MWTCA January 2024 'What's It' Project (193-2)

[John Morris]

"What's It" Basic Rules Reminder

For a full run down on this project and rules please go to: "The Patriot Woodworker and MWTCA "What's It" project"

• Only Patriot Woodworker Members are eligible to participate and receive the award.
• The MWTCA only accepts a verified source to support your answer, so one should be submitted with your answer, such as a patent, catalog entry, tool book reference, or a respectable website on the subject. Do not let these requirements prevent you from having fun and submitting educated answers on the subject without verification, we can worry about references later. All answers are welcome, as well as healthy debates regarding "What's It".
• If a verified and referenced answer is not arrived at by the end of each month's "What's It" project, a random draw will be performed for a "One Year MWTCA Club Membership".
• Only Patriot Woodworker's who participate in this "What's It" topic will be included in the random draw.

 

Additional What's It Rules

• Unless you are completely sure what this item is, please avoid "definitive statements" that appear that you are without a doubt claiming that you know what the item is. For example stating, "this item is called a "widget xx" used for "insert purpose here". If you are making a definitive statement you must accompany your statement with evidence or proof from a secondary source.
• An example of acceptable statements within the realm of having fun and educated guesses would be something like this, "I believe it could be", or "It appears it's made for this or that", etc etc etc...

 

Ok ladies and gentlemen, we now have our "What's it" live and ready!

The image(s) below is a MWTCA "What's It" image for you to research, and tell us all here in this topic post, just what the heck is it!

 

Project Details

The information provided hereon is all the information that is provided, no further information on this item will be added.

 

 

[HandyDan]

My guess is a coin separator though I can't explain how it works.

[Grandpadave52]

Guessing here until I can research further, perhaps a homemade grain separator for small grains such as wheat, oats, barley or maybe even rice.

 

Clearance between the drum looks too narrow to hand shell corn.

 

Insert the grain head in while rotating and holding/ feeding the shock.

Edited February 3, 2024 by Grandpadave52

[HARO50]

1 hour ago, HandyDan said:

My guess is a coin separator though I can't explain how it works.

I was going to say that! Toss the coins in the back, crank the handle, and the coins fall into their respective bins. Pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, and dollars.

[HARO50]

2 minutes ago, Grandpadave52 said:

for small grains such as wheat, oaks, barley

Do the oaks go to the sawmill first?

[Grandpadave52]

26 minutes ago, HARO50 said:

Do the oats go to the sawmill first?

Fixed it. Smart phone isn't all that smart or at least as smart as it thinks I am.

[Doug L]

I think it may be an antique nut flour grinder. Separates out shells and grinds nut into flour

[Cliff]

crusher for malted barley to make beer

[Pauley]

World’s first juicer/grinder. 

[John Morris]

 

Winner

@Cliff is the winner of this months What's It, the answers were kind of all over the place, we went to random draw from a hat and Cliff popped to the top, congratulations Cliff!

 

Award

Cliff, for your participation you have won a 2024 Calendar Year membership into the MWTCA.

Please Private Message me your contact info, shipping address, spouse or significant others name (if applicable).

Thank you all for your participation!

 

Links

• https://mwtca.org/member-benefits/
• https://mwtca.org/the-gristmill/
• https://mwtca.org/special-publications/

 

Gristmill Magazine Sample

 

[Cal]

Congrats Cliff

[Grandpadave52]

Congrats @Cliff.

[Gerald]

Congrats Clif

[Cliff]

9 hours ago, John Morris said:

 

Winner

@Cliff is the winner of this months What's It, the answers were kind of all over the place, we went to random draw from a hat and Cliff popped to the top, congratulations Cliff!

 

Award

Cliff, for your participation you have won a 2024 Calendar Year membership into the MWTCA.

Please Private Message me your contact info, shipping address, spouse or significant others name (if applicable).

Thank you all for your participation!

 

Links

• https://mwtca.org/member-benefits/
• https://mwtca.org/the-gristmill/
• https://mwtca.org/special-publications/

 

Gristmill Magazine Sample

 

 

 

Accepting this great honor I have to thank  the nuns at  the children's orphanage where I was raised  "Sisters of Merciless Cruelty"  and  my best friend Gomer,  my manger, and trainer Billy Jack, and  my pet cat pookie  who always had a dead mouse for us,  Oh  and  Donald the Duck for teaching me to quack  and and and I have to thank all the little people (you know who you are)  for being such  helpful stepping stones as I climbed to these great heights leaving my cleat marks all over your bodies,  And of course no awards ceremony  would be complete with out  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ and on and on and on and on   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 

Edited March 4, 2024 by Cliff