Another "what is it"

It’s either and antique shopvac canister frame, or a boat anchor.

-- Failure does not stop me, it makes me try harder..... because I'm crazy.

It looks like some kind of coupling. When the outside thread is tightened, the three jaws will grip onto round stock, so why don’t you stick a flag pole in that thing and concrete it into the ground?

Hang on a minute. Is it a primitive bearing puller?

-- Andy -- Old Chinese proverb say: If you think something can't be done, don't interrupt man who is doing it.

What about a stand for a Christ-mas tree?

-- Bert

your correct Andy, (not bad for a DB guy), I’m thinking fire hose coupler or something like that. I didn’t want to chuck it (no pun intended) if some one had a use for it. I’d gladly trade it for a stanley #2.

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Good Question, What is it? Oooh I knew that.

-- ~ Bob ~ Newton, N.H.

Tree holder for chain saw sculpting? ...Antique neck brace? ...Truth extractor?...Medieval house arrest ankle monitor?

-- so much wood, so little time. Bradford. Wood-a-holics unanimous president

LARGE threader for pipe? Should be a “ratchet-like handle’ that attaches to the outside. Clamp the pipe to a bench top “vise’, and spin this threader onto the pipe. That ratchet should have a locking ring, to set the size of the pipe to the threader.

-- A Planer? I'M the planer, this is what I use

i’ve used the pipe threaders that bandit571 is talking about. they look similar to this, but i don’t think that is what it is. i don’t see any cutting teeth on it.

Don’t let my wife see it, she’ll want to turn it into a planter and stick flowers in it.

-- "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." - Mark Twain

Don,

I believe you have correctly identified it as a Fire Hose Coupler.

They were used to put new couplings (ends) on fire hose. Each half of the fire hose (male coupling and female coupling) is a two-piece fitting with the double jacketed hose sandwiched in between. There were ridges running around the inner face of the outside half and around the outer face of the inside half of each fitting that, when coupled, prevented the hose from slipping out of the coupling.

This appears to be the tool that would make all that happen.

Cheers!

-- Dave; Lansing, Kansas

You were close on the fire hose coupling, It’s actually a fire hose recoupler. It was used to press new ends on fire hoses. They were a royal pain to use.

-- If the old masters had power tools, they would have used them. So get off your damn High Horse.

naa all wrong
its a satalite from the outer space …... send it back to Mars or where it came from
I´m sure they miss it :-)

Dennis

is it worth anything? I’d give to someone if they wanted it.

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Might it be of use to your local volunteer fire department?
Seems they might have more use of it than any of us.

-- "Hard work is not defined by the difficulty of the task as much as a person's desire to perform it.", DS251

well, one antique shop listed it as a xmas tree holder. Mine was missing the removable legs.

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