MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Stanley]

Here's an oldie for you......

[Gloria]

Very interesting.

[StoneRoad]

Fascinating.

Now I have to work out what it is / does, as it certainly wasn't an ornament originally !

Something in a mill, I suspect ...

[chinatyke]

Stanley's hanging basket prototype.

[Stanley]

Not there yet........

[Marilyn]

Looks like it is upside down.
Could be a push along cart, similar to a golf buggy. Could it have been for delivering papers?

[Cathy]

Is it part of an old farm implement (though why you'd want to keep it, I can't imagine)

[chinatyke]

Is it a bracket you use in pairs and they hang from a horizontal scaffold bar and then you put a plank across it to support your tools and buckets? Maybe when you are working at heights.

[Marilyn]

For wheeling out the front of a shop with a sign on it.
(Oh...and it is still upside down)

[Stanley]

China is close but not quite there yet. And it's almost the right way up......

[chinatyke]

They hung from 2 horizontal scaffold bars to stop them swinging inwards and were boarded to be used as a working platform?

[Stanley]

You're almost there China. Think sideways, you've got the right idea. Look carefully at the design and think what it would fit.

[plaques]

China has done all the spade work I think you should give it to him. Using these things is illegal now.

[Stanley]

You're probably right P but the educative value is lost if we don't get it right. China, here's a clue for you!

[chinatyke]

To fit on ladders to hold cross boards? I'm not familiar with scaffolding but I've probably walked past many of them and never given them a second thought.

[Steeplejerk]

The ladder hangers as they are in the picture were outlawed years ago but ladder hangers are not illegal ,if they can be modified to fit a handrail and use a youngerman board for the span they are ok,you can hire ladder hangers from most national hire shops such as Smiths and HSS..

[plaques]

Didn't know that. Thanks.

[Stanley]

You got it in the end China. Sorry I was so hard on you and thanks to Tom for keeping stum and giving us the latest official position on them.
Next one?

[Stanley]

No takers? Try this one then......

[plaques]

Rain dance equipment?

[Tizer]

Some sort of car door inside handle?

[Wendyf]

I'm with Plaques on this one. Is it the handle of an elderly pair of hair clippers?

[Gloria]

Part of the handle of a pair of nail clippers?

[Stanley]

P and W have it...... Next one?

[Stanley]

Try this one.....