Do you know what this is

[Bills Custom Calls]

I stopped by a friends farm today and he showed me this little gadget Told me a little bit about it and how it was very useful in the farming industry I was wondering if anyone here knew what this was used for

[awh]

Some kind of fence/wire stretcher?

[pitw]

Most of us farmers would have used it for repairing big fishing nets .

[Bills Custom Calls]

Awh Nope

Barry nope

Although it is used to tighten something

[FinsnFur]

Yeah it looks like it might be for tightening barb wire strands.

[Silencer]

somethin for a clothes line ?  lol.. just guessing

[FinsnFur]

How about in the 1800's when beds were actually made of ropes they used this tool to tighten the bed ropes from time to time.
In fact this is also where the phrase "sleep tight" came from.

[Bills Custom Calls]

You fellers are on the right track it is used to tighten rope but was used in the field

[FinsnFur]

ehhhh, your making [brown toilet logs] up now...cut it out.

[Bills Custom Calls]

No I am not Jim 

[FinsnFur]

I'm telling Chris

[Bills Custom Calls]

Go ahead she will have 2 and half days to get over it 

[coyotehunter_1]

  That device was used like a chain boomer for tightening the ropes on bundled corn and hay left in the field. The binding ropes could be adjusted as the fodder was used up, fed to the livestock.


These old fashioned fodder stacks were often called bloomers.. thus the old expression "Don't get your bloomers in a wad".  

[Bills Custom Calls]

Ding ding ding ding We have a winner 

[coyotehunter_1]

Lucky guess

[Bopeye]

Lucky guess my butt. You probably used them before. 

[FinsnFur]

Is he making stuff up too Bopeye?
Or is he really THAT old

[coyotehunter_1]

Is he making stuff up too Bopeye?
Or is he really THAT old

I ain't telling