What the heck is this?

[orange_sweetheart]

I dug this at my grandfather's old farm in Alabama.

I guess it's a tool, but whatever is it used for?

Thanks, Pat

 

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[digging440yrs]

Is the white thing an old spark plug or a insulator for electric fence ?

 

[orange_sweetheart]

Looks like a spark plug.

 

[Plug N Play]

It looks like you grandfather took a worn out hoe and converted it to run on 12 volts.

 

[orange_sweetheart]

lol -- He was pretty 'out there.'

 

[boogeyman]

Look where your index finger is pointing, you can se where it was straightened. He might've made a grass edger from an old hoe.

 

[4x4x4]

....in my humble opinion , Grandpa utilizes an old implement as a "spark checker" as its hard to check ignition spark IN SITU.
COOL TO KNOW HOW HIS MIND WORKED !

 

[relic lover]

....in my humble opinion , Grandpa utilizes an old implement as a "spark checker" as its hard to check ignition spark IN SITU.
COOL TO KNOW HOW HIS MIND WORKED !

Certainly beats my ID as a flamethrower hoe

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[Back-of-the-boat]

Certainly beats my ID as a flamethrower hoe

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I think I dated her.

 

[Peyton Manning]

electric shocker for fish/ pond nearby?

 

[Beshires1]

If he was a fisherman, he could have used it to shock worms from the ground. just step on the hoe head like a shovel, pressing the blade into the ground and attach a wire from a coil to the sparkplug and crank a vehicle or pull on a old magnito lawnmower to blast the lil-suckers till they crawled out of the ground. Pick-um up, put rm in a pail, go fishing!

 

[cw0909]

electrifying worms

 

[villagenut]

Could be a homemade sparkplug wrench that got thrown out with the plug in it after it didn't work with the plug in upside down.

 

[Anduril]

Poor man's cattle prod?
Not sure how well this would have worked as such?

I like the fish worm idea - even if it's impractical / impossible.
What do you set the gap on something like that?

 

[Icewing]

Nice nails

 

[trdking]

Could be a homemade sparkplug wrench that got thrown out with the plug in it after it didn't work with the plug in upside down.

Except that the spark plug is upside down for installation?

 

[trdking]

I personally thing it is the remains of a surface scraper hoe that came loose from its handle. Then picked up by young creative son who incorporated it into his long line of Cast off spare parts/ Toys. He then jammed a spark plug into the hole trying to make it run, then abandoned it because I mean, what good is an auto hoe that won't hoe? This is definitely something I would have done at 5 or 6 (when I wasn't taking apart everything my brothers and sisters didn't nail down or hide from me)!

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Long Range Treasure Locator. ;-)

 

[Breezie]

I think I dated her.

Love it!

LOL,
Breezie

 

[AlienLifeForm]

It looks like you grandfather took a worn out hoe and converted it to run on 12 volts.

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LOL!