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| Author: | NebrHogger [ Mon May 14, 2012 8:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Knife quiz |
Okay, knife people... what is the purpose of this agricultural implement? I found it in the garage this morning & used it for some backyard trimming. (Not the intended use, but it did a great job) A Sq might know this one. SW zQuiz 001 (1024x308).jpg [ 212.05 KiB | Viewed 9376 times ] zQuiz 002 (1024x307).jpg [ 215.27 KiB | Viewed 9376 times ] |
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| Author: | A square 10 [ Wed May 16, 2012 11:47 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Knife quiz |
nope - this one illudes me , looks handy for bushwacking through the undergrowth in the boundry waters |
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| Author: | HerrMesser [ Thu May 17, 2012 10:40 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Knife quiz |
It is probably a coconut trimmer, the pointy thing to pick it up and the blade to whack the end off. Rad |
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| Author: | Herr Mario [ Thu May 17, 2012 12:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Knife quiz |
...looks like someone took an old meat cleaver and did some benchgrinder practice... 
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| Author: | Et2ss [ Fri May 18, 2012 6:34 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Knife quiz |
Naw that's a special tool........for whacking through the brush by day and cleaning yer toenails when relaxing at night around the camp fire. |
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| Author: | NebrHogger [ Fri May 25, 2012 4:43 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Knife quiz |
Wrong, wrong and w-r-o-n-g.   It's a sugar beet knife. The earliest beet pullers did only that: pull the beet from the ground. Grunt laborers then came along with these knives. The hook was used to pick the beet up to be held in the off hand. The leafy top of the beet was then amputated and the beet proper was tossed into a wagon. The wagons went to a beet dump to be loaded into rail cars. Then off-a to the sugar factory. The beets were washed, sliced very thin and boiled. The resulting sugar syrup was boiled down into a sweet sludge that was dried, smushed up and either refined into white sugar or left as brown sugar. The beet biz has taken a big hit in the past few decades mostly due to the Hunt Bros failed attempt to corner the silver market. They owned a large sugar company and defaulted heavily on beet growers' contracts in order to pay for their silver trading screw ups. This bankrupted countless farmers and forever stained the credibility of the sugar biz. There's still a sugar factory going not far from Haystack. Smells nice when they are cooking sugar beets!  SW
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| Author: | Herr Mario [ Fri May 25, 2012 11:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Knife quiz |
....beets me....     
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| Author: | NebrHogger [ Sat May 26, 2012 2:01 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Knife quiz |
The beet goes on! SW |
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| Author: | HerrMesser [ Sat May 26, 2012 10:31 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Knife quiz |
I had the right idea, just the wrong produce. We used to have a beet processing plant about 35 miles north but it shut down a ling time ago. Rad |
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| Author: | A square 10 [ Tue Jun 05, 2012 12:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Knife quiz |
and i now see why you thought i might know as we have extensive suger beet production west of here , but alas - ye forgets i am from iowa - corn and pork and beef country |
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| Author: | mabk [ Tue Jun 05, 2012 9:05 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Knife quiz |
Sounds like the makings a darned good cook out to me A square |
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| Author: | A square 10 [ Wed Jun 06, 2012 8:43 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Knife quiz |
yea i made myself hungry typing it 
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| Author: | NebrHogger [ Sun Jun 10, 2012 8:42 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Knife quiz |
Along with the piggy parts, you put breaded sugar beet slices on the grill. Maybe a few ears of sweet corn if the coons left any. SW |
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| Author: | ANDREY [ Tue Jun 12, 2012 7:22 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Knife quiz |
I live in beet-producing country, but I've never seen an implement like this one. Couldn't even guess that's what it was used for. So today has not been totally wasted, I've learned something !  A
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| Author: | Et2ss [ Tue Jun 12, 2012 6:53 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Knife quiz |
| Author: | A square 10 [ Tue Jun 12, 2012 8:41 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Knife quiz |
eeeeeeeewwwwwww , had to paint that word picture dintya
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