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The "hog scraper". I've used one when I was young, but not to scrape the fat off the skin. although it might be used for that as well. But the hog being butchered (after it was dead) was dipped in boiling water mixed with resin. Then the scraper was used to remove the hair from the skin. If you didn't scrape fast enough, the hog had to be dipped again. Not an easy task.

Nice video! Several slight errors here (nothing too drastic) but: (please bear with me) 1) The "bluish aqua" color of those early fruit jars is the normal color of "natural glass" - trace quantities of iron in the sand (nearly all sand contains iron impurities) caused the color. In the case of "Ball Blue" this color resulted from the sand source used by Ball to make the jars. Ball did NOT intentionally create that color. Most of the sand they used for the Ball jars (made in Muncie, IN) came from areas along the eastern shore of Lake Michigan. Much of that sand accidentally had just the "right" percentage of iron to create the shade of blue-aqua. (A nearby glass company also used sand from the same source, Hemingray Glass Company - and many of their insulators from the 1920s are the same or very similar shade of aqua-blue). By 1937 Ball Bros had switched over to (mostly) clear glass so the customer could see the food better. 2) The original Mason patent was actually pertaining to the concept of a "screw threading" on the jar, as compared to other jars that did not have a threaded lip. 3) The numbers on the bases are Mold numbers, not batch numbers. Each mold number just identified the mold installed on the automatic jar blowing machine. Each jar machine would hold usually 8 to 10 molds, each one numbered so if any faults happened with the finished jar, the defective mold could be quickly identified and replaced. MANY, MANY different sets of numbered molds were used over and over for many years, the mold numbers range between 0 and 15, and some are also numbered with a number AND letter, or have backward numbers (which are a little scarcer). 4) The story of the number 13 jars didn't become popular with flea market dealers until the 1980s or '90s so it may OR may not have had a tiny kernel of truth. Whatever the reality of the story, the PERCEPTION of the scarcity has increased the desirability of the mold number 13 so they will normally sell for somewhat more. (SUPPLY AND DEMAND!!) The "13" is actually about the same scarcity as the number 11, 12, 14, and 15 jars, but since they are being snatched up and hoarded by collectors, they SEEM much scarcer. Definitely harder to find in antique stores and flea markets, but common on ebay!

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I think you got the metal wrong on the crescent. I worked with berillium as a nuclear material and it is extremly poisonous and is the texture and color of graphite, not of brass.

Where is the best place to start trading case knives ? I have some but I am always looking for deals I can by clean up and resale any info on that and is there a spot I can go research each case knife I have ?

He called it boriliam. I never heard those tools called that before but hardened bras stools are still used in the oil patch & plants. Anywhere there is a chance of makeing a spark.

The "hog scraper was also used to scrape the hair off the hog skin. Usually, the hog was dipped in boiling water to loosen the hairs. So they could be washed off. The scrapped skin and attached fat under it was cut into small "cubes". Then they were placed in a butchering kettle and heated until the lard liquified. The now cooked skin, fat, etc particles were skimmed off . They were put into a sausage stuffer and then pressed to get all the lard out. The "cake" of renderings was set out for people break off pieces to snack on.

The hog scrappers were used to remove/scrape the hair from a scalded hog which was scalded in hot lye water. And the ax was used for hand hewned beams in barn beams not barrow making.

Do you know anything about Wostenholm folders ? I have one that I want to determine how old it is. Was my grandfather’s. In my possession for about 43 years now. George Wostenholm Sheffield England. I*XL on the blade. Stag handles, two blades.

I've recently gotten into uranium glass, and have already acquired a few pieces. But my question is this . . . is it possible to fake uranium glass? Like, is there a way to make regular glass glow like the uranium glass, to try to trick someone into buying it? I have a couple different portable black/UV lights that I use to locate them, which "in the wild," (items randomly for sale, but not indicated as uranium) is super useful. But if someone listed an item as specifically being uranium glass, is there something they could do to regular glass to make it seem like uranium glass?

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I have a shit tone of old tool anyone interested

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The glassware is incredible

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Had saved some of my grandmothers old Tupperware out of sixty,seventy years. Going through boxes in the spring time,noticed they all like dry rotted,just crumbled. Not sure what happened?

I found my first thrift of Blue Ridge pottery last year. It was 13 pieces of the Chicory pattern.

Non-sparking tools are still readily available. Bought them for our mine mechanics for working on propane and fuel systems.

What about a 1/2 pint clear ball jar with a 13 on it? Has a zink lid. Is it rare or valuable

Old, antique tools are totally cool. Thanks.

Man, I love my dreaw knife, brod axe, and my adze. I use them and the still work.

Is a 1960s ball no.13 worth anything compared to 1910s no 13?

The double cup hog scraper was used after you scald the hog in very hot water. Then the scraper was used to scrape away the hair not the fat !

Omg 60 dollars..... I thought it was like 600 dollars

Hey I got one that is a bowl, that has a spoon/laddle, that gets really bright

i would like to hear the names of the knives that are better quality for the same or less money

You mean that you have never seen them. Old guy

That saw horse is still used for sharpening normal wood saws with a file.

I used to have a good collection of antique tools for decoration on the walls of my workshop. One of the oddest tools was a pair of fence pliers that had "Arm & Hammer Baking Soda" embossed on one of the handles. I was never able to find any information about it. By the way, I sold all of the antiques when I was preparing to move to another state.

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what does a 100 pound anvil go for.

does having the metal lid or not add or subtract anything from the price

what about clay jars in middle america? I found one when out in the woods years ago, but i really cannot find anyone talking about them on here.

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This whole "Uranium Glass" thing is crazy to me. My dad was an antique dealer all his life, I grew up working his place, doing auctions, going to estate sales, holding estate sales, you name it. Nobody EVER called this stuff "Uranium Glass" until about 20 years ago. It was always "Vaseline Glass" or simply "Green Depression" before that. The Uranium was added to virtually all green glassware for over a hundred years simply to make it green - didn't have anything to do with wanting to make it glow. People in the Victorian era or the Depression didn't have UV lights - they didn't know the stuff glowed, it was just green glass. Now, it's gitchy to call it something it was never called before (until about two decades back), and try to make it seem scarce - it's not. MOST pre-WWII green glassware, no matter who made it, will glow to varying degrees under a UV light. Yes, it's cool, but, I wish people would wake up and realize this stuff isn't rare or scarce.

I guess over the yrs the use of tools changed. Much like todays tools. You see people use screw drivers to scrape or pry stuff. So maybe everyone is partially right on what some were used for. A more interesting thought would be what they were actually designed for. Cool video. Enjoyed it.

That tool is to shave the hair off a hog

A farm worker murdered a fellow worker with that same type of tool, on Mainstreet.

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Have you done a video on. C A Haun’s pottery? I didn’t see one. Would love to see it. My husband is a descendant.

Wow - cool! I should scout antique tools for you up in my neck of the woods!

I just found a set of 4 plates and cup with parrots design on it. Also 4 drinking glasses at a Goodwill store.

I needed this video. Thank you!

What about a quart ball with a dropped a and has a crack inside the class itself that spirals from top around and around to the bottom?But it won't cut you.its like the jar is twisred from top to bottom?.it aldo has hundreds of lil bubles everywere

I have a Beryllium wrench, and a saw vice .

Snout cutter looks nothing like that. And it was used to stop hogs from rooting

Aluminum bronze works just fine and it's not expensive at least it shouldn't be copper and aluminum are pretty cheap

Vehicles now would take a simi truck load of tools and a high-end computer.

Im not disagreeing with you but if cars came with every tool we needed to work on it these days they would come with a full snap on box

Its the first rachet wrench