what is this? anyone know?

[msealey]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6193455218&category=3631&rd=1
  :-?
While browsing, came across this. What in the world is it? Does anyone have any idea?

[C. Perry Rapier]

It is an interesting piece. I am sure others will come on and we go back and forth with it and come up with something. Until then, I am calling it a damfino.

[Thomas_Callaway]

It's a hockeyjupivy from a hickory nut thrasher.

TC

[moosejaw]

You got it all wrong, T.C.  Those are given to female members of WAGS.   We bring them to convention each year, to keep the fellas in order. :o  

[Troy_Hockensmith]

Perry,
 Isn't that an elefino? Oh, that's when you cross an elephant and a rhino. Could be a broiler.........Maybe. Someone ask Dave. He is a broiler junkie.

[C. Perry Rapier]

It looks like something you melt something in, like lead, and make lead bars or something like that.

Hey TC that hickory nut thrasher was a good guess but I don't think thats it because its too big to be from a hickory nut thrasher, therefore that leads me to believe it is from a walnut thrasher, bein its the bigger size and all. But the hickory nut does remind me of when I was a young strong boy on my grandfathers farm. When hickory nuts come in my grandfather would send me and my older brother out to the woods to POLE HOGS. Man we done a lot of it too. Now you know thats where you take a 60 pound or so pig and you take a big long hickory pole, the longer the better, and you stick it up the pigs backside and hold him up in the tree so he can eat acorns. The longer the pole, the cleaner you can get a tree because it is easier to get to the nuts way in the tops of the trees. My grandfather had fine hogs. This hickory feed also added to the hickory flavor when you smoked the hams and bacons over smoldering hickory chips.

[msealey]

 :) I sure enjoyed all the answers.  :-? But still wonder what it could be. strange looking piece to me.

[Thomas_Callaway]

When hickory nuts come in my grandfather would send me and my older brother out to the woods to POLE HOGS.

I'm gonna tell on myself Perry. The first time I heard somebody say they was going to "pole the hogs" (you know, to get the leg pullin' goin'), me bein' a young know it all, and us bein' in the cow business I blurted out, "I ain't never seen no hogs with horns!"

My Grandaddy told that story on me the rest of his life. An' he laffed ever time.

TC

[C. Perry Rapier]

TC, that is a good story. Your grandpa obviously liked it too. I had a bunch of bulls in a feedlot, all we had was bulls, no cows. My youngest boy, now 20, was three years old when we bought the feedlot and started raising bulls for slaughter. He was in and around the bulls a lot and so saw bulls and bulls. Well when he was about 9 years old I took him with me to a farm to look at some bull calves to buy. While he was there he seen a COW squat to take a leak. He said look dad that cow is peeing out its but. Everybody laughed and about busted a gut and I had to give me a big hug to let him know it was alright and the cow was alright too.