What is this?

[duluthralphie]

A stump puller

 

[OhZark Biddies]

A stump puller

Yep

There were all kinds of variations on the stump pulling theme... I’ve got a book of old tools that has sketches of probably a dozen...

But here are a couple pics of an ad for one that was somewhat similar

 

[duluthralphie]

Yep

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There were all kinds of variations on the stump pulling theme... I’ve got boom of old tools that has sketches of probably a dozen...

But here are a couple pics of an ad for one that was somewhat similar

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For the record I did not use one of these, My Grandpa did.....

 

[OhZark Biddies]

For the record I did not use one of these, My Grandpa did.....

I just pulled 5 or 6 stumps several weeks ago with the tractor... they were older and all came out easy.... but I did have to leave one that wasn’t budging... I guess I needed one of these to help!

Here’s a few earlier variations on this theme:

 

[casportpony]

Great items everyone!

 

[Molpet]

Yep

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There were all kinds of variations on the stump pulling theme... I’ve got a book of old tools that has sketches of probably a dozen...

But here are a couple pics of an ad for one that was somewhat similar

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Cool
My folks used dynamite....
A cow got hit by debris one time they say
After my great-uncle died they found dynamite oozing in the upstairs cubby. They called the fire Dept to remove it

 

[duluthralphie]

Oozing dynamite scares me...We use to have dynamite in the shed all the time.....Until it started oozing....then it just disappeared...

No bomb squads back then.

 

[OhZark Biddies]

This one might be a hard one to guess... but here ya go:

 

[Molpet]

This one might be a hard one to guess... but here ya go:

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Does it bend something?

A weapon of war that shoots projectile

 

[OhZark Biddies]

Does it bend something?

A weapon of war that shoots projectile

Nope... and nope

This was used to make something.... and that something was and still is a common household item.