What Is This Strange Wooden Board With A Metal Hanger And This Hollow Wooden Tool With A Lever?

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@fredmanicke5078 Ай бұрын

I think the two items at the last are mercury flasks, for storage and transport of liquid mercury used for gold recovery.

@cmtippens9209 Ай бұрын

Well, I got one by serendipity this time. I was sitting here thinking, "That reminds me of the old floor stand ashtrays some places used to have." and just about that time the narrator was saying that's what it was. 😄

@garbledtransmission Ай бұрын

I had thought the last two items were counter weights (and they still could be) but then I remembered these were found as part of a silver mine. I would bet these are crushing weights from an ore crusher. Larger rocks would be brought up out of the mine and put through an ore crusher to get to the silver inside. Imagine a huge machine with a conveyor belt with rocks on it. There would be several weights above the belt loudly crashing down on rocks. The sound must've been deafening. Or they're counter weights. Dunno! 😅

@MikeGamba-gc7hi 29 күн бұрын

That sun dial compass is awesome and those objects at the end I think might be some sort of counterweights

@chrischamberlin9325 Ай бұрын

Adjustable counter wheights

@OrlaQuirk Ай бұрын

I think they look like counterweights, too. We have smaller cylindrical weights in our old windows. I hadn't thought about the adjustable part, but that makes a great deal of sense.

@thefisherkingmkh9873 Ай бұрын

That’s what I was thinking the top connections look a lot like window, balance weights

@chrisgualtieri Ай бұрын

I think the last item is a counterweight to open barn doors. Our farm had something similar. A metal cord went through the top hole of the weight and around a large pulley and attached to the door.

@HannibalFan52 Ай бұрын

I've seen many Smokador-style ashtrays over the years, so that was an easy one. The little oil can was familiar, too, as I have something similar.

@dk9619 Ай бұрын

Those are the only 2 I got!

@joniangelsrreal6262 Ай бұрын

Happy to drop by…👨🏼‍🍳

@jasonsummit1885 25 күн бұрын

The lime with betel nut is not for making cuts in the mouth, it's to neutralize the tannins in the nut and boost the active ingredient. Mucous membranes in the mouth are thin enough that the drug passes through without having direct contact with blood.

@michaeltreadwell777 Ай бұрын

I got the Oil Can and the Nut Cracker 🙂

Ай бұрын

I may shut down my business and spend 24/7/365 trying to figure out "What Is This Thing!". I'm losing my self control. My two assistants asked me if I would give them a heads up and referral letter. I should have purchased mental health insurance but it was too expensive. I need help! I thought the cork puller was a stem for a french coffee press.

@kennethkasprzak4660 Ай бұрын

I used my french coffee press stem as a cork puller recently. I am fortunate to work for mental health professionals.

@kattphive Ай бұрын

Hooray, i guessed the nutcracker

@rogerbraddy6883 Ай бұрын

not 100% sure but the last 2 objects were for a dumb waiter device to raise / lower items from or to the miners. there would be a pully and those weights would either raise or lower t =he other end.

@jeanettemarkley7299 Ай бұрын

Last item: I don't know, but I would have left them alone.

@jeffreyyoung4104 Ай бұрын

Last Items are empty mercury flasks for use in separating gold from the ore. They are possibly very poisonous from the remnant mercury.

@nelsonx5326 Ай бұрын

Hollow, to put liquid in to make heavier.

@patsquach4080 Ай бұрын

Counter weight for water buckets on a pulley in a well

@JeffMiletich Ай бұрын

1:14 Ash Tray

@bettyir4302 Ай бұрын

Hope the family found the items that go in the boudoir set.

@btwnl Ай бұрын

The chewing of betel-nuts is (or was) also common use in Indonesia. Was known there as sirih (pronounced seeree) and indeed ruined the teeth and colored the mouth red.

@sambowz9077 Ай бұрын

I use to chew betel nut, when I lived in Palau. Our carrying cases where made if pandanus leaf, most people carried the lime in a plastic squeeze bottle. People with no teeth had a wooden board and small hammer to "chew" the nuts leaf and lime. Almost everyone chewed. It's a lot of fun but really bad for you.

@chrisgualtieri Ай бұрын

@@sambowz9077 Feel free to not answer, but did you have any issues with your teeth after you quit? And were there any problems from withdrawal? Sorry if I sound intrusive, I’ve just never had a friend who used betel nut.

@sambowz9077 Ай бұрын

@@chrisgualtieri I chewed several times a day for almost 5 years, I stopped in 1997, My teeth are still a little stained. I had a scar inside my mouth where I would park the chew, it finally went away a couple years ago. No real withdrawal problems I was grumpy for about 2 weeks. I would chew if it were legal in the States. 😁👍

@chrisgualtieri Ай бұрын

@@sambowz9077 Awesome! Thank you so much for the candid response!

@sambowz9077 Ай бұрын

@@chrisgualtieri 👍👍👍

@HistoricGentleman 26 күн бұрын

@@sambowz9077search out a good Vietnamese grocery store, they will have it on hand to cook with, tho you can also chew it just as well

@johnwhitley9209 Ай бұрын

Who wants to use that toilet attachment, either themselves or on a child? That's why you had those window cages. That's what that Bob Seger song was about, "Against The Wind"

@alanbrits8318 Ай бұрын

Last item are counterweight for old style garage door.

@aubreyleonae4108 Ай бұрын

crushing weights?

@lesjones5684 Ай бұрын

Very impressive 😂😂

@jackwood8307 Ай бұрын

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@missjojoy212 Ай бұрын

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@msw5224 Ай бұрын

The last two (2) items look like disposal fuel cells for the ZL291 Alien space ship...

@Chris-cc6wj Ай бұрын

Re: The toilet seat attachment......Why on earth would anyone save that over the years? I just don't understand some people.

@yada-yadadragon1947 Ай бұрын

There is no rhyme or reason to the hoarding of those that went through the great depression and other tragedies. I inherited the family home and it was packed (still is in spots). The home was great-grandparents, grandparents and then parents. All of whom went through the great depression or the potato famine or other major tragedies. Interesting to go through, nothing really of value. After 10 years and 20 large dumpsters it has become rather tiresome, and I still have a 2.5 car garage and 1/2 of the second story to get through. Yippee!

@xlerb2286 Ай бұрын

@@yada-yadadragon1947 Yup. And a lot of things were saved for relatives or the next generation to use. I've still got my old crib in a storage building at my parents farm. I suspect it was saved because they had the space and later on I may need it for my kids. You just didn't throw out things that were useful. After dad died we had a farm auction with two auctioneers running all day. There was the farm equipment of course, but a lot of small stuff saved over the years. And it brought in almost as much money as the equipment did.