Maybe you don’t want to know what this is. . . And no, it’s not a corkscrew. . .
It’s a tooth extractor! It was used by a Northwest pioneer, John Anderson, who acted as dentist for wagon trains coming west. He made three trips “out west” in the late 1800s.
Aren’t you glad that modern dentistry has evolved since then?
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ROFL… I just saw this! I knew what it was immediately because my dentist has one of these hanging on his office wall with a plaque under it saying “DIY dentistry kit!”
Consider it works like a basin wrench and snaps the roots off the tooth, it’s NOT an extraction you’d want to experience…
My stomach just turned…
Thank you, Chuck! Yikes! I thought it was a hay hook. You hold a hay hook in one hand, drive the barb/hook well into a bale of hay and it helps manage/direct the bale as you load, move, or stack bales of hay. Ideally, we baled at ~50 pounds per bale, but if the hay wasn’t properly cured before baling, then bales could edge toward 70 pounds. Hay hooks helped move heavy bales. 🙂
I think I’d rather say the wrong thing to the right person and have my tooth knocked out, of course you might lose more than the tooth that needed pulling. Lol