🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Wooden tool

[ole miss rebel]

Found at Grandma’s house. Pat’d April 18, 1905. The metal part has sharp edges, for cutting? Any ideas? Thanks!

 

[Almy]

Pipe gauge?

 

[Red-Coat]

Interesting old item. It's a 'budding tool' for propagation of trees.

 

[Almy]

Oh for goodness sakes. The oddest things turn up! It sometimes takes a real detective to ID them, like this one. RC's last name must be Holmes.

 

[lady deer hunter]

Interesting old item. It's a 'budding tool' for propagation of trees.

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I have one also. Found it several years ago in upstairs in an old house where we were deer hunting in Warren County, Ga. It used to be a pecan plantation.

 

[lady deer hunter]

I have one also. Found it several years ago in upstairs in an old house where we were deer hunting in Warren County, Ga. It used to be a pecan plantation.

 

[lady deer hunter]

I have one also, found it upstairs in an old house in Warren County, Ga. where we were deer hunting. I think it was a old pecan plantation.

 

[Red-Coat]

I have one also, found it upstairs in an old house in Warren County, Ga. where we were deer hunting. I think it was a old pecan plantation.

Pecan trees are usually propagated by bud grafting. Growing direct from the nut seed results in lower quality and poor yields, so that's only done to provide a root stock onto which buds from cultivars can be grafted.

 

[lady deer hunter]

Found at Grandma’s house. Pat’d April 18, 1905. The metal part has sharp edges, for cutting? Any ideas? Thanks!

Yes it’s a budding tool, I also have 2 I found in attic of an old house in Warrenton Ga on an old pecan plantation

 

[Tesorodeoro]

Interesting old item. It's a 'budding tool' for propagation of trees.

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AI search? Image search? Just curious. Thanks for the info.

 

[Red-Coat]

AI search? Image search? Just curious. Thanks for the info.

Neither. Patent search.

 

[Digger54]

Pecan trees are usually propagated by bud grafting. Growing direct from the nut seed results in lower quality and poor yields, so that's only done to provide a root stock onto which buds from cultivars can be grafted.

My Dad grew some Pecans. He called them paper shells, not sure the proper name. But he selected them since they would be easier to shell. This was in central Florida where it is humid and tropical. I don't know if he grafted them or they were done before. I don't recall him grafting them. I recall he had a problem with twig girdlers. The problem with a lot of the pecans is they always seemed to have some bitter black scarring on the meat. Not sure if the weather vs thin shell or lack of grafting was the issue.

 

[Tesorodeoro]

Neither. Patent search.

Cool. Before the internet we must have had patent search books.

 

[ToddsPoint]

I had an old pecan tree in my backyard. It was either planted from a seed or poor grafted stock. It was the messiest tree ever and never had good nuts. I cut it down and milled it into slabs. I cut one large slab for a fireplace mantle. It will live on as furniture or other projects.