Woodworker's Journal 2002-26-3, страница 56
Horse SenseBy Joanna Werch Takes 1 11 speak plainly about the latest mystery tool, pictured at right it's a plane. I know lhat, you know that, and owner Joe Bandock of Olympia, Washington knows that. But what kind of plane is it? Aye, there's the rub — and the question for all of you Stumpers readers out there. Check out its cool adjustability and tell me: the name of this kind of plane, the manufacturer, model number and date(s) of production. Oh, and Joe wants to know, "Is the value worth the $4 I paid at a garage sale?" It's curved. It's straight. It's a plane. It's a ... Ahem. You tell us the rest of the latest mystery tool's story. Leon Renaud 4 of North Grosvenordale, Connecticut, a modern-day blacksmith "who has taken part in colonial reenactments since the early '80s" says the butteris might have been a common tool historically, but, "I don't believe anyone uses them today. A missed cut could do a great deal of injury to the farrier or the animal." Thai's why Journal editor Rob Johnstone, who has been known to pare a goat hoof or two in his time, prefers the explanation that the tool is a "barking spud, used to strip the bark off of oak trees," from Larry H. Hicks of Columbus, Ohio. The point of getting the bark off of these trees, says Michael Spade of Coldwater, Michigan, is that "hides jMaU^M were tanned in an acid solution made from the ground-up bark of oak and hemlock trees." Of course, you could use the tool, as Doug McDaniel of Payson, Arizona suggests, for "a bulb planter to aid a one-armed gardener" — and David T. McGregor of Flint, Michigan, has dug up the information that butterises were made to order, so hardly any of them looked alike. "Some examples can be found without the handle on the shaft, and some with a 'crank' in the shaft design," adds Bill White of Alpharetta, Georgia. Ansel's tool, according to Eleanore Houghton of Bryant Pond, Maine, "was handmade by a blacksmith and has a mortised side handle versus one just forged on. When the blade wore out, the blacksmith could forge weld a new blade on." J& JUon't rein in your horse sense as we discuss a previous mystery, either. Ansel Heram's tool showed up in the February Stumpers, and it brought out the cavalry. 'This tool is one you would find in the employ of a farrier, a person who shoes horses," said W. Wayne Miller of Winchester, Virginia. Its name, Ron Beerkircher of Chalfont, Pennsylvania, tells us, is "butteris." ___"As I understand the operation," Vjfffatmmm explains I .o well II. Brigham of ;>. Houston, Texas, "the farrier U t/f / . jX grips the lever slicking ffl / *f * .', mk \ out from the metal shaft 9 p ^ " I and pulls the butteris f I J- ■ *-jll^sjiMspsjL back against his (or \ I tVfl. i&^Smi her) shoulder while at Just a trim — for your horse's hooves — is the purpose of the butteris tool. the same time revolving the blade to fit the part of the horse's hoof that needs paring. Then the hoof is cut with a push from the farrier's shoulder." George Webb of Cincinnati, Ohio, adds thai, 'The horse's hoof is held between the knees of the person shoeing the horse." The purpose of the butteris, says Robert M. Fox of Tampa, Florida, was to clean the frog — the wedge-shaped, horny pad on the bottom of a horse's foot — before putting new shoes on the horse. "Before a horse can have new shoes fitted, the hoof must be trimmed," explains veterinarian Don Bidlack of Coarsegold, California. "The wall of the hoof continues to grow, just as do our fingernails and toenails." WINNER! For taking the time to respond to Stumpers, Karl Haak ofMoberly, Missouri wins a Makita 100 Series 2HP Router Kit. Reach us at Stumpers Dept., Woodworker's Journal, P.O. Box 261, Medina, Minnesota 55340. Or send us an e-mail: 86 |
