other buildings.

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941. These look a lot like the buildings used to train firefighters. But
they look too clean for that sort of thing.

I believe you have the correct answer but not all of the buildings are
burned. Many are used for training the firemen to scale or enter
buildings. They add fire later to other buildings.


That makes sense. Most of the buildings I have seen for this sort of thing
have been set on fire many times. Even though the building is built to
withstand this constant flame treatment, the building takes on a chalky,
deathlike patina similar to the armored vehicles that the military uses for
target practice.

944 looks like it could be a knife sharpener. As you darw the knife
through, the two cones would rotate, filing off metal.

John Husvar wrote, regarding 942: (clip) I think I still have one hanging
in the smithy. (clip)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Congratulations, John, for finding a way to work the word "smithy" into a
sentence, and for doing so CORRECTLY.

Under the spreading chestnut tree,
The village smithy sat,
Amusing himself by abusing himself,
And catching it in his hat.

An example of the popular misuse of the term.

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940: Obvious. It's an 'E' clamp.







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941. These look a lot like the buildings used to train firefighters. But
they look too clean for that sort of thing.
I believe you have the correct answer but not all of the buildings are
burned. Many are used for training the firemen to scale or enter
buildings. They add fire later to other buildings.


That makes sense. Most of the buildings I have seen for this sort of thing
have been set on fire many times. Even though the building is built to
withstand this constant flame treatment, the building takes on a chalky,
deathlike patina similar to the armored vehicles that the military uses for
target practice.

In a similar vein, SWAT training buildings.

In article
,
"Leo Lichtman" wrote:

944 looks like it could be a knife sharpener. As you darw the knife
through, the two cones would rotate, filing off metal.

John Husvar wrote, regarding 942: (clip) I think I still have one hanging
in the smithy. (clip)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Congratulations, John, for finding a way to work the word "smithy" into a
sentence, and for doing so CORRECTLY.

Working it in? Heck, I work _in it_ whenever MS, honeydo jobs, and my
part-time job permit.

In there is a gas forge, a 200-something (like 20-something only worse)
280-pound Peter Wright anvil with a better pedigree than my own,
miscellaneous striking hammers, set hammers, tongs, flatters, punches,
chisels, chasing tools, hardy tools, fullers, jigs, two welders,
torches, grinders, material for a charcoal forge and bellows, etc. etc.
etc. and stuff I probably forgot I have until I trip over it. It'd take
a fair sized truck to haul it all away in one go.

Then there's stock from found material to new CR, HR, and misc. alloy
tooling and knife stock.

That's all in a 12x20 building and a 10x20 rack/storage area. The
farkin' horse has more room!

Jeez, I wish I hadn't started thinking about it! Oh, well, my heirs and
maybe the EPA can worry about it someday


Under the spreading chestnut tree,
The village smithy sat,
Amusing himself by abusing himself,
And catching it in his hat.

An example of the popular misuse of the term.

Ayup, as anyone who read the poem would see. Simply making it: The
village smith he sat, would make it correct usage -- well, if the
particular smith in question did sit there amusing himself so.

According to R.H. :
As also mentioned on my site, I'll be out of town for a couple days and
won't be able to post the answer page until Saturday.

http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/

Of course, posting from rec.crafts.metalworking as usual.

940) It *looks* like a small version of a furniture gluing clamp,
except for the almost knife-blade like projection to the upper
right as it is photographed.

The bars easily slide along the rectangular bar, as long as they
are not having pressure applied out at the ends of the arms.
Once the pressure is present, they lock and stay locked until
the pressure is released. Of course, the pressure is applied by
the brass or bronze thumbscrew.

It looks as though it has had a lot of pressure, because the
rectangular bar appears to have a bit of a curve in it.

My guess about the "knife-blade like projection is that it is
intended to slide into a retainer in the workbench to keep the
workpiece above the workbench surface.

941) My guess is that this is a disguised microwave tower or cell
phone tower, with the rails on the roof of the electronics
support building suggesting that workers frequently have to walk
up there to take RF signal strength readings.

The windows of that building look strange, too.

942) An adjustable length hanging strap for something -- and I think
something heavy. The design of the ratchet assembly is such
that you can't release it when there is a full load on it.

943) Another (and cruder) variant of microtome?

Something for trimming the end of a cigar prior to lighting up?

944) Perhaps for test grinding of grain in the field? The conical
point end looks like a millstone, other than being steel.

Or perhaps a knife sharpener? Yes - I think that is it.

945) A saw specialized for disassembling constructions, with the
design being such that you can take several pulls at a long nail
with the extra claws, so you don't have to put a chunk of 2x4
under the head to get enough pull to complete the extraction of
the nail.

Now to see what others have guessed.

Enjoy,
DoN.


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I could be wrong on the name jack but that was what came to me. The
swinging part that it or the pot hangs from is the crane unless I'm
confusing names.
Karl

On Mar 29, 2:55 am, John Husvar wrote:
In article .com,

" wrote:
942. A fireplace jack. For adjusting the height of a cooking pot over
an open fire or fire in a fire place.
945. I'm guessing a hammer to give beter leverage as you pull nails.
You change up to the next puller teeth as the nail gets further out of
the wood.
Thanks
Karl

Isn't the jack is the part the trammel hangs from, or is that the crane?

Anyhoo, I always called them trammels. I think I still have one hanging
in the smithy.

I've made a lot of campfire tripods, grates, and crossbar standards,
fireplace equipment, (but, oddly, no andirons) cranes, spit setups,
chains, and more "S" hooks than I ever care to remember, but I seem to
have forgotten some terminology since it's been a while ago.

Going to have to go back and look at all those books, I guess.

In article . com,
" wrote:

I could be wrong on the name jack but that was what came to me. The
swinging part that it or the pot hangs from is the crane unless I'm
confusing names.
Karl


Well, got off my lazy rear and looked it up.

You're correct about the crane, alright.

Pot jack is apparently an alternate name for a pot trammel.

There was another item also called a jack having to do with fireplaces,
but darned if I can find a reference right off. After 20+ years, you'd
think I could remember.

Well, maybe not. There are those senior moments. It's just that "moment"
has such a _variable_ length any more!

"DoN. Nichols" wrote: ( 945) A saw specialized for disassembling
constructions, (clip)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
A claw saw?

According to Leo Lichtman :

"DoN. Nichols" wrote: ( 945) A saw specialized for disassembling
constructions, (clip)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
A claw saw?

I said *saw*? Obviously, hammer.

Thanks,
DoN.

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R.H. wrote:

As also mentioned on my site, I'll be out of town for a couple days
and won't be able to post the answer page until Saturday.

http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/


Rob

941 looks an awful lot like a disguised oil well and treater unig.
Think I saw some like this near Long Beach CA one time. The tower
hides a "smokestack", for lack of a better term, and the house-looking
building hides a "heater-treater" unit and a storage tank.

--

I was beginning to wonder because your name for it sounded right too.
Thaks for checking.
Karl


On Mar 30, 3:16 am, John Husvar wrote:
In article . com,

" wrote:
I could be wrong on the name jack but that was what came to me. The
swinging part that it or the pot hangs from is the crane unless I'm
confusing names.
Karl

Well, got off my lazy rear and looked it up.

You're correct about the crane, alright.

Pot jack is apparently an alternate name for a pot trammel.

There was another item also called a jack having to do with fireplaces,
but darned if I can find a reference right off. After 20+ years, you'd
think I could remember.

Well, maybe not. There are those senior moments. It's just that "moment"
has such a _variable_ length any more!

On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:20:37 -0400, John Husvar wrote:

In article
,
"Leo Lichtman" wrote:

944 looks like it could be a knife sharpener. As you darw the knife
through, the two cones would rotate, filing off metal.

John Husvar wrote, regarding 942: (clip) I think I still have one hanging
in the smithy. (clip)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Congratulations, John, for finding a way to work the word "smithy" into a
sentence, and for doing so CORRECTLY.

Working it in? Heck, I work _in it_ whenever MS, honeydo jobs, and my
part-time job permit.

In there is a gas forge, a 200-something (like 20-something only worse)
280-pound Peter Wright anvil with a better pedigree than my own,
miscellaneous striking hammers, set hammers, tongs, flatters, punches,
chisels, chasing tools, hardy tools, fullers, jigs, two welders,
torches, grinders, material for a charcoal forge and bellows, etc. etc.
etc. and stuff I probably forgot I have until I trip over it. It'd take
a fair sized truck to haul it all away in one go.

Then there's stock from found material to new CR, HR, and misc. alloy
tooling and knife stock.

That's all in a 12x20 building and a 10x20 rack/storage area. The
farkin' horse has more room!

Jeez, I wish I hadn't started thinking about it! Oh, well, my heirs and
maybe the EPA can worry about it someday


Under the spreading chestnut tree,
The village smithy sat,
Amusing himself by abusing himself,
And catching it in his hat.

An example of the popular misuse of the term.

Ayup, as anyone who read the poem would see. Simply making it: The
village smith he sat, would make it correct usage -- well, if the
particular smith in question did sit there amusing himself so.

I just can't figure out what kind of brain damage makes people call
that "abuse". ;-)

Cheers!
Rich

On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:19:22 +0000, DoN. Nichols wrote:
According to Leo Lichtman :
"DoN. Nichols" wrote: ( 945) A saw specialized for disassembling
constructions, (clip)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
A claw saw?

I said *saw*? Obviously, hammer.


Nah - different joke:

You'd look in the mirror and see what you saw, take the saw and saw the
table in half, two halves make a whole, and you climb out the hole. ;-)

Cheers!
Rich

Sorry for the delay in posting the answer page, I had a good trip and found
a couple of excellent pieces for next week's set so it's been a great
weekend so far. Answers for this week can be seen he


http://pzphotosan163zt.blogspot.com/


I was planning to get a few more shots of the microtome but it looks like it
might be a little while until I can get back to see it.


Rob

"Rich, but drunk" wrote: You'd look in the mirror and see what you saw,
take the saw and saw the table in half, two halves make a whole, and you
climb out the hole. ;-)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Then there was the blind carpenter, who picked up his hammer and saw. Is he
the same guy who had 12", but didn't use it as a rule?

On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 16:08:44 +0000, Leo Lichtman wrote:
"Rich, but drunk" wrote: You'd look in the mirror and see what you saw,
take the saw and saw the table in half, two halves make a whole, and you
climb out the hole. ;-)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Then there was the blind carpenter, who picked up his hammer and saw. Is he
the same guy who had 12", but didn't use it as a rule?

Guy to date:
"You're making it hard for me, but I gotta hand it to you. Let's
get something straight between us. I won't hold it against you!"

;-)
Rich