Q: I recently found this old electric tool. I thought it might be hedge trimmer. What do you think it is?
A: We weren’t able to find anything like your tool in our books on tools or on the Internet, but it appears to have a rotating blade that could trim hedges. Do any of our readers know what this tool was used for?
They were used in my old neighborhood in Brooklyn NY, and Jersey City NJ.
Not a lot of land, small front yard FLOWER BOXES on windows beginning of century. Have one like new, old school wire same as pic…My great grandmother used it around the basil and herbs in the yard..
The tomatoes figs roses etc, just got good old fashion nj/ny soil…Total fad, begging of the”an item for all” revolution. As you can see, us Americans came real far..Now more stellar and less Sears catalog order but late night TV..GET THE PEDDI PAW
This was used for trimming seams mad in carpeting, when joining two separate pieces of carpeting togather with glue tape this would trim the strageling fibers.
The suggestion via email that this is a saw used to remove a cast is absurd. I’m not sure why anyone would think it could be used for that purpose, especially with the teeth on the sides. This was used, as “hornedlark” said, to trim small hedges. You plugged it into an extension cord, and moved it back and forth across the new growth of the hedge to trim them. I’ve seen an old advertisement for it.
Sorry, but there was one in my husbands family. It is a hedge trimmer. A part on bottom is missing.
An email from LR seems to have the answer. Her husband was a Chiropractor and had a modern version of the saw. It was used to remove casts. You put a wooden tongue padde inside the cast and used the electric saw to cut it.
My father had one like it.
3o years in the lawn care biz.never saw anything like this, Way too small for a hedge trimmer. It may be a vegetable knuter. {;o)
SkilSaw hedge Whiz
Looks like this one over on Ebay:
http://compare.ebay.com/like/230742551548?var=lv<yp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes&var=sbar
I think it’s an electronic curry comb for cattle or other farm animals!
I believe that this was a grooming tool used in animal husbandry. This was a comb and shear tool. It is obvious that the cord has been shortened, due to repairs. If the cord gets broken, just shorten it and then use an extension cord. That’s scary! I hope that it wsn’t used on humans, but who knows! I never saw one in a beauty shop.
It is a hedge trimmer. My husbands family had one. You plug it in to a longer cord.
My guess would have something to do with cutting brick.
I have a blade and never knew what it was for…and I still don’t
Maybe this is an edger for outside to trim the edge of the grass? If it’s not an outside tool, maybe it is a meat slicer? A man’s shaver? The cord is pretty short.
Sheep shearer??
As is it looks pretty lethal! My guess is that it’s missing a cover for the rotating blade. It could have snapped on or ‘twist-locked’ onto the top and bottom sections which don’t have the ‘teeth’. However, it still makes one wonder why there needs to be ‘teeth’ on both sides?
Mmm.. fascinating!
It really doesn’t look like it would’ve been used outdoors, especially on moist vegetation, so I think it could have been used by a carpet installer to even up pile on a freshly laid carpet.
Guessing that the electric line on this tool would be too short to use as a hedge trimmer. Must be some kind of a work bench tool…a router perhaps?
I don’t think it is a hedge cutter/trimmer. Did our grandfathers and great-grandfathers have electricity outside? I think most of the gardening work was done by hand. Keep thinking!
I don’t know what it’s for but the cord seems way too short to use as an outdoor trimmer.