Each week Farm and Dairy challenges readers to identify a small tool or gadget.

Each week Farm and Dairy challenges readers to identify a small tool or gadget.

Each week Farm and Dairy challenges readers to identify a small tool or gadget.

Each week Farm and Dairy challenges readers to identify a small tool or gadget.

Hello from Hazard! Another faithful Hazard-ite, Edward Wanchock of Sewickley, Pa., joined Joe Betz (who responded last week that it looked like a wrench for his acetylene tank valve ) in the only answers to Item No. 829. Ed says it looks like a T wrench to open/close a recessed, hidden valve or to control [...]

Hello from Hazard! Faithful Hazard-ite Joseph Betz of Library, Pa., was the only one to proffer a guess on Item No. 829. He has something similar that is a wrench for his acetylene tank valve, and wonders if “some bright inventor added a chipping hammer head to the handle.” “The half circle on top could [...]

Each week Farm and Dairy challenges readers to identify a small tool or gadget.

Hello from Hazard! Our mailbox was full of hazard-ous guesses this week. There were a few more responses to Item No. 827, confirming what we published last week. Randy Winland of Prospect, Ohio, corroborated with the previous guess, saying the item is a tool used to install tongue and groove flooring. He explained how it [...]

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We received two more guesses on item No. 826. Randy Winland concurs that it is, indeed, a “Blue Nose Rug Hooker” and he has one in his collection.

Hello from Hazard! Wendell Cole of Lisbon, Ohio; P.R. Miller of Akron; and Ann Thompson of Raleigh, N.C. all responded to Item No. 826, which they identify as a needle punch for making hooked rugs. Thompson has one in its original box and shares what hers says on the outside of the box: “Bluenose Rug [...]