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Must be a frozen tundra thing.

...No.

As someone who has a had a permanent sandal tan his entire life, I can say with conviction that socks and sandals are not supposed to go together. Ever.

This. @Geena beat me to it

Not one I'd heave ever guessed. Then again, out here we typically have HVAC/heat pump combos and not dedicated furnaces. Doesn't get all THAT cold. Today I learned.

water flow restrictor / pressure booster?

THIS. Scribe or marking gauge.

Is it used to measure pirates for peg legs?

Donut mold. Adjustable for extra thick donuts.

I found pull tabs and rusty nails the couple times I got to use one. No ancient treasures though.

metal detector

floor base for a lamp

That mine is in southern Nevada. I'm not really able to say a lot more about the location other than that the main haulage adit has since been permanently closed by BLM to keep explorers out since I was there... 12 years ago now? Tramping through mines can be a dangerous and deadly hobby. I do...

I'm gonna go ahead and give it to ya. Loads of silver ore in this case, but you're dead-on. These are tally marks from ore carts pulling silver out of a mine I visited. The miners would use soot from their carbide lamps to tally loads, and sometimes they had pegboards with holes in them too to...

Nope. They were counting loads of something.

Here's a hint. The markings are made using soot.

Not really. This is a load bearing vertical post and while I'm very familiar with it, I did not make these markings. They were put there long before I was born.

super thick, unprocessed, almost as nature prepared it, toilet paper I suppose.

Counting, yes. The rest, not so much.