What can I do with this thing?

Arland · Post by **Arland** » Tue Dec 04, 2001 6:24 pm

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=ViewItem&item=1038316223

Does this like a fluting tool to anyone else? Or another way to chisel something?

schreiber · Post by **schreiber** » Tue Dec 04, 2001 9:16 pm

It's probably a hoof nipper, or something like that. I think it would take a lot of doing to make it something other than your big honkin' pair of nippers that can go through a fence nail.

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Galileo · Post by **Galileo** » Tue Dec 04, 2001 9:20 pm

Barbed wire fencing tool?

sarnac · Post by **sarnac** » Tue Dec 04, 2001 10:02 pm

It almost looks like an old Whitney slot punch my uncle had laying around his machine shop..but his was much bigger...

jgalak · Post by **jgalak** » Tue Dec 04, 2001 11:28 pm

It is most definitely a hoof nipper. This is one of the best ways out there to trim a horse's hoofs. Anyone who has ever used a normal end-nipper style hoof nipper know what a pain it could be - this makes your life much easier.

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losthelm · Post by **losthelm** » Tue Dec 04, 2001 11:44 pm

if it is what I think it is. you use it to trim horse shoe nails.

Stoffel · Post by **Stoffel** » Wed Dec 05, 2001 12:21 pm

We had one of those in the pile of animal working tools in Ag shop when I was in highschool, right next to the castration tools and horn scoops...

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schreiber · Post by **schreiber** » Wed Dec 05, 2001 12:27 pm

BTW, I have one of the end- nipper style hoof nippers. It's a pretty handy tool to have around. I call it my tooth puller of death.

woodwose · Post by **woodwose** » Wed Dec 05, 2001 1:08 pm

if the 'anvil' part of the cutting tool was ground out or modefied to hold something with a die or groove, and sharp/blade part was dulled, it could make flutes..
but it's throat isn't nearly deep enough for it to be used on much except fluting near the edges of a plate