What is this?

[SueT]

but could it be used in old windows

ding ding ding! window weights!

Is it like used for smashing things?

Yes, now that's all they are any good for!!!!

 

[OhZark Biddies]

Is it like used for smashing things?
Idklol

Kind of the opposite... in that it prevented things from getting smashed... particularly when those thing were fingers

They basically kept the windows from slipping and slamming down... which would break the glass... and any little fingers that might have been in the way.

My grandmother was always worried about little kids getting their fingers or heads smashed by falling windows... and other things that seemed unlikely to me... it makes me wonder what horrible accidents she saw happen when she was growing up, before things were made safer.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

ding ding ding! window weights!

Yes, now that's all they are any good for!!!!

Dang it. . I knew that one! Always showing up late I am.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Kind of the opposite... in that it prevented things from getting smashed... particularly when those thing were fingers

They basically kept the windows from slipping and slamming down... which would break the glass... and any little fingers that might have been in the way.

My grandmother was always worried about little kids getting their fingers or heads smashed by falling windows... and other things that seemed unlikely to me... it makes me wonder what horrible accidents she saw happen when she was growing up, before things were made safer.


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Well I'm here to tell ya .. Big old windows hurt like Hades when the weights give out and the window falls on your wrists while trying to open the storm window. I thought both wrists were broken. It would definitely have killed a small child.

 

[OhZark Biddies]

Dang it. . I knew that one! Always showing up late I am.

You know what they say... better late than .... pregnant

 

[BYCforlife]

Here's one... Guess what type of tree this came off of!

 

[MochaDuck]

Here's one... Guess what type of tree this came off of!

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Where does it originate?

 

[sassysarah]

Kind of the opposite... in that it prevented things from getting smashed... particularly when those thing were fingers

They basically kept the windows from slipping and slamming down... which would break the glass... and any little fingers that might have been in the way.

My grandmother was always worried about little kids getting their fingers or heads smashed by falling windows... and other things that seemed unlikely to me... it makes me wonder what horrible accidents she saw happen when she was growing up, before things were made safer.


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oh lol! That's cool! I would have never guessed....

 

[BYCforlife]

Where does it originate?

UK and Europe.

 

[OhZark Biddies]

Catalpa tree?

Edit:
Oh wait U.K. and Europe...