> "Artemus" <bo...@bogus.bogus> wrote in message > news:hcvfdb$hsl$1@news.eternal-september.org... >> #1770 is a linesman's hammer used by both power and phone >> linesman. It is used to install and remove the steps that used >> to be installed in the sides of the poles. The hammer pounds it >> in to get it started and the hole is placed ove the upturned end >> and provides the leverage to screw it the rest of the way in, or >> out.
> Good answer, this is correct.
>> #1767 A guess. Barbershop bottles for hair tonic?
> No one has guessed correctly on the bottles yet.
> It looks similar to the hooks one of the local Amish use. They place the > hooks on a beam when doing a barn raising to pull other sections up. Not > sure if that is what this one is or not.
That or something very similar would be my "bestest guess" also--that it was sized for particular beams or object but not terribly confident.
"Old-style" barn raisings over the last 20 years around these-here parts that will use slings and telehandler or similar gear...they still don't use grid power in the house but everything on the place is latest there is...
Back on the bottles, I had wondered if were patent-medicines and again at the time and the actual contents probably could have been "yes" there, too... :)
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