odd wooden tool id?

[mojjax]

Anyone know what this was used for ? I imagine it was for pounding something . One end is tapered . I've looked up pictures of mauls but I can't find any that look like this one .

mojjax

 

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[TreasureTales]

Looks like a shoe tree to me.

 

[aa battery]

This is a guess but is it used in baking flour ?

 

[kenb]

mojjax finds the best whatitz, My guess would also be flour related. Something used for pounding dough?

kenb

 

[stoney56]

1st guess was an old lobster trap float.

 

[mech]

Mojjax does indeed come up with some good what is it's.

looks to me like a wedge of some sort..one man would hold it and another would hit it with a big "wooden" hammer... just a guess.
It also reminds me of a tool that would be on The New Yankee workshop or simular show. (The one where he only used very old ways to build things) Google search for wood mallets look pretty close but without the tapered end.. ??

cheers

 

[Montana Jim]

I kept thinking wooden mallet like for carving or leather work... but with both ends being useable and shaped like (cumbersome) that I really think it's more a kitchen tool... like aa battery and kenb said.

Sorry... no real idea.

 

[Michelle]

Multi leather tool......hmmmmm....Shoes/boots/hat stretcher/shaper...I think yours is much much older

 

[mojjax]

Multi leather tool......hmmmmm....Shoes/boots/hat stretcher/shaper...I think yours is much much older
It seems a little too big to be a shoe strecher.

 

[Michelle]

Tanning tool

 

[Michelle]

Dudes got BIG FEET.....Tinpan feet....hahaha Mojjax......the answer to one of your other whatsits in there TOO!!!!!!

 

[ModernMiner]

I think it was a tool used before the item in this previous post:
http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,66354.0.html

Ouch.

-MM-

 

[stoney56]

OK. How's this....a carving mallet.

The other end is a sanding block. Are there small tack or nail holes where indicated on the 2nd pic.? A piece of sandpaper folded over and tacked to both sides.

 

[mojjax]

OK. How's this....a carving mallet.

The other end is a sanding block. Are there small tack or nail holes where indicated on the 2nd pic.? A piece of sandpaper folded over and tacked to both sides.

There are no nail holes - those are just paint splatters .

 

[Kas]

Tool used for pushing food down in presses.

 

[hasbeen]

It may be a stomper for a large meat grinder.Never seen one quite like that but it's close enough to be a good guess.

hasbeen

 

[downindixie]

It is a moulders hand tool for putting up old handmade molds for foundry casting.My father used one as a moulder for cast iron industry.

 

[mech]

It is a moulders hand tool for putting up old handmade molds for foundry casting.My father used one as a moulder for cast iron industry.

You nailed it DowninDixie!

site I found this pic at says it was used to pack the sand casting/mold.

 

[Montana Jim]

Sand..... Flour..... Same thing. LMAO Hey great ID downindixie!

 

[Michelle]

WTG Dixie.........