Antique farm / kitchen tools

David LaPell

David LaPell

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I have a passion for some reason for old farm and kitchen tools. I think its because my grandparents had a farm and they never threw any of their old stuff away that they used. I have a couple of old kitchen tools, one is an antique hand crank apple peeler and corer, a pair of old meat grinders, and some old handcrank beaters. Does anyone have anything, like old corn shuckers, hog oilers, grinders, or old kitchen gadgets that kids and even some adults stare in wonder at?
 
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I too like the old stuff. I have a pair of steel singletrees I picked up on an old place years ago, have a few old ice tongs, two-man buck saw. Also have an old egg scale that is pretty neat.
Yeah, a lot of people think it's junk, it's probably not worth much. but the stuff is pleasant to have around.
 
That sure brings back some memories. I was raised on a farm and we had an old shed with a corn crib that we didn't use anymore, except to toss junk in. The thing was that much of that "junk" consisted of antiques such as what you've referenced. Some of it I'm sure was valuable, or would be today.

I know there was a hand-operated corn planter, several scythes, a sickle, a hand-operated post hole digger(which we used for anchor and brace posts), a hand-operated drill(to drill stumps for dynamite sticks -had a T-handle and an auger bit shank), a two-man crosscut saw, and assorted other items which I've forgotten. One antique which we still used on rare occasions was a broadcast-type grass seeder which you slung over your shoulder and carried up and down the field while turning a crank which operated the scattering wheel. It had a canvas hopper to hold the seed. I still remember using that thing.

If I remember some other items I might post again. Unfortunately I don't have any of these or I would post pictures. Whatever of those items were left when Dad died went to my older brother. He has quite a number of antique tools, including the special boring tools left by my great-grandfather, who was the last frame-barn builder in the area.

Thanks for taking me down memory lane for a bit.
Andy
 
There is a bunch of this stuff on my wife's farm, and some on mine. I have an old Blackhawk corn sheller my fil used up into the 70s. I have a bunch of plows, mule harness, bits, shoes, muzzles, etc that were used for mules. I have an old mule drawn cotton planter. I have several sets of stilliards, which are the scales used to weigh up cotton in the field so the farmer could record how many pounds each picker had picked that day. I have the old wooden water keg that was used on my wife's farm during the 40s-50s-60s. Bunch of other stuff, crosscut saws, drawing knives, etc. I have made some displays and hung them on the walls of a barn I have restored to use as a reloading room/man-cave. I am going to do a little photo-essay on it in the next few weeks.
 
We have tons of old farm stuff. Corn shellers, farm implements out the wha-zoo.. Oil cans. Signs of all types. Tractors... You name it, we probably have it.
 
I have a couple of spinning wheels, a bread kneading and rising bowl with the bottom nearly worn through from sliding back and forth as it was used, a hand-cranked coffee grinder, a candle mold and a blueberry picker (looks like a large scoop with a giant comb on the bottom front). All of these belonged to and were used by my mother's family in Eastern Canada. As a boy, my family and I used to go to Prince Edward Island to bring my maternal grandmother "up home" for a visit every summer. We stayed with my mother's cousin whose phone number was "circuit 44, three long rings. Yep, magneto phones in the mid-60s. Oil lamps, battery radios and hand-milked cows. The area got electricity in 1966. It was like heaven for this city boy and I've never forgotten those times.

Russ
 
Actually I'm looking for an old hand crank or bicycle powered sheep shearing machine. If anyone has one. You can modify them to handle modern handsets and I want to try it.
 
For Russ,

Re The Spinning wheels? Are they wool or flax wheels? There is a big market in antique spinning wheels that can be fixed and operated.
 
I am 73 and I have a lot of my Dad's, grandad's and great grandad's "stuff". I have lived on the farm or at least in the country for over 50 years. That gives one plenty of time to collect treasures. I have piles of hay pulleys, insulators, milk strainers, cream seperators, horse bits, etc., etc. Here is my spring wagon, hay fork, peddle grinder dump rake and well pulley.

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I have a antique feed grinder (very heavy). It's locked up and won't function but a good restoration could fix that. I also have a 1920 international harvester farm engine (used to power the grinder). All this stuff is for sale. I too love items like this.

Roger
 
I don't have it anymore, but remember a wooden butter churn, and actually remember it being used in late 50s. Belonged to my grandparents that lived in west central Ks.
 
The good old days when things were made to last and made in the USA. Today the Chinese made stuff won't last a month.
 
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