What kinda mine tool is this ? What was it used for?

[gold tramp]

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You would have to be an oldtimer to know what this is, and what it was used for.
I will be very supprised if any one actually can get this one figuried out.

Clues. Date 1940s - desert mine - Essex Calif. What is it?

Good luck. Cpt Herb

 

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[pong12211]

Looks like something that may have been used to hold some sort of light or somthing over a fire.. Was going to say maybe part of a snare but looks like it would be to stiff for that.. Just my opinion..

 

[gold tramp]

Looks like something that may have been used to hold some sort of light or somthing over a fire.. Was going to say maybe part of a snare but looks like it would be to stiff for that.. Just my opinion..

good guess, but its a mine tool and you gotta know what its used for.
Cpt Herb

 

[pong12211]

good guess, but its a mine tool and you gotta know what its used for.
Cpt Herb

I wish I did.. But I don't that was just my educated guess is all. I am very green to all of this.. My knowledge of gold mining ends at I know it's in the ground LOL..

 

[kuger]

I think this is an unfair game.....I have spent my entire life around hardrock mines and in them,and been around the "tools",for just as long,I have never seen anything like it.....what ever this was USED for was improvised in the need of the moment.Play a game with something that was actually manufactured for a purpose
I could see it being used as a "needle",to puncture the charge sack

 

[oldbrundogg]

Let's see first thought would be to stick your buddy in the eye and run off with the gold. Next dessert maybe kill a scorpion but that's not mining related. How bout push the explosives into the drill holes. I obviously need more clues.

 

[nsdq]

cooking toast ?

 

[Fullpan]

The way you're holding it is meant to throw us off, right? They would of made a more substantial "handle" so moving on - it seems to be made "tension-wise"
to hold something "open". If you don't tell me I'm getting warmer, I quit.

oldbrundogs first answer sounds good too.

 

[Hangtown]

is it a well finder? you can use something that looks similar to it to find where a well should be dug.

good guess, but its a mine tool and you gotta know what its used for.
Cpt Herb

but you need two of them coat hangers work as well. when they cross when you hold them loosley and walk in a pasture or hillside is where there is water..or a hole with water in it. normally a good place to find a ancient river bed or underground creek.

 

[gold tramp]

I think this is an unfair game.....I have spent my entire life around hardrock mines and in them,and been around the "tools",for just as long,I have never seen anything like it.....what ever this was USED for was improvised in the need of the moment.Play a game with something that was actually manufactured for a purpose
I could see it being used as a "needle",to puncture the charge sack

it was an improvised need of the momemt.
And probably killed and saved lives.

good luck. Cpt Herb

 

[oldbrundogg]

So it's dowser are you telling me I have to tell my WIFE she was right?? I don't want to play anymore hmm

 

[gold tramp]

Let's see first thought would be to stick your buddy in the eye and run off with the gold. Next dessert maybe kill a scorpion but that's not mining related. How bout push the explosives into the drill holes. I obviously need more clues.

go back to first clues.
good luck Cpt Herb

 

[Hangtown]

explosives.

 

[gold tramp]

The way you're holding it is meant to throw us off, right? They would of made a more substantial "handle" so moving on - it seems to be made "tension-wise"
to hold something "open". If you don't tell me I'm getting warmer, I quit.

oldbrundogs first answer sounds good too.

Im holding it as it would be used, you would guide it with the other hand, and no to holding something open, check out the first clues. location?

good luck.

 

[gold tramp]

explosives.

no and yes, mine tool !

good luck

 

[gold tramp]

is it a well finder? you can use something that looks similar to it to find where a well should be dug.

no not the rods kinda looks like one.
I cant give it away keep trying.
good luck Cpt Herb

 

[nsdq]

home made lamp holder ?

 

[gold tramp]

Found in Essex California
clues
mnf date approx 1940
improvised in a moment of need
could kill you or save you ?
mine tool
im holding it about the same way it would be used
An old timer might know

I got to let you go a little longer, before more clues

Good luck

 

[Fullpan]

to complete an electrical circuit? - as in "fire in the hole"

 

[TerryC]

To pull the fuse wires taught in the hole, after inserting the charge. TTC