Can you identify this?

[KEEF]

Chain Tensioner.

 

[Arch]

Left hand end looks to be a handle that turns. Middle bit is some sort of rest or point to anchor it. Right hand pointy bit looks like it will take a rope or is basically the end that the something is attached to.

I am thinking along the lines of it being something to tighten a rope or perhaps a fence wire.

Say you have a rope or wire off to the right and it is attached at the pointy bit that swivels.
Now use the middle bit to brace the device say on a fence post.
Lastly turn the left handle.
The threaded bar moves left, pulling the rope or wire tighter but the rope/wire does not twist as that end swivels.

How that is applied and on what I do not know. Fence wire is one option but not sure how long it has been around compared to age of object. Also it looks to be quite portable rather than a fixed object.

I am guessing it is a use that is now lost, if it was on a boat or something in present use then the same would be around still.

I wonder if it's for driving a rope or string through something then.... With the 'stop' bit at the bottom of the threaded part, thread rope through eye at pointy end, thrust the tool into something like a bundle of straw or reeds, something with a bit of give, but too hard to push it right through. Then screw it down, and as it comes out the other side, it brings the rope through. Like a big needle.

 

[swee'pea99]

It's bloody obvious isn't it? I mean, come on, EVERYone knows that. It's one of them things, innit!

What, you mean a doobrie? I was thinking that too, but after lengthy consideration I reckon it's a wotsit.

 

[PaulB]

What, you mean a doobrie? I was thinking that too, but after lengthy consideration I reckon it's a wotsit.

Someone reckons it's a doohickey while someone else claims he knows it is a thingymajig.

 

[surfdude]

yes . but i have been sworn never to tell on pain of death

 

[Eribiste]

You don't think it's one of those tools that Edward II was rudely introduced to at Berkeley Castle do you?

 

[swee'pea99]

Someone reckons it's a doohickey while someone else claims he knows it is a thingymajig.

Showed it to my mate. Says it could be a thingymajig, but he reckons more likely a wotchamacallit.

 

[[Philip]]

I think it was often used on Syphilitic sailors.

 

[byegad]

Someone reckons it's a doohickey while someone else claims he knows it is a thingymajig.

Well initially I thought it was a doofa, but maybe it's an older version of a gubbins.

 

[byegad]

I think it was often used on Syphilitic sailors.

 

[slowmotion]

Well initially I thought it was a doofa, but maybe it's an older version of a gubbins.

No, it's obviously one of those jobbies.

 

[PaulB]

I've got it! I sought the advice of the Emeritus Professor of Antiquities (Cantab) and he put me right immediately he laid his esteemed eyes on the object. He says that without any shadow of a doubt, it is a Doo-Dah.

 

[Fnaar]

Rope making implement, like @Saluki said

 

[Haitch]

A medical instrument for drilling holes in the skull.

 

[steve52]

it is used to make holes to anchor sky hooks in.