MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Gloria]

Breaking up frozen ground?

[Stanley]

No Gloria, subsoil plough pan busting. Look up Mr Storey......

[Stanley]

Nobody seems to be biting. It's a Fowler Gyrotiller. The two bladed drums at the rear rotated and broke up the subsoil without bringing it to the surface. Invented in the 1920s they were always a specialised contractor's tool and were made in varying sizes up to 250hp.
Next one?

[Stanley]

What is it?

[MickBrett]

Top view of a candle?

[Cathy]

The bottom view of a blown-up balloon

[Stanley]

Sorry, neither of those.....

[Cathy]

Can I ask… animal, vegetable or mineral?
(I’m not thinking animal).

[Stanley]

Not certain Cathy but I think vegetable......

[Stanley]

If there is no serious movement on this one by midday I shall knock it on the head..... Clue, it's just what it looks like, a rubber ball. Question is what is its special use?

[Cathy]

Is it one of those Virtually Indestructible Best Ball’s for exercising dogs

[Stanley]

No Cathy, not a pet's plaything. There was a serious use for it.

[Cathy]

An exercise ball for humans

[Gloria]

A stress ball?

[Stanley]

Sorry, No to both. It's a part of the toolbox of a trade or profession.

[Gloria]

Is it used by plumbers? Floating ball in cistern?

[Tizer]

An `intragrastic balloon' used to treat severe obesity. Inserted down the throat, into the stomach and then inflated.

[Big Kev]

I know but I'll let it run

[Stanley]

No, tell them Kev. It needs knocking on the head.....

[Stanley]

Kev isn't stepping forward so here's the answer. It is a tack rubber ball and is used by watchmakers to grip smooth watch backs to unscrew them.



Next for shaving?

[Stanley]

What is it?

[Gloria]

No idea what it is, but wouldn’t health and safety have a field day there nowadays?

[Stanley]

[Stanley]

Clue, it was in a cotton mill in Cheshire.....

[Steeplejerk]

Dust extractor ?