Author Topic: Do you know what this is? (Read 2055 times)

Banjo picker · « **on:** November 12, 2011, 10:30:53 pm »

A co worker brought this to work...I had never seen one before....How long will it take before its identified among all this knowledge...?

since I didn't put anything to give an idea as to size....I will say its about as big as a half dollar.. Tim

zopi · « **Reply #1 on:** November 12, 2011, 10:37:27 pm »

That....is a piece of thermoplastic.

easymoney · « **Reply #2 on:** November 13, 2011, 12:02:02 am »

i believe it is made of cast iron just painted real good. it mounts to the wall to hold your dohickey when you are not using it.

Magicman · « **Reply #3 on:** November 13, 2011, 08:49:41 am »

I have always wanted one.

D Hagens · « **Reply #4 on:** November 13, 2011, 11:31:36 am »

Quote from: Magicman on November 13, 2011, 08:49:41 am

I have always wanted one.

MM, that would look great on your mill

Got to paint it orange first

Autocar · « **Reply #5 on:** November 13, 2011, 01:35:58 pm »

I give up what is it

?

sparky1 · « **Reply #6 on:** November 13, 2011, 06:14:20 pm »

kinda shaped like one of them breathe right things you put on your nose before you go to bed.. must be heavy duty!!

Al_Smith · « **Reply #7 on:** November 13, 2011, 06:39:08 pm »

A small set of designer "mickey mouse ears " for a pet hampster ?

clww · « **Reply #8 on:** November 13, 2011, 06:50:54 pm »

Some sort of a latching mechanism?

Banjo picker · « **Reply #9 on:** November 13, 2011, 06:59:11 pm »

Quote from: zopi on November 12, 2011, 10:37:27 pm

That....is a piece of thermoplastic.

You are correct, but as Alex Trabeck would say more specific information is needed.

Quote from: sparky1 on November 13, 2011, 06:14:20 pm

kinda shaped like one of them breathe right things you put on your nose before you go to bed.. must be heavy duty!!

I would have to say you are at least getting warm....

Autocar you gave up too quick...Tim

zopi · « **Reply #10 on:** November 13, 2011, 07:12:08 pm »

Looks lime part of a set of goggles or a facemask...

WDH · « **Reply #11 on:** November 13, 2011, 07:15:30 pm »

It is a nose that a clown would wear.

fishpharmer · « **Reply #12 on:** November 13, 2011, 07:17:13 pm »

I'm guessing here. A medical device to block or spread nostrils. The flat parts on floor go in nostrils.

Paul_H · « **Reply #13 on:** November 13, 2011, 07:22:06 pm »

Wattle they think of next?

bodagocreek2 · « **Reply #14 on:** November 13, 2011, 07:22:37 pm »

How about an old time bottle opener?

lumberjack48 · « **Reply #15 on:** November 13, 2011, 07:39:33 pm »

Its a Didly-do-Dap, Do-Dadie. i used to have one, but i can't remember when,

Tom_Averwater · « **Reply #16 on:** November 13, 2011, 07:58:25 pm »

Is it a pair of chicken blinders that hooks on their beak to keep them from pecking ?

Paul_H · « **Reply #17 on:** November 13, 2011, 08:08:16 pm »

That sure sounds like a plausible answer,Tom

red oaks lumber · « **Reply #18 on:** November 13, 2011, 08:21:33 pm »

swimmers nose plugs

mooleycow · « **Reply #19 on:** November 14, 2011, 05:45:05 pm »

ain't got a clue. looks kinda kinky, got anything to do with pigs!?

Banjo picker · « **Reply #20 on:** November 14, 2011, 05:54:51 pm »

Tom has nailed it....they even make them to go on turkeys.

Where else could you find info like that...? Tim

Mooseherder · « **Reply #21 on:** November 14, 2011, 06:23:22 pm »

I know a couple of Turkeys I'd like to put dat on.

Magicman · « **Reply #22 on:** November 14, 2011, 07:46:46 pm »

I wanta see one installed.

Banjo picker · « **Reply #23 on:** November 14, 2011, 08:19:53 pm »

This one is supposed to fit a laying size hen...I'll see if I can arrange a fitting...

Tim

Slabs · « **Reply #24 on:** November 16, 2011, 08:40:14 pm »

Looks like it may have kinky applications.

Banjo picker · « **Reply #25 on:** November 18, 2011, 09:14:22 pm »

This is as close as I could get to a pic.... Its the box they come in...

It said it takes a special tool that you can get from your dealer to put them on the chicken..He didn't find the tool...evidently it springs it apart a little and snaps back on the bill... Tim

Chuck White · « **Reply #26 on:** November 18, 2011, 10:27:18 pm »

Never heard of such a thing Tim!

My parents had White Leghorn laying hens and if one got a little sick, the rest would literally peck it to death!

Sometimes they would eat eggs too.

My dad would usually clip part of the top beak and that would stop the pecking!

This thing is really ingenious!

sandhills · « **Reply #27 on:** November 18, 2011, 11:33:06 pm »

I have a neighbor that sells pheasant hunts on his land and raises the birds, they use little (I think) leather blinders on all the roosters. Can't say it's too sporty but they sure helped out the pheasant population around them with their buisness.

ellmoe · « **Reply #28 on:** November 19, 2011, 06:46:01 am »

The tv show "Storage Wars" just hade an episode that featured these "chicken glasses". Supposedly, they were made in the 40's and are not many now left. Appraiser said they were worth a few hundred dollars a pair (not being an appraiser, I doubt it).

Mark

beenthere · « **Reply #29 on:** November 19, 2011, 10:52:42 am »

Can buy them nowdays, so don't understand why they are considered rare. Maybe style of the OP makes a difference.

Here
http://www.randallburkey.com/Blinders-Debeakers/products/12/

Autocar · « **Reply #30 on:** November 19, 2011, 06:29:36 pm »

That was a trick ! If you would of put a penny or dime next to it it would of rattled my brain, we used alot of them when I was a kid

When I first looked at the picture it looked like something big made from cast iron, guess the jokes on me

. All the one we ever used was just a plain unpainted steel.

Banjo picker · « **Reply #31 on:** November 19, 2011, 10:57:52 pm »

I told in the first post that they were about the size of a half dollar...no trick here...Tim

Tom_Averwater · « **Reply #32 on:** December 18, 2011, 08:39:47 am »

I saw on tv last night a guy on Storage Wars found 3 sets of sun glasses for chickens . He was told they were worth $500 .

Banjo picker · « **Reply #33 on:** December 18, 2011, 03:18:33 pm »

I would think the guy from Storage Wars would have been quick to sell them. The box I took the pic. of was full... probably 100 in it...I am sure that my work associate would like to get up with the person doing the buying. Banjo

shinnlinger · « **Reply #34 on:** December 19, 2011, 10:24:47 pm »

As some one who raises chickens, if you have cannibalism, then you have them packed too tight in an unhealthy environment

petefrombearswamp · « **Reply #35 on:** December 20, 2011, 06:57:12 pm »

I had a friend in High School who lived on a turkey farm.
I helped them one week end put something similar on the turkeys but were rose colored and transparent to prevent the pecking.
Gives meaning to looking at the world through rose colored glasses.

mayor · « **Reply #36 on:** December 24, 2011, 07:01:19 am »

Its a wobblearity compensator for a flux capacitor!. Left hand one at that!.

Banjo picker · « **Reply #37 on:** December 24, 2011, 06:47:41 pm »

Quote from: petefrombearswamp on December 20, 2011, 06:57:12 pm

I had a friend in High School who lived on a turkey farm.
I helped them one week end put something similar on the turkeys but were rose colored and transparent to prevent the pecking.
Gives meaning to looking at the world through rose colored glasses.

I am thinking that rose colored glasses is one thing that a turkey would need ... seeing that they are the prefered food for many occasions...Banjo

Old Iron nut · « **Reply #38 on:** January 01, 2012, 11:26:28 pm »

Tom A. has it right. It goes on chickens' beak to stop them from pecking. Those little prongs on the inside fit in the breathe holes on the bird's beak. Put many of those on in my teenage years working on a chicken farm.

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Author Topic: Do you know what this is? (Read 2055 times)