MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Stanley]

Well a promising start and then a deathly hush. Which island and what's going on?

[Tizer]

I know the photo has been on here before but my memory isn't good these days. Is it Eigg? The rock could be for use as rock armour to protect beaches from erosion. Or is it the rock quarried on Ailsa Craig for making curling stones?

[Stanley]

You got it with your second stab Peter. Raw material for making curling stones being shipped off Ailsa Craig.
Next object?

[Stanley]

What is it?

[Stanley]

I see, absolutely no interest....

[Wendyf]

It's a small weaving tool which can be used to weave narrow strips or for darning.

[Stanley]

Sot on Wendy.
I can see I am going to have to be more original!

[Stanley]

What is it?

[Gloria]

It’s a glove which can be used on either hand.

[Stanley]

Yes Gloria but what is it specifically designed for? It has a purpose.

[Stanley]

You've seen these gloves before. Clue, I got them in the US mid-west.....

[Steeplejerk]

Cowboy or ranchers gloves so they can use both sides ??

[Stanley]

You're so close Tom I have to give it to you. That's the whole point of the gloves, when the palm wears out from husking corn, you reverse hands and off you go again with new palms. That's what they are, Corn Husking Gloves.
Not a lot of call for them here.....
Next object?

[Stanley]

What is it?

[Stanley]

No takers? Think of what the song says are a girl's best friend....

[Steeplejerk]

Diamond cutter ?

[Stanley]

Not quite Tom but once again I have to give it to you. I suspect you're thinking about a glass cutter. It isn't that. It's an industrial diamond set in the end of a piece of half inch steel and it's used for dressing grinding wheels to get a flat surface.....
Next one for shaving?

[Steeplejerk]

I've come across grinding wheel dressers before but never one like that,the ones I've seen are with 3 toothed wheels on the end of a bar that flatten the face on the grinding wheel.

[Stanley]

They're the normal commercial ones but these are a lot more efficient and in my experience cheaper because one of these will outlast several of the others with the star wheels.
Give us the next object!

[Steeplejerk]

There you go, Kev

[Steeplejerk]

Messed that up who can tell me what's going on in the photograph

[Steeplejerk]

cheers Kev

[PanBiker]

Are they correcting for land subsidence?

[Steeplejerk]

I suppose that's one way of putting it

[Stanley]

They're correcting a chimney that is leaning by cutting out brickwork to encourage it back to perpendicular and then replacing the bricks they have taken out with new tight brickwork.